Protective Styles

If I was not such a wild child protective styles would be my friend :)  What I mean by that is I love my hair to be out in some type of big funky afro so I do not do as many protective styles as I probably should.  However here are a few of the one I have done for your viewing and recreating pleasure.  I have no braiding skills so for that I enlist the help of my wonderful friend and church sister who as you will see is super talented in this area.  God has truly given her a gift.  All that happens before these styles is a co-wash and blow dry.  Remember I said that I would stop blow drying for a while and I must say it has been great.  In order to get some more length after co washing instead of twists I do braids to avoid as much shrinkage.  That's all for now folks!  Enjoy the pics and subscribe!

It did not take all day

In the past it would normally take me hours to accomplish what I did in three hours today, wash and style my hair.  I cowashed my hair and then proceeded to detangle with my denman brush and Afro Detangler from www.growafrohairlong.com . After all that I braided my hair not too large for a braid out to be worn starting tomorrow after my hair is completely air dried.  I have some pics of a style I did the other day and I will do my best to post those tomorrow and hopefully I remember to take a picture of the braids before I take them out to show you the marked improvement over the last braid out :)  Have a great night and we'll be seeing each other soon :) I mean reading!!

Style I did

Well gang as I mentioned I have been spending more time taking care of my hair myself.  This is a style I did with remnants of the braid out I have been wearing for a week now.  I spritzed with glycerine and water and then dressed hair with Shea Moisture Curl Style Milk.  After that I parted both sides and did flat twists securing them with a rubber band and Ecostyle Aloe Gel. I then proceeded to two strand twist the rest in medium sized twists. I will wear this as a style for a few days and then it will be almost a mohawk twist out. Hope you enjoy!

Who's wearing a pony tail

How about your girl who has been boycotting the ponytails due to them never holding with my Kaya hair actually rocking a ponytail.  Yes, I actually got one in using the same spritz with glycerine and water and brush with my denman and then attempting the infamous patyhose leg tie :)  Several people on youtube have been raving about this tie and how to get a ponytail using it.  I actually got it to work (after much tutoring from my little cousin I might add) and I am ecstatic. Yes, you will be seeing more ponytails from me. Here is the pic.....

Improvement

Not that I have more time on my hands by any means.  I still have a 2 year old, 1 year old and 6 week old at home, however I am starting to actually be a "grown up" about how I handle my hair.  In the past I thought that wetting it at night or damping with spray bottle and moisturize and retwist was just something they talked about however not that it actually worked.  Well I have been using this method to braid my hair at nights and refresh in the morning and wow what a world of difference it makes to the wearability of my styles.  Take a look at some of the pics and if you can tell from past posts the hair looks a lot more full and vibrant from having enough moisture!  Also I actually styled my hair this weekend. It is by no means professional however for me this was a huge step.  To achieve the look I sprayed with vegetable glycerin and water mix, moisturized with prettydimples01 shea butter mix from you tube and then braided and bantu knotted my hair.  I took it down the next morning.  In the front I just did two flat twists that did not come out that flat and made sort of like a flower at the end of the twists.  Hey, no laughing, compared to past attempts at styling, this is a masterpiece. 

Here They Are!

As promised here are the picture of the braid out.  For right now please just take a look at the hair and not necessarily the face as it normally looks a lot better.  Since I am normally more put together, going forward I will make my best effort to do myself more justice in the photos :).  I will not say in what way, but you will see.  I dare say this may be my best braid out yet.  Take a look and tell me what you think.  The method for achieving this look is shown in my previous post.  Enjoy and I am open to questions regarding my hair regimen etc. As you can see there is no rhyme or reason to my parts and if this was to be worn out it would be covered in some beautiful head wrap (will show you sometime).  My skills are improving!

Don't Laugh!

So last night I decided that I would do a deep conditioner overnight since I have been wearing protective styles for the past few weeks.  Don't laugh, I forgot to shampoo my hair first and proceeded to put in the (Aloe Oil, Condensed Milk and Egg White) conditioner on dry hair.  Needless to say when I woke up this morning my hair smelled like something to eat but was incredibly hard and sticky if you can imagine.  I did not panic. I rinsed very well with water and then proceeded to shampoo with Creme of Nature Shampoo, Condition with my Favorite conditioner Herbal Essences Hello Hydration and after detangling with my denman which by the way was phenomenal, proceeded to do big braids using the Afro Detangler by Taikyel that I had completely forgotten about under my sink.  I have very thick hair so hours later it still has not yet air dried.  When it is completely air dried I will take the braids down and wear braid outs for a week and then maybe wash and go's for another week before washing.  Thanks for letting me rant.....much appreciated.
P.S. Tomorrow I will post the pic of the braids so you can see them before I go ahead with the braid out.

Never dwell on the past!

For a few days I have been beating myself up for how long I have not posted and wondering how I am going to show you all the pics from hairstyles you have missed. NEWAY I decided not to dwell and start where we are.  I have been wearing protective styles for the past two months as I was nine months pregnant and have two barely older children :) therefore no time to handle my hair.  The style I finally took down this past weekend is shown here and I will be washing my hair either today or tomorrow, using my Denman brush for the first time to detangle and I will post the results after.  Also, because I missed my length since the last traumatic cut in October 2010 I have been blow drying after cowashing, however I have decided to take a break from that and just let my hair air dry for a while.  Definitely more updates to come on that because my hair is the QUEEN of shrinkage!  Catcha Later!

Been A While......

Here we go! Finally starting to get back on track.  Added a new baby to the family on 3/29.  Charis Victoria is wonderful and she is a welcomed addition.  She has also been a wonder for my hair growth :)  This post will be short as I am working on some pics to post for tomorrow.  Happy Mothers Day!