Many ladies do a protective style for the duration of their vacation and this makes life so easy. On the other hand, some ladies want to go with their hair. This series is mainly for those ladies who are brave enough to go on vacation with their own hair.

WEEKLY CARE
1. Co-wash your hair when it feels dry during the week.
2. Keep wash days as short as possible.

• Prepoo for about 15 minutes.
• Shampoo.
• Deep condition for 20 to 30 minutes max. If you came along with your heating cap, you can heat the gel packs with a microwave or hot water (whatever you have available). If you don’t have a heating cap, just don a shower cap, do a little exercise and rinse off your conditioner when your time is up.
• Apply your leave-in conditioner.

DRYING
1. Air dry your hair; OR
2. Use a blow dryer: If you have a hand dryer, then you can use it to dry your hair. If you’re doing this, don’t forget to use cool air. You should do the tension method of blow drying. To do this, hold a section of hair taut and concentrate the dryer on that section until it’s dry. Please watch this video for clarification.

STYLING
1. Do a twist, braid or bantu knot out.
– Air dry your hair till it’s almost dry. Make sure your hair is well detangled then twist your hair or braid it. You can also do bantu knots. If you want it very curly, you do at least 10 twists or braids. If you want it more wavy, then do less twists.

– Wait at least 3 – 5 hours or better still, leave it overnight. The following morning, undo your twists or knots and you have a beautiful holiday style.

Bantu knot

2. You could also flat iron your hair. That is if  you brought your flat iron along with you. Don’t forget to use a heat protectant.

DAILY CARE
1. Moisturize your hair as often as needed.
2. Sleep with a satin bonnet or scarf. Or satin pillow case if you have one.
3. Redo your twists nightly or when needed. It’s a good idea to moisturize your hair first and finger-detangle before re-doing them.

Hair breakage after twists, ‘bantus’ or ‘braid outs’? Finger detangle instead!

About the author

Dr Fomsky

Nigerian-born Dr Fomsky is a God-lover, a wife, a mom of three, a medical doctor by day. Plus she owns a Nigerian-based online hair product store called Sizzelle.
Dr Fomsky is very passionate about hair, skin and weight management. Since she's had her babies, she's been struggling to keep her weight and her tummy down!
At night, she likes to read books, write blog posts and leave comments on other blogs. She lives in Alberta, Canada and is also the author of Solving your relaxed hair breakage book .
DR FOMSKY'S HAIR TYPE:
LAST RELAXER DAY: December 15th, 2016
BIG CHOP: January 14th, 2017 Natural Hair, Unknown Porosity, Fine Hair strands, Low to Moderate Density
CURRENT HAIR LENGTH: Unknown
FAVOURITE DEEP CONDITIONER: ??

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