*waves hello to Biker Braid and Flamming bunny*
It's been a while since I was here last, and alot of growth has happened.
Here's a basic run down of what's been going on hair wise...
When I first actually started caring for my hair properly, I had hair like in the below picture.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/KaylinSilverfurr/Kaylin%20images/grave14....June 2004
Shoulder length (+/-), multi-coloured, bleached and blow dried, straightened, curled hair. I think at that point in time I was using silicone serum religiously, even on dry hair, to help combat the frizzies. I shampooed and conditioned every day, used a paddle brush on wet hair, did nothing to tie it back at night and did not use cloth covered elastics and hair sticks were "Chopsticks" for me. (Read: Tools I scarfed my sushi with.) Split-end central.
Now?
I use Giovanni's SLS free 50:50 Balanced shampoo and the 50:50 Conditioner and their leave in conditioner. Before that it was CO only with Mane N' Tail, Tressemme or Garnier Fructis Long N' Strong and using Infusium 23 leave in.
I wash maybe about twice a week, longer if I can get away with it.
I have done away with the silicone serum (and anything else containing -cones in it), and use Coconut Oil and J/A/S/O/N Natural 98% Aloe Vera Gel, detangle with either my fingers or a wooden comb when my hair is wet, sleep with it braided, hairsticks are my friends (Save for in winter, because a hat takes priority on my head unfortunately.), henna or use Cassia Obovata rather than dye with commercially available stuff and use cloth covered elastics.
It has been a gradual process over the last (almost) two years. There were days when my hair would completely and utterly freak out and go beserk on me. Try as I might, it would not bend to my command, nor would it allow itself to be confined within my whims and desires.
Hell, it still a little on the thin-ish side, but only because I am on The Low-Dose Pill.
Today?
A day after washing...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/KaylinSilverfurr/Hair/dechair02.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/KaylinSilverfurr/Hair/dechair01.jpgTwo braid photos, as this is how I usually keep my hair back now, espcially in the winter. My hair is roughly bra strap length now.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/KaylinSilverfurr/Hair/dechair03.jpgOf the shine and colour.
After (almost) two years, the aweful bleach chunky/ black dye job is nearly gone, though you can still see some left over at the ends. I have been trimming my own hair now, twice within the last year. Easy as pie when you have the right scissors.
I do the occassional dusting...if and when I find split ends. (they are few and far between now.)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/KaylinSilverfurr/Hair/dechair04.jpgGeneral length picture.
Yes, I realise that I have a few fly-aways. I had just gotten in the door, and it is winter after all. (Which reminds me, I desperately need to ask Santa for a humidifier for Christmas).
Oh, and the kitty posing with me is Tatum, my black and white cow kitty.
~Kaylin
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