Taking Control of What's on My Head

My hair is natural and up until my 20th I have never really cared about it. I have been natural for approximately 5 years now and I haven't seen much growth with my hair. I have had this sudden motivation to care for my hair mainly because I want it to grow and be able to mess around with different hairstyles.

 

It has been difficult to maintain it properly while at uni because I have had to keep braids in my hair for 3 months at a time due to the fact that I am too far from London to keep going back to get my hair done and I don't know or trust anyone enough at uni to do my hair.
 

I've never really known much about hair or how to maintain it and over the past 5 years my hair has fallen out at the back and the sides; though the sides have tended to be more prone to breaking.

I attended a hair exhibition over summer and got quite a lot of advice about how to treat my hair and look after it. I've also been watching quite a few youtube gurus too. I think I spent over £50 over summer buying products.

 

I bought:

Jamaican Black Caster Oil (SO expensive)

Almond Oil

Olive Oil

Cucumber massage conditioner

Cantu Shea butter

Cocoa butter

Pur Curls Non-sulphate shampoo (SO expensive I HAD to bargin)

Shea butter and tea tree oil

Lo'real Elvive Conditioner

Eggs and Honey (for deep conditioning)

 

And this is very unlike me to spend so much money - but it's part of me being bigger and better and I know that my ultimate goal of having longer, healthier and fuller hair will make me happier. 

Over summer I kept my hair out for over a month; it's the longest I've had my hair out in years and it felt healthier and stronger because of my treatment method. My routine was that I would put caster oil and olive oil in my hair every other day and I conditioned my hair with loreal and cantu shea butter every week and deep conditioned every 3 weeks with honey, egg and oil. I did have a mishap involving avocado but I won't go into that it, it was pretty traumatic.

 

It's nice however to be able to be in control of my hair and not have my hair fall out because it's dry. I am starting to understand what my hair needs now and I cannot wait to see how it improves over the next couple of years.

 

My aim now is to figure out how to do more protective hairstyles by myself as I am sick of spending so much money and time in hair salons.

I will update next summer to show you how it goes.
 

Olola

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