My Weaving Experience 2011

The start of the new year had me a bit more frustrated with my hair than normal. I was tempted to cut my hair and forget about my commitment to grow it out because my patience was thinning out. I WAS really against weave most of my life, but my friend suggested it and found out prices and off to the salon I went to put my FIRST weave! Nervous ?! yes I was because to me I was venturing out to the unknown. After I finished weaving, I became so conscious but everyone loved it and it grew on me having 12 inch hair. Yes I flipped it like never before!

Tips

Being new to this sort of hair care , maintaining appeared less of a hassle than my perm hair would need. I applied my oils and grease as regular as possible to my actual hair to allow it to remain moist. DO NOT apply oils to the human weave as I learnt and understood it makes the ends very hard and unattractive! DO use Oil Sheen on the weave so it maintains its shine.

You can wash you hair as often as you did(but not too often so that you natural oils are not removed). But do not focus on washing the weave but your actual hair underneath that needs the attention. If you can comb out the shampoo and conditioner on the weave instead of rubbing it that would be best!

Please go ahead and wrap or set the hair as you would have. Leaving the hair out will just make it hard to comb out in the morning and takes away from your time if you are on the go.

When combing out the weave , hold the top down to you head and comb out the ends . This is to avoid pulling the weave from your conrows below. Handle your weave with care afterall you bought it!

I understood only recently you can steam you hair but only the exposed portion. Advisable not to steam the hair beneath the weave as the steam maybe difficult to remove. So you wash your exposed hair (maybe over the sink) and deep condition and then it is STEAMED. Cool huh?

So this weekend after 2 months of having weave I removed it to see if there was progress and if it was infact beneficial to continue. And the results are IN!

I personally do not see that much growth but at least 2 persons have mentioned my hair has grown quite a bit. Maybe I expected Rapunzel ?! lol joking. But what I did notice is , the portion of my hair which broke and kept mentioning in the prior blogs did grow out! It appears to have caught on with my hair which is great. My hair dresser did cut my ends so my hair is appearing healthier . Having just permed my hair I can tell a noticeable difference in how thick it is . Which is great news. So summary no Rapunzel but definitely rocking a healthier perm , so cheers!

I am putting in back the weave today a more realistic look , 8". I feel like I am in a better position now to care for it and hopefully the improvements become more apparent to me when I do remove it. Who knows I may be entering summer with this look.

Check Blog later for the timeline of pics of my journey. Happy Hair Care!