I saw this on one of my FAVORITE blogs today. (I Literally check it multiple times a day. (bglhonline.com)
Check it out!!! http://bglhonline.com/2011/06/perceptions-of-natural-hair-in-brazil/ <---You should be able to click the link under the vid and watch the entire episode. Which reminds me...I gotta catch up on these episode. We have to educate ourselves and know that this struggle does not exist in America alone!
:D
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Time to Grow Up.
I've been thinking over the course of a couple days about my mindset as a child growing up compared to now. At some point you're supposed to grow up right? Well...Something should probably be gradually be changing in conjunction with life experiences. Now, I'm not gonna be SUPER deep but here we go. :) I was very self conscious as a child. And that was moreso related to Hair than anything else. If you read one of my previous posts, I had a decent amount of hair as a youth. I LOVED wearing my hair down. I didn't understand the correlation my mom was trying to make for me Not wearing it down everyday. In my mind, long, [not so] flowy, pretty, Straight hair was...my pretty.
Sidenote: My mother and I knew Nothing of wrapping hair when I had a perm so that prolly wouldn't have worked out Anyway LOL!
Somewhere in between waking up one morning with hair that wasn't quite as long as it was, and chalking it up to great height gain via puberty (SMH), INSTEAD of unhealthy hair practices...wait I'm getting off track. That's a Whole other topic. The misconceptions that we as blacks have with our hair is Serious y'all. ANYWAY. I remember many a day whipping my hair out as a youngster to get a crush's attention. Which...Who knows if that worked...LOL. But there was always association with long hair and beauty. And not suggestions association. We had actual girl talk about this. Like it was normal. Short hair = not as pretty. Now the light-skinned thing wasn't so much. Not for Me anyway. I never wanted to be lighter. I never thought lighter=prettier. Which I think a lot of darker girls take to the other extreme and start to Bash our lighter brethren. Calm down folks. lol. Chillax. But I Do Vividly remember being told by a family member a suggested comment that if I was a few shades lighter that would Increase my pretty factor. -__-
So where am I going with this? I'm working on it. lol. So today at church I got plenty o'compliments on my 'look' today. And these are from grown adults. I'm an adult but...yeah. I don't have kids, live by myself, solely support myself, etc. etc. So I'm thinking to myself...hmmm....I've been getting this a lot lately. Not I've never thought of myself as Ugly but I guess I've never gotten the attention the 'pretty girls' got in middle/high school. [Like what does That even mean? Guys are GUARANTEED morons at that age. *makes note to be Sure to inform future daughter of that info*] The only thing that I could think that's changed is me trying new things about my hair and not giving a Darn about who thinks about it. And Not be expecting compliments. That is something for me. True confidence really is attractive. I was Just looking at my 9th grade ID picture from high school and realized...I braided the front of my hair for that! It was all sorts of creative parting and such! But I Know I was uneasy about that! It really is true that a hairdo that You like will have you all sorts of feeling yourself! And there's nothing wrong with that. I'm the type of person to try to keep all limelight Off of me. I don't like Speaking about myself in a positive (or negative) way. I'd just rather talk about something else. So you Know those 'Name 5 good things about yourself' interview questions KILL ME. (Don't get me wrong, I come prepared. I'm not an idiot. lol).
But the point is. So things with your hair and appearance! You have to be with you all the time. You might as well enjoy it! Try something new! You might surprise yourself and inspire yourself!
This was LONG. Oh Well. You won't be getting this much out of me often. Trust.
*waves*
Sidenote: My mother and I knew Nothing of wrapping hair when I had a perm so that prolly wouldn't have worked out Anyway LOL!
Somewhere in between waking up one morning with hair that wasn't quite as long as it was, and chalking it up to great height gain via puberty (SMH), INSTEAD of unhealthy hair practices...wait I'm getting off track. That's a Whole other topic. The misconceptions that we as blacks have with our hair is Serious y'all. ANYWAY. I remember many a day whipping my hair out as a youngster to get a crush's attention. Which...Who knows if that worked...LOL. But there was always association with long hair and beauty. And not suggestions association. We had actual girl talk about this. Like it was normal. Short hair = not as pretty. Now the light-skinned thing wasn't so much. Not for Me anyway. I never wanted to be lighter. I never thought lighter=prettier. Which I think a lot of darker girls take to the other extreme and start to Bash our lighter brethren. Calm down folks. lol. Chillax. But I Do Vividly remember being told by a family member a suggested comment that if I was a few shades lighter that would Increase my pretty factor. -__-
So where am I going with this? I'm working on it. lol. So today at church I got plenty o'compliments on my 'look' today. And these are from grown adults. I'm an adult but...yeah. I don't have kids, live by myself, solely support myself, etc. etc. So I'm thinking to myself...hmmm....I've been getting this a lot lately. Not I've never thought of myself as Ugly but I guess I've never gotten the attention the 'pretty girls' got in middle/high school. [Like what does That even mean? Guys are GUARANTEED morons at that age. *makes note to be Sure to inform future daughter of that info*] The only thing that I could think that's changed is me trying new things about my hair and not giving a Darn about who thinks about it. And Not be expecting compliments. That is something for me. True confidence really is attractive. I was Just looking at my 9th grade ID picture from high school and realized...I braided the front of my hair for that! It was all sorts of creative parting and such! But I Know I was uneasy about that! It really is true that a hairdo that You like will have you all sorts of feeling yourself! And there's nothing wrong with that. I'm the type of person to try to keep all limelight Off of me. I don't like Speaking about myself in a positive (or negative) way. I'd just rather talk about something else. So you Know those 'Name 5 good things about yourself' interview questions KILL ME. (Don't get me wrong, I come prepared. I'm not an idiot. lol).
But the point is. So things with your hair and appearance! You have to be with you all the time. You might as well enjoy it! Try something new! You might surprise yourself and inspire yourself!
This was LONG. Oh Well. You won't be getting this much out of me often. Trust.
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| I did the 'cinnabun' style for the First time!! *happy dances on your screen* |
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| Happy Sabbath! :) |
*waves*
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Sabbath Hair
Just sharing my hair on the way to church today. :)
Pic one is fresh out the flexirods, and pics two and three are after a bit of separation.
I used blue eco styler mixed with a little Alikai Naturals shea mixed in.
I hope you enjoy the rest of your day!
Pic one is fresh out the flexirods, and pics two and three are after a bit of separation.
I used blue eco styler mixed with a little Alikai Naturals shea mixed in.
I hope you enjoy the rest of your day!
Thursday, June 9, 2011
I forgot.
I Definitely didn't fill you guys in on the DIY Hair Steamer thing. Or did I. I don't remember and I'm too lazy to reread my posts. Ah Well.
So the verdict is..........*drum roll*
EH.
Yep. That's all I got. I'm going to try it again with a different conditioner (I used KeraCare's Condish for color treated hair.)
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| This is what I've been using to wash and condition my hair. Notice I don't have a 'deep conditioner'. I'm still trying to figure out if that's necessary. |
So yeah. My hair didn't feel any softer than usual...just the regular texture post conditioning. I will say this though. It was MAD HOT under that dryer!!!
So this was like at least a week ago. Soooorrrrreeeeee. Try it out and let me know how you feel though!!
Moving on....
This is my hair at the moment!!
Its in a faux bun of sorts. I tried (I don't know why cause I keep failing) a twist out last night. But take away my usual fail of experience and add in 1) I couldn't find my detangling comb 2) I finger combed Only 3)I didn't use my normal leave in (I used a Mopmopmaven recipe but didn't seal -__-) and VOILA!! Guaranteed Catastrophe!!! :) This was my attempt to look presentable to work today. And BELIEVE ME..this is amazingness compared to that offensive twist-out. SMH. I think I'm going to add this to my arsenal of 'how to fix epically bad hairstyles'. Yay me!! Now I'm off to edit my Video about the bun! If I don't get too distracted...which is pretty much guaranteed.
K, Bye! :P
Friday, June 3, 2011
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