Changes

So, it is time for me to straight fly through these length checkpoints. I am tired of playing around, flirting with length here and there. I got goals, you know, lol. It is time to act like it. Ok....first of all, I am stretching from April 18th to August 1st. It is going to be a 15 week stretch. I am five weeks post. I have the entire summer to get some beautiful length. Hopefully, this will be the stretch and relaxer that gets me to APL finally! I have another goal: to be halfway between APL and BSL by christmas....you know, no more than two inches above BSL. An additional goal is to be BSL by next summer and to graduate December 2011 with big, thick BSLplus hair. I want it to look like a mane under my cap and gown. I am going to take a picture of me in a cap so I can have comparison pictures. I am going to try that up by the end of May.

There have been a few changes to my hair regimen and my hair practices.
1. I am giving up heat after June 1st. I am going to try to only use heat on relaxer days. I think I am going to go as far as throw my flatiron away.

2. I am cutting down my products greatly. There are products I am not using and/or not using often.

3. I am going to rely more on rollers....because.....

4. I have given up wrapping my hair. I am thinner on one side and I am planning on evening my hair.

5. I am so big on hair vitamins now. Biotin.

I have a few things I am going to work on:
-thinning edges
-breaking edges
-thinning ends
-thickening my hair!
SO WISH ME LUCK!!!

my plans for the summer

summer is approaching and i cannot wait. because i have time to concentrate on my hair. my plans for the summer is to use castor oil like there is no tomorrow. i cannot believe that i have slacked as much as i have, but school gets in the way of EVERYTHING. but this summer, i will not be taking any classes. i am going to castor oil and braid my hair the entire time, because graduation will sneak up on me soon and my goal is to have either BSL or MBL hair, i will not settle for anything less than that. right now i am still at shoulder length. APL is so hard to come by these days, but i am still hopeful that i will reach it before the summer. i would have never thought that my hair would grow so slow. but like i said, i am very hopeful and i cannot wait until my birthday. a wonderful gift to me would be APL and why not BSL for christmas, lol. but we are going to take it one day at a time.

2010, so whats new

hello world. happy new year!!!
so if you have seen my latest relaxer pick, you would know that i have not made APL. i am bummed out but i came to the conclusion that my hair just hasn't hit its growth spurt yet. but i am definitely optimistic about hitting APL in MARCH. lol. so hopefully i can be there. my goal is to be there with dry hair. my hair appears longer when wet than dry.

i plan to bun and do a few other low manipulation techniques. a lot of differents things don't actually look flattering to me so i do not have a large selections when it comes to getting something did to my hair by my own hands.

by march, i am hoping to have a human full wig. i believe that will me help me also with my stretching. i said that i was considering a six month stretch. that would be about may 31st. idk about that one, lol. if i can make it until april, i would be so proud of myself and i would be satisfied with that. so i will settle for four to five months, but if i can stretch to a day shy of my 22nd BDAY, which is june 1st, i would jump for joy. right now i am just trying to find a few things that will work for me without me tearing my hair out.

hope to update you soon.

Ten weeks post

so i am ten weeks post. i have changed my shampoo and conditioner to Cantu. so far i have noticed a tremendous difference. hand in hand with the Cantu, i have been using the AphoGee green tea spray. it has also help with the shedding. i cant run my fingers through my and take out as much of hair i like i used to. i try not to use it every wash to avoid protein overload, but i love that my hair is strengthening already. i straightened my hair and realized that my hair is getting longer. yay!!!!....for me, lol. i really feel like if i use this castor oil until i relax december 23rd that i will be at my goal for the year, APL by Christmas. i am so excited. i am also hoping for BSL by August 2010. its one goal at a time, but my APL and BSL goals are the two i am the most excited about. I don't know why. I was once at WL and i am not that excited about reaching it, lol, its backwards i know.

so i have four more weeks until i relax. i cannot wait until december.

9 weeks in

so i am officially 9 weeks into my stretch. i am experiencing severe shedding. however i have no plans on relaxing my hair early (however, do not quote me in case of emergencies). my goal is to solve the shedding when its at its worst. if i can manage my shedding during these dire times, it will be a breeze any other time. so my goal is to stop it or slow it tremendously. from this day foward, i am going to collect my shedding hair and have a comparsion at my next nine week mark of my next stretch. i am only washing my hair once a week. i have gotten lazy with the moisturizing and applying castor oil. i promise to get back on the bandwagon. december 23rd is the day. hopefully i will hit my APL mark. i am excited. no more trims until mid febuary early march. im so excited. if i don't hit APL, i know i will get close and i know that i have worked hard for it. i will be disappointed but i will be ok and i will relax again march 20-31. between june and august, i am praying for BSL.

until next time.

14 week stretch

so. i have decided to stretch my relaxer for a total of ten more weeks, giving me a grand total of fourteen. the decision was an immediate one. i really didn't do too much thinking about it. there are a couple reasons why i am doing this:

one, i am now four weeks post and i do not have any NG. i was going to have to relax my hair in seven weeks and i wasn't going to have that much NG.

two, i have been debating about whether i am going to go natural or not. i feel like this stretch would give me my true answer, whether i can handle it or not.

so i am excited about doing this stretch. if i want to go natural, i am pretty sure that i am not going to relax my hair and continue to transisition. i am so scared. lol. i have always had some kind of hair. so cutting it eventually scares me. my friend is actually transisitioning now. its been a month since her last relaxer, so she is already on her way. she is shaved in the back so the back of her head is already natural. another friend of mines went natural and she looks so good. another friend of mines is going natural too and she hasn't had a relaxer in four months.
my mom is going to hate my natural hair. i am going to continue to think about it, just to make sure my heart is in the right place and that i will not regret it. right now, i am just on the fence.

september relaxer

so i finally relaxed last tuesday. i know this blog is a little late, but i had to catch up on my school work. so i the longest portion of my hair is at an inch from APL. i am excited. but i am also nervous because when i take my shirt and do a bare back check, it looks like i am a long ways away from APL, it can be as far away as three inches it appears. i get a little discouraged. but the relaxer did really well except that i started to burn really bad so i didn't get to bone straight relax my hair in the front. but i still love my hair. its healthy and its getting longer. one side is a little longer but i will work on it. i am going to use my castor oil like its no tomorrow. hopefully i will have pictures up soon so you can see the difference.