Eve's water only wash journal

ADDED: this journal has a bit of everything it started from water only to me trying (successfully ) to grow out a pixie cut as a result of bleach fried hair. I only recently started to add lots of pictures so enjoy!
journal is now continued herehttp://talk.hairboutique.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=62990




Well after reading Sarsvati's post on her hair experiment using water only to wash http://talk.hairboutique.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=51616&PN=1  i was intrigued, it sounded gross but it was common sense. I have been battling severly dry damged over processed hair  and no conditioner in the world  seemed like it was helping. Everything mentioned in her post was logical.

 This all come from a series of things mostly my inspiration comes from my daughter and looking at her.
           
  She is my twin when i was 2 years olds, I had those beautiful wavy loose curls that people now die to have and a beautiful light brown shade of hair with sun kissed blonde highlights. Of course as i got older my hair  has darkened an took on red tones but the wavy curls use to be there. Since i have colored my hair  to the point it can't even  hold color of any kind ( yes even red seems to slide off) my hair is now chemically straight. I  know our hair changes as we get older but damn it i want my natural hair back!!. I know some where under all that chemical is beautiful waves and chesnut hair color.

But to the task at hand, i need to have what hair left to get to a decent shape.  It needs moisture so bad. My split ends have split ends now.I  hope my take on this water only wash turns out successful. I go into this with a open mind knowing  it can't get any worse then were i was at a few months ago.( patchy melted straw hair).

I May have stated i was going to wait until monday to give this a go, but I deeped conditioned my hair this morning and decided that it was the last. From here on out i will try to stick to the  water only washes to see how it goes!

Some obsticals i may be up against:
 my job -spot welder  my hair has been burnt ,scorched, singed, and takes on a horrible burnt metal smell. But seeing as i work with mostly guys I can get away with looking like a bum and they think nothing of it.
 my boyfriend- as much as he loves me and my ever changing hair, he is a bit leery of this especally  when we go out on the town. I told him some Patchouli Oil and a  nice large head band would do the trick. he still has his doubts
MY DAUGHTER- as a mom to a 2 year old and a aunt to a 1 year old it seems like EVERYTHING ends up in my hair from peanut butter to gum to stickers it's been there. should i have anything that would ultimately rot or attract wild animal be mashed into my hair i will wash it out.

well here it goes i will try to get some before pics put up but right now Passions just came on and i wanna see what happens!




Edited by suicides_eve - November 08 2008 at 4:04pm

ok minor set back i had to seriously do a proiten treatment b/c my hair kept breaking off so badly  so last night i had to do a a wash and condtion.

my hair is a bit better this morning not as many hairs in the shower

what i did notice in my few days of starting this, my roots looked really shiney not oily looking yet. i went out and bought one of those natural bristle brushes to help carry what little oil i have through out the strands.
 
i also noticed the more i were a bandanna or hat the quicker the natural oils show up. so i have been wearing a cover doing everything from house work to mowing the grass. it makes things move quicker. And no my hair isn't stinky i mean at first it is but once i get in the shower the smell is gone.

at least this second time around i know how to get result quicker to get back the pace

Ok got a hold of the library and they have the book but its gonna take a week for them to get it in , they have to have it shipped from the next county over.

I am really struggling with not touch my hair it is like finger nail bitting I subconsciously find my self wanting to touch it( brush it, condition it , cut it off)  but i am doing really good, if i don't touch it , my hair doesn't look as bad as i thought. And from wearing a hat all the time  the oil factor is really kicking in  i am hoping it doesn't take much longer to reach my ends. Then from there i think my hair will start to look softer and shinier. which is what i am going for.

i went to Sally's to day to look at hair, I really want my sister to make me a set of clips ins there are just some of them days you want to look extra purdy. beside me and the b/f are going to the beach soon with out my daughter and i want to look my best. nothing like long beach tossed hair blowing under a straw hat laying on the beach. ahhh i can wait!


Edited by suicides_eve - July 25 2007 at 5:39pm

Well i read The Curly Girl book by Lorrian Massey.  It was ok most of the advice she gave was stuff i learned about long ago with the exception of no shampoo which i learned a little more about from her book. I tried some of her homemade recipes and the brown sugar scrub really helped my scalp. I just was not producing and sebrum and  i gave it a really good scrub down and things are moving alot smoother now.

 yesterday i also used pure vitiamn e oil on my scalp and  hair ends  i think that helped alot to. so far i haven't shamppoed in almost 2 weeks and haven't really noticed any major changes.

this stupid board always deletes my freaking post!!
i get like 3 paragraphs wrote up and poof there it goes!!
 ok a run down b/c i don't feel like typing it all again
 bought a shower filter head from home depot.com
 my hair loves it responded really good soft manageable over all more healthy  looking
buy a  shower head filter you hair will thank you
doused head with vitiman E oil. hair loved it to gave good rinsed and as days went on it  got less greasy and fizzy looking.

 my roots have come along nice with it own natural sebrum, were a wool hat while mowing the yard in the middle of summer really moved things along. over all it seem like this is really helping to  fix my overly dmaged hair it has been about 3 week which seems like  forever but after it's all said and done  it's not really that long and my hair is  doing great

again, another interesting post....

well its been a awhile since my last post, my short hair has now grown out quite a bit it was cut  super short in the back which allowed for easy spiking while the top was left jagged and long so i could tease it up it



about 2 weeks ago i  trimmed the top back about 2 inches b/c i just got the itch to do something else with it, i also bought a bunch of braettes and hair  do-dads and they are so fun to do my hair with. saldy i have had to throw several away b/c my daughter  put them in barbie's hair and doll hair is not fun to style. so i throw barbie head and all in the trash. i now keep my stuff in a lockbox in my room away from all kids.

i am sitting here watching an episode of FRAGGLE ROCK and it reminds me that i am thankful i cut my hair to give it a fresh start b/c thats  what it looked like before i cut it poofy and fake looking

I have been seriously re-thinking the idea of extensions again and been looking at lace front wigs

my birthday is this friday and i want to treat myself to something special.

this one girl i work with has beautiful hair and it seems like she taunts me with it constantly flipping an twirling it about..  bitch. Some times  i really want long hair  but most of the time i love my hair like it is, 5 mins in the morning and i am ready to go.

i doubt my hair is long enough for extensions but  its nothing a pretty scarf or banana can't cover up, but for now i  lean towards the lace front..

 


Edited by suicides_eve - January 08 2008 at 4:18pm

lol i look overly red and freakishly white in those pics thanks to photo shop and being bord for long periods of time

wow i have really been neglecting my poor jornal i have spent much time over on the lhc bords trying to grow my hair out. so far i have 4.5" of new growth and and i so happy!! i have been averaging over 1 inch a month now that i started my new routine::

cut back on soda
 drink more water
 hair,skin , and nail pill 2x daily
flinstone vitiman
omega3 fish oil ( it gives me such bad gas but my skin looks so good)
zinc and folic acid 400mg(makes me queasy but it was recomend)
deep condtion when i can


i also been doing the monistat thing do a search and you will see what i mean  lots of ppl have had quick hair growth using it. it helps out with my dandruff(i have dark hair so it shows up alot) i hardly have  to brush the flakes of my shirt at work any more.

happy thanks giving by the way

This post is gonna be a mini time line of my hair since i can offically say i have been growing my hair out for 1 year:




my starting point




One Year Later (natural):








Edited by suicides_eve - December 12 2009 at 11:50pm