Day 2 - Oiling the ends and Results

Well,

I oiled the ends of my hair with coconut oil,
brushed the scalp and hair gently,
plaited my hair and went to bed.

This morning, my hair is very soft at the roots and very limp.
Looks like it needs a hair mask for tommorrow.

Combing my hair resulted in 5 hairs to be pulled out today.
Hmmm, definitely better as earlier i used to pull out a bunch of hair , would be the size of a lemon when rolled loosely.. :P , every time i combed..

Day 1 - A deep oil massage and the results.

My hair was very very dry.
The ends were horrible.
So,
Decided to go in for a hair wash with a deep oil massage.

1. A Homemade oil (Will provide the recipe for this soon) - 1 cup

2. Dipped my finger tips in the oil, and massaged the oil into my scalp. I didnt heat the oil. I have heard that heating the oil and massaging may sometimes damage the roots. I have used warm oil previously and got good results, though.
Using finger tips didnt pose a problem as i dont have long nails. If you have long nails, use a cotton ball, and request someone else to massage the oil into your scalp.
Make sure to massage in really small circular motion. This makes sure to remove that dirt from your scalp and also would give you a drowsy relaxed feel, you would know what i am talking about if you have ever got a head massage done proffessionaly.

3. Next, I ran a wide toothed comb down till the neck portion of my hair. This enabled the excess oil from the scalp to be transferred to my hair length. Do this gently, else you would end up pulling a lot of hair. Also, if there are way too may knots in your hair, just run your fingers through from scalp in a combing motion. This would ensure minimizing the breakage.

4. I just put the hair into a bun and sat down for an hour. Things to do during this time would be , wash the clothes, clean the house, surf the tv channels, or surf the net.. :)

5. Time to shower: I took a bowl , mixed 4 spoons of conditioner with 8 spoons of water. This would turn into a very cloudy liquid. I mixed this well, till it turned into a somewhat runny conditioner texture. Applied this mixture to hair along the lengths. Soaked in the mixture for 10 mins.

6. Took 3 heapfull of shikakai powder, added water till it became a very very runny liquid. I used this like a shampoo to wash out my conditioner.

7. Used loads and loads of water to wash out the conditioner cum shikakai.

8. Air dried the hair. As the ends started drying, I combed through the ends alone with a very very wide toothed comb. Not even a single strand of hair broke during this combing.

9. When the hair dried out completely , i put it in a plait.

10. Applied a little coconut oil mixed with some herb (details coming soon), to the ends of my hair before sleeping. Combed and put into an english (3 strand) plait which ended till the ends of my hair.

After the above process yesterday, this morning my hair turned out to be exxxtremeely soft and manageable. Another thing i am happy about? - Not even a SINGLE STRAND came out of my head when i combed it this morning!! :) :) :)

 Of course, I need to take care of the split ends. Wondering what to do about it.. :)
Leave your views and comments. :)

An Introduction to 100 days of Hair Care

Hi,

There are Blogs for hair care, hair styles and there are a lot of forums.
But are there any, where the blogger maintains a hair dairy? There may be many...
Here I going to try my best to put in My 100 days of Hair care and the growth pattern of My hair in these 100 days - A hair care diary for 100 days. :)

Why 100 days? Why just 3 months?
Well, Because, 100 days seems to be easier and I would not wear out doing a daily update for three months. In these 100 days I promise a snapshot of a daily diary of hair care, a weekly report of how my hair has improved/damaged, treatments that I would be doing at home, hair packs, oiling hair, etc etc.

Also, this ensures that I take care of my long hair that is now prone to split ends, dryness and that has lost its shine. :P

What is my Hair like , Right now?
My hair is
*An Indian Virgin Hair. Yep, No heat applied, No coloring done. No hair cuts too, not even regular trims.
*Naturally black, turned a bit on brown side now due to lack of care.
*A little curly
*Loads of split ends
*Dearth of Shine
*Low volume. (not figured out how to measure this, yet)
*Length = (would update soon)

I am new to blogging world, therefore please point out the mistakes if any.

Note:
*All the techniques that I would be practicing may Not be mine, perhaps the way I do them would be a little different.
* The claims/recommendations on the products that I use would be solely mine and would be based on my Hair type.