Right now my hair is measuring at 19 and a half inches. I have been dusting my hair every few days trying to get rid of the split ends. I use a wide toothed comb and a boar bristle brush, but I don't use it but a few days a week. Every other day I wash my scalp with herbal shampoo and then sometimes use infusium 23 leave in treatment on my ends. When I go to bed I either put my hair in a bun or braid it. Once a week I try to use hot oil treatments for permed or colored hair which I have both. And I have just recently learned you can leave it in all day. Last week I left it in for about an hour. Twice now I have almost went and chopped off a few more inches off my hair but I didn't thank god!!!! And I'm taking LOTS of vitamins. If anyone has any extra suggestions please post. Oh and I so am going to try jojoba oil as soon as I get some money, but it might be a little bit first I'm just about to move and that takes a lot of money UGGGGG. But thats ok I have spent quite a bit of money on my hair in the past few weeks.

I see that you use the Infusium 23 leave-in, I just started using that, too.  Just wondering how you like it, I'm not too sure that I'm overly blown-away by it so far.  In the past I've used the Biolage leave-in, but I picked up infusium while I was grocery shopping to see if I would like it, because it's about half the price, but I also think it's only woking half as well!  Curious as to your thoughts on it....

It is the off brand off clairols herbal essences for coloed permed dry damaged hair. I don't know if you want all the ingredients, but it has water, sodium laureth sulfate, sodium lauryl sulfate, cocamidopropyl betine, cocamide mea, jojoba extract, dog rose hips extract, tocopherol, peg-60 almond gylcerides, linoleamidopropyl pg-dimonium chloride phosphate, fragrance, hydroxyprooyl guar hydroxypropyltrimonium chloride, citric acid, propylene glycol, dmdmhydantoin, iodopropynyl butylcarbamate, tetrasodium edta, disodium edta, sodium chloride. Thats a lot to type. I was trying to get something with natural stuff in it.

I do strictly conditioner wash. I've never had it dry out my hair.

Sometimes I read where someone tried it and it didn't work, but they were using a conditioner that I know didn't work for me. Other times I read someone used some sort of a technique I find less effective. I also read where someone says they tried it, but doesn't even say which conditioner they used, so how can you tell? So lots of the time, people try once and give up too quick.

The first time I CO washed, I used the VO5 I had around my house. It left my hair feeling greasy but dry (ick). So I went out and bought VO5 Kiwi Lime, which over a period of weeks made my scalp break out until I abandoned it. Then I found Suave Daily Clarifying conditioner, and since then I've also used VO5 Free Me Freesia and VO5 Hydrators.

When I do a scalp wash, it's once with one of these conditioners. When I wash in the shower, I end up stacking several conditioners, as I'm a conditioner junkie.

Also, the products I've tried that worked were all cheap. I think when you pay extra for a conditioning product, you're paying $$$ for the extra residue they'll leave on your hair, and you're hoping this is a good thing.

Well I went out lastnight to Walmart and got some suave condition. I bought the naturals milk and honey and daily clarifying. I tryed the honey and milk and I liked it, it made my hair very soft. But I still can't figure out the conditioner only wash, I tryed it but it left my hair dirty so I went ahead and washed it.

I don't know if the Suave milk and honey conditioner would work for CO washing, as I haven't tried that one. I avoid anything that sounds like it might have protein in it (milk, for instance). Try VO5 Free Me Freesia or Hydrators, both very cheap.

I only CO wash, whether it is a scalp wash or a full-length wash. I think it would probably be ok to shampoo my scalp (actually, that would probably be 4-6" the way I do it), but I don't think "probably" is enough reason to change from products I like that are working for me.

If I deep condition with coconut oil (just enough to dampen the hair, not enough to make it drippy), I find it comes out more easily with my standard cleansing conditioner than with shampoo. Who'd'a thunk it?

They use a lot of olive oil there. I know some people like it, but lots of people find it impossible to wash out, or find that it makes their hair crunchy. My impression is that it's hard to put on just a little bit, too.

I recommend using coconut oil for your oil treatments, and you can mix it with jojoba. Nut oils such as sweet almond, apricot kernal, macadamia, and walnut oil are light, too.

Read the ingredients list on your "hot oil" treatments. Lots of products labeled "hot oil" don't actually contain oil, rather other ingredients that they think will condition your hair.