I took my twist down yesterday because I was tired of them and my scalp was super itchy. But as I'm home alone for a bit there was no need to rush through the process of washing them out and what not. Instead I lathered in some oils and leave ins so I could do a long term deep condition. When I do that it loosens up more of the dirt and makes the detangling easier later. I planned on washing my hair before bed and then doing an overnight deep condition before styling but that didn't happen. I'm home alone because I got up at 2:30 to make sure my mother was ready to get on plane at 6:30 so she could make it to Dallas in time for the family roll out to a funeral in another state. So we're clear that is AM. I still had to run to work, have a meeting and eat some food and then take down said twists. By the time I was done with that and putting in the leave ins I was hanging on by a thread. At 9PM I gave it up and slept all the way through till the next morning.
I took my time today and watched more YouTube videos about what to do with my hair. I was fully prepared to attempt a horse shoe method twist out. I went through my routine, all was good, and my hair was like ma'am stop it. I tried it with a few different lengths and thicknesses of flexi-rods but it was still like give up the ghost ma'am. Now I didn't really have a plan B so I got frustrated and was about to say eff it let it just dry and I'll put in something to make it curly on Monday and we'll rock the fro with my new wraps. But instead I went back to my old short flex-rods, hard to find them that length anymore which is neither here nor there, and did a normal flexi set using one rod per pull of hair. I used Curl Manetenance from Aunt Jackie's and Wrap and Roll lotion from Jane Carter Solution and then set my hair. I rolled it from the root for a change and I can't say it took longer than normal but I was taking my time. Everything is rolled now and I don't have to take this down for over 24 hours so if it's not dry then my hair is just being evil. I will try to take a photo when it's all loose and see if we have achieved cute curls or if I really need to learn hot to braid my own hair.