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~
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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:
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~
Saturday, April 3, 2010
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?
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?
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