Long gone are the days of washing my hair jumping out of the shower, and after 30 minuts fro is oiled, dry and in check! It’s been three years so my hair is quite long now. Those lil jars …the ones made for…Ooo I don’t know, people with not big afros just don’t cut it. I need about two thirds of a jar in one deep conditioning sesh, my shea butter mix lasts maybe a couple of months. It’s a lot of hair that equals alot of products that equals alot of money! So I’ve come up with a plan, yes this is me always the problem solver. I mix my one jar of store bought deep conditioner, with honey, a couple of sachets of hair mayonnaise, almond oil and olive oil. So now instead of buying two jars a month, this mix lasts me about two and a half months.
Deep conditioner mix ..
There isn’t much I can do to my shea butter mix to make it last longer, but I can use leave in conditioner (need to buy some, when not so broke) as well as the shea butter to lock in moisture and can stretch my mix maybe to 3 months.
More products are not the only issue, sections baby, everything is now in sections or disaster ensues. Disaster for me was washing my hair, rinsing, smothering on my cantu leave in and argan oil mix, only to find when it’s time to braid, there are bits of my homemade honey-banana mask on my scalp and stuck to my hair. Had to re rinse everything out and start again.
My hair also does not naturally dry in a couple of hours. .more like a day and a bit, therefore night washing is out, ahhh now I know why there is a ‘wash day’.😆
And the shedding. Wtf? Seriously the longer my hair grew the more it seemed to shed. At one stage I was in panic mode thinking my scalp must be seyriously damaged and just dropping my precious hair out at the slightest touch. I then did some reading and realised that shedding looks alot worse when hair is long because strands are longer. Duh! Made sense, shedding on small wee fro will definitely not look like shedding on lion’s mane length fro. But that doesn’t mean, I can’t still take steps to ensure my protein moisture balance is on fleek, at all times, because too much shedding isn’t good.
Right so those are the challenges when my hair is longer. Regimen also changes as hair grows and for me deep conditioning once a week is something I have to do religiously. Keepig my hair moisturised is also a must at this length especially the ends. Wash and go, or ‘wet look’ as we say in Zim is no longer possible at this length, the tangles, knots, breakage and pain… oooo eh eh, uh huh and no.
In conclusion, it does take alot of work to maintain the health of natural kinky curly hair, but it is so worth it. To see my hair grow past my neck, then reach the middle of my back..wow..They told me my hair would never grow….now look at me fro, growing and ish😆
My fro and other things 