Update on life and Hair anniversary

So I should have written earlier to make it official but oh well lol.

So Jan 26th was yesterday which was about an hour and ten minutes ago and it has now been two years since my last relaxer. Yay! for me!. I can remember it like yesterday, making that decision to never relax my hair again and I am very proud of myself for not giving in to the creamy crack.

I've learned a lot in my two years of dealing with all things natural. I feel like I have really come far with this "hair thing" lol. I hope as the future plays out, I hope to achieve all my hair goals.

So as for my life. I lost my job a few days ago, I'm not unemployed, I was working for two companies and the one I lost was paying more so life pretty much sucks as of right now. Tomorrow I have to go to my job to see if I can get more clients, so I'm pretty nervous, as always I don't know why but I'm just a nervous person lol. So sorry if my hair anniversary section on top isn't all that great. I have so many things on my mind right now, that is all I can really think about. Also i've been somehow itching to go to Miami. Everything that I have watched in the past few days has somehow been in Miami. Real housewives of Atlanta, What Chili Wants and Basketball Wives? what on earth is going on?!. Anyway...lol.

So hopefully I have good news tomorrow and I can blog about some more hair related issues. I plan on blogging about how I detangle my hair. So stay tuned...whoever is reading this.

Update

So another update. 

Hair: It's been a long couple of weeks, as the weeks went by I just didn't feel like doing anything to my hair. So I looked like a hot mess lol. I finally washed, Deep conditioned and trimmed my ends and I plan on doing nothing to my hair for the next couple of...well a while lol.

Skin: I've been keeping up with applying shea butter. Although I missed applying it twice a days for two days and only got to once which was a bummer, I'm back on track.

Body: As for my wanting to get in shape and work out, I missed the weekend but did 50 min the last time and then 50 min today. Since it's that" Time of the month" I don't see myself working out tomorrow but Thursday I should be good to go.

So overall, I think I'm doing alright. I just need to keep it up!

Lovely Skin Challenge!

So between obsessing over my hair and finding non low rise jeans( Don't ask) my obsession at the moment is skin. I cannot stop looking at skin. I'm absolutely obsessed with it and making mine look better. I'm constantly looking at everyones skin in movies in music videos it's kinda ridiculous.. So I decided, why not challenge myself to a skin challenge. Since it's winter I have plenty of time before the summer to get my skin on the right track.

My skin lately has been quite dry and every since I started working out I seem to be getting more stretch marks, yes MORE. I'm 21 never had any kids but I have them. I hate when people only think pregnant ladies get them lol. Any who you can say they annoy me, they annoy me a lot, so...I decided to do something about it, along with evening out my skin tone and overall having fab skin like Gabrielle above, who I believe has some of the most gorgeous skin Hollywood. I purchased some Shea butter, Raw unrefined Shea butter recently online from Sheaessentials.com and I received it today. I whipped it along with some coconut oil, my first time ever whipping it. The first time I used the butter, it was quite hard to use although not as hard as raw cocoa butter but not as soft as...a baby's butt?

Anyway you can say it kind discouraged me from using it like I should have been, since I found it challenging to slather on twice everyday.

So I whipped it up today with a mixer and now I have a creamalicious batch of shea butter.

So this time I decided to do it right.

Everyday I rub on some Shea butter, twice daily, drink plenty of water which I already do and take vitamins which I already do and see where that gets me.

Hopefully when summer comes I will want to run outside naked and show off my skin:).

Wanting to go back to Relaxed?

Being a natural girl, I have those days just like any of girl with natural hair especially those who were relaxed for a long time and recently went natural, where you just think to yourself " What If I relax my hair?". Honestly straight hair is everywhere. I do see natural haired women on TV commercials or in magazines or even in music videos but it's almost always never as much as those with straight hair.

Just a few days ago I was flat ironing and my hair was driving me crazy. I felt like it just would not straighten right. After having great results with the Chase method a few days before I expected to get those results but it didn't happen. My hair was still better than it was before but my ends still seemed to be puffy. You can say it was frustrating. Afterwards I go and read my Allure issue for the month and I see model Emanuela de paula with her gorgeous straight hair and then it seemed through out the day Black women with gorgeous flowing locks of straight hair were all in my face constantly. Zoe Saldana, Sanaa Lathan in Something New, Tyra Banks. I started looking at my own hair, my puffy ends getting irritated and thinking how if I had a relaxer my ends would always be straight and how straight my hair would be since I've become so "good" at flat ironing I wouldn't have a problem. All I wanted in that moment was straight hair. I didn't think about it much as the day went on, until night when I visited natural hair blog MopTopMaven.com and I cam across these pictures from a site calles F*ck Yeah Curls Curls Curls. Seeing all these ladies and gents with beautiful free flowing heads of big curly,kinky and coily hair had me going crazy. It instantly reminded me of why I could never go back to a relaxer. So I say in your moments of natural weakness the best thing you can do is look at pictures of fellow naturals to give you inspiration, it always work for me. I snapped out of the relaxing thoughts right away and had the nerve to go wash  my curls back into my head...but that would  have been a waste of straightening so NEXT TIME!! lol.