Yipes!

It's been a while since I've posted, and Nikki just nudged me to let ya'll know how my hair is doing after the difficult detangle.

It's - aiight. I don't feel like my ends are detangling as smoothly as they used to anymore, and I'm starting to wonder if I need a trim. I haven't had one since I cut off the last of my colored hair in Feb 07, and if I do trim, it would be in late Feb 09, so that would make two years - and that's a pretty long stretch.

I henna'd, last weekend, just to see if that would help - and until I DC (Yule party tonight, otherwise I'd be under the steamer already), I won't know for sure how my ends are going to behave. I have a 'single comb' updo in now (I need to figure out a name for that), and when I was playing in my hair last night, my ends did seem to have regained their senses.

I'm starting to see breakage though - *sigh* - and I know exactly where that is coming from, and I know I need to do better but - *laughing*.

Okay. I normally DC on Wednesdays, overnight. *look* The last couple of weeks - DH & I have reaallllly been feeling each other, and after the third week that I had to switch up pillows because the scarf and showercap came off and got conditioner everywhere........ weeeelllll, I've been skipping my midweek DC's. *laughing*

I'm really going to try to do better. *grin*

Otherwise - things are going well, overall. I can see that it's getting a little longer (I want DH to take some growth pics for me tonight), and I've settled back into my MT habits.

Ah! Wow, I haven't posted for a while.

Did I talk about caffeine as a growth aid? I can't remember - I think I started, and got distracted. Anyhow, there are a couple of studies out indicating that caffeine, applied topically, not only increases the growth rate of hair, it also extends the anagen phase by up to 37% - which means it increases your terminal length, overall. Very Nice.

Anyhow, I made a coffee oil with three Senseo pods, and 2 tbl each of jojoba and coconut oil, as well as mango, cocoa, shea, and red palm butter. It's a really pretty yellow color with a few coffee grounds in it here and there, and it smells amazingly delicious.

I apply that first, and then apply the MT on top of that. I've been doing that for - about a week, I think? Maybe two. Yeah, I think two.

Anyhow, I've been doing that pretty consistently - I think I've only missed one night in the last two weeks, and it doesn't add much time to the routine. I got lightheaded the first time I used it - and since then it's been smooth sailing.

Hrm.

I think that's it, for now.

Oooh. I've fallen in love with hibiscus. I've been using it regularly in my steam treatment DC's - oh, yummy. It leaves my hair smooth and heavy/thick - my hair is seriously digging them steam.

Okay.

More later, as always.