relaxed hair journey

Check out Thirsty Roots Member Sdestra's relaxed hair journey and interview. Sdestra shows how with proper care, relaxed pilus can be healthy, long, and beautiful. We asked her nearly relaxed hair care, styling, and must have products based on her personal feel and regimen. Sdestra is loving her thirsty roots past caring for them and keeping them healthy in its electric current relaxed state. Also, she has documented her journey through great pictures to help her forth the manner and to share with others.

Sock Bun with Blossom (2009) and French Braid (2011)

Afterward a fresh relaxer and after a wrapped hair take down (January 2012)

TR: Tell us virtually your pilus journey. How it started? What are your goals?

Sdestra: Prior to starting my hair journey, I was Arm Pit Length (APL); at the time I was not familiar with the hair terms. I was bored with my hair and decided to get a short pilus cutting that was considered Ear Length (EL). A while later, my sister in law told me nearly a photo sharing site where and then many women documented their pilus journeys. I was immediately interested, familiarized myself with information that would exist vital to my hair journey and set realistic hair goals for myself. My goal from the get-go was to take long hair "again". Seeing women with beautiful long hair in all different textures likewise made me wish I had never cut my hair in the first place because I knew my pilus would take reached a particular length in less fourth dimension. But over time, I decided that good for you hair is more important than anything else which I establish to exist very truthful. Noticing the generous compliments I've seen people received with hair in all lengths, I noticed that the common thing with all of the women were that their hair were all HEALTHY. And then that became my goal, to have healthy hair throughout my hair journey.

TR: How long have you've been relaxed?

Sdestra: I take been relaxed since I was much, much younger. I can say when I was about to graduated eye school and fix to first high school. I never asked my mother to relax my hair, but she decided to practise it to make it "easier" for her to deal with my hair. She cared for my hair for many years even during my pre-relaxed days. I don't recall experiencing much damage under her intendance.

TR: How long is your current hair length?

Sdestra: My pilus length is currently at Bra Strap Length (BSL). I have kept it that way for the by year to rid of the colored hair I did about two years ago. I felt equally though I had to give my hair extra care because of it, and then again, health was more than important to me. To go along my pilus healthy as possible, I decided to clip my ends from time to time and maintain it at BSL for now. I may continue it into this yr also since I take a few inches of color to rid of.

TR: How long did it take you to abound your hair?

Sdestra: I started my hair journey at the stop of 2007. My hair is non at the length it would be at present had I never cut it, trimmed it, colored, and experienced postpartum hair shedding throughout the years. If I never did do these things, my hair may or may not exist in information technology's healthy state right at present. Otherwise, for the time I have been taking care of my hair myself, I tin can say that it is salubrious.

TR: What is your current hair regimen and the products you lot use?

Sdestra:

Relax 12-16 weeks – Fabulaxer No Lye Mild Relaxer

Shampoo every other week – Crème of Nature Conditioning Shampoo

Deep Conditioning once a calendar week – Creme of Nature Nourishing Conditioner & 100% Organic Extra virgin Coconut Oil (EVCO)

Cowashes are done 1-ii times a week – VO5 Wet Milks Moisturizing Conditioner, Suave Conditioner or Aussie Moist Conditioner & 100% Organic EVCO

Protein treatments are done as needed – Eggs and Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO)

Leave Ins afterwash: Aphogee Pro-Vitamin Get out In Conditioner, ApHogee Keratin & Dark-green Tea Restructurizer

Moisturizers – Herbal Essences Long Term Relationship Leave In conditioner, Shea butter mix (100% Shea Butter, EVCO and Haitian Black Castor Oil

Air dry 90% of the time and a lot of protective styling (Sock bun, Complect outs, French braids, ponytail, rod sets)

Flat iron is done rarely. Sometimes the hair is air dried to xc% and so blow dried earlier styling.

TR: What tips tin you lot give to other women who relax their pilus?

Sdestra: Be sure to moisturize, moisturize and moisturize! Try to use heat equally less equally oftentimes, specially straight estrus such as a flat fe. Stay with what works for you lot, you may already have wonderful products. Give products time to show yous what information technology can do for your hair. That would help you lot avoiding becoming a production junkie. Employ your pilus hair regimen as a guide, don't let it enslave you. Building your regimen starting with the basic items such every bit a shampoo, conditioner, leave-in and moisturizer will assist y'all get started. From there, yous can build your regimen with additional products as needed. Set realistic goals for yourself when it comes to where you lot want your hair to exist. Do your research also, sometimes what works for someone who has beautiful hair may non work for you at all.

TR: How do you lot bargain with new growth in betwixt relaxer applications?

Sdestra: Between relaxer applications, I stretch my hair betwixt 12-16 weeks. What has helped me deal with the new growth (NG) is to moisturize my scalp with oils and cowash oftentimes. I section my hair into vi sections and detangle each of those sections using conditioner. I wash my hair, air dry, and sometimes blow dry out it that way too. It helps so my hair does not go re-tangled equally much.

TR: What are your go to styles?

Sdestra: My become to styles are the french braid, flexi rod set and bun. So easy and simple. Benefits of those styles are that I can moisturize my ends and have them tucked in. In one case in a while when I do a flexi rod set, I can dispense it to pizzazz information technology up and style information technology in various ways.

TR: What are your must have hair products, accessories, and styling tools?

Sdestra: My must have hair products: EVCO, Shea butter, and any moisturizing conditioner
Accessories: Hair pins, flowers, sock bun and hair bands
Styling tools: Denman brush, Flexi- rods, Caruso rollers, flat fe, hair dryer (hooded and accident dry)

TR: What do yous love most about your "thirsty roots"?

Sdestra: What I dearest most about my thirsty roots is that I tin can be simple or improvident with information technology.

TR: Anything else you may want to add together?

Sdestra: Everything does non piece of work for everyone, that is why it is important to practise your own research when it comes to your hair care needs. Worry virtually the health of your hair starting time and the rest will follow. It is non the length of the pilus that makes it beautiful, it is the over all health. Healthy hair will always turn heads at any length.

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