Big Chop

I give up dealing with the 2 textures just started to annoy me. I was so tired of being afraid to cut my hair. Well lets face it, my head is big and I really need hair to cover that.
Below are my pics:

All of my straight ends gone

New Cut

Side view


Do I love it? Not really it will have to grow on me first... but like I said my head is huge so I may have to start exercising again to shrink down the face. LOL.

My hair before I decided to chop it off

Pre Length

Pre Hair


Until next time.

What's been going on

Ok, I don't have any pictures but I am loving my wigs right now.

- In the process of moving so I can't find anything right now.
- Tried a lace front and my weave lady (who shall remain nameless) decides to cut my baby hair from my hairline. Yes I stopped her half way but one half of my face does not have sideburns.
_Wigs... Loving them especially once they are long enough to cover up this lacking sideburn problem.

- Tried a cold rod set on my hair. It looked nice... no pictures to show my try taking some with my phone later. Only problem is the straight hair has begun to break off.

May have some stuff to review later on this month. Just received the nu gro shampoo if you do not know about it out on Ateeya to view her hair care regimen.

3 months ago braids

Hi,

I know I have not really posted as I should... Really bad at it actually. So here are my pictures from my last braid session. LOL.

Putting them in again at the end of the month.

By the way this is an awful picture

Trying New Hairstyles

I am making headway in my list of hairstyles to try. Meet what I have termed "frohawk."

This one occurred because... Well I couldn't comb out my hair after putting in bantu knots.

I use a shea butter mixture that is done by my friend Asheina. I love love love it. I tried the cantu shea butter mixture and it turned my hair hard and a bit too wavy. The curls came out too crispy... (see below). I normally use the shea butter mix to set my hair she has alot of flavors but I love the peppermint and peach scents. I had to make a bandana to wear with the hairstyle after the cantu shea butter because my hair looked and felt so rough. Plus it was too hard to comb through... Guess I used too much.

Oh well... You live. You learn. Then you get Luvs.

Goal Hairstyles

I am back talking about my goal hairstyles for my natural hair.

My ultimate hair style is (1 year):



With this in mind I want to try different hairstyles up to this point (listed below)






The twists are extensions... which I did not know was possible. I want to try having fun with my hair. For a reference point I may put up how my hair looked before (all damaged) before I decided to go natural to try and keep me motivated.
Check out Thirsty roots they have great hairstyles and Grow Afro Hair Long at for tips and tricks.

Transition

It is now officially 1 month since my last relaxer and some hair in the front is actually growing back in (*happy dance*) . Trying to get the hang how to take care of my natural hair. I know how to take care of permed hair, since it is all I have ever known but I have no clue what to do now. I had in braids but they did not last long. It became bushy in the front and I didn't like it, was not appropriate for work. Now I love my hairdresser. She hooks up my weaves and braids she is awesome and I would recommend her to anyone. However when I asked for a suggestion she told me to perm the front... Yep perm the front. Now in her defense my hair was hard because I still had not gotten the hang of it yet but to perm it... Hell no!!!

Now she may have been right or she may have been wrong but I just don't want to. I prefer to buy a wig or weave it over relaxing it again. With that said... While I love her for all the work she does in my hair I was a bit disappointed. There was no encouragement or helpful hints on transitioning to back to my hair. Maybe I perceived the conversation wrong *shrug*. I will still go to her for weaves but that's about it (still gots mad love for her though).

That said one of my friends loaned me a book named "Going Natural" by Mirelle Liong (may have spelled it wrong) and it has been so helpful in listing products I can use like Shea butter. I completely forgot about it since I never had to use it in my hair before. Now it is just lovely soft and smooth @ the roots... Loving it. Got the concoction mixed by my friend Asheina who creates all natural hair products called Natures All Natural (see my review here). My only problem is that my roots and hair is oily after... But that may be my hair type because the edges dry out good but the inner sections hold the oil and butter so they look real slick.

Wanted 2 try natural twists but while transitioning my straight ends cannot hold the twists in even if I plait the ends. Will try again this week may use rubber bands. Since I am on vacation I just put my hair in two plaits and leave it.

Starting out

Well, I will be using this as my hair journal for the time being. I am trying to grow my hair in natural. It's been a month of no creamy crack but I am not sure if I am doing it right so I started this blog to track my progress, what products work with my hair, lenght checks and pictures.

Right now my hair is braided. I am trying the crown and glory technique found here ---> http://www.growafrohairlong.com/. This site has alot of informative information, however I am not too sure about the two (2) month period for the braids... But I will give it a try.