8inches – 8 ½ inches! 

In total, I gained about 3-4 inches of growth since I became fully natural, without really doing anything. I’m definitely intrigued, and I intend to take advantage of this new growth rate that I have right now, and at the same time, improve the state of my scalp. I’m also going to be very detailed in documenting my journey this year to help my readers on their own journeys. 

In my previous post, I explained that my wash day routine has been the same for the past couple of months, because I'm transitioning to natural hair, and using wigs in my opinion is the easiest way to deal with different textures (Not to mention, I also work for a Hair Company), so I decided to do a more detailed post about my wig regimen. Here's how it works:


 1. Cornrows: I put my hair in cornrows and leave it in for about 2-3 weeks, during this period, I moisturise and seal daily (or almost never, but I'm supposed to).

 Related: How I do My Cornrows

 2. Condition: While the cornrows are still in, I co wash or deep condition once a week or as needed, then I air dry.

 3. Shampoo: I shampoo my hair once a month, for this I take down my cornrows, detangle, shampoo, condition, the works.

Related: Minimize Breakage and Tangles on Wash Day

 4. Dry: I t-shirt dry my hair for a few minutes, then I apply my leave-ins: Mega Growth Daily Leave-in Strengthner, and my Oil Mixture.


Next, I blow dry each section using the Tension Method before putting my hair back in cornrows.



 This regimen helps in protecting my ends, and also allows me to leave my hair alone...most of the time. I

hope this post was helpful! Leave all your questions in the comment section, I'd love to read them.

 Have you been wearing wigs lately? What's your updated regimen?

This time last week, I was sitting in front of a mirror snipping away at my relaxed hair, with no idea what I was going to do once I was done. I didn't want to dwell on it so I immediately braided my hair and I managed to squeeze out one picture to post on the blog. This week, I'm loving my hair and I'm ready to be a bit more detailed in my reason for cutting my hair this soon.


WHAT?! I know right? This is the reaction I got from almost everyone I told about cutting my hair. I even asked myself a similar question: "What did you just do?!" I had no idea I was even going to cut my hair this quick, I mean, I'm only 6 months into my transition so there's still some texlaxed hair on my head, but still, I thought I would get to a year before I started cutting off the ends but oh well, these things happen. If you thought I was going to define what a big chop is, I am so sorry, I don't know how to define it, I mean I basically just cut off a large chunk of my hair. That's it, and I'm not completely natural so technically, it  doesn't count.


HOW? Okay now this I can explain, it's really easy. I just sprayed my hair with water and applied conditioner on it, and the curls popped right up. I could see the difference between the texlaxed and the bone straight and I cut it off at the point where they meet. I did this in really small sections to avoid stories that touch the heart. It was a little difficult in some areas where the texture wasn't as defined , so I had to wing it, but it turned out okay.

Length Check: Collar bone length

WHY? I was totally over it. My natural/texlaxed area just made the relaxed parts look really thin and coupled with the unevenness caused by the breakage, I was just over everything and I decided even it out.

How do I feel? To be honest, I was sorta blank for a week! I didn't know how to react, my hair has never been this short before, but after taking down the cornrows, I was absolutely in love with it! After deep conditioning, I wanted to see how it looked straightened, but halfway through the process, the lights went out (#RealityCheck) so I stretched the rest of my hair using flexirods.




I definitely need to incorporate more trims and protein treatments into my regimen in order for the hair to stay healthy and fresh over time.

What have you done to your hair lately?