1 year post!!!!!!

A whole year has passed! I have been a little MIA becuz of finals and stuff but I will catch up with everything in these next few posts. I will start off with my yearly goals! 

No direct heat ✔️

No hair dye ✔️

No chemicals ✔️

No harsh brushing with dry hair✔️

No tight hairstyles✔️ 

I accomplished all my goals!! I am seriously so proud that I got through everything for 12 months. Going into this new year, it's time for new goals. I think I will keep the same ones from this past year as guidelines but I'm adding these:

1) Protective Styles

2) Protect my ends

3) Be patient

My hair is mid back length now (as you will see in another post) so I'm going to have to be really careful with my ends since I don't want to be trimming them too much. 

This time next year I want to be hip length with straight hair, so I will have to keep my ends tucked and make sure my hair stays moisturized. It is healthy and thick right now so I know it is definitely possible. Can't wait to see what's in store! 

October 2013 ---- May 2014!!!

Happy Healthy hair Journey! Here is to another year!

Goal Review of month 11!!

Wow, in one month, it will be a year since my hair cut!!! Unbelievable! Let's go through my monthly goals

So I had one goal:

1) don't touch hair. Check!

While it's hard to put this on a scale, I can definitely say for the most part I avoided touching my hair too much. It is looking so nice and thick and healthy, I can't handle it! For Easter last year, I straightened my hair, and it was bleached, and my ends were thinning.

 

It looked cool, but I was drying out my ends in record time. This year, I loved how my hair turned out.

I did a braid out and left it in for a couple days to dry completely.

My ends were coily and happy. Here is a shrinkage pic:

For this month my goals are going to be simple again.

1)keep doing what I'm doing!

2) try a new heat-less hairstyle

I've gone 11 months with no heat, and my hair is thanking me for it! Can't wait to complete that yearly goal and see how it turns out when I finally do blow it out. 

Good hair day

I got caught in rain yesterday so I wrapped my hair into a low bun and slept with it like that. I woke up to a great hair day! 

Also, after I washed my hair the other day, I put it into a single braid and man, was it thick!! 

Healthy hair for me is thick hair. Gotta love it! 

It's been over 10 months since my hair cut, and the hair is looking fab :) how are your hair journeys going? 

Fierce

When I have a good hair day, I do a selfie photo shoot lol. 

Finally starting to see a difference in length. It's harder to tell if my hair is growing now that it's not short anymore. But is surely is!! 

Shrinkage!!!

So much shrinkage!!!

Less than 2 more months til straight hair!

Amazing wash day

I don't normally get very excited about wash days but this past one went extremely well. So I'm gonna share some pics!

I pre-poo'd with coconut oil for a couple of hours. Then I used my Head and Shoulders clarifying shampoo for two washes. Then I put my 3 Minute Miracle deep conditioner from Aussie and left it in for about 5 minutes. Finally I rinsed it out and then added Treseeme conditioner to comb through and leave in my hair. 

I first finger detangled and then finished up by combing with my denman. I only do this once a month because normally I just finger detangle. The denman made my curls so pretty and coily!!!

I was in awe how pretty my hair came out. I rope braided my bangs and then put the rest of my hair in a high ponytail to dry. 

The next day, I gathered the nice curls into a bun and it was a simple yet beautiful protective style! 

2 days later, and my curls are still looking great!

Sometimes my HHJ gets tough but it's wash days like these that show me how fun healthy hair can be and how pretty it can look! Length is coming-- I can feel it! 

Two strand twists!

I tried out two strand twists and they came out lovely!

Finished product!

I started out by washing my hair and then twisting two strands at a time together. The result was this:

Clipped up twists

The next day they were mostly dry. They shrunk up a lot:

After I took out the twists, the result was very pretty. The curls were soft and defined! Loved it :) 

Success!!