12.28.09
I’ve created a monster!
I can’t keep my hands out of my hair….I’m in love….:weeping: I know that in order for it to be healthy and growing, I need to not have my fingers in it all day which can cause knots, I KNOW this, but if it’s not covered, i can’t help but play in the soft curls! I want to pat and coil and play and rub…is that so bad?
Also, I need to learn how to DO my hair. I did the finger coils myself and thats a cool idea (if i can ever 1. get to do my whole head without being tired, lol and 2. learn to do them tighter and smaller myself), but I want to learn how to braid and do twists, both flat to my head and individual all over. I have my work cut out for me! This is the girl who kept my weekly hair appointment and just let a stylist do whatever she wanted! Until now I never really attempted to do anything to my own locks, other than flatironing sometimes or spiraling with curlers. I suppose I’ll have to get my mom to teach me the art of braiding and twists! (guess I should have learned that a good 10 years ago).
The next time that I wash my hair (couple of days, trying to let the rodded curls last but i keep PLAYING in them!), i may attempt to twist my hair…yikes, we’ll see!
hair heros:
12.27.09
New Products, New Year Plans
Bought more products :blush: I know I know, like I don’t have enough products already! I have more products than hair, lol. Today I stopped back at the health store and was saddened to see that the Qhemet amla and olive heavy cream hadn’t been replenished, so I couldn’t get cream that I wanted AND the Aubrey Organics Honeysuckle Rose was out too, which I really really wanted since everyone raves about it in the natural community and my hair idol, Chime, swears by it 
Oh well, they should restock in the next week or so, and I’ll be back for both products. It’s literally 5 minutes from my house, so not out of the way or anything (unfortunately, for my wallet, lol)
You know I didn’t walk out empty handed though, that just would not be right! ;) I ended up with some Qhemet anyway, decided to purchase the Karkady tea mist since my beloved Frank Juice only has a 1/3rd left to the bottle and I wanted to try out Qhemet anyway. But I’ll be buying some more Oyin juices, will try out the Greg and Juices and Berries since I love the Frank juice so much. Also bought two new conditioners, BWC Moisture plus conditioner and Aubrey Organics GPB conditioner so that I can deep condition for some protein. I bought the tiny bottle just so that I can test it out and know that my hair isn’t against protein, if it likes, I’ll buy the bigger bottle! If I like the moisture plus BWC conditioner, I’ll want to try the Rosemary-tea tree-mint conditioner, that sounds like great ingredients.
Was just reading the back of my Organix conditioners, the coconut and the shea butter ones, and they have cones in them (silicones) I didn’t know that at first and hear that cones aren’t good….I’ll have to do my hair without using either of those and see if I notice any difference. I love the smell but if silicones aren’t so good for our hair then I won’t keep them around for fragrance alone! But if my hair isn’t having adverse affects from them, then I’ll use anyway, because what’s bad for one person may not be bad for someone else, right? We’ll see and I’ll keep you updated!
After January 1st, I want to get cornrows so that I can have a nice protective style in this winter wonderland also known as Chicago that I reside in. So cold and snowy and windy lately, and the last thing that I want is for my hair to break off or dry out from indoor heating and icy cold outdoors. I’ve been pampering it and keeping it moisturized so that I can try and counteract the effects, like spraying my frank juice, using marula oil spray, olive oil mix, patting on my coco light . Hopefully my precious hair can hold on to moisture until I get it into some cornrows. I found two different types of hair in my drawer from other braid sets, can’t decide yet which look I’ll go for, but the choices are curly black hair or burgundy hair. My cousin or mom will do it and I’ll post pics definitely!
hair hero of the day: I adore her hair! I want mine like that
12.25.09
Merry Christmas!!!
Happy holidays, everyone 
How was it? Get what you want? Spend good time with family and friends? Eat good? Had a fun day, ate well and then went to see my baby daddy, Robert Downey Jr. in Sherlock Holmes. Nothing sexier than a smart guy with a slick sense of humor and good body 
Totally into that movie.
On top of all of that fun, my hair turned out cute, just like I hoped it would. Thanks ashley for your help babe I appreciate it, muah!
I used the Blended Beauty curl styling cream when the hair was rodded and my hair came out soft, not frizzy, and smooth. It smells really good too and the tub it comes in has a lot, so I should have plenty for many beautiful sets of rods or twists I give the cream an A. Great results after a day of hair pampering yesterday! I love taking good care of my hair and hopefully it will thrive so much. soft, with defined curls is always good to me!
12.23.09
Holiday hair plans
Christmas is only two days away and that means holiday hair! What are your plans to be pretty and festive for the upcoming parties, family dinners, etc?
I’m going to start preparing tonight by coating my hair in extra virgin olive oil and virgin coconut oil and sleeping with that under a shower cap and my bonnet. That should infuse some good moisture, and I’ll massage my scalp well to stimulate it. Then tomorrow, Christmas Eve, my friend is going to come over and help me flat twist or braid the front and then roller set the back. It should be a totally adorable little hairstyle, something I used to wear a lot back in the day in high school. Just now I’ll be doing it at home with natural hair instead of at the beauty salon with relaxed hair for $35-50
I’ll be sure to post pics of it after all complete. So what’s your hair plans? Let’s hear all about it!
12.19.09
First cowash only and finger coils
I decided to cowash my hair only and not use the shampoo, see if that made any change. My hair didn’t feel much different, I think because that shampoo is SO mild, such natural good ingredients. Anway, just cowashed by smearing in the shea butter conditioner in and massaging my scalp a bit. Rinsed that out, poured in some olive oil and added coconut milk conditioner to that. Let that sit and marinate while I did normal showering, rocking out to the always present iPod on my handy ipod stereo. Michael Jackson, Gucci Mane, Duffy, all fun shower buddies, lol.
I think that I used more olive oil last Sunday when I washed my hair, it felt more silky then. I’ll have to try that, not be stingy with the extra virgin olive oil. I’m looking at the bottle now and it doesn’t look like I even used any, dunno why I’m acting like I have to hoard it, we’re in a recession but I think I can manage to stay out the poor house if I use a little more oil 
Rinsed that out, finished and finger combed Kinky Curly Knot Today through for softness and as a leave-in conditioner.
Faced with the wet mop on my head, I decided to finger coil the front half again with fantasia ic gel. Sprayed with Frank Juice afterwards. I don’t know why, I try to do them tightly, but it never sticks tight at the roots womp womp! So it appears puffy at roots but smooth spirals the rest of the way. I’ll have to figure it out next time
bought fun new headbands from forever 21 online !! can’t wait until they get here, will post pics wearing the headbands when I get them, but here’s what I bought:
clip for side of hair
hair hero: this great style is awesome! I want to rock it one day
12.17.09
Organix Shea Butter Conditioner
Organix Shea Butter
This stuff smells like caramel cake, I swear! It’s absolutely orgasmic, I was in love in the shower I bought this and the coconut conditioner buy one get one free at Walgreens and must say, best $6.99 I’ve spent in a while! Organix Shea Butter conditioner is pretty nice on it’s own, but I especially loved how my hair felt last time when I added olive oil to my hair along with the conditioner, so I will do that on any further washes. Hair felt so soft and moisturized then. It’s pretty fluffy and okay now that I used JUST the conditioner, but last time it felt amazing.
I still shampoo’d with my Pure Life soap co aloe 2 in 1 conditioner, next time I’ll just try co-washing alone, just the conditioner.
overall I really like it, mainly because of the smell. I’m a sucker for sweets, baked goods, so a conditioner that smells good enough to eat is just FINE by me!
I did a wash n go, just letting it air dry and do it’s own thing, but I much prefer my hair last time, when I did the finger coils and coil out. I’ll be co-washing in a couple of days and will be sure to either get my mom to add some flat twists or braids to the front or to finger coil it myself, SOMETHING to give it some flair and oomph.
hair hero of the day: tracie thoms
12.14.09
Hello Kitty Coil Out
Undid the coils from yesterday and I’m very happy with the results it’s like when I used to sit under the dryer at the salon and pay to get my hair spiral curled with rods or curlers. And all I had to do with my now natural hair is twirl my hair in my fingers with a tiny bit of fantasia gel and I have my own roller set! how awesome, I love natural hair
I just woke up and spritzed with Frank Juice then sealed by patting with olive oil mixture. Voila! here are the results of my coil out: click to make larger
Coil Out Results
Coil out
In person it actually looks just like the curly fro I admired on Wakeema Hollis a couple posts back, so MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
12.13.09
Braids out, Fro in
Spent all day taking my kinky twists out yesterday…whew, feels good to get those suckers off of my face and everything I thought I wouldn’t like my hair when I cut it a couple of months ago, but I must say, it’s nice not to have ish on my face that I just have to pull back anyway.
Woke up today and followed the oil rinse steps here: http://www.naturallycurly.com/curltalk/showthread.php?t=59556&highlight=Oil+rinsing which is basically to do the following:
1. Rinse (or shampoo) your hair (I used my new Pure Life soap co aloe 2 n 1 shampoo/conditioner. Smells really good and is nice and creamy. Felt nice and rich. Amazing ingredients, not harsh at all)
2. Coat in your favorite oil (I used extra virgin olive oil and my hair felt the most soft that it ever has in LIFE)
3. Apply conditioner (I used my organix coconut conditioner and went to heaven. smells like coconut cake, I wanted to stay in the shower all day with that delicious smell. Hair felt soft and lush still because I let conditioner soak with the olive oil on my hair. Definitely will do that everytime I wash, mix the conditioner and olive oil.)
4. Rinse with cool/cold water
5. Apply leave-in (I used kinky curly knot-today, also smells great )
I also did a tea tree cholesterol after the conditioner, but I’m not sure that my hair liked that. It felt softer and stuff without, so I think that I will do all of the steps next time without doing the cholesterol.
Hair smelled and felt terrific, sniff sniff here’s my wet and extra curly hair (I snipped some of those straight ends that can be seen in the pic, I realize that the beautician didn’t get ALL of the straight pieces when she did my big chop)
curly wet hair
went by the steps in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjdcJIKIRjg for finger coils, no way was I doing my whole head, would have taken forever! I did the front because I unfortunately think that I heat damaged my hair when I had a sew in a couple of months ago when I went to New York, not knowing all of the hair info that I know now about heat settings and flat ironing. Stupid me, so the front isn’t as curly as the rest :( I did the front half of my hair with the coils with fantasia IC gel and let the rest be the curly mop that it is. Love that gel, it’s not stiff and smells AMAZING. I’m glad i got a HUGE tub of it for $4
finger coiled front
I then sprayed Oyin Frank Juice all over and sealed with an olive oil mix. Come tomorrow once it’s all dry, I’ll undo the coils and toss on a headband These pics don’t do it justice, it’s full small spirals and quite cute, I wish that I could make the images look like real life. oh well!
12.09.09
Products and more products
Stopped at Walgreens on the way home last night and wouldn’t you know it, the Organix conditioner that everyone has been raving about was on sale, buy one, get one free! So I got the Coconut that was at the of the people’s list, and tried the shea butter one as well. Both have things like yogurt, avocado, egg white proteins, yada yada yum yum. I’ll use it to cowash I suppose and follow up with my tea tree cholesterol. I still need to get a good deep conditioner and the aubrey organics protein conditioner for sporadic use. Once these kinky twists come out, I’ll post reviews of things and develop a routine. Until then, I just use my lavender gel no water shampoo and my frank juice.
Also got Ambi even and clear to use with my Clarisonic brush and some Nadinola. Used them last nite and I liked it, no weird dryness and stuff that other people had complained about, so let’s see if it actually WORKS and I’ll be a happy girl with great skin
hair hero: Tempestt Bledsoe
12.07.09
And so it begins…
I knew it would happen….as soon as I got my check, I couldn’t wait a full hour before going to that health store I was talking about in my previous post. Not a FULL hour later! Lord, I knew it
I will note that I only bought one product. Pure Life soap co. Aloe 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner I don’t know why, but it drew me in. It smells super fresh, clean, so nice! Made of organic products, completely cruelty free and vegan for those who care about that too! Made with aloe vera gel, sesame oil, and soy. It’s not even one of the products that I wanted to buy at the store, I passed up the Qhemet, Jane Carter, Aubrey Organics….for something totally random…go figure, I always do that! I hope that I like it, lol. I’ll be back there for Qhemet and all of the others, just wanted something right then. I’ll need a deep conditioner now, maybe a very rich moisturizer. Qhemet will be good for the moisture I hear. And I put lots of hair stuff on my christmas wishlist, so didn’t want to buy things and then it’s also given as a gift!
Anyone used this, especially natural hair black girls or curly chicks? I want to see how it works out
Now I plan to go to Walmart, I want some skin stuff and a new satin bonnet for my hair. Okay, so my skin is weird and WONKY….Sometimes bumpy, acne scar spots, just all around things that are NAT cute. So I want to try some skin dark spot fading creams/washes. Ambi is supposed to be good and I used to have some, but I don’t remember it doing much for me I also have some random stuff I found at beauty supply store, but nope, not doing much either. I’ve been hearing good stuff about Black Opal’s system and it’s not too expensive, anyone have experience with it? http://www.blackopalbeauty.com/skin_fade.html I want to pick up the cleanser and the advanced dual complex fade gel….SOMETHING to work with this skin…any suggestions on products that you love?
