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xtremelyperfect wrote:Thanks! I'm staying strong! So I feel much better today even though I have to work a double.. Boo! Anywhoo I got lots of compliments on my hair yesterday. Yay!

If I didn't share already you guys can check out my weight loss blog Shrinkage. I haven't updated in a few but everything's going well.

No hair pics today, sorry. Late for work! TTYL!

I got stuck on the pic of the food and couldn't scroll down for a few seconds. Oh my...

8 more days...good luck on your weightloss journey!!

Hey everyone! How goes it?! I am just chilling here with my doggy and catching up on Glee! Anyone else a huge fan?! So excited it's back!

Here's a preview of next week's Madonna episode! Loves it!



Anywhoo today while I was browsing the internets I found the review of that Dr. Bronner's Shikakai Soap that I bought. Remember I said there was a reason I bought it but I couldn't find the blog. Well here it is. A glowing review of the soap. Can't wait to use it next week!

Saw Glee last night can't wait for Madonna songs next week!

w00t! npmoore04! I found a Gleek! lolol.

Anywhoo I don't have much today! Only a few more days til the twists come out! I plan to henna/indigo, deep condition and take a bangs length pic for my MN Challenge. Then twists forever! Lol. Well unless it's really nice out hahaha.

hey everyone! it's friday! w00t! and only 5 more days til my Harriet sees the light of day! OMG! I think I will go overboard with pictures because I've missed her so, lmao. I feel like also since my hair's been in twists my challenge posts have been boring! So sad. Oh wells, what can you do.

Ooh! I found a new fotki to stalk, I mean follow. http://public.fotki.com/NicoleMonique Very nice hair! I wonder if my hair will be stalk worthy one day? Lol. As it is I only have like 5 people who pay attention to my fotki hehehe. Anywhoo have a great weekend everyone!

Hey ladies! I'm sorry I didn't post all week. I kinda forgot with my being busy and everything. Anywhoo I took out the twists like on Sunday, before my challenge technically ended. Only because I wouldn't have time during the week. Ok and I was anxious but whatever! I did it with like 3 days left so hmph. I have tons of pics in my fotki.

I washed my hair and this is the length:



Then I did my henna/indigo treatment, deep conditioned, and put in chunky twists:



On Tuesday I took the twists out and went to a Red Sox game and was left with this:







I got sooo many compliments! Yay!

Today I'm going to wash and twist for a twistout tonight (going to dinner with Twitter friends, yay) and then this weekend I'll go back into protective twists on my natural hair for a week and then twist out on the weekends! That's it.

I think my hair held up pretty well in the kinky twists but I won't do them again for a while because I don't know if it's paranoia or it is true but I feel like I have breakage and my twists used to look better. Oh wells.

Hope everyone had a great week!

Very nice!!! I really like that!

I see why you got so many compliments!!! Very nice!! You hair has really grown, and I can see some color from the henna treatment you did!!

Keep up the good work!!!

KNH

Thanks ladies! I can't believe in 3 months it'll be a year! Craziness!

Anywhoo I am in a bunch of twist challenges.. I believe 3 lol. So I'm back to my protective styling routine which is twists for M-F and twistouts on Sat. Sunday is my wash/condition day and then do it all again. So here are the twists I did for this week:







I did these twists on dry hair after washing with my Dr. Bronner's Shikakai soap, conditioning with HE Totally Twisted, deep conditioning with Aussie 3 Minute Miracle, then I used the HETT as a leave in. Let my hair dry in fat twists and then did these smaller twists. The actual twisting part only took 3 hrs which I'm very happy with. And I think it's official that HETT has given Hello Hydration the boot as my Herbal Essence holy grail conditioner. I also love Aussie Moist of course but I think from now I will only use Aussie and HETT. At least until I go through my 2 bottles of Hello Hydration hahaha...

What are your holy grail conditioners?

Your hair is growing so fast! That's awesome!

those twist look lovely!!! I don't have a holy grail conditioner yet! I keep trying them all! Can you say "STEP AWAY FROM THE CONDITIONER SWEET"

Thanks ladies! So my hair is still twisted up. I haven't had to leave the house for the past two days so I just keep it baggied.

I have started using a new spritz. Well it's basically my old spritz with a new ingredient. My basic spritz has always been 3/4 aloe vera gel, 1/4 water and 10-20 drops of peppermint oil. Well I've been reading up and catnip is said to promote hair growth and help prevent split ends. And lo and behold I have organic catnip just lying around the house. So I made tea with it and replaced the water with that. So we shall see if there's any difference.

My twists shrunk up of course! I was messing around earlier today and took some pics lol.








I've been slacking on taking my vitamins. Anyone else struggle with that. I hate swallowing pills! Yuck!

Your hair is really growing. Looking good!

I struggle with taking my multivitamin. I do good for about 2 weeks then I fall of the wagon. It's weird because I take my BC every day.

Hi ladies! How goes it?! So yesterday I was reading a post about how someone disliked AfroVeda's Shea Amla Butter because of the smell and I was like hmm I have some of that. So I took out my jar and remembered how much I liked it, well not so much the smell, but the moisturizing aspect! So I slapped some on my twists and they feel fabulous! Now I know what to put on mid week when the strands start feeling dry. Yay!

They're so juicy and revived now:







So if your twists are looking for a facelift try it! Hope everyone had a great day. I'm so tired from work all day. Later!

they do look good!

Hey everyone. So at the beginning of my natural hair journey I was really stuck on "defining" my curls and "elongating" them etc. I basically wanted my fro to look more like:



The more I learn the more I realize my hair probably won't ever look like that. I mean I've tried everything: Ecostyler, Afro Veda Pur Whipped Gelly, Darcy's Botanicals Curly Jelly, everything! And then I saw this video and for a split second I am considering trying the mineral oil laden, overpriced Miss Jessie's Curly Pudding: