Hair Woes

I'm constantly doing this!

My hair is acting stupid.

Whether others can tell I'm not sure (probably)... but my hair it straight trying my soul. My ends seem to forever look crazy and I'm experiencing a lot of breakage from these crazy ends I have. I HATE split ends with a passion so I'm trying to get my hair back on track.

I've been reading a lot of different hair blogs and some hair products and techniques I can get down with and others I can't.

Here are two hair facts about me

• One I do not like oily greasy hair (therefore I don't put product in my hair UNLESS I'm bunning it) so sealing my hair nighty and stuff just isn't gonna work for me.
  

• I like straight hair. Natural styles are cool... but I don't see things that I like that would work with my hair texture. And I clearly can't change my hair texture to match the styles I like.

With those two fact about me and my hair out there... but best I can come up with to solve this... issue is do things to my hair while I'm actually in the process of washing and straightening my hair.

Last night I did my hair and I felt like I was doing the most... But I'm gonna try this for a few weeks and see what happens cause I can't live this way.

Here is what I did:

1. Pre- wash oil treatment with olive oil (under heat)

• I bought Extra Virgin Olive Oil distributed it throughout all my hair, bunned it, places it in plastic and set under the heat for probably thirty minutes. (yes... it was a lil weird for me mentally for some reason I felt I was cooking my hair :/ lol )
  

2. Washed it with L'Oreal EverPure Sulfate Free shampoo

• I've been using this (surprisingly) pretty consistently since the summer. And I hear Sulfate free shampoo is good for the hair. In my readings I read that after an oil treatment you shouldn't wash your hair "squeaky" clean. So I shampooed only twice. But my hair was feeling pretty soft.
  

3.Millennia Mud for about 8 mins

• Millennia Mud was a new product that I tried... its a reconstructer. It suggests using it only 2 -4 minutes, but I got distracted playing Words with friends so it ended up saying in there a while longer lol. My hair felt slightly different after washing out the reconstructor... not as soft I suppose
  

4. Conditioned with both Aussie moist conditioner & L'Oreal EverPure Sulfate Free conditioning mask (under heat)

• Aussie Moist Conditioner is my sh*t in the summertime when I'm conditioning on the go. And the conditioning mask is a staple for me too. I started using it in the summer, its kinda expensive so I mostly use it to condition the front edges of my hair. I set under the dry maybe about 30 minutes or so.
  

5. Rinse with Aloe vera

• This was also something new I tried. Doing a final raise with aloe vera juice and not water was totally new to me. But I gave it a whirl and it really wasn't that bad. It's supposed to lower the PH of hair.

and then I straightened as usual...

I think I'm going to start blow drying my hair in smaller sections... that might help me in this hair.............. mission. As well as try to wear more up-dos so my ends aren't out.

Anyway I think I'm gonna try doing these things for a couple of weeks and see what happens.

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