update on the challenge

so my “does it really work challenge” has already started, and as promised, i have taken some pictures of the first month’s beginning length:

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i’ll also be wearing headwraps throughout the summer. these help protect my hair from the sun, and they also cover up any frizziness and messy-looking twists that i tend to wear during my protective challenges.

{i learned how to wrap my hair from CongoBrava’s very helpful fotki album/tutorial.}

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you can check out my fotki album for the latest photo updates on this challenge.

during this month, i’ll be spritzing my hair with the following rosemary spritz:

water (most of the bottle)
vegetable glycerin (several squeezes; probably 1/3 cup)
rosemary oil (a couple tablespoons or so)
coconut oil (a few tablespoons)

along with the spritz, here are other products that i’ll be using regularly:

• trader joe’s conditioner
• dr. bronner’s peppermint-hemp castile soap
• elucence moisture benefits shampoo
• blended beauty happy nappy styles cream
• fruit of the earth aloe vera gel

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the “does it REALLY work?” challenge

i was looking through some of my products that i used a while back, and i stumbled upon the daily spritz that i’ve used here and there. i forgot about it, because i didn’t really find it necessary a while back and stopped using it for the most part. it had some water, glycerin, and rosemary oil, among other things. i heard a lot about how rosemary helped promote hair growth, so i tried it out. i took a couple pictures of the progress throughout my last summer protective challenge (2007), back when i was using this spritz the most.. but i’m not convinced that the rosemary oil really made a difference. may be i didn’t take enough pictures.

whatever the case, i still have some leftover rosemary oil in my cabinet, and i’ve decided to start up a “does it really work?” challenge. it’s basically going to be the same as my summer protective challenge; i’ll be wearing twists for the majority of the summer (through the end of september). however, this time i’m going to try to see if i notice any real hair growth by comparing my protective challenge with a rosemary spritz and without one.

i’ll use the rosemary oil spritz everyday for one month (july), and then i’ll use another spritz that doesn’t contain any rosemary oil for the next month (august). i’ll compare each month’s progress with before and after pictures (the beginning of the month’s length versus the end of the month’s length), and i’ll let you all in if i feel a difference texture-wise, which spritz i liked better, or anything like that.

so basically i’m trying to see if rosemary oil really makes THAT much of a difference. anybody want to join me?