Janet36603--Why I've been MIA and lots of pics!

jlowman1 wrote:Hey J!

Cute style, I like it either way! Your hair looks so soft and fluffy!

Thanks! It feels pretty soft too, and shiny. I think my hair likes the famous kimmaytube leave in lol

Here are the pictures I promised! Here's how I do my TWA modified twist n curl


Back view. I use colored rubber bands so I'll be able to see any I missed easily when I use my mirror to look at the back of my hair


Rubber bands out (no separating yet)


Separated once


All done fluffing/separating


Frohawk from twist and curl. I think this was the first one I tried since the one I did for my birthday.


Frohawk side view/front view


Second day hair frohawk


Ok that's it for now. I'm sure you guys are sick of all of the pictures lol.

jlowman1 wrote:Hey J!

Cute style, I like it either way! Your hair looks so soft and fluffy!

I agree! Your hair looks really soft!!

And I'm loving the bathrobe.... I need to buy one

Hi Janet,

I like the curlformer style. I had to take another look to make sure that you said you used the curlformers because I was thinking the same thing you thought about the hair legnth lol anyways all of your styles turned out great.

Happy belated birthday and Congrats on your bc!!!

Hey Janet...

You've been doing great things over here. I love your twist & curls style. Thanks for the review on the Giovanna products. I would try the 50/50 conditioner, but I've just identified that I have a conditioner fetish and I need to get a hold of myself!!! LOL

Thought the pool conversation was very interesting. I think you handled it well. SMH I find that a lot of people really like our hair, but don't have the never to go natural. So due to their inadequacy they hate on other natural sisters!!! For real....

KNH

WhosThatRedHead wrote:

jlowman1 wrote:Hey J!

Cute style, I like it either way! Your hair looks so soft and fluffy!

I agree! Your hair looks really soft!!

And I'm loving the bathrobe.... I need to buy one

Thanks! My boyfriend actually got it for me for christmas the first year we were together. He also slipped a necklace in the pocket gotta love him!

MellowOne wrote:Hi Janet,

I like the curlformer style. I had to take another look to make sure that you said you used the curlformers because I was thinking the same thing you thought about the hair legnth lol anyways all of your styles turned out great.

Happy belated birthday and Congrats on your bc!!!

Yeah my hair is still pretty short but it was curled enough to to tell I did SOMETHING to it. lol

KinkyNappyHappy wrote:Hey Janet...

You've been doing great things over here. I love your twist & curls style. Thanks for the review on the Giovanna products. I would try the 50/50 conditioner, but I've just identified that I have a conditioner fetish and I need to get a hold of myself!!! LOL

Thought the pool conversation was very interesting. I think you handled it well. SMH I find that a lot of people really like our hair, but don't have the never to go natural. So due to their inadequacy they hate on other natural sisters!!! For real....

KNH

I think I'm a conditioner junkie myself. I used HEHH exclusively during my transition and then once I BC'ed I was trying to get the crazy itching under control so I switched to the giovanni line (I figure it's more natural) I also bought Aussie moist because I wanted to try it...turns out it's my staple cowasher (I love the way it foams up) and I also wanted to try the giovanni leave in since I'd heard such good things about it...product junkie here lol I won't even go into the other stuff I've bought since my BC that aren't conditioners...and it's only been a month

In other hair news the modified kimmaytube conditioner seems to have cured my flaking problem for the time being...day 2 and not a flake in sight! Still got a little bit of the itching but we're getting closer to a solution! lol I might try adding tea tree oil to it next time and see if that gets the itching to stop.

Jewelery is always nice!!

WhosThatRedHead wrote:Jewelery is always nice!!

It is when guys take the time to pick something you would like...not just get some random heart necklace or something generic like that because they don't know what else to get you

Hey there, loving your styles! The frohawk is NICE!!!

poeticlyspkng wrote:Hey there, loving your styles! The frohawk is NICE!!!

Thanks! I love it when I look at it from the side...but when I'm looking at it straight on I'm kinda iffy about it lol

Actually I'm at 1 month and one week post BC...but I had finals this week so it's been kinda hectic! I wound up with an A in one class and B in the other (got a 87 in that one so not close enough to a A to round up ...oh well!)

Now I have about 2 1/2 weeks of "vacation" before I start Fall classes. I also need to do some work on my Thesis during that time so, I'm not "all the way" off I guess. James, Chase and I are going to Mobile today after he gets off of work to visit my family. My brother got to come home early (last tuesday) from his deployment in Kuwait, so my sister came down to visit too. It will probably be a short trip for us though...won't get there till 9 or 10 tonight and might leave tomorrow night or maybe Sunday morning since James has work Monday and I don't want him all tired from being on the road all day. On the bright side, we can stop by my apartment in Montgomery on the way back to rest/take a pit stop if we want. Then it's only a 1 1/2 hour trip from there.

This is the first time I'll be going home since my BC. I'm sure my dad still won't like it, but oh well, he'll come around eventually. Not much he can do about it now right? lol

I wore a frohawk for 3 days last week...mostly out of laziness because of all of the paper writing/studying. The first night i was so tired when I finally got home from studying (at 6 am ) that I just kept the bobby pins in (I usually take them out) and threw on my satin bonnet and called it a night. It turned out pretty good so I did that the next 2 nights as well.

Right now I need to be packing and deep conditioning my hair. I wanted a cute style for today but I think I'll just have to settle for a wash and go. Maybe I'll do some twists tonight if I feel like staying up a bit once we get there.

So recap of the first month being natural:

• It's AWESOME!
  
• It's sooooo much easier than dealing with the 2 textures
  
• Kimmaytube's leave in = no more dry flaky scalp
  
• Time flew by since I didn't have to worry about my hair as much
  
• I LOVE IT!!!
  
• Still working on the itching but it's not nearly as bad as it was!
  

Also it seems like my hair is getting longer...even though I can't really tell and I just think it's wishful thinking. After I used the curlformers last week (I think that's when it was) I wound up picking my hair out and wore a little afro puff...excuse me medium afro puff lol it was bigger than I expected. I guess the slight straightening from the curlformers is the cause of that.

My only other problem besides the slight itching are my ends. When i put them in twists I usually twirl the ends around my finger, but the last 1/2 inch always kinda poofs and seems a little different than the rest. When I put them in the bantu knots it's not as noticeable since they curl kinda. I'm not sure if this was the scab hair I've heard about or just some wonky ends. The rest of my twists look cute till you get to the ends. I guess maybe I just need a good trim. I'll wait on that though because I don't want to get scissor happy too soon. In another month if they are still wonky, I'll trim them. The funny thing is when I do wash and gos, the ends curl up all pretty into little coils so it's just when they're dry or slightly damp that they do this....

I guess that's it for now lovelies. I think I'll go ahead and pack and do some of that cleaning up i meant to do before we leave. Gotta at least wash the dishes in the kitchen sink so I can use it to start my deep conditioning treatment lol.

Bye for now!

Hello my lovely readers!

I hope you are all doing well. I'm enjoying my break and also trying to juggle a few ideas around in my head. I guess I'll get to the hair-related stuff first.

I'm wearing a 3 day old wash and go that I've been refreshing with a spray bottle of water since I haven't had time to do anything else. Also, I wanted to wash and detangle my hair today and try to put in some mini twists. I'm not sure if my hair is long enough for them to look cute enough to wear out...but if not I should have an awesome twistout tomorrow lol. This will be my first time putting mini twists in my own hair, but I think it should be ok since I installed kinky twists myself during my transition a few times, and this is a little less complicated since it's all my hair. Hopefully it won't take too long. Oh yeah, my dad wasn't to terribly upset about my hair when I went home this weekend, and everyone else seemed to like it somewhat lol. Maybe that's just because I was just there for a day and they didn't have time to come up with any clever jokes.

Ok on to my non-hair related possible business venture...

While I was in Mobile I made some "Cookies and Cream" cupcakes. I saw the recipe online for making them from scratch but I didn't want to invest that much time (lol) since I wasn't going to be in town long, so I did the same thing with a boxed white cake and white frosting with oreos crushed up in them. They were a big hit, except half of my family though the oreo cookie on the bottom was actually where I burnt the cupcake...maybe i should have told them about that earlier lol. Anyway, I've always liked making sweet stuff...cakes, cupcakes, fudge, oreo truffles, you name it. In fact, for holidays or whenever I go home, I'm basically required to make a batch of my "famous" oreo truffles or at least some fudge. While I was home, my niece even asked me if I thought about selling my stuff online. Now I'd thought about opening a bakery one day, but a mail order one never occured to me. I looked on etsy.com and sure enough, other ladies were selling truffles, cookie, cakes, cupcakes etc.

So what I want to ask is, if I were to start up a bakery service online (mostly oreo truffles, chocolate covered pretzels, fudge, and peanut clusters to start and then cupcakes and maybe cakes once i figure out how to ship them without them getting messed up), would any of you ladies be interested in ordering?

Let me know! Speaking of baked goods, there's one more cookies and cream cupcake in the fridge that's calling my name! Bye lovelies!

P.S. I just noticed that I'm 11 months post perm! One more month till a year! Yay!

Hey curlies! I've been on CN the past 2 weeks or so but haven't really made a post on my journal in a while. Did yall miss me? lol.

I really enjoyed my 2 week break from school but alas, my first day of class for the fall is tomorrow (I have classes Tues, Wed, and Thurs this semester). Back to the daily grind I suppose!

In hair news, I put in some small twists about a week and a half ago (my first set that I wore out since my BC) and wore those from Wed-Sunday (I redid the front Thursday though because they were too big since I was in a rush to finish before Wed. night church service). Sunday I untwisted them for a very cute twistout. They were small enough that I didn't even separate after I untwisted them and had a very defined twistout that I LOVED! I wore that for...I don't know how many days lol. I only retwisted a few in the back that were getting a little frizzy from me sleeping on them.

Finally once it started looking more frizzy than cute I was fingercombing my hair and decided to pick it out just for fun, and to wear a bigger puff for the day(...or make that days!) before FINALLY washing and detangling my hair...after almost 2 weeks . My fro is nowhere NEAR one of my hair idols LynnieLuve, but I still thought it was kinda cute. Not shaped well enough to wear out mind you.... plus I sent my boyfriend James a picture while he was at work and he said I looked like an 80's supervillian. Gotta love that guy Oh yeah, I did do some flat twists yesterday in the front of the puff because I was getting a little bored with it and wanted to jazz it up for church a little...but I didn't take pics

I FINALLY DC'd yesterday and washed and detangled. We were going to a training class for church last night, so I just wound up with a wash and go. Today though, I plan to wash again and apply the Kimmaytube leave in so that I can put in some small twists again...this time I won't worry about the parting so much, and I'll just grab and twist. I'll keep these in for a few days or maybe even a week if I like them and then do a twistout for a few days before detangling again. Baby steps protective styles lol.

Enough chatter...here's the pics!

Twists


Twists Back view


Twistout Puff with flower (That I broke by accident getting out of the car


Regular Twistout Puff


Twistout Puff Closeup


Fro! (Just for fun)


Fro puff (how I actually wore it)


That's it for now lovely ladies! I hope you all have a great week!

Almost one year, happy anniversary lady!

Love your fro--hair is growing fast. Looking great, sorry to hear about flower.

ChrsLvsBks wrote:Almost one year, happy anniversary lady!

Love your fro--hair is growing fast. Looking great, sorry to hear about flower.

Thanks! It's coming up super fast! Plus time has been flying since my BC. I love not having to worry about my hair so much. Oh and don't worry about the flower. It only cost a dollar and I plan to go back and get a few more colors anyway Plus it can still be saved with a little super glue if I ever get around to it.

Hi Janet

You've been busy, but you have been doing a great job with your hair. Your twists & twist out styles are very cute.

KNH

KinkyNappyHappy wrote:Hi Janet

You've been busy, but you have been doing a great job with your hair. Your twists & twist out styles are very cute.

KNH

Aww thanks! I actually twisted my hair up a few days ago and then did a twistout sunday and im still wearing it. I love that I'm able to get almost a week and a half or 2 weeks out of a hairstyle

I think I might try finger coils next...