I’ve been keeping it pretty simple with hair lately. As you know, given daily morning work-outs, I’ve been wearing my hair in a bun. Well, between the henna/indigo residue from the prior week, the sweat from exercising and the “containment” of the bun … my hair was smelling all kinds of funky by Saturday morning!! Pee-you!! LOL!

Anywho, after my morning kettlebell work-out, I hopped in the shower … no pre-poo, no twists, no nothing, and got to work.

Wash Day Routine (Saturday)

• Shampooed with diluted Shea Moisture Raw Shea Moisture Retention Shampoo (I have to say, I don’t feel like this gets my scalp/hair really clean. After working up quite a lather and rinsing, my hair still had a henna smell to it. So, I had to repeat.). Rinsed.
• Finger detangled with diluted Herbal Essences Hello Hydration (went great again). Rinsed.
• Massaged scalp with a mix of JBCO and jojoba oil.
• Deep conditioned with a mix of Jessicurl Weekly Deep Treatment (ran out) and MyHoneyChild Olive You DC with honey, VCO, EVOO and JBCO (approx. 30 min. w/heat turban and 1 hour with no heat – because I had to run out).
• Cooled and sealed with Aubrey Green Tea Cream Rinse and rinsed with cold water.
• Applied modified Kimmaytube leave-in (1 tbsp Kinky Curly Knot Today; 1 tbsp Aloe Vera Juice; 1/2 tsp JBCO; 1/2 tsp EVOO; 1/2 tsp jojoba oil).
• Twisted hair into 8 chunky twists.
• Applied a mix of Eco Styler Olive Oil Gel and shea butter to roots.
• Tied hair down with a scarf.
• Removed scarf and released twists while my hair was still a bit damp.
• Allowed hair to air dry without disturbing too much.
• Fluffed hair once fully air dried.

All ready except the wet hair.

Released, but still very damp.

Air dried, side-parted and fluffy.

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Re-Style to Stretch (Sunday)

Working section by section for 12 sections – three in each quadrant:

• Applied coconut oil whip to length of hair.
• Applied Eco Styler Olive Oil gel to roots.
• Braided length of hair.
• Dampened hands with water and ran down length of braids to lightly wet.
• Set the ends of top two twists on both sides of my head with grey perm rods.
• Released after about 2 hours and fluffed.

Dry braid-out with Eco Styler Olive Oil gel at the roots and coconut oil whip to length.

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And, of course … I’ll be going back to the bun for the week ;).

Too bad that it won’t look this nice today!!

My hair seems to be recuperating nicely now. For a minute there, it was not looking good. The kimmaytube leave-in, stretching my hair and keeping it bunned have definitely improved my sitch-ee-ay-shun!! So, I’ll be sticking with that routine for the forseeable future. I’m hoping that it’ll help me see some nice length retention too!!

Alright, lata gatas!!

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Have you had to initiate Hair Rehab this winter? If so, what have you been doing to get your hair into recovery and back on point?