I LOVE MY HAIR!!!

This was too cute not to share!

4 Months!!!

HE HE HE...yes, today is 4 months post BC. I am a little excited and a little bummed out at the same time. I am glad that my hair is growing but I am at the weird stage where nothing looks right. A wash and go is just not where it's at. I do not have the patience to do twist correctly and neatly for a twist out and I have no idea how to do flat twist. Oh, on top of that I feel like the back is growing at twice the rate of the front. My bangs are almost imaginary (okay, I am exaggerating). Maybe it is just that the curl pattern is different. I have been stalking youtube for ideas and I have found a few. Also I got a curly wig and I have been rocking that. I find that I do like the wigs for protective styles instead of the braids. I like the idea of being able to still get to my hair and wear my hair if I want to. Oh, I can make a miniature ponytail...he he he...so I can go and by an afro puff pony tail and rock that now too I guess.


Anyhow, to celebrate I am giving myself a deep conditioning treatment. I am using 30ml (2 tablespoons) of olive oil, one egg and garnier fructis deep conditioner. You can use whatever conditioner you like, I am just trying to use all of the garnier up. I have had it on for about and hour now so I am going to rinse it out, apply a leave in, maybe Infusium 23 or the Giovanni, not sure yet, add my grapeseed oil and coconut oil and let it get mostly dry. I will then use my whipped shea butter mixture and but some twist all over. I am not trying to do them neat since I plan to protect my hair this week with my curly wig.


Until next time...

P.S. I am so NOT a fan of Miss. Jessie’s. Maybe it’s me but I found her products greasy and overpriced. Like I said, I do love the smell but some of her products have mineral oil and petroleum as the first or second ingredient so why are they so high priced? We shall save that discussion for another day okay.


Peace, Love and Wigs
~GNH~

DEEP THOUGHTS

None But Ourselves Can Free Our Minds

Hey y'all. I came across an article the other day and I had to share it with you. It explains better than I ever could why I am able to wear my natural hair with pride. I tell people all the time that I didn't go natural because of political or social reasons. I just didn't want to get relaxers anymore. It just felt like the right thing to do. Over the months, things got a little bit more personal. Wearing my hair natural became a statement. Here's a concise explanation: I relaxed my hair because I wanted to look like everyone else. I went natural because I wanted to look like me. Period. Check out the article below on an issue written by a brilliant woman whose name I cannot seem to find! Her blog is named "Womanist Musings." What a Muse, indeed! She touches on a lot of issues that many naturals deal with. The article makes some excellent points and it's quite a good read.

The name of the article is Can I Touch Your Hair? Black Women and The Petting Zoo
Link to article
If you don't read the whole thing, at least read this quote from the article:

"Natural hair equals revolutionary because it says I do not covet whiteness. It says I have decolonized my mind and no longer seek to embrace the qualities of my oppressor. It flies in the face of beauty traditions that seek to create black women as unfeminine and thereby undesirable. My natural hair is one of the truest expressions of the ways in which I love myself because I have made the conscious choice to say that I am beautiful, without artifice or device. It further states that I will not be judged by the yardstick of white womanhood. My beauty is a gift from my foremothers who knew on a more instinctual level than we know today, that 'woman' is as beautiful as she believes herself to be."

Until next time, be blessed.  Now get out there and enjoy your day.

Peace, Love and Blackness,

~GNH~

Yep, that black soap is da bomb!  I will be using that to shampoo my hair weekly or biweekly but will continue my cowashes daily to every other day.  Oh and I tried that hello hydration herbal essence that folks are talking bout, uhm, yeah, not sure about that one.  I have only used it once and if the results don't get better I WILL NOT be repurchasing.

Okay, now that my hair is making it's debut I don't want to get in the wash-n-go rut so I have been thinking of styles that I can experiment with in order to switch it up so I don't get bored.  I was thinking bantu knot outs and maybe even rods sets.  I have enough hair to do twist.  Oh, speaking of that (I know I am all over the place) they sell Miss Jessie's at Target now so I decided to give it a try.  I did some twist on my hair with the baby buttercream.  Not sure about the product but since everone else swears by it I thought that I would give it a try.  I am not a fan of beeswax and mineral oil being on the list but whatever, I can just clarify right?  Anyhow, I do LOVE the smell.  LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!  It smells just like cake batter to me.  YUM!  I do like the moisture that I get.  I haven't taken them down (did them last night) to see the results but that is the plan tomorrow.  I have 4a hair so most people with that hair type love them some baby buttercream.  What do you all think?

My Twist are Down!

I was trying to wait until Easter to take my twist out and rock my natural fro but last night while waiting for Lost to come on I got bored and we all know what bordem leads to.  Anyhow, I had some serious hand in head going on and before I new it I had a lap full of twist extentions.  I was like oh well, might as well take them all out now.  So 2 hours later they were all down and my hair was detangled.  I used my fake denman and suave conditioner to detangle. I had them in for like 6 weeks so just image all of the shed hair that I had.  I know, YUCK!  I put on some deep conditioner spiced up with olive oil and left it in overnight.  I am about to shower and shampoo with my black soap so I will let you know how it turns out.

Peace, Love and TWAs
~GNH~

I'm Back and 3 months natural YALL!!!

I know, I know, it's been a minute. But honestly, I have been busy. Plus, I have been using this time to learn more about my hair.


Let's see......what's been going on? Oh, after I did the BC I wore my hair out until, uhm, about January 10th or something. It was chilly chill here in NC for the first time since I have been living here so I went and got my hair twisted. I still shampooed and conditioned my hair once a week and used leave in conditioner. Each morning I would spray on a braid spray that I made up with some different oils (olive, vitamin E, grapeseed & castor), StaSof-Fro, glycerin and peppermint essential oil. OOOOO LA LA. It felt so good. I rocked that until right before Valentine's Day, the Friday before to be exact. Then I took them down and did a deep condition etc. I had some pretty good growth and I was happy. I was able to pull the sides down and it came to my earlobe.

My hair is super soft and I will tell you this. When I first did the BC I really couldn't tell what my hair type was. I mean I thought that I knew but since it has grown out some I can really tell. I have some straight COILY hair. I mean it just looks like little springs all over my head except for the back and that stuff is like wavy or something. It does its own thing that's for sure. I am diggin my coils. They are so cute and so springy. I have some serious HIH (hand in head) so I don't know if I can ever just wear my hair out exclusively. I will destroy any style.

Then on February 20th I got the twist put back in. It was too darn cold to be doing a wash and go. I still have them in right now. But let me tell you, my hair is growing F-A-S-T and they are looking tore up but I am trying to work with it. I will probably take them down either this weekend or next. Depends. The weather is so much warmer now so I might just rock my TWA for a month or so and then get the twist redone.

I am still a fan of V05 and Suave. That clarifying shampoo and clarifying conditioner is THE TRUTH! Seriously, I am still looking for an excellent leave in. I am telling you, stuff that worked when I was relaxed, transitioning and even when I first did the BC just ain't cutting the mustard anymore. I still like garnier fructis conditioner but I haven't tried the deep conditioner or leave in.

Any thoughts?

Peace, Love & Twist
~GNH~

Day 10 - Best thing about being natural!

Okay, so it has been a little over a week and let me tell ya....I seriously thought that the women on the message boards and youtube were joking when they say that your hair grows faster once you cut it. But I am a WITNESS. Yes, it really does. It has only been a week and I can tell that it is growing, especially in the back and at the crown of my head. No complaints. I am still getting use to how it looks on me. I am getting a lot of compliments from random people so that always helps so I guess it is growing on me and I must say, my hair has never been so soft, manageable and healthy.

Now, people have all of these list and countdowns about reasons to go natural or the best thing about being natural but let me just tell you this, in my mind there is only one reason I will never go back to a relaxer (outside of the painful a$$ scalp burns). The best thing about having my hair natural is that I can go workout as hard as I want to and get as sweaty as I want to and get into the shower and put my WHOLE BODY, HEAD AND ALL under the water. There is no feeling like this in the entire world. I feel so much cleaner after a shower and I have no idea how I lived without doing this for so long. It is the #1 best feeling in the world AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!! For those of you who don't know what it is like there is no way for me to describe it. It is not the same as getting in the shower to shampoo your hair. No sir! It is....I just can't describe it. I am sorry. Anyhow, lovin my hair and as soon as I find the camera chord I will post the pictures of my new do.


Peace, Love and Showers
~GNH~