Is Mineral Oil Really All That Bad?

Is Mineral Oil Really All That Bad?

Relaxer & Growth Update

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Sooooooo this is my hair post relaxer!!! LOL I know not to impressive, but I was 20 weeks post, and it had begun to burn...I figured a healthy scalp was far more important than a successful relaxer...See that in itself is a milestone in this HHJ...lol I was always to to "grin and bear it", that "beauty was pain" Gosh I remember I used to pick scabs off of my scalp and the sores bleeding :-( I had some so bad once that my hair had gotten dried up in the blood, turned scab and I had to comb the scab out to get my hair from underneath it...ewww any way far from those days now lol.

I am about 6 weeks into my journey now, and my hair is already improving :-)

Beginning of HHJ




1 Month Later






I'd have to say my ultimate fav product right now is Glover's Growth Solution, it really moisturizes, and I LOOOOOVE the way that it makes my scalp tingle :-)




This is my hair flat ironed with the instyler at 18 weeks post relaxer..

This is the same side post relaxer (about 3 weeks after photo above)





This is my thinner and shorter side flat ironed at 18 weeks post.

This is the same side post relaxer:

Seeing that my hair started breaking at 20 weeks, I will no longer attempt to stretch that long, I will try to relaxer every 16 weeks or so, that should put me at about 4 relaxers per year...not to bad, considering what my hair is used to lol!!!

I haven't updated in awhile bc I had just been doing the same old same old. But I did find out that my hair had begun breaking at my line of demarcation from stretching. So I decided to go ahead and relax it.

Sooo today was RELAX day which turned out as a Tex lax!!! I was about 20 weeks post & my new growth was so tightly coiled & hard whoo wee anything is better than nothing!!! Hope this stops the breaking at my demarcation line. Guess I will let it air dry & straighten it. My plan was to bun it but I wasn't able to get my faux clip on bun today so I'll have to w8 until Friday!!

Before The Journey Began

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This is my hair in 07, I was in nursing school. Still never really took CARE of my hair, but this is also before I put color or wore extentions. This is the longest my hair has ever been. SL.




This is in 08, feeling bored, I decided to do this HORRID assym bob!!!




This is later in 08 after trying to color my own hair:-( The color didnt turn out right, needless to say, and so I but in a rinse and got more of it chopped off!!





(excuse the crossed eyes...I was being silly) This is in 09...I got it colored professionally...(still hadn't learned) As short as it is, I have extensions on the sides, to add volume, it was hella thin and broken off so uneven...It wouldn't look decent without the extensions (which were GLUED in!!!)



This is is early 2010, me without extensions trying to style my hair in a way that it looked decent...this is the best I could do...ughhh...couple of relaxers later...the color now dull.




This is early this year 2011...right before my last cut.




Last cut in LIFE!!! Lol March 2011!!!





And this was taken last month (3 months post relaxer) Flat Ironed (Instyler, new growth bumped)

THE NATURAL HAVEN: Why do the first five ingredients on a hair produc...

THE NATURAL HAVEN: Why do the first five ingredients on a hair produc...: "I am here to save you from digesting too much information. The first five ingredients are all you need to know for three products: shampoos..."
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I have never understood why the order of ingedients mattered :-/ This is kinda cleared things up for meh!!!

I Got Goals!!!

My Only Goal for July was to adhere to my regimen....DONE!!!

So for August, my goals:

1. Continue with regimen every week.
2. Allow one heat pass
3. Buy Mizani Overnight Treatment
4. Lose 5 pounds
5. Purchase and use Biotin every day.

Unblissfully Ignorant

SOOOO to update my brilliant idea of sleeping in my baggy...does it work?? YES!!!! my hair is super duper moisturized.... BUT will I do it again?? Not on my freshly bone straight flat ironing... It made my hair get damp:-( it quickly dried & was left really soft but of course the humidity under the cap called out the new growth... Didn't take that in consideration blahhhh