1st wash in Curly Girl

If you don’t want to read a boring entry about me learning how to take care of my hair by trial and error, click on to the next one. :)

I’m also tracking this process with pictures, but I haven’t really felt comfortable posting pictures of myself on this site. So I’ll keep those on my phone for my own reference.

Last sulfate wash last night to kick out any remaining build-up.
Used NYM Naturals to condition, then went straight in with the Aussie instant fix on my soaking hair while still in the shower.

My hair took like 4 hours to dry. Slept on it overnight in a pineapple. Because otherwise I would have had to wake up at 3am to wash and have it dry in time for work. And ain’t nobody got time for that.

I’m thinking I’ll wake up early next time I wash, but not on a day I have to be at the office.

I was surprised how good it looked when I took it down in the morning, as far as the curls holding shape. I sprayed a bit of Cantu curl refresher on it to redefine a couple of loose locks.

Unfortunately, I had to go to the office and it was a little too big and wild for that environment. So I fought with it to get it into a tamer state with bobby pins and clips.

I was NOT impressed by the hold-up through the day. I’m sure touching it a ton (as I kept fussing with it because I was self-conscious about wearing it natural at work) did not help a lot, so that’s probably a big factor in the curls falling on the top layers.

Another falling factor is that I’ve been flat ironing my hair about 5 days a week for the last year. And fairly frequently even for years before that. So there is a transition period where my hair has to learn how to keep it’s curl after years of abuse.

So I’m going to try this routine for the time being to see if it gets any better. I also ordered a new product that wavy girls swear by, so I’ll have that later this week to try next. I also ordered a satin pillowcase, because they apparently don’t sell those at Target.

I’m probably going to try the same routine tomorrow, when I’m working from home, and see how it holds up throughout the day without me me sleeping on it.