Personal Challenge

So.

Firstly, I've officially gone hair mad. I usually start taking my hair down on the way home from work on hair-out Fridays - just so that I get a chance to play in it, for a little longer. I had barely gone a block with my hair out, when I realized the fabric of my seat rest was catching on my hair.

Now, see, that's just unacceptable. After I've worked as hard as I'm working to retain my ends, there is no. way. I'm going to let my headrest rub away my hard work. I'm usually wearing a scarf on my way TO work, and I usually 'try' to avoid laying my head on the headrest (which is easy when my hair is up, but I know I still do it) on the way home.

So. At the first available stoplight, I grabbed the do-rag that I wore to work that morning, and tied it around my seat rest.

FABULOUS. It was wonderful! I'm rather disgusted I hadn't thought of it before!

Anyhow. I get home, and I go rummaging in the hair stash, and I found this:




Oh, yes. It's a long polyester/satin strip of rectangular fabric, and I'm SO permanently wrapping that around my seat rest. I'll wash it regularly, and it'll be a fabulous addition to my regimen, really.

Anyhow, my hair.

It felt a little - off - a little stiff/coated & dry. I don't know. I've started working out again, and so I've rinsed my hair twice this week (Monday & Wednesday), plus I've used the MT almost every night of the week (Sun-Wed), so I've been taking my hair down and up and down and up a lot more than usual.

One fabulous thing - I had less than 50 hairs come out, and most of them were shed hairs.....very very very few hairs actually broke. I'm so pleased by this. Just - so very, very, happy.

Anyhow. To combat the dryness and any potential buildup, I mixed up some Elasta QP, baking soda, White Rain cheapie, and some SAA. I slapped all that into my dry hair, and I could almost feel my hair inhaling it. I really think if it could move, it would have wiggled.

I flattwisted it up - one on either side, because I'm hoping to make this weekend the easiest detangling session EVER. I figure that if I keep it soft and stretched the whole time, it should be a breeze.

I think that I'm going to rinse this out in a little while, but..... I don't know what to do with it then. It's too late for me to do the protein mix...... I think I'll detangle it a little with the con in, then rebraid it up with some AfroDetangler, and leave it be until tomorrow - then I'll put the yogurt mixture in. *nod* That will also give me a chance to use it on dry hair, like I wanted to. Nice, a moisturizing con on dry hair AND a protien con on dry hair. Lovely.

The main reason I want to wait til tomorrow for the yogurt stuff is because I got the free samples of ThickIt which was suggested to me over on TLHC as a viable thickener. Soo........I figure I'll try it on the 'cheap' stuff before I use it in any of my precious caramel. If this works - over the moon is what I'll be. I'll take comparison pictures of the thickness tomorrow.