Quick Design Essentials Strengthening Therapy Update!

It's now been 9 weeks since my treatment and it's pretty much all washed out my hair. I was told it lasts up to 12 weeks. During the nine weeks i've washed my hair approximately 13ish times. So we could say the treatment lasts 13 washes rather than 13 weeks. 

 My hair still feels a bit smoother but it no longer shiny. If I was going to get the treatment re-done I would do so now. So overall this treatment has cost me £16.60 a week! Which is a lot!

In comparison, if I buy it myself it could cost around 8.30 a week or less!

I'll definitely be getting the treatment again and buying myself a bottle.

First Post

Update
UPDATE: It lead to a lot of damage!!

I may still do a 'final thoughts' post feel free to ask me tons of questions and I'll answer them in that post.

Nail rubbing and hair growth

I  normally avoid bandwagons but after hearing about nail rubbing I thought I'd give it try. I've probably been on a mini nail rubbing experiment for almost a year! In my opinion nail rubbing did increase my hair growth. Nail rubbing actually made my head tingle and when I stopped my hair growth appeared to slow down.

Of course I could be talking complete rubbish, it could be placebo effect or it could be all in my head.

What is nail rubbing?

How to look after your hair in a heat wave!

In England there is currently a heat wave, in the south east (where I'm from) its getting to around 32 degrees. I know that will sound like nothing to anyone across the pond but for us English its pretty hot!

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Design Essentials Strengthening Therapy System: Update

As many of you will know I had the design essentials Strengthening Therapy System 6 weeks ago. You can read about it here. This is just going to be a quick update on how i'm doing with it and my opinion of the treatment overall.

Expectation: Endless shine
Reality: Some shine. My roots have been really shiny and nice but the lengths and ends of my hair have  been less shiny. When the hairdresser put on the treatment I noticed that the treatment wasn't evenly spread to my ends. I feel that this un even application may have contributed to some uneven shine.

UPDATE: It lead to a lot of damage!!

Chantelle is Away

Well i'm not away yet but I'm leaving tonight so I won't be positing for a while. 

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Newbie Series Part Four: Creating Hair Goals

Creating Hair Goals

Part one
Part two
Part three

So now you know how to take care of your hair, but how do you create achievable hair goals?

The best way to make goals, in both everyday life and in terms of hair care is to have an overall goal and then have many sub-goals and even sub-sub goals to get you there. 

You should start my making an "ultimate goal" this goal is where you will be at the 'end' of your hair journey. Now to reach this goal you will need to create sub-goals which can help you reach that ultimate goal. Examples of sub-goals include reaching other lengths, for example bra-strap length and having healthy hair. To reach these sub-goals you need to achieve smaller, more everyday goals such as, cutting off your split ends, protective styling 4 times a week, deep conditioning your hair once a week etc. Below is an example of some of my current goals with sub goals.

Hair Typing Problems

When people start looking into their own hair types the first place they start is generally a chart similar to this one. I'm around 3b/3c however I have the issue that my hair isnt ringlets, it's 's' curls but type 3 doesn't allow for 's' curls. Importantly, so what if I'm type 3b/3c? The chart shows nothing other than what we already know. I recently came across a fantastic youtuber who has created a much much better typing system. Below is the video and you can read her interview with me here.

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MahoganyCurls 

  

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