MY HEALTHY HAIR JOURNEY

Hello Dolls and Dudes,

So today I have decided to jump on the bandwagon and commence my Healthy Hair Journey. In the hair world the lingo would my HHJ. Since about September of 2012 I have been doing some light research on hair, how to make it more healthy etc. I have found out about many different products, techniques, regimens, I think I know enough to begin my own HHJ.

NATURAL? RELAXED? TEXLAXED?

Well, I am going to be honest, the only thing I really know about my hair is what I have been learning over the last few months. I do not know how to maintain my hair or style it. I usually like to go to the salon but I want to try to learn how to do it myself I think it would save a lot of money for me. I haven't had a relaxer since about October of last year. I know that was only like four months ago but, I am having a really hard time managing my new growth. This is why I a choosing to go on a Healthy Relaxed Hair Journey (HRHJ)
Maybe one day I will try to go natural.....I don't know maybe... I believe with proper care Relaxed hair can too grow long and healthy.

NATURAL: To rock your hair in it's natural unprocessed state. 

RELAXED: Chemically processed hair, a chemical is used to loosen up curls or coils into a straight texture

TEXLAXED: Chemically processed hair, the same chemical used to relax your hair is used to texlax your hair. The only difference is that you DO NOT leave the relaxing chemical on as long causing the hair to not be as straight. This loosens the coils some but leaves texture in the root still hence the name texlaxed.

WHY I AM STARTING MY HRHJ?

I have decided to eat right, lose weight, exercise and just get myself all the way right starting this year on. Part of my new self make over from the inside out should include my hair, hey why not. That way once I get to my desired weight and size and health I will be bad from head to toe. Also I find myself snacking when I am bored, I love all things beauty so if I focus spare time on maybe polishing my nails or doing make up or tending to my hair then I will not have time to randomly snack. Last but not least my hair is in the worst shape of its life right now and I need to do something about it. My hair has been long most of my life long as I had someone else doing it. I want to see if I can nurse my hair back to life myself, get it healthy and make it grow myself.

WHAT IS YOUR HAIR TYPE???

I had no idea there were so many different types of hair textures let alone charts and stuff below are some of the pictures that helped me to determine the hair type that I have. 

By the way I have determined I have 4a and 4b textures on my head. 4c is the newest type of hair recently added to the charts it is the most kinky curly hair on the chart. I have a feeling the charts will be changing because, there are plenty of people like me out there with mixed textures on their heads....we'll see

Now that I am starting my hair journey I will be doing lots of posts about my hair and updates and regimens. All things I have found useful to me and my HRHJ.

I know I am going to go through a lot of trial and error trying to find what products work best for my hair type. Keep in mind different hair types require different products sometimes, and what may work great for my hair may not work that great for you.

Have you started a hair journey? Are you nautral or Relaxed? Or Texlaxed?

HAIRSTYLE OF THE WEEK: PEBBLES FLINTSTONE

 

This week I was determined to figure out a way to rock a bang with a high bun. I think I succeeded. So my male best friend is super picky about everything. So as soon as he saw me he said hey "Pebbles" lol this is coming from the same guy who started the Dora. So I call this weeks hairstyle the Pebbles Flintstone with a twist. This is also a great protective style.

Ever Rock your Hair like a cartoon character? If  so who?

ROCK IT? OR STOP IT? : MIDI RINGS

Alright Ladies I am on the fence about this new trend of midi rings. I think it is really complimenting if you have mannish hands not that I do but, it kind of adds a feminine touch and, it is really cool and trendy too. I will post pictures later of mine,but I bought some and wore them out grocery shopping with my son. I left the house with six came home with one. If I try this trend again it will have to be when I am going out for drinks or something that will not require my hands to do too much.

ROCK IT? OR STOP IT?

NAILS OF THE WEEK: SPARKLING PURPLE

Santee Nail polish is in the color Modern Purple $0.99 at my local beauty supply store

Funky Fingers polish in the color confetti $1.66 it was 3 for $5.00 at Five Below stores

REMEMBERING DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR

I just want to take this moment to really remember Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and all that he has done for me. If it was not for him and all of his efforts we would not have a Black president today. Even though we have come a long way, we still have a ways to go. However I am forever thankful, proud and will pay homage. Also in this day I would like to congratulate President Barack Obama.

Full text to the "I Have A Dream" speech:

"I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.
As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only". We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

NICE WATCH

Hi Dolls and Dudes,

So lately I have been really wanting a gold Michael Kors Watch. I have had my eyes on two. Specifically but here are a few more that I like as well.

DOPE DENIM

Hi Dolls and Dudes,

Denim is so hot right now. I have always been a denim fanatic so I am loving the fact that I am having a easy time finding all the denim that I want right now and then some. Below are some pictures of some Dope Denim styles that I like.

A Denim Body suit I love this

Ms Keri Baby

I would so rock this

This reminds me of a barbie sweat shirt I had when I was young

Denim Minis I need it in my life

These can spice up any outfit

The staple denim vest in every closet

Ombre denim heels

I was reading a style magazine and the stylist was like denim is in this year. This year? No denim is always in in my book. One of my main go to outfits is a pair of fitted skinnies a nice blouse and heels.


How do you rock your denim???

BOW OBSESSION

Hi Dolls and Dudes,

One thing about me is when it comes to details, I am the ultimate girly girl. I love pink, glitter, sequence, feathers, rhinestones and BOWS. I love Bows they can be dainty and pretty yet flirty and fun.

Yes this is Bow Wow I still love him lol

BORED WITH YOUR BOX BRAIDS???

Bored with your Box Braids?

Are you getting tired of your Box Braids, Miami Braids, or Booty Braids? Well don't take them out just yet. Try styling them in different ways. I got box braids as a protective hair style. Braids also helps my hair grow inches. If you take your braids out at the first sign of new growth then you will not get much length out of it, find different ways to rock them while your hair grows out. You can wear a scarf, hats, twist them up etc. Just find a way to make them unique and just have fun with them.