New Product Alert

Ok, so maybe a new product alert for me anyways...
While searching a few forums today I ran across a new product, Queen Helene Royal Curl line, natural of course.
Well now, I have never seen this in the stores before, and I use Queen Helene products, especially the deep conditioner.  Apparently it is an all natural line, no sulfates, no petrolatum, no alcohol, and no parabens.

Other products include: Royal Curl Stay Clean Shampoo
                                    Royal Curl Moisture Rich Conditioner
                                    Royal Curl Curl Shaping Creme
                                    Royal Curl Smoothing Oil
According to the website there are some pretty good things, ingredients, inside, I couldn't find an ingredients list.  There are a lot of reviews out there for it though and they have all been farely good.
Since I am trying to ween myself from being a product junkie I won't be out riding all over town wasting gas looking for this. If I run across it we'll see what happens....Let me know if you have given this a try or at least heard of this.

Hair of the day

Here is today's hair, a three day old wash and go using KCCC. I really like this stuff, surely helping me to keep it simple this summer.
Still moisturizing at night, sadly I am out of KeraCare Butter Cream sample that I have fallen in love with, I hate to buy another product but I don't know any other moisturizer that does like it, I put three ponys in my hair and go to sleep. This morning I did a different refreshing routine, I took a section at a time and rewet with warm water, then I took some flaxseed gel I made and a little olive oil and rubbed through the section, I did this for each.
What was the reason for this?
I don't know, the flaxseed gel is very wet and mixed with the olive oil, I was sure it wouldn't get frizzy. I guess we'll see after it dries completely.

As I Am Hair Samples

Surely we have all heard of As I Am hair products by now, if not where have you been hiding.  Just Kidding!! But if you don't know then check out the site and products HERE and get some free samples, all you have to do is pay shipping which is $3.25.  Better hurry though, apparently this ends on Friday.

Wash day and Newly Found Hair Products

Today is wash day! Today is wash day!  I made it a whole week with my twisted pinned up hairstyle.  I decided for the next several weeks, until May 21 to be exact (Summer break and no worky begins), I will be wearing it twisted and pinned up like the style I wore here.  Two main reasons: one is out of necessity, getting up in the morning is hard for a sistah seriously, so not having to do my hair in the a.m. helps alot. The second is I decided to try another challenge with A Grl Can Mac, check it out to see what I am talking about.  If you did check it out, I don't want my hair that long, maybe just mid back.  So today it officially begins, I will be shampooing, conditioning, and deep conditioning my twists ( cause I am not taking them out) and then retwisting my hair today, the hair style will not change much except for maybe a few flat twists that may be put across the front. 

Now to the new products.  I love Ross and the other day I was in there and ran across some shampoo and conditioner called Amenta Aromatherapy.  Now, I have googled this product and found that it is hard to find on the web mainly because there is no specific site but what I did find from searching is that I got it for a GREAT price, only $4.99 for a huge 32oz. Ross is the bomb diggity!  I bought the Rosemary Mint Conditioning Hair Rinse for normal to dry hair, it does smell great and I can't wait to try.  But it will have to wait til later on because I am about to take my daughter's skating and get my toes trampled on once again.  I will be posting a video product review soon, like before the weekend is over, to tell the results so keep an eye open.  Another product I found at Ross was Nexxus Designing Texxtur High Fashion Creme and I only paid $2.99 for it.  Yeah I said wow too.  Never heard of it before but heck for that price I couldn't pass it up, I will be trying it out on my daughters hair since she is getting a nice wash today too.  I will be telling more about these products in the video so stay tuned...

Oh, and here are some pictures of my hair growth

Happy Birthday Hair Video

Oops! How did that happen? The before last picture is one of all the products that I do use on a weekly basis. What does it consist of:
Shampoos and Conditioners
-Aubrey Organics Honeysuckle Rose shampoo and conditioner
-Aussie Moist shampoo and conditioner
-Organix Shea Butter conditioner, White Tea Grapeseed conditioner
-Neutrogena Triple Moisture conditioner
Deep Conditioner
-Hawaiian Silky Dry Hair Conditioner
-Reshma Henna ( forgot to put it in the pic)
Styling
-Hawaiian Silky Dry Look Activator Gel
-Taliah Waajhid Loc It Up Gel (amazingly soft and light)
-Ohm Sweet Hair Pudding
Leave In/Moisturizers
-Cantu Shea Butter Leave In
-Coconut Oil
-Shea Butter (I buy that stuff by the tubs)
-Africas Best Herbal Oil
-Olive Oil
-Ohm Sweet Hair Pudding (mixture of shea butter, herbal oil, and coconut oil)
-Aloe Vera Gel

Hawaiian Silky

So Saturday was shampoo day and deep condition day and that is exactly what I did. But I bought two new products: Hawaiian Silky Gel Activator and Hawaiian Silky Dry Hair Conditioner. I must say that I loved the results of both, I use to use the conditioner when I was relaxed and decided to give it another try and I am glad I did, it worked great on my hair. Also the activator was plus, my hair usually gets crunchy when I use some products, that's 4a/b hair for ya, but this time it didn't, my hair is soft and I got great curl definition that you really can't tell from the video posted. For the next couple of weeks I decided to give my hair a rest from the twists and "let it do what it do", this activator is going to my number one product.

Carol's Daughter

K lady's, Monday I bought some Carol's Daughter Mimosa Hair Honey, yes your frugal natural sister spent the money cause I am seriously looking for something for shine plus this is one of two of her items that actually smell good. I can't bring myself to buy anything else because they do not smell good to me even my daughter was like Mommy that stinks. My next product will be the Black Vanilla Intense conditioner. Anyway, I went to my local Sephora store and picked up the nice smelling, bling colored moisturizer. I used it on my three year olds hair, her curls suck up shine too, very dry LOOKING. Not going to give a review yet, tomorrow I will be doing a twist out using my Wet set pudding my Curls by Sister Smith, yes I have it but hadn't tried it yet either. I figured I would do a two strand twist with it cause I really don't want to wear a wash and go, those days are over for right now. I will do a review on tomorrow. Stay tuned.

Texture My Way

Here is a video that I have been trying to get uploaded for the longest, my old broadband server was slow so now I have a new server so I am able to upload now.

New Moisturization

So, Friday I went to Whole Foods, our neighborhood organic market and picked up some Aubrey Organics Hydrating Camomille Shampoo and Conditioner and a jar of Rainbow Neutral Henna Conditioner. I also got some free samples of Taliah Waajid Black Earth Products ( also natural products) the Lock It Up and African Healing Oyl. I was so excited and could not wait to try out my new stuff. Before I could henna I had to wash my hair. I loved the AO shampoo, my hair was so soft just from the shampoo and as it air dried it did not get rough or dried out. Next I did a strand test on a back strand of my hair, I mixed the henna as specified and applied, let it sit for and hour and rinsed it out with the AO conditioner. Lovely is all I can say. Satisfied, I mixed the rest of the henna and put it in my hair it smell and looked like green tea. After an hour I rinsed the henna from my hair, it did take about two wash and rinses to get the small seeds and grass or what nots out of my hair, but I did it. I deep conditioned for about thirty minutes and rinsed that out after my hair was a little damp but not soaking wet I applied a quarter size amout of the Lock It Up ( the package says it is for chemical free hair). My hair has been so soft since Saturday, I haven't washed it yet usually I have to wash every other day. At night I apply my Carol's Daughter Hair Milk and put on my satin bonnet, in the morning I spray with my Hawaiian Silky Moisturizer and Sheen and rub a bit of the Lock It Up and it is moisturized for the rest of the day. I love it and my hair is responding very well it has defined my natural coils and added moisture at the same time, all I was aiming for was the moisture. The biggest test area were my temples because they seem to be the driest part of my hair but they are even curly and very soft, I am impressed. I am hoping that I can go till Wednesday before I need to wash or until the weekend. If I do feel the need to wash before Saturday I will be using my Suave Coconut conditioner because Aubrey was ten dollars a bottle and that needs to stretch as far as it can. If this gets me through the week, I will say that I have found my moisture regimen. I will definitely update about this moisturizing journey on Saturday my normal hair washing day. Until then. . . .

Homemade curly pudding

So I used a homemade curly pudding recipe that I got from one of the blogs that I am following, AGRLCNMAC. I really liked the end result, it wasn't hard and I did not have any product build up on my fingers, you know like using gel and when you rub your fingers together and all that brown stuff is on them. I did two strand stwists on Tuesday night and I am still rocking the twist out, I re-twisted every night of course. I will wash my hair in the morning because it is deep conditioning time, this is the longest I have ever gone without washing my hair. I just found a recipe for homemade buttercreme and that is going to be my next experiment, maybe next weekend. Tomorrow I have to wash my youngests hair, super curly and poofy, I found a homemade conditioner that I am going to try in her hair for moisture, she needs lots of that, I will let you know how that turns out, it can't hurt it. I will post a pic tomorrow of my twist out.

So here are the main hair products I use in my hair at the moment. The two tall bottles in the back are by Someting Special Peppermint Shampoo and Conditioner, if you want your hair to tingle then that is it, they are also good for dandruff. Under the shampoo is of course the IC Styling Gel, yes I like that because it does define my curls better, the only downfall is that it dries alittle hard other than that I won't toss it. Garnier Fructis is on the side, love it, I only use it when I cowash throughout the week which is about twice a week. The yellow container has my whipped Shea Butter that I make, its just pure shea butter and I add some Elasta QP hair oil and blend it with an electric hand blender and voila, I use this just about everynight and sleep in a satin cap. It definitely helps with softness and moisture. Elasta QP Shampoo and Conditioner are also a must I love the way they smell, the conditioner smells like banana and leaves my hair so soft, I mix it with my Hawaiian Silky Dry Hair Conditiner which is not in the pic because I was out just bought some today. I mix them together when I deep condition on Saturdays, they work well together. Cantu Shea Butter Leave In Conditioner is nice the jar is still full cause I dont use it often but I need to because of the weather here right now, it is cold and windy. Yes I have Miss Jessie's products, I do like the Curly Meringue, it does the same thing the IC Gel does except it leaves my hair softer after it dries, I used it before I went to church today and had to keep my hands out my hair. There is not much I can say about the Stretch Silkening Creme, also my Curly Buttercreme is not in the picture sometimes I use it like the Shea Butter, it has peppermint in it too. Last but not least ther is my wide tooth haircomb for my cowash, and if you want to know the truth I only detangle maybe once a week if that much. I love for my natural curl form to show so most of the time I don't detangle, but tonight I did because it has been a while. I know I have a few products I sure not more than some, and I use them all at certain times. I just bought some ACV and baking soda so next time I wash I will use them and see how it works and I also want to try the yogurt conditioner on my hair and my daughters hair Lord knows their cury hair needs moisture. I told my husband that I was gong to try some natural recipes and see how they work, so hopefully next time I will have an update on hair and natural products. Until then........

Good to go

I am contemplating getting comb twists in my hair, I am scared though. Really just nervous about how my hair will look. Yes I am scared of looking like a dude. I expressed this to my husband cause he knows how I am. I will spend $60 on the hairstyle and end up not liking it, I know me. So this weekend I am going to experiment with a style hopefully it is cute so that I can wear it for at least two weeks. I am going to give myself a challenge I will be trying styles everytwo weeks so as not to keep putting my hands in my hair. My sister has dreds and she keeps them braided up so maybe I will braid or twist my hair up and see what that looks like. Yes I know how to do hair, been doing hair and braids since the seventh grade. I will post my new superduper hair style as soon as it is finished. Now my only other objective is to find a good styling hair product that will work excellent. Until then.....

Hey there, been gone for a while between work, work school, and my externship I have been truly busy. On top of that I just finished an 8 page term paper I have been working on for three weeks. Anywho, I tried a new product on Sunday that I have been meaning to try for a while. The IC Fantasia Styling Gel rocks. I think that is one I will add to my fav list. I really liked the way it enhanced my curls. Even my husband noticed. It didnt weight it down or make it frizzy, I washed it and applied the gel while it was wet and also sprayed it alittle with the Hawaiin Silky moisturizer and sheen and was good to go. My co workers even noticed I had more curls. I would give this product 4 thumbs up if I had four thumbs. I will take pics and post them asap (sometime this weekend).