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This is not me, but her hair just gave me life Protective styling, I do it and I don't. I hate it and I love it. I love the hands off idea, I love the idea of potential growth(length), but I despise the process. Well, I may have found an answer to my problem. A faux bun and bang. I found it on YouTube here and here , and fell in love with the look, but most importantly, the EASE of completion. I immediately subscribed to both channels after watching their vids. Gonna give it a try and hope it looks BANGING!! I don't even have to run out and buy any hair because I'm going green baby!! Reduce, reuse, recycle the marley twist hair that I'm currently rockin'!! I planned to use this hair for my faux bang as well as for my bun, it was a total fail Related Posts Marley and Me

                                                 Thinking of revisiting this grease of "yesteryear"? The old school magic? I did, and it wasn't too bad. Mom used this ish for any and everything that had to do with hair. Pressing, greasing the scalp, smoothing down those curls, plaiting, twists and pony tails.  I used the green Blue Magic for this twist out. What's the difference between the green and blue you ask? Your guess is as good as mine!! I found out there are like, 8 different formulations, aloe, argan, coconut, castor oil, etc. IF it didn't contain petroleum, I might be more apt to use it. Maybe I'll try it this winter after a deep conditioning, moisturizing session. I'll just have to make sure to use a REAL shampoo, you know the s...

photo courtesy of GoldMedalHair.com I decided to use my last packet of Power Gro Herbal Tame over the weekend. This time, I did not have the conditioner they suggest you use because I used it during my second attempt , so I just added warm water and Africa's Best Ultimate Herbal Oil. Maybe I should have used apple cider vinegar (ACV) instead? Adding ACV to henna is supposed to help with clarifying and acidity, so that the product takes better to the hair shaft. Maybe next time!! I applied little scoops of the mixture to my 2 week old, freshly washed twists, this used less than 1/4 of the mix. Since I had so much left over, I have decided to do it weekly to see if my hair becomes more manageable when it's "out". I then washed out the mix, conditioned, applied Neutrogena Triple Moisture Silk leave-in, sealed with my shea butter and followed with ECO Styler clear gel. The shrinkage was ridiculous the next day, but what can you do? Freshly washed, l...

On Oct. 2, 2011, my 2 year anniversary came and went. I didn't take pictures or measure length because my hair was in mini-twists. About a week and half later I removed them and did a deep conditioning using Naptural85's Greek yogurt deep conditioner recipe. I liked it alot. It made my hair feel smooth and frizz free, but I did it on dirty hair. Since I had to do major detangling I thought I would trim my ends, which they desperately needed. Too many fairy knots and splits to be considered as retained length, so I said "BYE BYE BYE"!! After removing the wrecked ends, my strands measured 8.5 inches give or take 1/8 inch. That really depressed me, well not so much, but I did lose half an inch since June. It made realize that I really needed to take care of my ends better, so my new mission is "Hide my Ends till Feb". I have no clue how I will achieve this. For the style below, I shampooed with NTM, then used Naptural's conditioner, then moisture/sealed wit...

Yes, I must admit, I was out and about naked! I left the house naked, got in my car naked, went to work naked. NAKED NAKED NAKED!! Well, my hair was anyway!! Get your minds out the gutter people. While browsing the web, I found Tiffany, the Curl Whisperer , on CurlyNikki 's site. It turns out, she has her own website and has lots and lots of info for curly girls. She states that in order to find products that work for your hair type, you need to know what it feels like naked, sans product. So, I followed her advice and found out that my hair doesn't feel so terrible without all the product on it. In fact, it feels better and all my little curlies fell right into place!! By going naked, I found out the following: 1. my strands are fine/medium in texture 2. the porosity is normal 3. it is not overly dry, as I previously thought 4. my ends are trash, I already knew that 5. it is actually soft 6. tangles easily Now I also found Chicoro on Fotki.com. ...

The Curlaway System (UPDATED 11/23/16) On September 2009, I did the unthinkable for a lot of  black women.....I BC'd. That's short-hand for "big-chop". If you are a part of the natural hair community, you know this term and have seen all over the place.  I cut all the permed locks from my head and have been on a mission to find some miracle product to make my hair more manageable. When I say manageable, I mean something that makes my hair look like I have a texturizer in it. I was looking high and low to find something to turn my type 4 hair into type 3 ringlets y'all!! I mean....I wanted it all, I wanted the  #LOOK without the chemicals, the glory without the guts. I wanted body, sheen, luster, soft bouncy ringlets, no tangles, and most of all, I WANTED THE LENGTH!! I have looked at many hair-blogs, websites, long hair forums, natural hair forums and so on and so on. Check out my chemical hair journey at http://members.fotki.com/SkorpyanJ/ . I have tried N...