The Twists are out. Rambling like always

So It's now September and nearly 3am and I find myself up with a cup of peppermint tea deciding to go ahead and blog in my blog that I forgot about every 8 months.

So my twists are out, yes, finally out. After about three months they were just done for.

I kept them in that long its because I was debating on whether I was going to take them out and put them back in. New ones of course. But I decided nah, And bought some new Camille rose hair products. So I was eager to try those out. I would obviously need my actual hair to test them out.

So I enjoyed the twists and I'm thinking of putting them back in soon. Perhaps I'll give it a month and then I slap those bad boys back in.

Something has changed with me since I got the twists. As cheesy as this sounds I feel less fearful of trying out new do's. I feel almost fearless and ready to take on new things. I have never been able to flat twist,

I vowed that once the twists were out I would learn how to flat twists.

I learned within a few minutes. The hairstyle above is a result of that. After YEARS and I mean YEARS of not being able to do it and giving up I bucked down and learned and was so pleased I put on my new MAC Men Love Mystery Lipstick and started feeling myself.

Anyway...back to the twists. The takedown was quite the hassle. The hair washing and conditioning and detangling was a pain. I took them out slowly taking out maybe three to four twists at a time during the week, so that way, Thursday night since I'm off on Fridays I could wash then and condition this hair of mine.

Detangling...ugh..I don't know if it's because it had been a while or what but I swear the struggle was real...as real as it gets. It just seemed like my hair was trying to twists itself into a million pieces. I re did my twist plenty of times while they were in to keep them fresh but I did notice a small amount of tangling/matting in the back. Which I blame leaving them in for long on. So I know better next time.

Anyway. That is all my ramblings for now. It's late and I should get to bed. Every day I've woken up to blew skies in the morning which are making me soooooooooo freaking happy. I even dreamed about Nick Carter last night...I woke up feeling happy by the blue skies and my crush since I was 8...Yeah...until next time.

And here we have Marley twists! and a long overdue update!

I have been extra terrible with updating my blog. Absolutely, terrible. Just outstandingly terrible.

The last time I updated was December of last freaking year. Ugh.

Anyway, it is now August of 2015 I'm sure the next time I update this thing it will be 2017 and I'll be 85. That math isn't right of course but who cares. Any who...where do I even begin.

Hair related. I've been trying out all kinds of products, being less product junkie and mores just curious buyer and trying out new stuff when I run out.

My last post was about my dry/ product buildup hairline in which I haven't had a problem with since discovering my life months ago now.

I did realize my hair was quite dry last winter, so I began cowashing every week in..January or February. And shampooing once a month with a regular shampoo.

The Shampoo I used being Shea Moisture's...Honey and Manuka oil line. Co washing with As I am Coconut Co wash and a variety of Hair masks by Shea Moisture mostly, my favorite being from the JBCO line

I do have to say so myself, since I've been natural the amount of natural hair products or at least prouducts geared to those of us who are natural have tripled. I remember if I needed a product I would have to order online at curl mart. Everywhere I go now I can find an abundance of products for us Natural ladies and I couldn't be more excited.

So anyway back to dry hair. I started co washing to keep my hair feeling like butter, I realized I wasn't retaining as much length as I would like.

Now don't get me wrong I do not care to have super long locks but I do care if my hair is dry and breaking. I had looked at old photos of myself and realized from 2011 to...well 2015 the beginning of I had not seen much growth.

I know the product buildup obviously caused my hair to take a giant GIANT hit!. So right then and there I had to correct it. 

So coupled with the co washing, every night or every other night I would moisturize and seal

Which brings me to now. I'm still doing that but I also decided to get some Marley twists in my life and boy oh boy.

             

So a few months ago, I had looked into Marley twists but quickly forgot about their entire existence. Fast forward to this summer. I went to Louisiana and saw a relative with these gorgeous twists in. From that moment on I became obsessed. When I got back home, I researching the living daylights out of Marley twists!. At first I was going to buy the hair and then have someone install it but then I came across so many videos where practically all of the girls did them, themselves...so I was like well what the FRENCH!. I realized a salon would charge 150+ to instal them which nobody and most certainly me does not have time for.

So I educated myself from youtube. Watched every video there was until I felt like I could do it.

Marley braid hair brand YA MAN!

Once I got the hair, that night I washed my hair and tried to install them. I failed hardcore donkey butts. HARDCORE!. I almost gave up. I literally questioned my entire existence. 

But after freaking out, almost crying, regretting life. I watched one more video which helped me with the hand coordination. 

I woke up at 9:53am and immediately started my hair. I finished around 8:00pm. My body ached, I officially hated hair but my hair was finished.

I loved it. However, my hair was way too heavy, it was toooooooo LOOONGG!!!. ME working in a hospital running around all day simply could not deal. I used one and two strands for my hair, and finished with three packs.

Then came the trouble.

My ends would not seal, the hair was took long.

So I cut it,

An cut it too blunt which resulted in them not sealing with the boiling hot water method

So I ended up burning the ends which is the short hair pic above. I dealt with it, but hated it. I hated the feeling of the burnt ends, they also snagged at the twists which was a giant pain.

About a week later I washed my hair and wanted to re do a few of the twists. Long story short and five episodes and five hours of Graceland down the drain. I ended up redoing  my entire head with the remaining packs of hair I had. But this time using one strand of hair on each hair. Which resulted in lighter less heavy and bulky twists. I still had quite the challenge sealing my ends, but I was not and I repeat NOT about to burn those ends again. I couldn't enjoy my twists because of those crunchy burnt things!!

So my very first pic, pictured above is my second and final results. I absolutely love the twists and so happy I was able to do them myself and save money and also learning how to to them for the future. I currently am debating on how long I want to keep them in for and if I'll install more after I take these ones out, we'll see. Anyway until next time, it's 1:15am and I have a 72 dollar face mask on my face that should have been off hours ago. Goodnight.