Random Hair Thoughts/Thinking out loud

That moment when you've been stretching so long that you have to look at hair tutorials for natural hair...

Ion't feel like relaxing my hair right now tho.....

cwmarie said:

My PBN order finally shipped. Geez. They're slow. If these new APB and new SM masque are hits I might PBN might lose its staple spot.

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And my package hasn't moved since I got my tracking number on Sunday. #1 online buying pet peeve.

*puts PBN on the vendor back burner*

cwmarie said:

And my package hasn't moved since I got my tracking number on Sunday. #1 online buying pet peeve.

*puts PBN on the vendor back burner*

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What new APB mask??????

PJaye said:

Wait...the baby you just had is already two years old!? My goodness, how time flies!

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No I have a 2 year old son and a 3 month old daughter

lamaria211 said:

What new APB mask??????

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Whoops. My sentence is slightly poorly structured lol. It's Shea Moisture that has a new mask. The APB is just new to me

Bun Mistress said:

I have been in a weave all year except about 3 weeks this year. I now both love and hate weave. I want it out while planning the next. I do know I will likely never have a straight weave again.

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Bunmistress I thought it was just me

29 months natural and I think I'm ready to relax, probably as soon as this weekend. I thought I would be able to wear my hair straight more often but it puffs really quickly after all the work of straightening.

I miss swinging my hair and having the wind blow through in the summer time. I miss the option of a quick ponytail. I just miss seeing the length of my hair, which I never see with 4c hair.

Right now I wear my hair in cornrows under wigs all the time, which I will probably end up doing again since I will be training for a half marathon that takes place in November.

I will NEVER EVER EVER use heat again. Them Dom Salons will NEVER EVER SEE ME AGAIN!

Tomorrow I am having my hair assessed for locs. I am in distress because I know they are going to tell me I have heat damage and my hair will likely not loc.

I'm thinking about getting loc extensions if that happens. And just let my fresh hair naturally grow in the mean time for real locs.

Lilmama1011 said:

GettingKinky where you get yours from? The site or somewhere else?

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Lilmama1011 I got mine from the flexi8 site. They came very quickly.

Sorry, before I get back to work, I just have to vent.

Some BLACK MAN decides to get on facebook and ask them why they hate themselves for wearing weave all the time? I try to educate him that it's just a preference and he can't blanket assume why women make the choices they do but then his buddies had to show up and start making even grosser assumptions.

One especially ticked me off. This girl assumes that my mom inadvertantly taught me that white hair is better by relaxing my hair around the age of 4 or 5. FIrst off, my mom was a very poor, very very poor immigrant woman working 3 jobs while going to school full time and she had two other children. She didn't have the time to spend 2-3 hours doing my hair a day and washing and conditioning and detangling and whatever. So she relaxed it and called it a day. Sometimes, she'd go 6-7 months between touch ups cuz homegirl was busy. she never taught me in any way that one kind of hair type is better than the other. She ONLY reason she wnats me to have long hair now is because I got a man and she says American men like long hair :O THAT'S IT.

Please don't come assuming crap about my mom please, random FB woman.

And I'm tired of black men telling me what I should do with my hair. Ten years ago, brothers were like "you grown now, relax your hair." Today, they're like "if you a real sista, you would respect yourself enough to have natural hair. you ain't keepin it real"

Get the hell out of here with that divisive, controlling, patriarchal crap. I am a woman. I am a Black woman. I am an African woman. I am my OWN woman. Relaxed. Natural. Texlaxed. Loc'ed. Shaven. Braided. Weaved up. Colored. Curled. Straightened. Whatever. It's my hair. I'll do what I want with it. And ain't no one ever gonna sit there and tell me how and why and when and what to do with my hair. God gave it to me. Not you. So back the **** off.

cwmarie said:

Whoops. My sentence is slightly poorly structured lol. It's Shea Moisture that has a new mask. The APB is just new to me

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Which one did you get I love the white chocolate I just ordered 2 back ups

lamaria211 said:

Which one did you get I love the white chocolate I just ordered 2 back ups

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I got a hair cream, leave in, and the oil. I kinda want to try the mask but her shop looks to be closed.

Ive been rocking this extremely cute curly wig..been getting attention with it from everyone.

"He" said to me, "I like your other hair better."

Me: Which way, when its braided or when I straighten it?"

Him: When you straighten it

Me to myself: mmhmm, I wonder why.

Just got cursed out because a car wasn't looking and almost hit me. Yep, idiots.

Hope my hair straighteners(flat iron) is enjoying it's summer break!

Been working braidouts for a month and loving it! Old straightners may have to go into retirement.

I'm tiring of this TWA. Long hair is so much easier to style. Seriously

Maybe it's just me, but one of my recent pet peeve's is buying a product pictured with a pump only to get the product with no pump.

Welp, I heard my first snide comment at work today since i've decided to transition out of this relaxer with braids. She doesn't know that I heard her. And then she smiled in my face on the way out. It was gross. Made my skin crawl.

So my hair appointment is tomorrow not Friday. I have to wash and blowdry all this hair tonight

NIN4eva said:

Welp, I heard my first snide comment at work today since i've decided to transition out of this relaxer with braids. She doesn't know that I heard her. And then she smiled in my face on the way out. It was gross. Made my skin crawl.

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Forget her! With her fake self NIN4eva. I wouldn't have smiled back or spoke back either

Growth I believe is what I'm experiencing!!

It seems like I have more growth than usual

I can see a big difference with using that hask placenta no rinse with the first use. Less shedding and no breakage. I wet, moisturize and seal twice daily and I see no hair in the comb. Just one hair from after I used it on wash day and it was a shedded hair . I will continue to use it once on wash day and stick to all moisturizing deep conditioners.

Sadly, my kinky curly weave is coming to an end today. I still can't decide if I'm going to left the stylist that put it in straigthen and trim my hair today.

Happy with my tapered cut. Excited to experiment with products and such.

Lilmama1011 Thanks! I'm surprised by how much that shook me.

Im wigging it for the next few weeks as a protective style...I kinda miss my hair. I enjoy trying out new styles and playing with textures. Can't wait to do my first bantu knot out

I trimmed only one damn inch of hair this weekend but this shrinkage has me looking like I cut a hell of a lot more. If it weren't because I trimmed the hair myself and knew how much I cut and the fact that I hadn't trimmed in a year I would be pissed but this is just #CurlyGirlProblems

I seriously give up on my natural hair...each time I "think" I figured out how to get my hair soft and moisturized, it goes back to feeling like a brittle pad my the next morning or later in the day. Do I need to start wearing a fanny pack and carry a spray bottle with me? ugggh, I've explored porosity, cold rinses, LOC method, LCO method, no cones, aloe vera juice, ACV rinses, coconut oil, castor oil, EVOO, s-curl spray (worked but sometimes made my hair soggy and lifeless; hated the smell too). Anyways, just a vent.

Smiley79 said:

I seriously give up on my natural hair...each time I "think" I figured out how to get my hair soft and moisturized, it goes back to feeling like a brittle pad my the next morning or later in the day. Do I need to start wearing a fanny pack and carry a spray bottle with me? ugggh, I've explored porosity, cold rinses, LOC method, LCO method, no cones, aloe vera juice, ACV rinses, coconut oil, castor oil, EVOO, s-curl spray (worked but sometimes made my hair soggy and lifeless; hated the smell too). Anyways, just a vent.

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Have you considered roller setting your hair? Maybe you could moisturize as you set and be covered for a few days before you have to worry about reversion or dryness. Flexi rod sets, twist and curl sets, etc.