MY SHEALOE SUMMER TWISTS II
WEEK 5
By
week 5 I was getting a better idea of how I wanted my mix.
I reduced
the amount of shea butter and increased the amount of AVG.
However,
I left this mix standing without a lid for a couple days before I got
around to using it, so despite melting it and adding more AVG it kept
thickening up. Strange!
It wasn't quite the texture I wanted but I used it anyway.
In
the picture below you can see the difference between my messy twist
(which were only a couple of days old) and my the ones I retwisted before
rushing to work.
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| Left: Neatly retwisted / Right: Messy twists |
To be honest, with the exception of the first week, I felt like my hair looked as it does in the picture on the right
for most of the challenge up until this point.
I think my twisting
technique was partly to blame. When I tried to rush my twists just came
out messy.
I played around with pinning and plating my twists, to create other
styles but also as a way of disguising twists that were messy.
WEEK 6
More messy twists and twistouts...
WEEK 7
I finally found the Shealoe consistency that was just right for what I wanted.
This
involves plenty of AVG to make it very runny. It was pretty much gel
with a bit of shea butter.
I finally got the hold I want AND it wasnt
greasy!
WEEK 8
So I guess I came full circle.
Finally, twists that had the smoothness and hold that I wanted, and lasted for a good few days before frizzing up.
CONCLUSION:
It
was a very loose challenge I set myself and I wasn't particularly
scientific or disciplined about it but I still learned some useful
things about my hair.
CASH
One of the main
things Im pleased to have discovered is a wonderful money saver for my
hair. Now I know how to make the right Shealoe for me I think I'll try
and make sure I stock the house with some back up Shea butter & AVG.
CONSISTENCY
I definitely prefer my Shealoe mix to be
more AVG than shea butter, otherwise my hair is too greasy and soft to
hold the twists neatly.
CHEMICAL FREE
Although I can
pretty much guarantee excellent hold and perfectly defined twistouts
using my Eco Styler Gel, and its probably cheaper than the cost of
Shealoe ingredients, I do like the fact that my Shealoe mix is all
natural and I doesn't cause as much shrinkage as I get with Eco Styler.
DAMAGE PREVENTION
Maybe
I did manage to reduce the number of SSKs and damaged ends I would've
otherwise had this Summer, but by the end of the 8 weeks I definitely
still needed a trim. As for my edges, I did pin and pull my hair quite a
bit so I'm not sure if the twists did much to protect them, but maybe I
can set a new challenge for them.
CREATIVITY
My twistouts are not very defined using my Shealoe mix but I think some of my most creative stlyes have come as a result of the messy twistouts from this challenge.
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| My favourite twistout hair-experiment |
