The Big Trim

Even though I have been trying so bad not to trim my ends I know that for the over all health of my hair, my ends need to be trimmed when there is a need to get rid of split ends. My schedule for my trims are usually set at every 3-4 months if needed and when February came along I did a search and destroy until I could no longer make that work.

Every night I was applying conditioner to give my ends as much nourishment as I could.  But I still could not stop my ends from looking like this..........

So late one night I jumped right in there to get rid of those split ends. I have to tell you that my hair is getting more oxygen and moisture. My curls pop and are more bouncy.

It was the right choice for my hair and it may not be the right choice for yours. We all look for different ways in keeping our length when growing our hair out. So there are no time lines for your trim schedule. Some wait a year before their trim maintenance and others every 6 months. Do what works for you and your hair but no matter what, Keep It Healthy.

Ladies love your hair and it will love you back.
As always thanks for reading, peace and love!!!!!

Chicoro's Pre Poo

So I got this email with the recipe for a pre poo that really moisturize. Chicoro talks about how it is very important to do a pre treatment before you shampoo. Since I was planning on staying up last night to sew a little or to see how my arms and hands would stand up to sewing. I thought why not try this out.
So this is the recipe.
 Ingredients you will need:

In a bowl mix

· ½ cup of aloe vera juice or whole leaf aloe vera

· 1-2 tablespoons of your favorite oil (wheat germ, olive, safflower, walnut etc)

In a separate Bowl melt

· Food grade coconut oil (1/4 cup)

· Sit the bottle or jar in hot water- do not put in microwave or on the stove!

Remember, everyone's hair has different needs. You may need more or less of this mixture. Or, your hair may not like this at all. None of these will irrevocably change your hair. Thus, you just need to wash out the mixture if your hair doesn't like it.

1. Using your fingers, separate your hair into 4- 8 sections. If your hair is caked with hard product, rinse your hair first. Gently handle the first section. First, smooth the hair in a downward direction. You are just trying to make sure that all the hair is going in one direction. You don't need to completely detangle the hair at this point.

2. Dip your hair in the bowl of aloe vera and oil or cup your hands in the mixture and transfer it to the section onto your hair. Work it through. Get the aloe vera/oil mix into your hair from root to tip. Make sure it is moist throughout the sectioned hair. If your hair is long enough, twist it and wrap it around like a bantu knot. If it is not, try to twist it and move it out the way. Repeat until you have done this to each section.

3. You should have a head full of aloe vera mixed with oil twisted sections. Go back to the first twist you did. Undo it, pour the liquid coconut oil in your hand and work through the section. Re-twist it and repeat on whole head. Place a plastic shower cap on your head for 15-60 minutes. Your moisturizing pre-poo is complete! 

And moisturized it was, I loved how soft my hair was that I kept it on all night or all morning because that is when I went to bed lol. 

I am glad that I could past this email on so others could benefit and thanks to Chicoro for sharing. 

Ladies love your hair and it will love you back. 

As always thanks for reading, peace and love!!!!!

Sheba My Love

So my baby Sheba has been suffering with a bladder infection for over a month now. I took her to the ER Vet and they gave us antibiotics for cats which were  drops and I thought it was a good idea thinking it would just slide down her throat. The only problem is that it was 2x's a day and that meant chasing her around the house to force her to take it... lol. That didn't go over well. She doesn't make anything easy around here. She is the Diva in the house and she has no problem letting us all know it. Everyone knows that I am real serious about taking care of my little Diva.

So here we are again trying the pills out this time and she wont even eat her food. She was eating yesterday so I don't understand why she is giving so much interruption of the flow and this is her favorite, chicken baby food. But they did say she may smell the meds in the food.

Taking my mind off of her laying her in pain is my hair. I did my henna a week early and because I just wanted to have something to talk about I use Indigo over the henna.


I have to say it came out quite well. I have still have red but less of it and darker. It is loved for now. LOL!!

I am hoping in waiting on Sheba's recovery she doesn't turn my hair grey too soon. But I will not complain about growth, it is always welcome.

Ladies love your hair and it will love your back.
As always thanks for reading, peace and love!!!!!!!

Smooth Smooth and More Smooth

Let me tell you what I found out! My hair just could not stand when I would plait it at night after doing a wash n go. I would moisturize it with Hairveda whipped ends and plait it into 3 plaits for the night and wash n go the next day. What was happening was that my ends were splitting and I would end up with more frizz and more trims. And we all know that I am trying to hold on to as much of my hair that I can, so we have to cut the trims out.

Frizz is not the look I am going for every day. I know there are ladies that do not mind having frizz, but not me. So all my new hairs that are growing in and they are sticking straight up in the air lol. I need all ends and new hair to be laying flat at all times.

So every night I take a spray bottle full of water and then take 4 sections and spray down with water and then take a quarter amount of conditioner and run through each section. Smooth from root to ends and make sure it is all detangled and saturated with the conditioner and plait each section. 

I make sure I tie my hair up with my silk scarf for the night. The next day I co wash and do a wash n go. I love the way my hair turns out. Will keep you up to date but plan on doing this until June when I do my next length check to see how much length I retained. 

Ladies love your hair and it will love you back.

As always thanks for reading, peace and love!!!!!!!

Product JUNKIES

We all talk about being a product junkie and how we can not help ourselves. When do we consider ourselves not one anymore? I know for myself I have cut down a lot from the products that I buy and use on my hair. I mean just take a look into my cabinet. I have a lot of things but it is the same kind of thing now.

Of course there are still things in the bathroom like my shampoo and conditioner and also the curly products that I am using now mixed chicks and alterna which stays in the bathroom because I use them everyday. Only the unused containers are in the cabinet.

My henna I keep in the kitchen pantry so that is why it does not show up in this cabinet. My dad told me this was an old Whiskey cabinet, lol. I mean just look at how nice it looks close.

I have placed it right in front of my bed so that I can look at it as I get ready for bed and as I just lay there.

 

Well I think it is as much as important that you love the products that you hold on to as well as you love the place you keep them in. I know I can become quite depress if I have to look at a place or go to a place to get something and the place is not so nice and it is nasty looking or just not classy looking. Who wants their products to become a eye sore? And on top of that those places where you have to dig for everything and take every little thing out to find what you are looking for...oh and how about this one, you go out and buy something because you couldn't find what you were looking for in the junk pile but you knew you had it in there. Come home from the store and it hits you right in your face, all because you didn't have your products stacked in a nice place where you could see each and every thing. 

Ok enough of my rambles today. I just wanted to share what makes me feel better about having a lot of hair products. lol 

Ladies love your hair and their products and your hair will love you back. 

As always thanks for reading, peace and love!!!!!!

What A Sunny Day

Man I wish I could show you the sun that is shinning through this window, it is very beautiful how it bounces off the mirror and green leaves of the plants. The only reason why I end up noticing the sun in the first place is because it was henna day and I was looking at my hair and the light started causing my color to glow. It was something that brought back memories from when I was younger and applied henna to my hair. The only time you could see the color was in the sunlight. No other color has ever caught my heart like henna red. At times I long for my grey, I jump back and forth between the thought of growing the grey out or not but for now henna red it is.

Now lets move on to one of my family members that is working on her healthy natural hair growth. So the start of this month her journal began.

First thing I am about to show you is the problem in her scalp she had for years, she says as long as she could remember this was a problem for her and her siblings. We started off with cutting off her damage hair and decided on the henna treatment beginning with every two weeks.

 The circles are showing some of the red bumps on her scalp. There was a lot of flaking and itching with hair lost. She was sent home with instructions on co-washings and scalp massaging with the oils I sent home. 

Look at her first two weeks!!!

 Can you see how clear her scalp is? She said she could not believe it herself. She wants to see if it will help her brother that has tried everything. Health first, right? Then we will work on length. 

Even though she is the newest of the group I thought at this time she was the most interesting with the biggest problem. I will measure her length next visit which will be in inches because that is about how much is left on her head, LOL.... 

Ladies proof, love your hair and it will love you back!

As always thanks for reading, peace and love!!!!!!

Ouidad Review

It was lovely to received samples of this product. 

I was sent the Climate Control Defrizzing Shampoo, Conditioner and Leave in. 

I have to say that it is a pretty nice product. I used it on 3 different hair types with using all 3 products on each. The shampoo was a very nice, cleaning and with lather. Not much needed to be done because only one wash and their hair was clean. Oh and let me tell you about the conditioner.... it smelled so so good, we just kept putting our hands to our nose lol it was so funny. My cousin said "let me smell your hand again.... lol". 

The leave-in just made their curls pop. Besides putting a little JoJoba oil on top of the curls nothing else was needed. 

It is nice to see that this product is versatile because there are a lot of products out there that are not and a lot of curlies have to find out the hard way. A lot of money down the toilet too which is so sad. Please ladies if you get a chance check out ouidad.com to find which line of products fits your curls. 

Ladies love your hair and it will love you back. 

As always thanks for reading, peace and love!!!!!