When I first joined LHC my hair was just shoulder length and now it is near waist length thanks to ceasing my visits to the salon! For the last 6 months I have been experiencing very sticky, velcro like ends that are dry and wirey. Can barely comb through them and its beginning to cause breakage (no split ends tho). I have seen similar posts about this problem but the answers are all the same and unfortunately none of them has worked for me. I know my ends are much older than the rest of my hair and maybe it's just time to get rid of em! but I don't want to do that so I am hoping somebody could shed some light on this problem. Here is a list of the things I have tried along w/ my routine before this problem.
I used to do daily Shampoo and Condition with Enjoy luxury line (pink bottle) w cones and protein.
Stopped using the Enjoy conditioner and switched to cone free
SMT
Baking Soda (helped for a day but very harsh)
WO washes
CO washes
Henna
Clarifying and deep conditioning THIS DOES NOT WORK
Avoid washing (this leaves my hair too oily)
Vinegar rinse and club soda rinse
coconut oil nightly
Shea butter
leave in conditioner w/ cones and without
trims of 1/2 inch every 3 months

Ugh! I hope I remembered to list eveything here. Anybody have suggestions PLEASE?