Happy New Year!!!

For new years I have decided to straighten my hair out. I washed and DC. Instead of rollersetting, I blowdried it and then flat ironed it. It came out so fabulous! I moisturized it with africas best sheabutter, and used silk elements heat protectent.
I cannot even begin to explain how soft, bouncy and pretty it is. I am moisturizing with my butter, cone blend and I plan to wear it for a good two weeks. when I wash this out I plan on doing an aphogee treatment and DC overnight with eqp dpr and lekair.
Back into the pony I will go.

Also I am two inches past APL! yay!

Phony ponies for life!

I wore that sew in for a total of two and a half weeks. I dont know why I wanted to take it out so quick, it was really cute and I loved the color. I just got tired of it I guess. I have been wearing my new curly phony. I absolutely love this thing. I had the same one before in the color #2, but some one stole it. this one is a #4. I like this color better.

My phony pony reg. is the same as before basically. The only thing is I am washing like once a week instead of every other day. I am making my ponies a little tighter so they will last longer and scarfing it faithfully.

I am doing the baggy thing underneath. I am using suave humecant, aphogee reconstructor and castor oil. I am thinking of adding a little hair grease to the roots to help stop it from drying out. I have been using castor oil and so far so good.

I am probably going to wear this till I decide to put in my 27 piece and after. I have been wanting to do this weave for a long time. I didn't do it yet because I am afraid I will look crazy. I will do it sometime within the next few weeks though, probably after exams.

I am cutting little by little, getting rid of these texturized ends. the back is actually APL. yay! But that will be gone soon when I decide to go to the salon to get it straightened.

I havent measured in a couple months but will do in Dec.

My sew in/ wig and purchase

I did my sew in this past weekend. It is really cute. A short bob cut a little under ear length. I used two colors a 2 and a 33. I got alot of complements. The colors are mixed in the bang and the back is solod 33 on the bottom and solid 2 on top.

I made the sew in kind of like a wig. Sewed the hair on a net cap so I can take it on and off as I please. My hair is braided underneath. I cowash my own hair every 2-3 days let it air dry and put back on the wig. I wrap the weave every night with a little moisturizer/oil. Comb it all out in the morning.

I used harlem 125 hair, cheap, but good enough. The hair is really soft and shiney.

I made a huge purchase! I finally bought the pibbs 514 hair dryer. I cost me $270. Not bad. I could have got a used on off ebay for $200 but was outbid. Damn!! More rollersets for the winter!

Dominicans!

So I went to the dominican salon on saturday to get a rollerset and flat iron so I could go out that night. When I got there took off my scarf, my hair was wet with some motions cpr, she said "oh you are natural, we are going to charge extra." Im like "ok how much." "$40" she says, "but we are not going to rollerset it we are going to blow dry it straight." Me: "But that is not what I want I just want a rollerset with the roots flatironed, I do it all the time at home" them: "We dont do that here to natural hair" And I got up and left.

I cannot express to you how angry I was I was really looking forward to someone else doing my hair. No one but me has been in my head in years. So I went home and got to work. It took me the whole day because I fell asleep, and I had to make a heat protectant, cause the fantasia always messes me up.

The end result was so nice and smooth, soft. The only problem I had was the front reverted a little. Its not as straight as I would like. But overall Im good the comb glides through so easy, no breakage, nothing. I gave myself a little trim, also.

My homemade heat protectant is a buttery soft blend it absorbs into the hair without that greasy feeling. It consists of: shea and mango butter, palm, sweet almond, and castor oil, and alot of dimethicone. It is actually the best silicone based product I have used, very moisturizing.

Matted mess!

Today I am in the process of taking out my braids. I loved them so much and I could have worn them for another month or so but it was time for them to go. They were cute but they were too much maintenance. If i didn't wash them every day or so they would look a mess, dry and tangled. But after a good cowash and detangle they were bangin!
Now what happened to them was I washed them one night, put it in a bun and went to sleep. That was the biggest mistake I could have made. When I woke up the next morning the crap was so matted I couldn't even get my ponytail holder out! So, I started by cutting off all the weave hair and now I am halfway finished taking out the braids.

The takedown:
1. Remove all braids
2. Deep condition with oil and lekair
3. Carify with suave or CON
4. DC again with a mixture of cond.
5. If necessary do a protein treatment with aphogee and DC again
6. air dry and examine hair for strength, moisture, breakage, ect...

I want to go to the Dominicans for a wash, set, and trim. I will go if the funds allow me, maybe this weekend I will. I'm supposed to be going out to the club so we will see.

My next hair style will be a homemade wig with short hair, two colors, dark on top and light at the bottom. I am going to sew the hair onto a weave net so I will be able to take it off freely. I am also going to try the fermodyl 619 while wearing the weave. Hopefully this one will last me a good two months.