Random Hair Thoughts/Thinking out loud

So I finally did my first set of crochet braids (on MY head, I had done my mother's) and it was way easier that I thought.

Question, though: Why and how do ppl be using five packs of Marley hair??? Like, for what? I used two full packs and I'm in here looking like Negro Rapunzel, wth? :lol: Do they have big heads? Like, what's up? o_O
Lol!! I was just thinking this the other day that the biggest giveaway of these (cause the texture can honestly look really natural when they set it on rods) is a lot of people add too much hair. I'm dead at Negro Rapunzel lmao.
 
Lord knows I don't have the patience to deal with my natural hair at times. I don't know if I will texturize or heat train in the future
 
Lord knows I don't have the patience to deal with my natural hair at times. I don't know if I will texturize or heat train in the future

I had to make the same decision, I chose the latter since if I wanted to go back to curly it wouldn't be like transitioning from chemical use again, just heat training.
 
Think I will go semi straight for a while. Tired of fighting kinks and ssk on the daily.

Since I look weird with bone straight hair and since my hair is fine and light (flies all over when straight) imma add my hooded dryer to my weekly reggie with either fat braids or rollers til im bored. No direct heat tho.
 
Last night SO went to bed before than I did, so he kissed me goodnight and stroked my hair a little. I turned around to say something and I saw him sniffing his hand.
I'm like hey wth and he says "oh I sniff all the time after I've touched it. Never know which scent it's gonna be" then goes to bed.

Is it weird I find that kind of sweet?
 
Ladies...

I created two monsters out of my four and I have a feeling the rest are going to be monsters as they need their dose of luxury too.

Here it goes.. I let them try my WEN...
I gave dear son a bottle and WOE.... he won't let anyone use it.. got snappy about it.
My other child was like mommy, where is my bottle of Wen? I have the gallon so I used it to wash his hair, as requested.. He was smiling from ear to ear.

HELP! Hubby just got a raise and I don't want it to go to our Wen fetish... thank goodness hubby has no hair.. LOL
 
1. I felt crappy this morning but I took a shower, washed my hair, DC-ing now and I feel much better! I notice when my hair feels good, I feel good too.

2. So my hair LOVES eucalyptus. Imma have to find another shampoo with it because I just used the last of a John Frieda shampoo and conditioner that is discontinued. BOO!

3. I cannot wait to straighten my hair in December for the first time in 9 months. I already know I got a lot of growth, I'm just excited to see exactly how much!
 
My hair LOOKS like it's in crotchet braids right now...

My OWN hair lol.

My mom keeps telling me it looks fake. Today she told me it felt fake, so I need to do something about that LMBO
 
Ladies...

I created two monsters out of my four and I have a feeling the rest are going to be monsters as they need their dose of luxury too.

Here it goes.. I let them try my WEN...
I gave dear son a bottle and WOE.... he won't let anyone use it.. got snappy about it.
My other child was like mommy, where is my bottle of Wen? I have the gallon so I used it to wash his hair, as requested.. He was smiling from ear to ear.

HELP! Hubby just got a raise and I don't want it to go to our Wen fetish... thank goodness hubby has no hair.. LOL

Your household sounds like two of my colleague's households. I told both about natural skin care products and now their sons use more of the products than they do. <lol> One son told him Mom, his girlfriend asked HIM what he uses on his skin - it's so clear and soft. He told his Mom, that is one of the traits he is going to start looking for in his girlfriends - good skin care . :lol:
 
And most times it costs soooooo much money.
Not necessarily there are many free resources, even the hair forum is open to anyone to search. Most of the books are under 20 dollars. And YouTube is free. I've learned everything I know between this site and free articles on other sites. All I did was type in how to grow black hair and a ton of information was presented to me by google
 
Whenever I see a black woman with dry, stiff, straw-like hair I feel so sad. I remember when that was me. What a difference a little knowledge makes.
So true, but you know what, as much as black women have progressed with taking care of our hair, we're still living in an e-bubble on the hair forums. I clicked the link on one of those ads on fb claiming to grow hair, and showing a black woman with thick, lush, healthy hair. Pretty much what we see all the time on here, or any other hair forum. In the comments are tons of black women claiming that the woman in the pic is wearing a weave, because her hair is unnaturally long or because black people don't grow hair like that. I wanted to comment, but I'm not sending them here with that attitude. I did feel irritated, yet sorry for them to even believe that in this day and age. Do you know how much some good conditioner changed my life?
The movement isn't universal as yet :-(.
 
I'm so pissed right now!!! I cut a big chunk of hair, trying to take out crochet braids:mad: :cry3:

been there done that TWICE.
Last time I BC'd my bang, last december, It was tragic,

Its finally at least 7 inches now but its nowhere as long as the rest of my hair. When I wear it curly you cant see too big of a difference anymore. At first it was tragic. I have to learn how to let someone else take my crochet out. Ive done it twice.
 
I used to flat iron my hair every day. Without heat protectant. At a time when I was washing very irregularly with bad products, no DC, and no thought to moisture or protein, and when I always blowdried on the highest heat setting. Although I wasn't really retaining much length, I never had actual, snapping-off-in-sections heat damage.

Now I'm taking better care of my hair and have two good quality heat protectants, I'm terrified of heat damage. I haven't blowdried in months, and the twice I've used my flat iron in the last year I've had it on such a low setting it's barely taken.

:wallbash:
 
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