It's Wash Day Again!

Hey guys! It's Friiday!! Hope your week was awesome!

I took my Sengalese twists out on Wednesday evening after 5 weeks of having them. My hair felt so dry so I knew I was going to have to do a little extra during my wash day routine. My hair was still clean because I washed it last week. You can read about that here:  How I Wash My Hair While It's in Braids. 

I couldn't wash my hair on Wednesday night because I finished loosening it around 1 am and I had CDS the next day so, I put it into 4 braids to sleep and the next day I decided to put it into a puff. My hair was a bit stretched out from the twists I had just loosened so my puff was looking really weird. I had to spritz it with water to make it shrink a little and a bit easier to fluff out.

My Routine

 I forgot to pre-poo before washing my hair or maybe I remembered but I was too lazy to. But please, don't forget to pre-poo it actually helps.
Before I shampoo my hair I put it into sections. I usually braid it but this time I decided to just put it into 4 little puffs.

My 'Where do I start from?' face

I washed each section with my Giovanni Shampoo, used a cotton t-shirt to dry it a bit and then braided it. After I had done this on each section it was time to deep condition.

I always deep condition the same way. With my Cantu Deep Treatment Masque.. I think I'll cry if it ever stopped working for my hair. This time, I mixed it with shea butter because of how dry my hair felt and twisted my hair. It took me 5 episodes of the Mindy Project to finish twisting so it took about an hour and 40 minutes.

I tried Heat-based deep conditioning without a steamer or a dryer, which I read about on DarkChildLoveThyHair. I didn't take pictures of the process unfortunately, but she has pictures if you want to try it out. I basically put a small towel in hot water, squeezed it out with another towel and put it on the shower cap I had on my twists. Then, I put a scarf over it. I was supposed to put another shower cap over it actually but it still worked.
I left it on for about 20 minutes and then I co-washed my hair with v05 conditioner.

After drying my hair with a cotton t-shirt I mixed Cantu Leave In - the one for natural hair, with glycerine, castor oil and shea butter and I used this to moisturise my hair. I haven't been able to get a new leave in conditioner, that's why I still used the Cantu leave in. I put my hair into medium-sized twists but when I looked in the mirror it looked so rough. My 2 hours of hard work were wasted but such is life *sigh

Anyway, in the end I put my hair into 2 braids and twisted the front.

This washday took wayy too long but I'm happy I've gotten it over with. I plan on doing braids tomorrow so tonight is for Threading.

Have a great weekend guys!

Oyime :)