Update!

Sorry I have been MIA for soooo long! I am trying to get back into updating and letting everyone know how my hair journey is going. Well....I BC'ed again in January 2012...I just felt like I had to start over again. I had dyed and fried my hair and it was time to begin again with the new knowledge I had about taking care of my natural hair. Recently, I got a sew in weave, and the front of my hair was pressed out to blend in with the weave...that was terrible. The left side of my hair is a bit straighter/wavier than the rest because it was ran over with the flat iron more times than the right side of my leave out...

I take everything with my hair as a lesson learned. I am moving away from this idea that long hair is the best hair. NO. Healthy hair is the best hair. I am striving to have strong healthy hair. I am also moving away from the idea that I can't have stylish natural hair or that I can't wear weaves and be natural. I love LOVE love my natural hair but I do like to wear my hair straight as well but I don't want any heat damage so...I've started wearing wigs that are the texture I want to try out. This doesn't mean that I dislike my natural hair, no it means I LOVE my natural hair and would like to keep my natural hair the way it is without damaging it with heat. I'd rather damage the fake hair with heat ahahahahah! Well, enough said, take a look at the pics from the past year of my new start on this journey...

           Dominican Blow Out May 2011 for graduation. It was cute, but it left the ends of my hair extremely fragile and limp.

 

After the blow out my hair had a looser/wavier curl. It didn't hang the same. The roots of my hair felt like newgrowth lol it was crazy. So I decided I would grow my hair out and start all over. But before I cut my hair, I would die the ends of my hair purple, something I had always wanted to do!

I loved it! But, to get the purple color to show up, I had to bleach my hair first. The purple color also showed up like a pinkish purple color that I didn't really like, and the bleach made my ends even looser. 

Then suddenly, I got a job offer at a day care so I had to cut the color off sooner.

So, I cut the dye off.

My hair was much shorter. As the winter approached my hair got drier and drier. I was still trying to pull my short hair into pony tails and buns the way I could with my longer hair. Eventually my ends began to suffer, and my hair was getting damaged from being brushed back all the time.

So.....

I love my short curls! But I wanted to protect them from the cold winter weather so I am wearing weaves throughout the rest of the winter.

I got a sew in weave that I turned into a half wig.

Now I am wearing a lace wig from RPG show.

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Flat Ironed Hair

****This was done in November 2010 using a FHI flat iron.



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My Progress as of November 2010.

Senegalese Twists

I LOVE my new braids! But I doubt I will ever return to the shop I got them done at.

This style took 4 hours and 2 people to complete.



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New Years Braids!

I was trying to wear my hair in braids for all of 2011. Unfortunately, my funds are just not there to do the types of styles I want on a regular basis especially since I wear my braids (any style and any price) for about 2 weeks before I'm ready to take them out.

I got these done on New Years Eve. They got fuzzy really fast because I washed them often. The picture on the top middle was taken about 5 days after I got my braids. As you can see, they are fuzzy from being washed.



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My Hair Around The House

I put this hair net on my head to protect my hair as I bum around on the couch. I don't want my hair to rub against the pillows on the couch so I figured this was a great way to protect my hair without having to wrap my hair in my night scarf or wear a hat (it's too hot for that).

I own a few hair nets because I work in dietary. I brought all of them from the beauty supply store.



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My Hair Today!

This is a simple wash and go that I styled. I'm trying to wear my hair out more. I've also been detangling my hair everyday. I smoothed back both sides of my hair with a soft brush and Eco-Styler gel (I have the pink one). Then I secured the sides with 3 large bobby pins. Of course, I wrapped a scarf around the front of my head to make sure my hair would be totally smoothed out.

Left Side

Right Side



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