Natural Hair Tip #19

PROTEIN CONDITIONING


Doing a protein treatment to your hair? Protein conditioning makes the hair harder and is usually accompanied by deep conditioning to soften hair.  Usually, protein conditioner is added to hair,  hair is put under a shower cap for some minutes, then rinsed out before a deep conditioner is added to conclude the process.

To spend less time doing both, just mix the protein conditioner with the deep conditioner and apply at once!
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How To Wash Natural Hair In Less Than An Hour


Warning: 😆In this post, the time accounted for is when one's hand is occupied with their hair. Time utilized for deep conditioning under a shower top isn't included(that takes at least 30 minutes, that is already more than half the time used for a shorter washday). Assumptions are that your hair has been detangled and is now in twists. Twists are usually 6 - 8, not more than that. Additionally, time spent washing hair may rely upon how filthy one's hair is.

As with most naturals, washday ain’t something I anticipate. I’m yet to meet a naturalista that’s always anticipating a washday.  😓 I dread it every time. From detangling, putting hair in sizable twists,  to shampooing and deep conditioning. Tedious!

I'm generally open to new thoughts on the most proficient method to make my washday shorter and voila!  A few months back I was washing my hair when I thought to myself: Instead of washing and rinsing each twist twice, why not shampoo the whole hair first, then do a second washing to each twist to save time?

Now, let me just let you know how my ancient washday went down:
  1.  I take one twist, apply shampoo, scrub and rinse it out.
  2. Apply a second round of shampoo, scrub and rinse out again.
  3. Then take the next twist and repeat step 1 & 2. So if I had 8 twists, I would have shampooed 16 times and rinsed 16 times!
  4. Then apply a deep conditioner to each twist by unraveling it, combing through and retwisting it.
  5. At least 30 minutes under a shower cap to let the deep conditioner do its work.
  6.  Rinse hair.
I'm not sure of the time spent in this method but I'm guessing 1 hour+ - 2 hours.

Now, to my latest tweaked method:
  1. Apply shampoo all over my hair, lightly scrub to remove most of the dirt and rinse out - 5 minutes.
  2. Take each twist, apply a second round of shampoo and scrub. - 10 minutes
  3. At this point, I don’t rinse out until I’m done shampooing and scrubbing all the sections of my hair.
  4. Rinse out shampoo from all the twists at once. - 5 minutes. So if I had 8 twists, I would have shampooed 9 times and rinsed out just twice! Amazeballs!
  5. Then apply a deep conditioner to each twist by unraveling it, combing through and retwisting it - 25 minutes.
  6. At least 30 minutes under a shower cap to let the deep conditioner do its work.
  7. Rinse hair - 10 minutes
The difference in time-saving is so clear! Not only is my time saved but also energy expended.

Hope you try this on your next washday. It may not be less than an hour but it will definitely save you some time. Also if you have a tip for making washday shorter, holla in the comment section.

Keep ‘fro-ing
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Currently Rocking #6


I've been looking for ways to jazz up my twist out for a while now. Twist out has been a go-to hairstyle like forever and to be honest it does get quite boring. I finally stumbled on a tutorial on how to accessorize my twist out, Yippee!

I’ll be recreating this style in this post but first off, I’ve been thinking about what to call this hairstyle: 
1. Twist out with a dash of bling?
2. Twist out with some bling bling(No? Too cheesy?)
You can give me some ideas about what to call this hairstyle in the comment section.

Now the recreation:
  • 1. As usual, hair should be clean and well detangled.
  • 2. Section a small part of your hair, this is where the clips(blings) will be attached. Usually, I just do a side part, then further divide it in two.

  • 3. Take one of the section and make box cuts, you can do as much as you like, I just kept mine on the minimal though.

  • 4. Take one section of the hair in box cut and hold with a small rubber band.

  •  5. Twist, join it to the next section and secure with a band.

  • 6. Divide it in two and drag it to have a firmer hold.

  • 7. Do this for all the box cuts

  • 8. Add the clips

  • 9. Twist the rest of your hair

  • 10. Wake up the next day, unravel twists, fluff and go!
Day 1
Day 6

Don't forget to share your ideas about names for this hairstyle!
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How To Wash-And-Go On 4c Hair

Curls, Curls...more curls
Wash-and-Go is one of the cool ways to get extra curl definition on your natural hair. This is my second attempt at a wash-and-go, the first attempt was over 2 years ago(Epic failure). It came out right this time. I’m wondering if I should call this a wash-and-go though, maybe a define-and-go has a better ring to it, as my curls didn’t get defined immediately after my wash process. My hair was already a week old after washday.
Wash-and-Gos are mostly achieved during wash days, immediately hair has been cleansed and is free from build up. Mine, however, was achieved a week after washday.

What you’ll need:

  1. Water in a spray bottle
  2. Leave in conditioner
  3. Detangling comb/brush
  4. Gel

Steps

  1. Section a small part of your hair and thoroughly dampen the section with water.
  2. Apply leave-in conditioner, smooth it through and detangle your hair.
  3. Apply gel and smoothen through in a raking motion.
  4. Shingling: Take each individual curl in the section and smoothening it down to separate it from the rest of the section. i.e separating the curls strand by strand.
  5. Do this for your whole hair, then gently shake your head for a while(like you’re saying ‘no’). This helps to separate the coils and to remove excess water.
  6. Style your hair in the direction that you want it to go and let it dry. 
  7. You can add some oil after it dries.

It took about 2.30 hours to get this done because of the shingling, the good thing here is that it wasn’t my arm doing all the work. A friend of mine actually got this done on my hair. 😆


Tips

  1. This style is best achieved on hair that is cleansed, without any build up. It will last longer this way.
  2. Get ready to keep your hair wet throughout the entire process. This allows you to capture the curls you have in your wet state. Water and conditioner bring out your curl pattern, and the gel captures your curl pattern.
  3. Don’t add too much gel, I did this and my hair didn’t completely get dried until the next day. I also had a few white flakes on my hair. Don’t be like me.

Maintenance

Mornings:

  • For the first 5 days: Added oil, lightly rake my hands through my hair, shake and go.
  • On the 6th day, I finally spritz with water, applied oil then little gel and let it dry 

Night:

  • Pineapple up.
  • If I want a stretched hair, I twist more than half of each section, then secure with rubber bands



I’ve been loving the wash-and-go. Apart from being time-consuming, getting matted after a few days,  and as usual the shrinkage, it falls under my fave hairstyles.

Looking forward to trying it again!
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