Greenhouse effect

Greenhouse effect
Ok so everyone wants to have long hair (unless your rocking a shortcut) and we all know we need to be patient but that's a really hard thing to do. Well my friend text me the other day about something called the greenhouse effect challenge. I did some research and I was super excited to try it! Ok so leg me break down what I found:
The green house effect is a process that helps moisturize your hair and promote faster hair growth.
Now I've seen it done many ways but the two things that are consistent are a shower cap/plastic bag and putting it on at night or whenever you want to (you can use a headband to secure it) then put a bonnet or scarf over it.











 picture from http://ghlonghair.blogspot.com/2013/01/green-house-effect-challenge.html


While the cap is on heat and moisture will be created (just like the elementary school project you did with a seed in a closed container). When you take the cap off your hair will be damp or wet and should dry in about 15 minutes.

Now here is ways you can do it:





You can spritz with water, apply oil or apply nothing before you put the cap on.
          I moisturize and oil my hair and scalp every other day and I started this on a day when I don't moisturize so I put nothing on my hair. When I woke up my roots were damp and very soft and dried in a good amount of time. If I ever do it for only 30 minutes I will spritz with my water and oil mixture.

You can do this as much as every day to as little as twice a week.
      I chose to do it every other day. I read that some people who did it every day experienced "mushy" hair and actually had some hair loss so I would recommend at the most every other day.

I did this with my hair having a flat twist out on blown hair. I put about 7 chunky twists in my hair to help keep my flat twist style and shower capped it up! I secured my hair with a bonnet and scarf (I wanted to make sure it was secure). In the morning the first thing I did was take off everything and take down my twists. I did not separate each twist strand because my hair was damp. I went on with my morning routine and then I went back to my hair and separated. I was afraid my blown out look would be ruined bc of the wet moisture but it didn't! Here is how it looked.

The typical GHE challenge is 6 months so let's see how this goes!