Straight roots with no heat!

Since I've had multiple holiday parties these past few days, I wanted to try to do something new with my hair. I also wanted my hair to look longer without using heat. 

After searching multiple tutorials on YouTube, I found a method that would stretch my curls almost straight with no heat! It was just what I wanted. 

First I washed my hair and combed out my knots with my denman. Then I used a boar bristle brush to brush my curls out. Finally I wrapped my hair around my head and secured with pins. After drying, my hair was very stretched! 

Here are the results! 

After a couple days, it looked nice and wavy. 

It was such a great new style and my hair looked so long :) loved it!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 

Monthly Goal Check!

This is my 5th monthly goal check, and once again, the month flew by!!! It was a successful month again, so I will go over everything and then list my goals for Dec 15th - Jan 15th :)

1) continue with my 7 days of inverted method. Check!

2) birthday hair! I want to make my hair look really nice for my birthday :) no heat allowed though! Check!

3) do a 6 month review and check up on my yearly challenges.  Check!

Okay, I checked off birthday hair even though I was kind of lazy about it and only put it in a high bun, but it still looked super cute so I think that definitely counts. The inverted method is working great, so I will continue that in the future. I haven't officially measured my hair since October but I can tell that it has definitely grown. Finally, I did my 6 month review and it helped me see how well I'm doing and how far I've come since my haircut.

braid out with a stretched out curl :)

My goals for this next month will be:

1) Continue Inverted Method Challenge!

2) Try at least 1 new style with hair

3) Make a YouTube page with a video on hair growth tips.

Well, my goals are a little more ambitious for this month. I am officially done with my semester at school, so I will have time on my hands to try out different styles and maybe post a Youtube video. I want to make a YouTube page to accompany this blog and now that I can see visible results, I know people might be interested. The style that I'm thinking of trying is a bantu twist out. I am excited to see how it goes!

Happy Healthy Hair Journey! How is yours going? :)

50th Post!

This is my 50th post for my blog! 50 posts later, and I'm seeing amazing growth, health, and strength in my hair :)

June 2013                                         Nov 2013

HHJ :) #longhairdontcare (soon)

Wash day

I did my wash day a little earlier this week since my normal day is going to be hectic. I've been doing a lot of braid outs lately, so I decided to leave my hair alone to dry for this wash day.

First I prepood with olive oil and left it in for one hour. Then I rinsed it out and did my normal wash and finished off with finger detangling. My hair wasn't that tangled and I had very little shedding which I was happy about! 

To dry, I clipped back my short bangs and left the rest down to air dry. Then I added some moraccan oil to seal. It's my newest part of my product collection and it is fantastic!

After a couple of hours of air drying, my curls looked great! 

I'm glad that I didn't stretch them out this time because even though this method gets a ton of shrinkage, the curls are gorgeous :)