Deep Condition | Part 4

HOW EFFECTIVE IS YOUR DEEP CONDITIONER?

Hey fam!

I know looking for a good deep conditioner that matches your hair needs hasn’t always been the easiest. Sometimes we might even buy a deep conditioner based on good reviews, thinking that it’ll always work for us. But then we tend to forget that there are different hair types and textures out there and what works for one hair may not work for another. So how do you know that a deep conditioner is actually working for your hair and it’s a keeper?

  • Retains moisture and hair is softer

One of the main purpose of a deep conditioner is to leave the hair feeling moisturised. Moisture should be able to last for a few days, making the hair feeling softer to touch.

  • Easier Detangling

After using the deep conditioner, your hair should be fairly easy to detangle, or comb through. If your deep conditioner is failing in this, it’s bad news.

  • Less Breakage

Another main purpose of a deep conditioner is to replenish lost nutrients in the hair strands, therefore strengthening the hair. Your hair should be able to stretch without breaking.

If your deep conditioner lives up to the above then it’s a winner!
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How To Take Care Of Natural Hair While Protective Styling


For Braids, Twists And Faux/Yarn Locs

One of the biggest mistake ladies make when protective styling, is ignoring their hair for weeks or months. Our hair has needs, people! It still needs to be cleansed, replenished with nutrients and properly moisturized for it to be healthy.

Most of the complains I receive from people after protective styling is that, their hair experienced lots of breakage during the take down. The cause? No or  improper maintenance.

Before the return to my natural root, my hair regimen was a total mess. No maintenance while protective styling, wash days were weeks after take down (smelly hair, Eeeww!) and zilch deep conditioning sessions. Suffice to say, I never had a regimen. Period!

Truly, this natural hair “thing” was a game changer for my hair. I can’t even use protective styling as an excuse  not to take care of my hair for weeks. Yes, it’s not as easy but your hair will thank you later.

Today makes it 2 weeks since I had my faux locs and I decided to make a post showing my hair regimen while in protective style.
According to my hair regimen, I do this biweekly. For some reason though, I’ve been sticking to weekly since I had these faux locs installed (so I’ll be changing my regimen to weekly or biweekly). See how much I love this fro of mine?

Ok, let’s get right into it.

What I used:


  1. Small towel
  2. Bowl
  3. Shampoo
  4. Deep conditioner
  5. Plastic cap
  6. Leave in conditioner
  7. Spray bottle
  8. Oil and
  9. My hands. Lol.

STEPS
Cleansing

  • Mix a little shampoo with water in the bowl.
  • Dip towel in the mixture, squeeze to remove excess water and use to clean scalp and roots.

I started from bottom to the top.

  • Towel rinse with fresh water.


Replenish your strands 

  • I take some amount of deep conditioner with my fingers and work my way all over my roots and scalp.
Yeah, trying to give those edges extra nutrients (3rd pic)

  • Cover with plastic cap for 30-45 minutes.


  • Towel rinse with clean water.

Moisturise

  • Mix leave in conditioner with a bit of water in spray bottle.
  • Spray on my scalp and roots, gently massaging it in.


  • Seal in with oil.


P.s: I moisturise and seal every 2 days.

So it takes me about an hour plus to do all these.
Tips

  • You could use warm water to mix your shampoo.
  • Sometimes, I towel rinse the shampoo twice to ensure it’s totally out of my hair.
  • Cleanse, replenish and moisturise section by section, so as not to miss any spot.
  • Using a spray bottle to moisturize and an applicator bottle for sealing with oil will make your life easier.

Until next post.
Keep the stank outta your hair while protective styling!

Love.
The Frorocker.
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Natural Hair Tip #9

STYLING

Want to achieve a perfect twist out, braid out, flat twist out etc?

  • Start with clean hair, free of product build up. Styles won’t hold on dirty hair.
  • Make sure hair is well detangled.

Happy styling!
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Being A Beautiful Faux Locs In A World Full Of Braids


I think faux locs is officially my best protective style. Keeps all my hair tucked in for weeks on, very easy to maintain and getting doses of air on my scalp? Don’t I just love this protective style?!

Since the take down of my last faux loc, I’ve been itching for my next installation and here we are.
Ever since I moved to a new state 9 months ago, I’ve been on the lookout for someone with a faux loc but to no avail. My “world” seems to be full of yarn locs, jumbo braids, box braids and any other braiding style but faux locs! After my recent installation, people here virtually stop me wherever I go to ask what braiding hair I used and how I achieved this look. It’s such a novelty here, hence this post.

When I first did this faux loc style, I made some mistakes. It didn’t exactly come out the way I wanted but I still enjoyed rocking it. This second time I’m making up for it. I got it the way I want (uhmm, maybe something more lengthy but I’m still great with this length).

I’ve been rocking these babies for almost 2 weeks now and it still looks new.

Here’s what you’ll be needing:
  • Yarn (wool) 
  • Kinky braiding hair

The amount you’ll use depends on the length and size of the locs. I used 6 rolls of yarn and 4½ packs of kinky braiding hair for this length and size.

How to:
  • My hair was freshly washed, well moisturized and oiled.
  • Then my hair stylist started with box braids using the yarn.
  • Next the box braids were threaded upon starting from the root using the kinky braiding hair to the tip of the box braids.
  • Finally the tip was tied and burnt to ensure a tighter hold.

TIPS
  1. To save time, stop braiding the box braids where your natural hair ends. The rest of the unbraided yarn can still be threaded upon.
  2. Burn only the tip of the kinky braiding hair. Don’t burn along it. I made this mistake the first time, it makes the take down process harder.

Have you tried the faux loc style? How did you go about it?
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