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.