Finally Seeing the Fruits of My Labor

My hair is GROWING! YaAaAaAaAaY!!!!! I just took a picture of my bun(on my phone since I don't have a digital camera yet) and uploaded it. When I started bunning, they were really small and I had to use one ponytail holder. Now I am starting to see growth! My hair is at shoulder length now and I can use two scrunchies instead of one. I wonder how long its gonna take before I'm fully natural...
I've stopped using the wrap foam. Now I'm just wrapping it really good and tight to my head so my hair isn't flying and lays down flat when it's dry...
Well I am getting very sleepy, so I ges Im gonna go..

Attempting to Reconstruct my hair care regimen...

In my quest to eliminate heat use, I've quit rollersetting my hair... (tear... it was cute even though it came out wrong...). Im trying buns now to revive my ends and help grow my hair. I'm also gonna try co-washing. I have heard a lot about it and it sounds really good, so... yea...

Old regimen: washing hair about once a week, w/ shampoo and conditioner, wrapping, and sitting under the dryer forEVER... comb down hair, oil scalp(sometimes), and flat iron every little bit of hair(no kind of protection)

New Regimen(so far): co-washing almost nightly. shampoo & deep condition once a week. hot oil treatment once a week. After co-washing, or reg. washing, oil scalp. pull back in my small(my hair is only mid neck/shoulder length) trusty bun. Apply wrapping foam and brush in with my very soft-bristled brush to tame edges. Wrap with scarf to further tame edges. Put on silk bonnet and get ready for bed =).

Current Products:

* Esencia (by Samy) Hydrating Shampoo

* Esencia (by Samy) Hydrating Conditioner

* Smooth As Silk Deep Moisture Shampoo (by Giovanni)

* Smooth As Silk Deep Moisture Conditioner (by Giovanni)

* T- Tree Scalp Oil

* Africa's Best Ultimate Herbal Oil With Ginseng

* Nairobi Wrap-It Shine Foaming Lotion

Lol, yea, as you can see, I'm sorta turning into an all natural freak. Oh, and speaking of all natural, I just HAVE to reccommend the Burt's Bees Line to everyone. In my all natural rave, I bought the daily facial cleanser. I have combination skin. My skin gets really dry after I wash it, but throughout the day, gets really oily. I have to wipe my face constantly. This is the first cleanser that says it won't dry my face out, and actually lives up to its word. And the best part... its 100% natural! Yay!

But back on my hair. I co-wash with the conditioners listed above. I've just started using them all (except the foam) not too long ago. I think these are the products that are gonna end my days as a PJ (which I unfortunately got from my beautiful mother). My mom says my hair has been smelling really fresh since I'm washing every night (she and my g-ma think that my hair is gonna fall out from all the washing, lol). She's starting to be a little more supportive now that she sees I'm really serious about going natural. I can't wait until I'm done with all this transitioning. I wanna see what my hair looks like! Oh yea, and after i had co-washed last night, I was trying to find out what my natural hair type was when I was parting it to oil my scalp. and I saw a few really loopy/wavy/curly hairs. That made me really happy and seeing the progress has given me more inspiration to keep going! I don't know when I'll BC... I was thinking maybe in March or April of next year... It depends on my length...

Well I guess I'll go now. The computer room is about to close.

Adios chicas!

Lady Rae

New Style

I'm trying to learn how to take care of my own hair/do hair. So I tried to roller-set my own hair. Now let me tell you- my mom's hair-doing genes kinda skipped me. So, yea, it didn't come out right... But somehow whenever certain things I try with my hair don't come out right, they still do! Lol let me explain...
So anyway, after I washed and conditioned and everything, I used my wrapping foam-slash-setting lotion for my hair. It took forever (I wouldn't say exactly FOREVER b/c I'm kinda lazy...) and my hair started to dry as I finished. I had a little spray bottle of water beside me, though, so don't worry. for a lot of peices of my hair, I just put a little wrapping foam directly on the hair I was about to roll and combed it in. After I finally got all of my hair rolled up to the best of my abilities and sat under the dryer already semi dry kind of... When I got out and took the rollers out, it did NOT look right. So i got kinda mad and started to ruffle out the curls... and voila! It was so cute! I've been wearing my hair in this wild curly- looking look for a week now... But I'm not gonna get to used to this... Im trying to cut out my heat usage.
I'm gonna go now. If anyone knows how to do cute buns for hair somewhere between short-medium hair, or know any other styles, help a sister out, please! I'm really interested in learning the southern girl tease bun.

Lady Rae