Building regime timelines

The secret to successfully managing your hair regime is building timelines.

First step is determining how often you want to retouch your hair and building your activities around that.

Textbooks tell us to touch up new growth every 6-8 weeks but i worry that the timing is too short for black hair for the following reasons:

1. Our hair is often times weak from braids & a lack of moisture making it unable to withstand frequent chemical contact.

2. Saloonists can be over zealous and have been known to reetouch the whole hair as against only new growth

Your best bet is to evaluate the strenght of your hair, amount of undergrowth and overall hair health before selecting touch up timelines.

I personally have grown from 8weeks between touch ups to 16 weeks and finally 24 weeks.

My hair regime is as follows:

Day 1: Relax hair

Day 3: Oil my scalp and apply a mixture of leave in conditioning cream and shea butter

Day 7: Deep condition with Profectiv Mega Growth Anti- Breakage Strenghtening Deep Conditioner, Shea Butter and Honey

Day 9: Heat Condition hair ends to avoid split ends and apply Profectiv Temple Defense Leave in Conditioner  to stimulate growth of my front hairline.

Day 12: Heat condition with a mixture of Profectiv Daily Leave In Strenghtner and my good old steaming cap

Day 14: Shampoo and Deep Condition

After Day 14 my hair is strong enough to weave, fix and do other protective styling till week 24 when i am due for another touch up.

Ps. It is very important to deep condition in between any protective styling done.
Eg. Plait hair- Deep Condition- Use a wig- Deep Condition- Fix weave- Deep condition.
This ensures that your hair is moisturized, nourished and strong.

What's your hair regime/ timing? Pls share, would love to hear from you.

Thanks Chioma Ukpere  for letting us feature a photo of your hair