Regimen

So I have been struggling with a consistent regimen for years.

I just go crazy hoping from regimen to regimen.

I know olive oil and castor oil love my hair and I should stop hoping from product to product but I’m still drooling at the hair product shelf.

I have decided to challenge myself to one year of not buying shelved products until the old ones are done.

So for the old products I have; carrot oil, virgin hair oil, wild growth and doo gro.

I am slowly going to use these along with my garlic water concoction and extra virgin olive oil.

I intent to use olive oil as conditioner and hot oil treatment,  and then the rest as sealants.

So for now, I am using L.O.C method which entails of; garlic water, wild growth then carrot oil.

When the wild growth is done, I will move to virgin hair oil and then finally doogro.

When they are all done, I will be back to olive oil

I also mix a lot of my own conditioners and cleansers.

For conditioner I use henna, tea, lemon, honey eggs and olive oil or banana, avocado, eggs, rosemary, olive oil, cayenne pepper and lemon.

I then rinse it out with tea or diluted vinegar (ACV).

I moisturize my hair every morning and wash and condition every weekend.

I do the baggy method once in a while and I braid it up before I sleep then cover with a silk wrap.

I protective style for 6-8 weeks washing every 2 weeks and then I let my air breathe for 1 week- 2 weeks.

I am planning to shift to totally natural products as soon as my doo gro, virgin oil and wild growth oil is done.

My natural hair journey

Natural Hair Journey

I decided to stop relaxing my hair in April 2013.

It has been almost 14 months of having natural hair.

I big chopped in my 10^th month of transitioning which was February 2014.

A series of events had happened before then which led to this decision. After going through this hell hole that I thought I would never get out of I decided to cut my hair.

This was a milestone and of big significance because after that I decided I would never go back to that situation as much as I’d never go back to the creamy crack.

LOL I know it sounds like a big mystery but I do have a flare for the dramatics.

Anyway, back to my lovely hair journey, I fell in love with natural hair way before I started transitioning.

I had had a lot of ill luck with my hair since I actually started growing it at 14.

Between 14 (2006) and 16 (2009) my hair was natural but in and out of braids.

By then I had no idea about hair care so my hair broke bitterly.  I rarely washed my hair when it was out of braids and never at all whilst in braids, I left my braids in for over two months, I never conditioned my hair well ( I just loaded it with grease and that  was it), I never slept with a silk wrap and consequently my hair was stunted at the back and I wondered why! (bummer right?)

All this abuse went on until 2012 August.

This is when I discovered hair blogs, vlogs and everything.

This is after my hair had been damaged badly by the humid Malaysian heat for 2 years.

My back hair was gone and I had had enough.

That is when I began to read about black hair care and I discovered natural oils, deep conditioning and protective styling among many others.

I first tried olive oil and boy did my hair thrive. In 6 weeks my hair had already grown 2 inches from sealing with olive oil.

From then on my hair got better as I discovered L.O.C method, natural deep conditioners, henna , ACV, air drying and finally transitioning.

My biggest natural hair gurus were Solange and Janelle Monae.

Having found hair gurus my goal and will were as strong as steel.

I knew that I had to create a strong hair regimen and get a staple that I would stick with as long as my follicles let my hair grow.

That is when I discovers techniques of effective moisturizing which were; L.O.C method, baggy method, co-wash, deep conditioning and spritzing hair.

For protecting hair I discovers, silk wrap, protective hair styling and using heat protectants in case you needed to style hair using heat.

All this techniques cooked up something new, passionate and creative inside me.

A world of new possibilities of sorts.

That is when I began to go crazy with mixing my own natural hair portions, I became a crazy hair junky (guilty J ) and I also began having dreams of becoming the first ever green hair salon with all natural products in Uganda.

Yes my imagination was running wild and for a good cause.

Going natural was definitely my calling and from then on I knew I would never go back and thus that is where my journey successfully commences and continues…