Another Precious Curls Giveaway!!!!

Precious Curls and Blended Beauty are participating in an amazing giveaway from "Blended Beauty". Enter here http://www.precious-curls.com/2011/12/blended-beauty-giveaway.html

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My mani! Hot damn!

No words are needed.
I need more!

Yeah, change of plans.....

A few weeks ago, I decided to make the jump from loose hair to locs. At the time, I was extremely fed up with my hair, the constant breakage, the upkeep, just about everything annoyed with my hair. In order to save my sanity, I made a appointment with a loc-specialist to install starter locs. Well, long story short, my stylist was late(forgot that we had an appointment) and once she saw my hair she felt she couldn't install the locs because my hair was breaking, especially in the crown area.

Talk about a BIG letdown.....or divine intervention....

Hair before the cut: YOU SEE THOSE ENDS!?!?!?!?

After I left the salon, I felt ugly, defeated, and lost. I went home and chopped off my hair, as you can see here:

and here:

I guess in that moment it was my awakening, I decided to take the bulls by the horn and....get reacquainted with my hair. I was flying by the seat of my pants with my hair, relying on my sister and cousin for styling options, not getting the dryness under control, just a hot mess.

This blog post my Precious Curlsreally opened my eyes: http://www.precious-curls.com/2011/11/tip-moisturizing-and-sealing.html

I realized that I wasn't sealing my hair properly, I was using an oil to seal but was left confused as to why my hair was still so dry in certain areas.With that knowledge, I decided to embark on making my own hair butter. I purchased hemp seed butter, cupucau butter, and sweet almond butter. I whipped up a batch and so far my hair likes it! I added a few drops of Vanilla fragrance oil to give a nice warm scent. So I've started the habit of weekly scalp massages and sealing my ends with butter every other night.

After reading that all the oils that I was using was too heavy for my fine hair(castor oil, avocado oil, safflower oil, vatika oil), I decided to simplify my oils and to stick to grapeseed and sweet almond oil to seal.

I've also decided to become my own hair stylist, I now do my own hair and rarely use a comb to do my 2 strand twists, I must be honest, it's a very freeing experience. For so long I relied on my sister and cousin to do my hair with their small rat tail comb to the detriment of my hair, but since I've taken my hair care into my own hands, it's been amazing!

Onto a new journey!

Mani time!!!

Precious Curls Winter Wonderland Giveaway!!!!

Precious Curls and a few other bloggers are participating in an amazing giveaway from "Natural Hair Nutrients". Enter here http://www.precious-curls.com/2011/12/winter-wonderland-giveaway.html#more

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Uh, change in plans

Locs never happened. Details to come soon....

A new journey...

Tomorrow morning I'm getting my locs installed.

I'm nervous, excited, and frightened all at once. My reasoning for locs was pretty simple; I was sick of my loose hair. I was tired of split ends, the lack of styles due to the thinness of my hair, and frankly, just bored with it. In my heart I knew perms was out of the question and I refused to chop my hair off so, my only option was to loc my hair.

Once I made the decision to loc, a calmness settled over me(cliche, I know). It was the answer I was looking for the entire time. I've done my research and I'm happy with my decision.

So tomorrow at 8am, I will be embarking on a new journey. This time I'm going to do things differently, I'm going to actually keep a detail journal of my entire journey. I'm going to try to post more often, but since I'm in school full-time, I'm going to have my manage my time carefully.

Until we speak again.
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