Yes, I got my hair flat ironed. This is 9 months worth of growth, and I was surprised at how much I have. The back of my hair grows faster than any other part of my hair, the front grows the slowest. Now the young lady who did this for me has been my beautician for over 10 years and she told me that she did NOT do natural hair. Well look at what she is doing now.....she told me that she has quite a few clients that no longer wanted to get a relaxer so she had to learn how to take care of virgin hair (as she calls it).
When she blow dryed it my ends were really hard and I knew it was from the color I put in there when I BC'd back in may. She did ask if I wanted her to cut them and I said yes so about 1/2 inch was cut. My hair feels great, but is very thin (always have been). My gray is coming out in the front, I decided not to touch it until it gets warmer, I want to see what it is going to do. It has been 2 days and it is still holding up, I wrap it every night and use my coconut oil.
I did not take a front view because I could not get a good one....
This was the night before
Now that I have gotten christmas out of the way, its time to start planning for a birthday party. Yes Miss Zaria will be 3 in less than a month. I did give her a birthday party for her 1st birthday, not for the second, so its time to celebrate for her 3rd. I am running into a problem, the theme. She is in love with Dora, Tinkerbell and anything girly. I have a "cake lady" who designs cakes and does a great job at it. She needs my cake order two weeks in advance so here is what we picked out
So ladies help me, I know they are all so cute... which do you like?
Its 9 more days before christmas and I have done all that I need to do...I think.
In hair news, I have dyed my hair Honey Blonde. I have been using henna for about four months, I gave it a break because I wanted to dye my hair blonde but the henna said nope, LOL this is my results, and this is not Blonde!
I like the results, but I really wanted blonde. There are some things that I notice about my hair and one of them is that I have major shrinkage. I am 9 months post relaxer and 7 months natural and it still looks like I have TWA. The second thing I have noticed is that my hair hates water. Yes, water. I know water is suppose to be our best friend but not mine. Okay let me clarify, my hair hates water after it is styled so that means I cannot use a water based product as a moisturizer. That would explain why everytime I tried to use Oyin hair dew, my hair would get hard as a rock, and the same for KBN shealoe. So you ask what do I use on my hair after it is styled? Oils...my hair absolutly loves oils...coconut, and oyins pomade are heaven sent. I cannot forget Afoveda Shikakai oil, this stuff is amazing. This brings me to another product I have been using as a deep conditioner, Garnier Fructis Triple Nutrition with Olive Avocado and Shea. Do not sleep on this stuff, it is amazing. I fell asleep with it on the other night and when I washed it out my hair felt like a bag of cotton, the comb glided right thru so yeah this is a staple. Here are a couple of pictures of what I have been doing with my hair.
Dec length check
This is after I took my twist out
My hair grows faster in the back and on the sides so I used some Eco styling gel and slicked the back up
My puff (My hair not the eyes LOL)
Sunday Brunch with some friends
Have a Merry Christmas, and I will see you at the end of the month......
Its December already? Dang where did the year go? I am looking forward to next year and what it is going to bring. Well for the month of December, I want to add a little more of me to the blog instead of just hair updates. When I say more of me, I mean more of what I wear, and what I do in my spare time. We see so much about hair so this month, I will provide updates but I will alos have some more interesting facts about me.
Some of you may have seen these first set of pictures and know all about the challenge. For those of you who do not, I participated in a little black grey dress challenge. In this challenge we had to add different accesories to the dress twice a week to give it a new look. Here is what I came up with.
I only did two rounds of it, but thanks to the ladies who participated because you guys make dressing up fun.
Now....I bought a wig about two weeks ago. I tried it on and of course I did not like it, so earlier this week I said maybe if I put on some clothes, this thinkg will look better. I am kinda feeling it now, but I am not going to promise I will rock it on a regular. Sorry about the blurred pictures, I need a new camera. All donations are acceped :)
This year was celebrated a little differently for me, instead of going to my sisters house, I stayed at home. I started the day by going to church. We had an hour of power of praise and worship, giving thanks to God. I cooked my own meal for the first time, and it came out good! My son went with his father to celebrate and me and zaria was at home. We enjoyed our day as if it was a regular day, I ate, and ate, and ate some more LOL.
As you know from the previous post, I twisted my hair using afroveda totally twisted. O before i forget, I washed my hair using the Aubrey Organic's white camellia (courtesey of CN). Now i have used the conditioner before and loved it, and I can say the same for the shampoo. It made my hair feel so.....I dont know how to describe the feeling but I do know it was very clean and was not dry. I had been using a cleansing conditioner to clean my hair (WEN) just to get rid of it, after using AOWC shampoo that stuff was not doing anything to my hair. So yeah this will be a keeper for me and I may go back to doing a DC with the conditioner. If you have used te shampoo please share your experience.
Ok, back to my twist, I stayed twisted for 2 days. I love this stuff, it gives my hair definition, its moisturizing and has great hold. This is the only product that I have tried that gives me the same great results each and everytime I use it. I want to try other styling products but I am afraid that I will not get the same results. 
I will let it stay like this until monday. Here are some more pics...enjoy
Now that victor is older, this is what I get from him 
Now my zaria still loves pictures 
Just coming in to post some pictures of what I have been doing with my hair. I took my sew-in out after two weeks, yeah I know. I missed my hair and my head was so itchy, Maybe another time...
Me playing around insome make-up
After the take down, this is stretched hair
I washed and did a deep conditioner and did mini twist today. Lets see how long I can keep these in.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving, and I will talk to you guys soon...
I hope I am not to late but I am going to post this any ways. This month for the PS challenge, we are suppost to share our regimen....well to be honest I do not have a regi, I just do what my hair says it is ready for. Since I ave been all weaved up for this month, i will share what I have been doing....
NOTHING
I have been so lazy with my hair this month, I barely oiled it. It has been two weeks and i just realized that I had some Shikakai oil from Afoveda that has a nozzel on it so it is easy to get in between the braids, so this morning I used some of that. I will try to use it again before I take this hair out. This style is working for me, but I sooo miss my hair. 2 more weeks and it is a wrap.
This my october This is my November
This is a shot right after I washed my hair, no product.
At the end of October, I got really frustrated with my hair. I guess I was experiencing the love hate relationship, so I decided to put her away for at least two months.
Its a sew in so my hair is braided up underneath. I will tell you whe I got it done, OMG it was tight. I almost took this mess out! As the days went on, it started to loosen up and today (4 days later) it feels great. I am liking it, and I cant wait to do some styling to it. As I style, I will take pictures....have a great November and I will see you guys around.
Hey peeps how are ya? Everything is good on this end, still enjoying my off time. Man since September 19, not much has happened. I have become a twitter head, so I keep up with most of my cyber friends that way *waving* hey yall. I tried to join 2 challenges but so far I have failed one, and that is the water challenge. Now that I am off, I have to force myself to drink water because there are alot of other things that catch my attention at home. The ladies that are still holding on are doing great, I get some great laughs from reading the updates. The other one is the protective style callenge, now let me tell you guys about this. When Deb first told me about this I told her good luck because I know I am not discipline enough to do 6 months of PS. She told me I could do it, amd to give it a try. Sooo I did (anything for my debbie).
I started maybe about a week late, so I promised her that I will do the best I could during this 6 months. My goals were:
1. To stick with the challenge
2. To see some growth and some healthy hair.
So hear goes, I measured my hair and it is about 2 inches all over
My first PS were twist... i used Afroveda Totally Twisted, and I sealed with coconut oil and Oyin Pomade daily.
I did this on a Monday night, and I untwisted on Friday morning, so I stayed protected 3 days.
Results
