Catching Up

wash/go - January, 2012
curl formers - October, 2011

braid out - March, 2012

dominicans - August, 2011

It is just shy of being a year since I posted last...and similar to a previous post, I recommened this blog and now I feel like I need to update it a bit. As always, I'm still looking for the miracle product - and I've decided now, you're going to have to make your own product - using a few (or more) of the marketed ones...if you're lucky, maybe you can just use something straight off the shelf and it work for you...unfortuntely, I'm not that lucky...but I do like that I've tried out a few products and I can give people my experiences.

Let's list out what the lines of products that I've used...and a few that I've heard of and may try in the future...AND, don't let me forget to tell you about my most recent routine (fantastic).

Products I have used:

Curls

Kinky Curly

Miss Jessies

Jane Carter

Mixed Chicks (almost forgot about that one)

Products I want to try:

Bumble and Bumble (I think that's the name)

Wen - does it really do what they claim it does?

Hair Rules

Anyway, I plan on including a few recent pictures of my hair. I should have taken one yesterday, I thought about it, but didn't. It was FANTASTIC!!! ...don't think I'm getting the same effect today though. I'll snap a pic and show you...however, I do really appreciate my current routine.

Recently, I have been boycotting shampoo...and I seriously, for the last few months, have only washed my hair once a month - when it really gets coated with products on my scalp. Now, I still wet it almost everyday, I just don't wash it once a week like I usually do. I actually stumbled upon this washing once a month, accidently. After going a while without washing, and my hair was looking good!...I washed it...and then it was like cotton and wasn't acting right. So, I attributed that to shampooing...and thus, my once a month washing routine was born. I also read on curlynikki that she doesn't wash that frequently either...do we have to wash so often?

Right now, that's what is working for me...so, I'm going to say no! you don't have to wash your hair ever week...or ever two weeks - really, you do what's good for you!

So, in addition to shampooing only once ever blue moon, I also took a styling tip from a tennis team member - she said she plats her hair and lets it down in the morning. I tried it..and I LOVED IT!!! It re-creates that looking I'm trying for. The process is simple...I plat my hair...about 10, nice and tight. Then twist the ends with a roller or flexi-rod...and in the morning, really, on the way to work, I take it down. I usually have "fashion" headband one (that means, it really isn't doing anything, just on there) and fluff...and pull...and thinken the roots...and fill in the empty spaces...and go! I like it.

I will add pictures if they are ever sent from my phone - -grrr...slave to technology - addicted to covenience. Yeah, can't move the pictures, so there you have it!