It's time for another wash day recap! For this wash day, I'm 11 weeks post my last relaxer touch up so my new growth is making its presence known.
I've been participating in a
30 Days of Hot Oil Treatments Challenge and this is my last wash day during the challenge.
My wash day last week didn't go so well so I had to change some things up in the hopes my results this week will be better than last week.
As you may have seen in my post that
I've joined a 30-day hot oil treatment challenge. To participate in the challenge I'm doing a hot oil treatment on my relaxed hair each wash day during the month of September using the natural oils of my choice. So far my choice of oils has been grapeseed oil, almond oil, tea tree oil, and Jamaican Black Castor Oil.
For my hot oil treatment mixture for this wash day, I decided to use almond oil, tea tree oil, and some of the Eden BodyWorks Jojoba Monoi Hair Oil I had on hand which has sweet almond oil, jojoba oil, and coconut oil. Being 10 weeks post my last relaxer touch up my new growth is loving the hot oil treatment.
I've been stretching my relaxer for nine weeks now and my new growth is thick. As a result, to fully detangle my new growth takes a bit of time so I don't cause any damage to my hair.
Despite having a lot of new growth and dealing with two textures, I was able to achieve smooth hair after my latest wash day. How I did this was a combination of how well I detangled my hair before washing, the products I used, and how I dried my hair. Keep reading to see the details from this wash day.
If you've been following my blog for a while you may have seen some of my posts on the goodies I've gotten from participating in Influenster VoxBoxes.
Well, I just got some more and these were a gift for participating in a virtual VoxBox! I think they may have been leftovers from other VoxBoxes as I found several reviews on these products from people who received VoxBoxes earlier this year. Here's what I got:
It's been a while since I've been a part of a hair challenge and when I saw the 30 Days of Hot Oil Treatments Challenge Jay of Relaxed Thairapy and Jen of Just Grow Already I just had to join. I did hot oil treatments regularly last year and really liked the results I got from them.
When I'd do
a hot oil treatment my relaxed hair would feel moisturized, have a nice shine and my scalp wouldn't feel dry during most of the week. The results were always so good that I'm not sure why I stopped doing hot oil treatments other than they can be time-consuming and messy.
Have you ever heard about
pre-pooing? Do you know what a pre-poo is, why women do it, and how it's done?
If you answered no to any of those questions then you may want to check out this video and infographic. They share what a pre-poo is and how you can do it on your own relaxed hair.
Nope. Your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. I'm back with a wash day post! After several weeks of not chronicling my wash days, I decided it was time for me to share one. In fact, it'd been so long I had to pull out a calendar and count how many weeks post my last relaxer touch up I am. After looking at the calendar I realized it's only
been seven weeks since my touch up, but it feels a bit longer. Anyway to the wash day.