Very Cool

My best friend MSatch of the blog BTW is always finding something cool. She found a website that allows you to create a signature to use on blogs, websites and emails. Not just the regular signature like some quote you like or your contact info. But a real signature. You have to check her's out.

Obviously, since I think her's is super cool, I had to make one of my own. I'm debating about adding it to somethings on my website but feel a bit leary about that. I don't want people to think it is actually my signature. There is an option to scan an image of my signature into the site and have it created that way. I may do that.

Anyway, here's my signature for now.

Finally got it right

I had tried a variety of ways to do a frohawk. Mostly, they were unsuccessful. But yesterday, I blew dry my hair because I intended to try Senegalese twist. It was a lot more work then I wanted to do yesterday. I had to do something so that I didn't waste time blow drying my hair. So I decided to flat twist my hair since it is so much longer than it was before. The twist came out really well, so I ended up doing both sides and making a frohawk. I don't really like the whole picked out fro look on myself so I wet the loose hair to get the curl back. I put a little bit of gel to enhance my curls and the look was fab.

Picture time!!!!!

laughing at the email i just got from the site I used to blog with. They say my account and all my info has been upgraded to their new platform. So I type in the address...and it is still the same! The last 2-3 blogs I wrote do not show. smh. ridiculous.

Today's Randomness

I went to the BSS yesterday and purchased something I wanted and needed. I needed more gel as I had used almost all of what little I had left doing kinky twist on my friend this weekend. I've been dying to try the IC Fantasia because I have NEVER heard anything bad about it. I also bought some hair so I can practice Senegalese twist on myself. It's much harder to braid/twist my own hair. So I parted a small section of hair and applied some of the gel (I was doing this to practice a twist) and my hair curled sooooo well! OMG! The back of my head has hardly any curl, never has. But this gel....DAMN! I love it already. Can't wait to apply to the rest of my hair.

I am getting a bit frustrated with my hair. It seems the back is getting curlier, producing tighter curls while the front is getting straighter. Uugh! I am getting so irritated with front and crown of my head. My best friend has been telling me to relax and just see what happens as it grows. When the hair gets heavier, the texture will change. She's right but I'm just worried about how it's going to come out as this will affect how I am able to style my hair. I'll probably twist my hair a lot sooner than I intended to so this will stop driving me crazy.

I was mixing together some stuff trying to figure out what to do for a moisturizer. I don't really like the mixture and won't bother to post ingredients. I noticed the few times I've used it that my hair feels kind of hard and sticky. I've used it 3 times and only made a small amount. It occured to me last night that I used too much honey. It's making my hair sticky. That was a "duh" moment. Lol!

And I came across something interesting when reading a blog The Golden Sparkle. She was talking about PJs (product junkies) and how she's trying not to become one. She came up with a great challenge to stop herself from accumulating a lot of products. I am totally not a PJ but thought her challenge was cool. http://thegoldensparkle.blogspot.com/2009/05/its-challenge.html

And one more thing...

I have one more thing to say and then I PROMISE no more blogging about hair today.

So I was introduced to this guy who has a great head full of locs. They are awesome. He just started locing in October I believe. They've grown a lot. He mostly twists them himself but occasionally visits a shop. I think it's pretty cool that he took the time to learn to do them himself. It's take a long time to do this (any one who has tried to coil or two-strand twist their entire head knows what I'm talking about) and he made sure he learned how to do them right.

We were talking on the phone last night as he twisted his hair. I like talking to him for a number of reasons but I really enjoy talking to him about hair. It's hard to find anyone to talk to about my hair who understands and isn't just asking me why I've done my hair this way and how I keep it looking decent. He tells me things about his regimen and what's he's learned going through his process. He asks me questions about what I'm doing know and what I'll do later when I reach my hair goals. He has hair goals, which I think is super cool.

I love meeting naturals and this is the first guy I've met which makes it even more interesting.

How could I forget?!?!

I saw my best friend on Friday!!!!!!!!!!!! First let me just say, it has been almost a year since I'd seen her and her family. Her GORGEOUS daughters have grown so much. I hate that I can't see them as much b/c the don't know me and even though I was to give them hugs and kisses, they are very young and don't remember so I don't want to freak them out and make them cry. But anyway, the hair on these girls heads is ridiculous! They both have very long curly hair. My best friend had these cut twisted styles in their hair. They looked adorable. (I'm a little jealous they have more hair than me! lol)

So as I have said before, my friend texlaxes her hair. It's looked really good. I could see the beautifully wavy texture of her hair. It looked a lot thicker than her hair used to and was very soft. She is doing a great job on her hair. She had it up in this cute bun type style. It wasn't actually a bun but just pinned up. It was cute. I can't wait til my hair get long enough for me to do sutff like that. I have hair envy of 2 toddlers and their mommy! lol! I love them all though!

Great start to my weekend which only got better as time progressed. Sad I couldn't see them again before they headed back home but thankful for the time I spent with my homegirl and her entire family.

Kink Twist

So this weekend I did kinky twist for the first time. I did them on a good friend of mine who agreed to be my guinea pig. I was surprised at how easy it was to do them. I truly have to work on my technique so they come out better and faster (took forever!). She has thick shoulder length permed hair. It was fun though b/c I was doing them to a friend and we talked and laughed the whole time.

I realized when I was doing them though, I was doing more of Senegalese twist than a kinky twist. For those unfamiliar, a Senegalese twist is general done with human or jumbo braid hair as opposed to Kankelon hair. The hair is seperated into much smaller sections and the hair is double twisted. This makes the twist smaller and sleeker. So instead of thick puffly looking twist, you have a slimmer twist. At first glance, one might think someone with Senegalese twist has Pixie style braids. So my homegirl has a mixture of both. It's cute though.

Picture time!!!!!!!!!!
and apologizes for the sideways picts. too lazy to fix that today :-)