I’m back from vacay!  It was amazing!  Loved every minute of it and wished I could stay longer.  But back to reality I had to come. My apologies, I had every intention of blogging while on vacation, but the internet at the hotel was hardly working. After my last relaxer I promised to post photos of my hair.  I didn’t have a chance to do it before leaving on vacation, but I was able to snap some photos while vacationing in the Bahamas.  You might not be able to see in the photos but in my opinion I’ve lost some thickness due to the breakage and I can see more flyaways than...

This is really a relaxer update but bear with me…I have to deviate a bit to share my frustrations.   Last relaxer day was very disappointing for me   So disappointing that it took me six days to get into the mind set to compose this post. You see I had my hair relaxed 8 days ago not because I really wanted to but because I had too.  It wasn’t helping that my hair was starting to look a little wild and frankly I was having an “ugly” week.  Maybe by some form of a premonition I wasn’t excited but I knew if I didn’t go when I did I wouldn’t have been...

I doubt I’m the only one that finds it difficult dealing with 9+ weeks worth of new growth, but none of the “conventional” solutions seem tobe working for me anymore. I’m currently at 11 weeks and the last 2 weeks have been challenging! I fully understand why some opt to make their life simpler and relax sooner to avoid all the drama. This month has been an expensive one for me so I’m prolonging the salon visit as long as possible. My biggest challenge is breakage (probably one of the most devastating setbacks you can experience). Over the past couple weeks I have been...

This week was plagued with hair challenges. Allow me to share. 1st mistake: I missed my wash day last weekend  and never got around to it until Tuesday.  By that time my hair was limp, on the greasy side, itchy and just looking bad.  On Tuesday I did a second dandruff wash, followed by Keracare Anti-Dandruff Conditioner and Kenra MC and leave-ins. 2nd mistake: No deep conditioning. 3rd mistake: Instead of my usual roller-setting I air-dried with the scarf method (no-bunning).  By the time my hair was dry it felt like straw and my ends looked like a fox tail. I tried to reverse the...

Ohhh…I need to share my mid week wash experience! ******WARNING!!!****** Excitement Contained Within! Tuesday night I did a ‘mid-week’ wash.  Something I rarely do.  Washing my hair twice a week is not  part of my regular schedule simply because I do not have the time.  It takes a fair amount of effort to come home from a full day’s work to cook or study or clean or be a good companion (or any combination of) and still have time to wash and style hair.  Something has to slide and usually it’s the washing and styling of the hair. Tuesday night however was the...