Good Hair Day

If there is anything I wish for as a natural haired lady,Is the elusive BAA aka Big Ass Afro. I am slowly getting there but not yet big enough. Last night I was bored with straight hair which is no longer straight due to a sweaty scalp from workout hehe. I did about 8 cornrows going down to the back of my head after moisturising and sealing with coconut oil.

This all resulted to I think the BEST hair day ever!!!! Evidence below,

Anyone who knows me knows I love The Boondocks, with Riley being my favourite character. I just had to post this lovely picture of Regina King who voices both Riley and Huey.

This is the most beautiful woman I've seen in a while

I need a good protective style in the next week, Think Kinky twists may be the way for me

Pictures courtesy of negritabonita, fuckyeahblackbeauties, fuckyeahnaturalhair

Happy Thursday Curlies, Happy Hair Growing

Total Girl and Life Crush

Hey curlies,

Having a great week. My love affair with Kelis has been rediscovered due to her new album Flesh tone.Kelis is the queen of reinvention, this new album is a mix of Europop and house, I heart it!!

Since Caught out there, I fell in love with Kelis..anyone remember screaming at the top of their lungs "I hate you so much right now"......Hahaa maybe twas just me. At the height of my adolescence, I could so relate to Kelis's lyrics. She had this massive mane of hair!!!anyone remember that, wishing and praying that my hair could look like that but always thinking that since I was black and African there was no way it would ever look like that.

Look at that mane...I want!!! I also love the colour.

Kelis's hair has always changed from short to curly, to huge curls, to bowl-cuts to straight long hair. She is not afraid to experiment and I love that about her. Her sense of style is also out of this world and I would give my kidney to be able to get into her wardrobe lol. I was also so inspired by her wedding dress and always said that if I ever got married I would take inspiration from her light green wedding dress. I couldn't find a better picture shucks!!

She is also a good example of a celebrity that has not given in to the pressures of losing weight. She still maintains a healthy size considering she also gave birth a few months ago

Two of my fave artists

This is her newest track off the Fleshtone album, 4th of July. Its currently on repeat on my ipod.I love her hair colour on this track......will it be really awful if I dye my hair to look like this.....Need to research about colouring over henna.

Her makeup, and jewellery on this video...OMG

Enjoy the video

When I grow up, I want to be like Kelis

X

Ms Ross Hair

Hey guys,

Had a great weekend?Well I got bored with the straight hair and decided to flexi-rod my hair. My hair is still very much straight with the roots getting a bit mushed from working out. I used medium sized flexi-rods all over my hair. I looked like a porcupine after putting in all the flexi-rods. Below is the process I used;

• I parted my hair into 3 sections and combed through with a wide toothed comb. When my hair is straight it hardly ever tangles.
• Applied Organics shea butter moisturiser, sealed with coconut oil then used some serum on each section
• For each section, I took little pieces of hair randomly and rolled the hair on the flexi-rod
• Once I finished rolling all the hair, I had like 25 rods on my head. This made sleeping very difficult but I got through it
• In the morning, I took out all the flexi-rods and gently finger combed the hair. This hair looks huge..yay!!

Flexi-rods can be used on straightened or naturally curly hair. With curly hair you can do them then either go under the dryer or just sleep with them and undo the next morning. Of course going under the dryer might give you better results.

Have a great week....Tons of posts coming soon

Just

Just coz I can and didn't have any posts lined up for today I decided to post a few pictures of Mary and I....

Sigh

Hmmm as I was blog surfing, I happened to lay my eyes on the shoes I want to adorn my feet for eternity (seriously I could sleep in this shoes). Oh so shiny, and maybe broken ankle inducing. I love you my preeties...Maybe One day I shall have shoes and shiny and beautiful as you, for now I shall just dream.

SIGH

Confessions of a Reformed Product Junkie

Hey,

I have something dark, dreadful and shocking that I want to share with you.

As most of you know i went totally natural last year and was basically a fish out of water! The first few months involved a lot of guess work, heavy handed when it came to product application, hand-in-fro disease (i kept pulling at my curls and ruining their definition, like all day) over-styling (which led to breakage due to over manipulation)... I was a hot mess yaol. But all this is nothing compared to my most disturbing nubie error, I confess that I was a product junkie extraodinaire.

I bought it all! curl activators,curl defining gels, mineral oil based moisturizers, nasty shampoos and stuff I'm not even going to mention.. I wanted length and i wanted it fast! Did i mention i was heavy handed with these products... yeah.

heres a sneak peak of what my vanity looked like.. go on.. judge me.

The extreme right is mostly hair stuff... oh but there was more in my bathroom and on my dresser.. It wasn't all bad stuff, it was just too much!

Now that I am that much older and wiser, I binned half of that gunk and only use the bare essentials. I still love to cruise the aisles of supermarkets and hang out at the hair products section... there is some good stuff out there, lovely mineral-free products and the likes but I try not to overburden my hair with too many chemicals and store-bought products.

I'll post my bare essentials as well as a break-down of the good, the bad and the down right nasty stuff for any of you who are in lost in limbo when it comes to natural hair care products., right from cleansing to styling.

Till then, it's your girl, saying PEACE!

xoxo

Taking down my Kinky braids

Hi!

Golly it's been ages, I've been unable to blog (or do much else on the net) for a while now but thats all sorted :) I'm happy to note Nyash has been taking good care of yaol.

I undid my Kinky braids last night; I had to soak my hair in olive oil the day before (and tie a head wrap) so that my hair wouldn't suffer from wear and tear and also to keep my hair moisturized because of the shampoo session I would have after I took em down.

Mizz Kinky_Locks (how you doin girl!) posted a comment on my last Kinky post asking about acrylic yarn. I have read up on them but i've never tried them on! Whats their texture like? I'm all for braids! After the amazing growth spurt iv just had I recommend them. BE WARNED: you MUST keep your natural hair moisturized. Seriously. And protect your edges with loose styling.

I was in the office all alone this morning and went on a blogging rampage! thats me by my work desk!

Below is me taking my braids out last night and some growth! hurrah! I washed and deep conditioned my hair immediately after and blacked out.

Growth!

This morning i did some big lazy twists and held them in place with some pins and added a peacock hair-pin for some flare.

Man I missed my curls... its good to have them back!

Ummmm.. What im wearing today: my mums scarf, a lovely jacket I forgot all about, dark blue wife-beater and a pair of gray skinny jeans. Pardon the skinny ankles..

Thanks for reading, enjoy your day

Mary