Puff. Poof. Pow

This is my hair today. My little puff is nothing to write home about, it's from 2 week old twists. I'm getting bored with my hair, I can't do twist outs, braid outs, flat twists, wng's, updos, all because my hair is really fine and can look scalpy.

I can do a bantu knot out but since I go to the gym 3 days a week, it's not beneficial. Should I weave it? Extensions? Only time will tell.

Really?

If you've been reading this blog, you'll know that I've been battling really dry hair. I've tried numerous products looking for that Holy Grail that'll make my hair nice and soft.

Welp, never found it....until today, I think.

When I normally moisturize my hair, I apply a water-based leave-in, then seal my hair from root to tip with oil and the final step is to seal with my homemade butter. While my hair felt moisturized afterwards, my ends still felt rough to the touch. To say I was getting fed up is an understatement. Well I remember reading somewhere that weighing fine hair down with so many products can make the hair feel hard. So I decided to experiment a bit. When I washed my hair, I applied my leave-in then seal with my homemade butter mix. When I unraveled my twists this morning my hair felt SOFT, sure, the roots always feel like straw, moisturized but soft and straw-like if that makes any sense. Back to the point, my ends that normally feel moisturized but ragged, felt amazing.

So while I'm happy with my butter, I'm leaving my options opened.
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Eureka?

My hair hates.....oil?

Details to come soon!

The hairstyle....

Of PURE laziness.

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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!