Currently 3/20/12

Hair type: 4a/4b

I am: Relaxed

Hair length: NL

Hair goals: GET MY ENDS CLIPPED.

Last Relaxer: 2/18/12

Currently: 4 weeks post

Last trim: God knows when. I’m in the process of getting trimmed.

Last protein treatment: 3/7/12

Wearing my hair: Down & out.

Just purchased: Nothing ;o

Wishlist: Silk Elements Wrap Lotion, Aphogee Essential Oils for Hair, Aphogee ProVitamin Leave-In Conditioner, Aphogee Spritz & Shine Styling Spray, Aphogee Shampoo for Damaged Hair, V05 Moisture Milk Conditioner, ORS Replenishing Deep Conditioner, Crème of Nature Shampoo, Crème of Nature Conditioner, Aphogee Gloss Therapy, Sally’s Argon Oil, Chi Silk Infusion, Roux Pourosity Control, EVOO

Loving: Organix Coconut Milk Anti-Breakage Serum

 

Experimenting with: DooGroo Vitamin E Vitalizer Complex (name?)

Want to try: Kenra & Affirm Relaxer.

Challenges: -----

Last Updated: March 20, 2012

ROLLER SET = FAIL. Stringy, over moisturised hair, humiliation.

;-; Lol, so I tried to roller set my hair. I was in the middle of it when I got a text from my SO saying that he was going to call me in a few. Well, I wasn't done with my hair, but I went and waited on his call anyway. Btw, I don't think my not being finished of the rollers really mattered. Considering that they were all over the place in the back of my head, with hair sticking out every where, when I'd specifically followed the "make sure less hair is on the length of the roller" ; also this was during the time of my last post.

Anyway, after I got the text, I decided to post (IE; below post) about my ventures. Child. After I posted, I fell alseep. When I woke up, I was on the phone with my SO and my hair was a half dry, half wet mess! I was like "What?" and my SO was just talking...I couldn't even remember answering the phone. All I remember was him saying "You ignoring me, girl?" that's all I remember. LOL. So I took the rollers out, let it dry over night...BAD MISTAKE.

Mizani Moisturefuse is meant to be followed by it's instructions and not to be used as a DC. I DC'd with it for over an hour and ended up with stringy over moisturised hair. *how embarrasing* I tried bumping it with the curling iron the next morning, but it all it looked like was a GIANT COTTON BALL. I'm not lying. :/

So yesterday, I DC'd for like an hour and a half with a protein based conditioner, so shampoo, and my hair is doing fine, except I had to pull it back into a ponytail because I didn't really have time to mess with it. I guess I'll try again next time with the rollers, they won this round, but I shall end victorious! *I hope* Lol.

Have a blessed day girls. :P

*TRIP TO THE BSS THIS WEEKEND! *can't resist inner PJ'ism ^_^*

Im ready for wash day to be OVER ... (Mobile Post)

Child! I'm at it with the rollers and they're at it with me! They don't too much like me. That Mohawk the back thing is not working, and I'm probably going to have to flat iron. :/ I know practice takes perfect and with patience comes practice, but I never knew how hard it would be to part your hair! I tried "thredding" it, holding up a mirror, but the mirror can only do so much as you have to hold the hair with one hand and the mirror with the other. I even had to ask my aunt to do my ear to ear part. :/

Now, comes the front, which will hopefully turn out way better than the back. Wish me luck you guys and I hope my work does not go for naught. The key was not to use a flat iron but ill have to do so anyway for the stray hairs.

I took my vitamins! All three of them. All three giant, pills. :P

Still waiting on my KeraCare samples? Hmm ...

I will reply to comments in the morning.

I need a healing for my soul...

"I need a healing for my soul
So give me a healing for my soul
I need a healing for my soul
So give me a healing for my soul
(just for my soul I need healing)
Lord I'm looking for a new life so just for my soul
(just for my soul I need healing)
Lord I'm tired of crying all night so just for my soul
(just for my soul I need)
Lord I need thee oh I need thee
To take away this pain and misery
Cause god I just can't do this by myself
I need help lord..."

I am in love with this song. It actually matches the way I've been feeling lately. It's sad how often times it takes something to hit you hard on the head for you stop and think This is a ruse. I am still human, and I do have feelings. I feel that we as humans, women moreso, try to put on for our loves ones. What I mean is that, we try our best to maintain our cools. We try not to yell, and we evidently hide our feelings. We worry so much about the burden of other people, we tend to forget about ourselves.

Yesterday, that lesson was taught to me. I got into an argument with my cousin, who is younger than I am, and he was challenging me on the topic of maturity. He claimed that I was imature and that I won't be able to stand alone in college due to the following reasons:

• I do not drive.
• I do not have a job.
• I apparently "can't comb my hair"
• I rely too much on my parents
• I whine to my parents
• I rely too much on my boyfriend
• I whine to my boyfriend
• And he referred to the way I address my mom as "mommy" sometimes, and how I give my boyfriend little pet names such as "Noonie/Dookie Bear"

He claimed that he was "so much more" mature than I am, then it hit me. Why I am explaining myself to you? You're a CHILD. Compared to me. I told him things of this sort:

• I do not drive, because I am not worried about driving. On the other hand, its a bother to me anyway. I used to be excited about it, and now it irritates me. I don't like driving.
• I held a job for more than 18 months with an excellent customer service record, and at one time I held THREE jobs, to do for me. I didn't have a boyfriend. I worked at a grocery store, a toy store on the days I wasn't at the grocery store, and every once of "free time" I did have was spent BABYSITTING. I made my own means.
• I rely on my parents because ... they are my parents! They may live eight hours away, but they are who take care of me. I actually wish I'd chose to stay with them, but I wanted to stay near my boyfriend. Which makes it worth the sacrifice (I have a GOOD man, ya'll.) And what is to you? Are you mad because I can ask my parents for the moon and stars in the sky, and they work just enough to give that to me? I'm not trying to be sarcastic and/or funny. I'm being serious.
• I do whine to my mama. I admit. But who cares? I know she don't listen when I do that, anyway. :P
• I do not rely on my boyfriend. As a matter of fact my man. My man who does for me simply because he chooses to. If I ask him for the moon, he'll give it to me, because he loves me. He works hard for us, he takes care of me because he wants to. I've been trained to never rely on a man, and I often yell at him for handling jobs that typically belong to my parents or myself. One time I mentioned under my breath that I needed more bins in order to fit the rest of my belongings in my aunts house. HE WENT BOUGHT THEM ALL. That was never intended by me. My mom always says "You never have to tell a MAN what you need, he knows what you need." I don't have to ask him for anything. If I so much as think "Jump!" he's already trying to figure out "How high?" I know I don't need him, he's a young man as I am a young lady, but he's more of a man than my cousin could ever be.
• So what if I call my mama "mommy" or my man "baby" ; what business is it of yours?! Child.

I was mad ya'll. Then I refreshed my mind with Kelly Price's lyrics. I felt like crying myself to sleep, because for him to challenge me when he has NO IDEA what I'm going through. I thought I know I've gone through things he probably wouldn't even be able to think about! And then I came to "why are you explaining yourself to a child?" Uhg. I told him to never talk to me again for the rest of the year. This was broken, when I had to knock on his door to get MY phone charger from him. My own family. Child.

I'm sorry guys, I had to get that off my chest.

Good news!: Today is wash day :D; Shika, I'm trying the rollerset...pray for me ya'll. Haha. I will take pictures. :) And do any of you have any alternatives to Motion's Leave In?

Have a blessed day :)

Wash Day Photos (Late)/Currently 3/4/12

Finally the famous and LONG over do wash day pics! Lol. Enjoy and PLEASE provide feedback! Here goes nothing....lol

That's just how my hair looks when it's wet. This is before I detangled it. (AFTER I PRE-POO'D. God, I fail. Lol. :P) 

*The school I am going to is actually featured on this shirt. :) If you're familiar with Bayou Classic, it's one of those two schools.

A back view picture of my hair while it's wet. It's kind of blury...

Look at all the hair I lost due to the a fore mentioned detangling AFTER the PP. You're supposed to (well, I am) detangle before you put in PP and after you put in your leave-ins! Score one for Raven. -rolls eyes- At least I know what do do next time. I was completely appalled! If you read by Wash Day post, I think I mentioned that I didn't see virtually ANY hair in the sink after I DC'd! No more not detangling for me. :/ It's bad enough that I shed, that was a handful of hair! Well...I have pretty small hands...xD (But still! :P)

As you can see how small my hand is. Lol. But I took this picture to place emphasis on how much (or how little) Coconut Milk I pit into my hair. I'm not sure if you can see it, but I can...:P It's like...in that little dip of my palm...hmm, I might edit it, if I remember for my future reference.

That was actually my reaction after I got from under the dryer. Lol. (Low heat, no more than an hour; I think on this day, I only stayed under for a little over 45 minutes, or maybe less. It's in the Wash Day post. Lol. And I use a Vidal Sasoon Ionic Hooded Dryer. My mom gave me her old one and she actually got a new one exactly like mine excepts it's pretty and purple D;) 

But, honestly can you see how split and scraggily my ends are?! I can't wait to get them clipped. I'm so frustrated, I'm willing to do it myself....

I went from scraggily ends to this! :D I love how pretty it is! And excuse the way I was looking in the picture, I was tired and ready for Wash Day to be OVER. Lol. Also, I don't have front bangs. This is how I part my hair to wrap it. I can wrap either right or left, depending on what my hair "needs" if that makes sense. This week, I have wrapped my hair RIGHT and used bobby pins to hold it down. I tied up with my (pink! :D) satin scarf. *Note to self, I love this brand of scarf, but it's too big. You had to rip it in order to fit on your head... :'(

 I still can't wait for my ends to be clipped. Siiiigh.

Back view. You can see a little piece of the flat iron I used. (Yes, I went there! PINK BABY. LOL. :P) I have about four different flat irons that I use and one curling iron used only when I feel like I need a "bump" ; many of my tools are by Vidal Sasoon. The one I used that night was my Pink Revlon Ceramic 1" Flat Iron that I absolutely cannot find pictures of it on the internet. It's a pretty awesome flat iron; high in quality to say I only wanted a pink flat iron.

Top view, and view of roots. I love this picture. Look at how little Coconut Milk I used and the result it yeilded! Just lovely. The PP'ing also contributed to this.

Another top view at a different angle.

Another back view with those sloppy broke off ends. It looks a little nicer than the last, though. All these pictures really make me itch for those scissors...

I really don't like this picture, but as I said, my end results come from the "take down" of my wrap the next morning. This was actually taken shortly after school. Ew, my teeth look freakishly huge in this picture...lol...

Well, there ya have it folks! Those long overdo pictures! Lol. :D Please provide me with feedback. Much appreciated. :) 

Have a blessed day, you girlies! 

Currenlty working on blog pages. If I don't get lazy by the end of the day, Lol.

Hair type: 4a/4b

I am: Relaxed

Hair length: NL

Hair goals: SL by May 2012

Last Relaxer: 2/18/12

Currently: 3 weeks post

Last trim: God knows when. I’m in the process of getting trimmed

Last protein treatment: 2/28/12

Wearing my hair: Pulled back. I could have still worn my hair from the previous Wash Day post, but this morning I tried to Bantu Knot my hair. FAIL. D;

Just purchased: Aphogee Keratin & Green Tea Restructuriser, Aphogee Style & Wrap Mousse, Organix Coconut Milk Anti-Breakage Serum, Spring Valley Hair, Skin, & Nail Vitamins

Wishlist: Silk Elements Wrap Lotion, Aphogee Essential Oils for Hair, Aphogee ProVitamin Leave-In Conditioner, Aphogee Spritz & Shine Styling Spray, Aphogee Shampoo for Damaged Hair, V05 Moisture Milk Conditioner, ORS Replenishing Deep Conditioner, Crème of Nature Shampoo, Crème of Nature Conditioner, Aphogee Gloss Therapy, Sally’s Argon Oil, Chi Silk Infusion, Roux Pourosity Control, EVOO

Loving: Aphogee Keratin and Green Tea Reconstructoriser! I like the Coconut Milk, as well.

Experimenting with: Apogee; its amazing! But I am also looking for something to balance out all of that protein… What do you all think of Elasta QP?

Want to try: KeraCare, waiting on my samples to come in the mail! :D Thanks Vee. :)

Challenges: Keeping my hair from breaking, reconstructing

Last Updated: March 4, 201

My Aphogee!! (Mobile Post)

My poor poor Aphogee :'(
I only got to use it once and due to the cap being loose, it spilled all in the container that I use to hold my hair products and the picture shows what I left of it. At first, I was so upset that I wanted to try to get my money back, but my boyfriend talked some sense into me as I don't have any proof of what happened. I even tried pouring what was left in the supply container back into the bottle but the ink from the container's sticker got into the solution and now it is BLACK. I refuse to put anything like that in my hair, since I'm not sure what trouble it would cause. Sigh. I guess you win some and you lose some. I told God that I would just count that as a loss and try a new wrap and setting lotion. On the bright side, the only time I did use it yielded some pretty good results. But I put wayyy too much heat protectant on my head (Organix Coconut Milk Anti-Breakage Serum) and it made my hair very oily. I know it says to put it on my ends but I tried it as a heat protectant as well to slick it back on wet hair. I'm too embarrassed to post pictures of the results. I can't wait to wash my hair again. LOL. Have any of you ever had any recent hair mishaps?