Maintaining natural hair in Protective styling:Marley twists

Protective styles are good for retaining length because you reduce wear and tear on your hair,but it will do no good if hair isn't moisturised in the protective style.It is therefore really important for you to take care of your own hair while it's in protective styling,especially if you want to have healthy thick long hair.
It can be hard but totally worth it.For my marley twists,I basically mix distilled water with about 15% Extra virgin olive oil and 35% Aloe vera juice and spritz my twists to the point where my natural hair is.After that I usually take a little shea butter mixed with oils and leave in conditioner and apply to each twist.I only do that about 3 times a weak and after that just massage some castor oil into my edges and scalp.Fairly simple but works really well! What do you do when your hair is in protective styling?

Preventing Breakage to your hair

I know that there's already a lot of information on this out there,but I came across this video from a former naturalista and she talked about those mistakes that can destroy your hair really well.Please watch the video for all the things you need to avoid if you want to retain length.:)

Since my hair is in protective styling I just had a bun on today.However I haven't really let my hair down for you guys to see what if looks like since I did them so here goes!Enjoy the pictures and don't forget to share.Till next time,Stay blessed and fabulous.

Back to the lab..and the Shea Moisture Deep Conditioning Masque

Wow!So the weekend is over and I'm back in the lab.It was a really good weekend I think,especially since I got some fresh goat meat and made some soup(I'm hungry just thinking about it) and I got to catch some fire from God's presence.I also was able to put in my protective style last night so that was great!
As I said yesterday,I was trying out the Shea Moisture Deep conditioning Masque and I have to say I really loved it as a deep conditioner.I applied some Shea butter mix to my hair and added on the masque for an overnight Deep Conditioning treatment and I have to say that my hair responded really well to it.Also since I have been using the mud wash I have noticed that my hair is softer and more manageable so I guess that was part of it.Both products will be available for sale soon so keep your fingers crossed!
I wanted a simple protective style that would last me a while(3 weeks or 4..lol) and didn't take too long to do so I decided to go with long and slightly big chunky Marley twists.It took me about 4 hours to do because I kept getting up,but they are totally worth it.I used the Fretress Equal Marley hair with a mix of colors because I'm crazy(lol) and it wasn't that bad.I only needed 3 and a half packs for the style I did because it was long.It kind of looks frizzy though so I think I will wrap the hair and make them faux dread locks soon.For today,I simply wore a high bun because we were celebrating my boss's birthday and I think it looks pretty cool.Lemme know what you think.I will let you know how I moisturize them in another post.Till then,stay blessed and fabulous!
Yvonne