As promised here are a couple of pictures of my naked hair. It was still a bit damp, excess moisture already absorbed by a turbie twist for about 5 minutes before taking the snap.
As you can see, the bottom is the BKT come ‘heat trained’ hair while the roots show my thicker texture (maybe I’m a 4b?). A couple of you asked me why I no longer BKT my hair and the truth is this:
I don’t think that there is anything inherently wrong with BKT or even relaxer for that matter, I just didn’t want the BKT to turn into yet another thing that I had to do to my hair every 3 months, it would feel too much like relaxer by a different name. Another thing is that, since my ends are somewhat looser in texture than my roots, I don’t get that many single strand knots now as in the past. Also since I don’t wear my hair straight as often as I used to in the past, it seems pointless to BKT. It’s quite possible that I will revisit it once I reach full waist length and I get the urge to do something different to my hair but for now, I will let it be.
On another note, I received my recently ordered Organix anti breakage serum in the mail today yaay! I intend to rotate it with the Redken anti snap when moisturizing and sealing.
Yesterday I also made the famous natural flaxseed gel that everyone raves about and I couldn’t resist, I re-braided my hair using the gel last night. I got a pretty good braid out this morning but it didn’t have time to dry completely and it shrunk so much I had to throw it into a ponytail. My head is too big for a fro!
It’s just occurred to me that the picture above looks like I’m wearing those wet and wavy micro braids that I used to love so much years ago!
This flaxeed gel stuff definitely has potential for use in something other than just a gel. I noticed yesterday that it has fantastic slip and goes on kind of like the Boots coconut and almond conditioner that I love so much. In the interest of trying to wean myself off commercial products and start using mostly natural ones, I will make a natural conditioner this weekend using ingredients that I have at home and I will DC with said conditioner this weekend too. Recipe to follow soon.
