New Year, New hair!

As New Year's eve has approached, I have come across countless blogs and videos of Natural haired ladies doing challenges for the new year. Whether it's growing out your hair, taking better care of your hair everyone has a goal to start off the new year.

So I decided that I might as well jump on the big ole bandwagon and make my own challenge...well I guess I have been on a challenge for the last year or two since I started a heathy hair journey out of nowhere an stuck to it. So I can't say this is some kind of new challenge but it will be nice to have a goal. 

So here are my new years goals for hair.

1. Continue to keep up trims every two months

 2.Stay on top of getting my hair products, don't run all the way out before purchasing more

3. Flat iron hair LESS, I've been doing every two weeks, try to make it three

4. Grow hair to either SL or BSL by the summer before I go to Texas:)

And one for the body

5. Work out more!, I know there will be times when I don't work out or can't work out but try to get to the gym every week to work out.

So there are my goals, my goals that I hope I can accomplish. I'll check in every once in a while and document lol...my progress.

Rambling, hair update

So it's been a long boring snowy weekend. I've been trying to keep myself busy from going crazy. It gets dark at 4:30 which has always had the most depresseing impact on me. I HATE when it gets dark early,I feel like my day is over before it even starts, ughhhhhhh. So between watching Inglourious Basterds and cleaning my house spotless, I have'nt really thought much about my hair, which I guess is a good thing. Too much time on hair can drive a person crazy.

Anywho, my hair was straight for a little more than a week and when I washed two days ago, I barely had any shed hairs, which was fantastic. I detangled carefeully and it honeslty only took my maybe 20 minutes to detangle when it usually take me a lot longer and last time I washed my hair was so tangled and so much hair came out it took an hour. It was horrific. I told myself I didn't ever want to see my hair like that again so I guess I got my wish. I plan to straighten again soon this time using the chase method which worked fantatsic the first timem and hopefully smooth sailing fron then on...hopefully.

Natural hair inspirations

The Chase Method. Oh yeah.

So for months now I've had this problem with the back of my hair. The hair that suffered the most damage from seemed to never get straight whenever I flat ironed. Every time I flat iron, I run my hands through silky hair until I reach the back and it's just frizzled to pieces. I pretty much lost all hope, I've been keeping up trims but that stubborn area just never seemed to work out. So I gave myself a few months to nurse my damaged hair back to health and if nothing worked than I would have to cut it.

So I finally flat ironed and got the same old awful results and was all depressed until I came across a youtube video of this girl flat ironing her natural hair and DING!!!!!!!, she had the solution to my problem. She talked about certain naturals who were having problems with the ends of their hair and the solution was to run a comb through as you flat iron to smooth the hair out otherwise known as the "Chase Method" So here I am thinking well I will give it a try but I doubt it will work. So I ran into the bathroom, grabbed my iron and...IT WORKED!!!!. I grabbed a fine tooth comb and placed it in front of my iron and slowly went down, each section and I was amazed at the results. My ends, my horrible, awful ends!!! were finally straight, silky and soft and I was obsessed with my hair all night.  I couldn't keep my hands out of my hair. It just amazed me to touch my hair and not feel that damaged feeling. This is the first time I've been pleased in a long time with my hair. I am also so relived it wasn't damaged or split ends, just needed to use a comb to smooth that area out more. I checked my ends after I was finished and they were..well are lol fabulous!. So hooray for me!! I have found a new method for my hair!! Yay!!! now off to bed it's late and I'm about to pass out!

Curlmart haul ! Jessicurl, Oyin and Darcy's Botanicals

So after a long period of much needed hair products I caved in and went broke, but I'm happy so that's all that counts. Ha. Ha.

So first up is Jessicurl Weekly Deep conditioning Treatment. So I have only used this twice. The first time I used it I can't say I loved it, The scent is Lavender Citrus but it smells nothing like it, it smells very woody and a hint of Cocoa butter smell more than anything. It's quite thick which I like, nothing like a rich and thick deep conditioner. The ingredients are...

Water infused with Lemongrass, Nettle, Burdock, Kelp, Marshmallow Root, Horsetail, Basil, Bay Leaf, Oregano, Rosemary, Peppermint, Sage and Thyme, Behentrimonium Methosulfate and Cetearyl Alcohol, Shea Butter, Avocado Oil,Cocoa Butter, Lecithin, Aloe Vera Powder, Diazolidinyl Urea (and) Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate, Fragrance 

Which all sound wonderful lol. The second time I used it I fell in love. I don't have to use a lot for it to really soak up my hair and I have very thick hair. After washing and conditioning/detangling my hair I slathered this on and it felt like butter and made my hair feel the the same. It also seem to make my curls curlier?...which is kinda weird but great I guess lol. So would I buy this again? yeppers. I paid $12.75, I believe but recently looking on Curlmart it now is priced at 16.95 which is madness!, but if it's good I'll stick with it. At least for a little while :).

Next up is Oyin. I don't have much to say since I've already used them before, only this time I bought a much bigger Whipped pudding since I ran out so quickly. I love love love the smell as always.

Lastly, the Darcy's Botanicals Madagascar Vanilla Styling Creme. I have only used this once on my hair and once on my grandmothers hair. It made her hair super soft and shiny but as for me it was quite heavy, probably due to me adding in some Burnt Sugar which I now know not to do next time. The Smell I honestly don't care for. It faintly smells like Ben and Jerry's Cookie Dough Ice cream, the Vanilla is what is smells like but not as good lol. I will keep using this creme although I'm not to big on the smell and it seems like every since I became Natural I care a lot about the smell of products  and I dig sweet smells not weird sweetish smells lol. So overall I will have to use this product way more than once to do an actual review on it and and decide if I want to repurchase.

I paid $12.00 and the

Ingredients are,

Organic Palm Oil, Organic Aloe Vera, Organic Madagascar Vanilla, Vegetable Emulsifying Wax, Candelilla Wax, Organic Castor Oil, Rice Bran Oil, Organic Jojoba Oil and Potassium Sorbate.

My hair and the weather!

Basically my style, afro puffs which flatten after sleeping on them. I need to invest in a satin pilowcase.

So this is my hair, that I recently washed. Using Aussie moist Shampoo, Tresseme Naturals conditioner and I deep conditioned with Jessicurl weekly deep treatment...or something like that lol and then I finished off with Infusium23 Moisturologie and Oyin Burnt sugar Pomade. It's been about three weeks? since I have flat ironed so I'm trying to go even longer without straightening, but since these SSK are really pissing me off I might just have to flat iron as a protective style. Seems weird right? I've been debating for days now on what I should do this winter, I guess I'll just leave my hair alone until I figure it out. I've been really trying to keep up though on Deep Conditioning more and really paying attention to my ends. So hopefully it will pay off in the ends and my hair will eventually grow even...hopefully.

As you can see the weather is beautiful!!! I say that with Sarcasm. I mean..it's beautiful but I hate so yeah lol.

What a night, more rambling.

I didn't get any sleep last night. Literally, I crawled into bed around 3am and attempted to fall asleep to the movie Carpool. Yeah didn't happen. I sat up and read a childhood book that I loved, a book full of like 40 stories while getting head butt by my cat. I tried to fall asleep after that but those few minutes of trying turned into hours. 5 am, 6 am, 7 am all passed and I laid awake tossing and turning. At the foot of my bed to the top and out of nowhere my back started to ache. Hours went by and I would close my eyes and fall asleep for about ten minutes and awake. So you can imagine how pissed I was when noon rolled around and I laid there with my eyes burning, dark circles like there was no tomorrow.

So I've been exhausted all day, my back is in pain and my side hurts. You know that pain you get when you run too long? yeah that side pain. Don't know where all this body pain came from?, I can definitely do without. It's now 12:50 am and I'm sitting at this computer eating Praline Pecans and half watching some ballet on TV. Yeah great night huh? I'm hoping that I can sleep tonight. I wanted to take a shower to help ease the back pain and use this  aromatherapy Lavender Chamomile scrub I got from Bath and Body works but I feel to tired to even do that. So I plan on just heading to bed, do a little writing to flush out my thoughts for the day, so I don't lay bed thinking all night long, perhaps put on a good 90s holiday movie and read until I am absolutely tired. One of my biggest problems is going to bed when I'm not that tired, I tend to sleep bad. UGH!!! sleep!! why does it have to be so complicated sometimes?!.

Any who...tomorrow is a new day, I hope to get some work out time in around 1pm so wish me good wishes that I sleep tonight. I can't imagine working out exhausted and trying to get motivated by Lady gaga.

Tiny update and Haul

So an update.

Well I got paid on friday and practically broke on this wintery tuesday. I was tempted by all the Black friday sales, I finally caved in and spent money on much needed hair products. I recently ran out of Aussie moist so I went to Target and decided to tRy Tresemme Naturals. I also sat my butt down at the computer and went to oyinhandmade.com and ordered some Whipped pudding which I ran out of so fast but really enjoyed so I got it again. I wasn't for sure if I wanted to get the Burnt sugar since I didn't want to go too broke because I wanted to buy more stuff that wasn't hair related but after a few days of pondering I gave in, went to curlmart.com and got the Burnt sugar pomade and two products I have been eyeing. Darcy's Botanicals, Madagascar Vanilla styling cream...or something like that and Jessicurl weekly Deep treatment conditioner whatever lol. All products shipped today so I shall review them soon. :).

Hair Length check somewhat

My hair

I don't know why my head looks so small and thin here...anyway lol. I wasn't planning on flat ironing my hair or even posting a pic to do a length check but hey why not. The last pic I took was of my hair after being straight for like two weeks and a real hot mess. So I flat ironed and here we are. My hair has grown, which I was surprised about. I am pleased with the sides of my hair have grown and are down my my chin. I've had issues with those forever it seems lol. 

I've been trying to cut back on flat ironing and not really doing much to my hair. I never flat iron a lot to begin with,I usually wash and leave my hair curly for two weeks and sometimes more, but with the cold weather coming and my hair being dryer than usual I need to add more moisture rather then taking it out. So as for my hair that suffered most from Ponytail and flat iron damage it's still not that great at least to me, so I've decided just to wait at least six months, continue trimming my ends which I plan on doing the next time I wash and just see how that works, If I don't seen any improvement I might just have to get a haircut.

So as for now my hair seems to be doing alright. I went to the store recently and bought some Tresemme Naturals conditioner, since I ran out of my beloved Aussie Moist. I have yet to try it out so I'm hoping when I do it doesn't disappoint. My goals for this month are two

1.Flat Iron less(even less than I do now)

2. Try to stay away from ponytails, they are all I have ever know for like 10 yrs and it's a hard habit to break but I need to.

and

3. Trim my ends, the last time I did was September 28th, So I'm due lol.

Late night blues plus some more rambling!

Well it's 2:30 am and I'm sitting here in a dark living room at my uncles house, trying not to freak out. I'm here dog sitting/watching my 14 yr old cousin while my uncle and his wife are out celebrating his late bday. As much as I think their house is nice, I have a huge problem with staying over night at other people's houses. Last time I was here was around March and I was here for a whole week by myself watching the dog and that was one of the hardest weeks ever lol. I spent almost all night up til 6am because I couldn't sleep. So here I find myself in the same situation. Oh what to do?...granted I'm only here til tomorrow which can't seem to come fast enough, but it's gonna be a long night. I slept fantastic last night for the first time in months but had a rough morning due to my house being filled by children.

So since my last post I bought flexi rods and tried them out. I can't say I loved the results but I will have to try them out some more and master them because so far they've come out only as a frizzy mess. As for the condition of my hair, it's growing. I finally flat ironed it after about two weeks. It was quite dry im guessint due to this cold soon to be winter wonderland weather.  I've run out of my Oyin products which I need to purchase more of. I have been deep conditioning with coconut oil mixed into my conditioner and I have to say it's quite amazing!. Loving it lol. Anyway my tiredness is kicking in but I can guess I won't fall asleep for another three hours:( goodness! lol. Oh well I hope tomorrow comes fast so I can leave and then sit in a move theater drooling over Robert downey Jr.

Flexi Rods,Shrinkage?unevenness,Ranting, gaaaah!!

Rant!

So. It's been quite the week. The whole week I've gotten absolutely no sleep, for some reason sleeping at night has not been happening for me and it's beginning to wear on me. I go to bed,toss and turn and don't fall asleep until almost 4 or 5 in the morning. I took some Midol PM last night despite not having my "monthly gift" to try and make me tired. It kicked in about an hour and a half well into me watching Justin Timberlake on Jimmy Fallon singing Rap songs from each decade.  I eventually made myself into my room. I laid in my bed headphones on trying to finish my Netflix dvd of The Shield. I eventually felt tired enough to turn it off and sleep. Tossed and turned and didn't fall asleep for maybe an hour. Got really hot ,started itching?? and tossed and turned waking up all night. UGHHHHH! I was pissed. Woke up at  noon which is better than One, Since I've been trying to wake up earlier, I hate sleeping the whole day away. Still wasn't good enough though. I need to find a bedtime routine to help me sleep, relying on sleeping pills aren't that great of an option.

Shrinkage?unevenness

You can visit a million natural hair blogs everyday and you can find numerous people posting and saying "Own your shrinkage" or "Love your shrinkage", I'm having a really hard time owning and loving a piece of hair that shrivels all the way up into my brain. That's annoying and stretching my hair constantly is annoying, but that's not even the big issue, the biggest issue I have with my hair as of right now...well for a long time is the fact that the middle part of my hair that was damaged when I was relaxed and still shorter than the rest of my hair. My hair grows longest on the bottom while the sides taking a little longer than the bottom, my bangs grow it seems "normally" and that hair in the middle seems to just sit there. I never went natural to gain length, I couldn't give a flying chicken about long hair, but I do want even hair, I've finally accepted that hair grows at different lengths and sometimes it will always be that way, but the middle part of my head is killing me. I don't know if it's because I've been paying to much attention to my hair lately and focusing on that part of my hair but it seems like it's not growing. I mean I can only really tell when I flat iron but ever time I wash my hair and see that part of my hair I get pissed off. UGHHHHH!!!! again!!!!. I don't know what to do. I don't want to cut my hair just so the bottom can grow longer once again so I'm just trying to nurse that part of my hair and take care of it. Anyway. My hair has been annoying me like crazy this week so I'm sure I'll be normal next week and not so pissed at sections of my hair. I'm just having one of those weeks that we all go through and the best way I figure clearing my head it to write it down to get out of my head to stop thinking about what's going on, on top of my head. So yes... sigh...

I need to stop trippin on gin and juice and relax. But that's easier said than done. I decided to posts picts of my unevenness and hopefully in the next few months post pics again to see if there is any change. I also went to the store and picked up some much needed vitamins which I have to go back and get more tomorrow, those seem to help with hair so maybe I'll have a smile on my face the next time I post pictures.

Flexi Rods

So with my trip to go get vitamins tomorrow I plan on trying out some flexi rods. As a style handicapped person who can't seem to achieve any styles especially with natural hair,I've been you tubing it up lately watching vids of how to put in flexi rods and so far I'm liking what I see. I've been dying for curly big hair forever now...my natural state of hair isn't that big yet and definitely not to my liking See Rant above for information.

So tomorrow I plan on going to target and getting some and trying them out. I  think I will try them out on damp natural hair first then when I eventually flat iron try them out on my hair then. I can only pray that they come out right. I seem to screw up the easiest styles ever and Flexi rods seem super easy and simple but like I said I am style handicapped so I will probably screw them up be pissed that I spent money I could have used for some new jeans from H&M. Ugh!!! I hope I won't screw them up, I will pray, If I can get this style right and it actually looks right, it will make my horrible week seem a whole lot better.

So I guess that is all for now, I'm all ranted out and it's after 2am,  I shall retire to the bedroom to suck at sleeping and a couple of episodes of family guy and a big glass of ice water :).

until next time.

Hair length check

So I decided to start doing length checks because I can never tell when my hair grows and the best way is by photo! hooray!.Anywho, this is my hair, a flat ironed hot mess about to be washed so that explains why is looks...well a mess lol. My biggest problem with my hair is the fact that the bottom part of my hair hair grows faster so my hair is an uneven mess of unevenness. I figured I should cut it but it would just grow out longer than the rest and cutting it would be a waste.

So here we go the first of my length checks. I'm not really looking for length on my natural journey I just want the middle part of my hair to grow out because right now it is so not cool, so I will be patient.

Oh and uh

Look at that crazy cloud! this is right outside my apartment. About two days ago it rained completely sunny out and I caught this pic right before it did.

Ahhh the last of the summer rain. It's already feeling like Fall, I love Fall but I hate Winter, wish I could skip over it!.

Negativity and Natural hair.

Good hair.

That term is a term that I think is completely ignorant.

Growing up all my life I have heard that term good hair. I honesty wish I could say that I grew up in a household where the term"good hair" wasn't used. My mother who was half Native American had hair like chili from TLC, Anada Lewis or Amerie...yes Amerie the most haha.

 Anyway, my mom never told me I had bad hair, in fact I never even heard her mutter the words good hair or bad hair. I don't think she believed there was such a thing. Growing up my hair was always relaxed by my aunt, my mother was quite sick and couldn't really do my hair so my aunt took care of it.

Fast forward to the present. I hear comments from my grandmother who I live with btw that I have bad hair. Just the other day she was telling me about her great grandmother and how she was light skinned but she had hair like mine, she didn't have... "good hair".

I know that people just say when you hear things like that you should just brush it off but when it is your own family it's kinda to brush off what they say. Whether we like it or not what they say we really take to heart since they are the people closest to us.

It hurt me only a little when that was said, because believe me that isn't the first time I've heard it. Does it make me ashamed of my natural hair? Does it make me regret going natural? does it make me want to go back to relaxed? the answer to all of those is a big no. In fact when I hear it I get irritated but then it just fuels my fire to continue on NOT relaxing my hair. It just baffles me that Black people can sit up here and say things like this. It's like you have Black people hair do you think your hair is ugly? do you think God made a mistake when he made our hair? there is not such thing as good hair in that way. Good hair is healthy hair. I wish this term would be destroyed, I hope that future generations can forget the term and never use it. It's so negative and ignorant it's ridiculous that people still believe it. My advice for any of you who have family members, friends or even coworkers that make you feel bad about your hair. Say screw you. The best way to keep up your journey is to look at other women with natural hair and be inspired by them. It's one of the best ways to keep yourself going. 

Natural hair is beautiful hair.

My Routine?

My hair

I wish I could say I have a set routine...I did once:).

So my current regimen is

Once a week or once every two weeks I wash my hair with Aussire moist shampoo or Organix Vanilla silk or Shea Butter Shampoo.

I then condition with Aussie moist conditioner or Herbal Essences Hello Hydration.

Since I don't have a deep conditioner at the moment I just use my reg conditioner as a deep conditioner. Lately I have been leaving my conditioner in overnight. Since I usually wash my hair late at night Leaving it in  helps when you are too tired to wash it out.

Soooooo I put the conditioner in, or should I say load up on it? detangle section by section with a wide tooth comb and then use ouchless binders to put my hair in ponytails...or curly puffs lol. I then ,whether I leave it in overnight or just a half hour I rinse with cold water and then throw in either some infusium23 repairologie or Oyin whipped pudding and Oyin burnt sugar pomade on the edges slap on a headband as you can see in the pic and I'm good to go.

My routine always changes and I'm trying to set one and stick to one because I had one a while ago which I stuck too so yeah...

OYIN!

So I decided to so a small review on some products I recently purchased. So for about a month now I have been wanting to try Oyin Handmade products. I decided to purchase some from Curlmart.com since I heard that actually ordering from their website can be a pain in the behind. So I went on curlmart.com like two months ago just wanting to try the Oyin Burnt Sugar pomade and they were sold out and continued to be sold out for weeks. Annoying right?


So I went online again just out of nowhere there it was right there looking at me. Sweetly asking me "Buy me" and of course I gave in, might as well waiting a whole month and a half. So along with the burnt sugar I got the Whipped pudding. So happy very happy I was and it only took a little more than a week and BAM! here. HAPPINESS.

review

The Burnt sugar pomade

So I guess I 'l start off first by saying I haven't really gotten a chance to use these products all that well yet so I guess my review isn't all that accurate lol and my opinion could change as I continue using them so I'll just do a short little...what's the word?......I don't know I can't think right now lol. I'll give my opinion now on them and if I feel any different about them in the future I let you know :)

So this product smells DELICIOUSNESSESSSS

It kinda smells like maple brown sugar oatmeal and a vanilla candle...haha

It's very moisturizing and works well for smoothing down those darn edges. I am very pleased as of right now and hope to use more of it to get the full advantages of what this stuff can do. It comes in an 8oz I believe for $10 and at first I thought it would be too small but it's a perfect size. You will have plenty even if you are a heavy handed lady like myself.

Next

Oyin Whipped pudding

Sorry for such the bad pics I don't have a camera at the moment so I've been using the camera on my phone!!

Anyway the whipped pudding is AWESOMENESSSS. For some reason I expected this product to be brown because i heard it smelled like chocolate cake lol but no,no it is a creamy white. It smells a lot like a chocolate mousse and palmers cocoa butter.

Right when I stepped out of the shower after washing  my hair I dried a little and then ran this product through and didn't even have to use a lot. The next day my hair was soft and my curls were defined! now take note I have just started dealing with my hair being fulling natural I still however flat iron because my natural hair isn't ready to my liking yet lol. So I have yet to try out a whole bunch of styles on my hair. I have only tried a twist out which came out alright, but using the whipped pudding all I did was run it through and the next day my curls were defined and stretched out more than usual. Not a WHOLE LOT stretched but enough to make me go wow?.... My hair felt really really moisturized which makes me happy because I have thick hair that soaks up any kind of moisture like nobodies business and I didn't feel the need to add anything else to my hair.Yay for me.

So I have to say I'm with happy with  Oyin the products smell great and they don't disappoint. I would definitely purchase again and again..and again:).

Why I went Natural. My story. Beware it's a long one.

So I wouldn't say I went natural, I just decided to not relax my hair for a couple of months and those months became a year and then 4 months later me picking up the scissors and cutting off the the last remains of relaxed hair.

My backstory.
My first relaxer was when I was three years old. According to family members my hair was too thick to deal with so I "had" to get a relaxer. So seeing my natural hair was quite the discovery. I continued getting relaxers for the next couple of years I hated them but is it was kind of imbedded into my brain that as soon as you feel new growth it was time to relax. My aunt always did my hair and my constant routine was every couple of months was perm time. I would honestly dread the days of getting a perm because the process always took forever.

Routine
Get out the grease rub it all around my ears and hairline so I won't get burned. Having a nasty grease substance rubbed around my head makes me cringe.
Get a brush and apply the perm to each section of my hair. Which was a pain when you started to burn
After burring for 10000 years wash it out
Then conditioner
The shampoo my super sore and burnt scalp
Then condition again
Leave on for 10 min
Wash out then towel dry my hair
Grease scalp while damp then blow dry
than apply some kind of moisturize
Then straighten with a curling iron

The whole process took about 4-5 hours and as a little kid that kind of stuff can drive you crazy and just think  that was from 3 yrs of age to 19.


So finally as I got older I started doing my own perms, the brand I used was motions. Finally I started applying the perm with my hands instead of using a brush since it took up too much time. Somehow when I stared doing my own perms I felt like my permed never turned out right, so I eventually went and got it done a couple of times by a professional but she was a scissor happy psycho so I stopped and resorted back to doing it myself.

When I was a junior in high school I bought my first flat iron, some 40 dollar iron from Sallys

The Damage
Boy oh boy I was not a smart cookie. I didn't know how to is the flat iron right and I was way too impatient to actually take time to do it right so I basically would flip my hair upside down and just run through it until it was straight. Without using any heat protectant(after years of using grease which I hated it I swore it off and used nothing). I eventually broke my hair off. For years I wore ponytails and suffered ponytail damage and still continued getting perms damaging the living daylights out of my hair. Eventually my hair continued breaking in the middle and got shorter and shorter.

The Dark ages. Educating myself
When I turned 19 my hair seem to get worse and worse.  My hair because crinkly, matted and completely uneven. My hair in the back where it was shorter was fried and matted to my head, as you can imagine that took a huge chunk out of my self esteem. I got super depressed not knowing what to do until late night I was on youtube and stumbled across a video of this girl flat ironing her hair, then I came across a video of an Asian girl talking about her hair products. As I watched her she said something that stuck out to me. She said, "It's essential to start taking care of your hair" and that was it I knew right then and there If I want my hair to look good I need to take care of it. Why it took me so long to understand this IDK. SIMPLY TAKE CARE OF IT.

That night I went on Folica.com invested in a 100 flat iron and about a 5 heat protectants and deep conditioners and a pair of shears I went and got the "Rihanna wannabe cut". That was it I was on my path to healthy hair. I still however relaxed my hair but I started deep conditioning and being more aware of what I was doing

Vow to stop relaxing

My "Rihanna wannabe cut" didn't exactly get rid of all my damage the whole cut was pretty awful, I looked like Halle Berry in the movie Boomerrang or Becky from Roseanne when she cut her hair. One night on Jan 26 of 2009 as I rubbed relaxer in my hair I looked at myself and said why am I putting the perm on hair that is still weak and broken off I was so annoyed that, that was it. My last perm I vowed not to get a perm for at least 5 months and just focus on taking care of my hair and growing it out.

Now

That 5 months turned into a year of not relaxing and researching what Transitioning  from relaxed to Natural meant. I decided to make the at least 5 months permanent. In april of 2010 I cut off the remaining bits of my relaxed hair. Visiting the site Curlynikki.com helps me out so much I visit it almost everyday.

Although my hair is still growing out and it isn't at my desired length I could not be happier with the choice I made. My natural curls are wonderful and I fully embrace them. I feel so much more empowered and aware of my hair it could punch a small child...not really lol, but yeah ,I am proud of myself that I stuck with it for this long. I just hope that if you want to transition you do it. Don't let anyone stop you or discourage you. Embrace your naturalness. It's pretty fierce.

My first Post. What my blog will be about if you can't read the Title.

So here I am doing a blog. Why am I even writing something that no one will ever read? well my friend if you are a "cool" person like muah you tend to google...or BING! random things and occasionally you will stumbled across a strangers Blog and sometimes that Blog will catch your attention and you'll be like"Hey that was interesting". So maybe I can be you're random roaming and stumbling across a Blog person:). I won't get my hopes up though let's be real there are like 19138948 numbers of blogs out there and chances are I will never get viewed.

Anyway enough with my 80% of the time negative outlook on life, I decided to make a blog about Natural hair, I already have another  blog about my life but I'm just not that interesting to keep writing about what I'm doing every 5 seconds. I doubt you care because I don't even care.

SO!...back to what I should have been talking about in the first place. I decided to make a blog about natural hair because I myself am finally natural after a year and...3/4 months of a very long transition. I will tell you about how I decided to go natural, what products I use, and perhaps some fun pictures! we all love pictures I know I do!. So I'm hoping that one day when you do...IF you do stumble across my blog I will give you some help or some inspiration about going or staying natural and hopefully answer some questions that you may have. I will be completely honest I am no expert and I can only speak from my own experiences and will give the best advice and information I can. Alright kids!, alright then lets get started.

Now bear with me I don't exactly have a camera right now all I have is a cellphone and I don't have billions of picture of my hair because I'm not one of those people that keep a hair journal I wish I was but yeah...I'm, not:).