The Save The Hairline Challenge

Hey ladies (assuming men don’t have hairline issues.lol)

A while ago I had just taken off my braids and posted a picture of my hair length on our twitter page (@frochicblog) only to be hit in the face with an unexpected tweet from one of our followers that went something like “Oh dear! what happened to your hairline? What are you going to do?!”hahahaaaa. Eish and mind you this follower had a  head full of beautiful, thick black natural hair as her Twitter Avatar. I just laughed it off.

But then it really hit me, my hairline seriously needs to get rescued before I become a natural version on Naomi Campbell!! I took another look at the picture (I can’t seem to find it on my phone though; I must have deleted it after the humiliating comment.lol) and saw how badly beaten it’s become lately. Remember my “Year of Protective Styling” resolution…looks like it’s come back to bite me in the butt.

So, after seeing quite a number of ladies tweet about their receding hairlines I though, why not start a “Hlasel’injubaba” challenge where we can help each other out with this problem

Here’s my action plan….for now:

1. As much as I love braids. I will keep away from hair extensions for the next 5 month (Oh gosh, I need hypnosis for this one).
2. I’ll play around with natural oils BUT CASTOR oil will be definitely be a staple.
3. Keep my scalp clean by washing more often than I normally do.
4. I’ve gone back to taking Centrum A-Zinc multivites and have upped my water intake as well.
5. I plan on going back to running (Ah well, that’s something I love doing despite hair and beauty benefits)
6. I’ll try not to tie my doek (head scarf) too tightly and will keep it more towards the forehead than on the hairline, (My one friend insists a tigh doek also contributes to the problem as it slows down bloodflow…makes sense)

I can’t promise though to quit cornrows as it gets really hectic at work I sometimes don’t get time for all those marathon twists, twist-outs, Bantu knots and “what nots” in the evenings and mornings. BUT I do promise not to use hairpiece (hair extensions) for cornrows.

I’ll make sure I keep posting pictures every few weeks to show some progress.

If you have won this battle before, please feel free to share your secret. If you’d like to join me on this marathon, please share…products, regimes…anything. You can also send pictures so we can share with other FroChics.

Love,