Hair Epiphany

I love my hair!

I don't think I've ever ever ever said that and whole heartily meant it. Let me take you on a semi "Hair Journey". . . For as long as I could remember, my mom put my hair in braids. She knew how to do all styles but I mostly wore crochet and box braids in my childhood. When I got a little bit older, I was able to get micros and two strand twists done because she didn't know how [or have the patience] to do those. In between, I would wear my hair down and maybe get a perm. I've always hated my hair and welcomed having braids. My hair is thick, really thick, so when I would get perms it wouldn't slick my hair down like I'd see it do my friends. That made me loathe my thick hair. Why couldn't my hair be straight like Cat's? Even after a flat iron was taken to it, it wouldn't lay like other girls! I hated my hair. I finally found a perm that got it "bone straight" and I was hooked.. . .that worked about two times. After that, back to the same poofy hair. I hated my hair. THEN I decided to leave the perm alone *cue the Angel choir*. I didn't do it to "go natural", I did it because I was having horrible scalp issues like bad dandruff [ wearing black was always a bad idea], itchy scalp, and my mom said it looked like Cradle Cap. I figured it was the perm burning my scalp all the time because I would perm right after taking my braids down. I needed to let the perms go. They didn't really do anything for my hair anyway, so whats the point? Now. . .I love my hair =) I think I hated it SO much because it didn't look how it was "supposed" to look. It didn't lay down flat and it wasn't long. It was poofy and wild and all over the place. I love my wild and poofy hair! Now that I accept it for who it truly is, I've fallen in love. I never thought I'd come to this. It's awesome!!! 

Current style

Thanks for reading!

*MWAH!*

Products I'm Going To Be Trying. . .

This past weekend, I stopped into Ulta and noticed they were having a BOGO1/2 off on the Organix Line so I picked up two of the Coconut Milk shampoos since I'd been looking for a sulfate free shampoo. I've also heard about other Naturals raving about the Shea Moisture line at Walgreens, so I picked up the Deep Treatment Masque and Curl Enhancing Smoothie. I'll let you guys know how these work on my hair very soon! =)

*MWAH!*

Julep Maven: Alfre and Cameron

I got my very first Julep Maven Box a couple of days ago and I was very pleased! I haven't tried any of the products yet, but I will review them in a later post! If you haven't heard, Julep Maven is a monthly subscription of $19.99 and you get a box of polishes each month! You can choose to skip a month if you'd like, nothing is set in stone. If you'd like to sign up, you can do so here!

The card telling about everything that was included

This smelled of citrus

This was a very big tube! I was very shocked to see this much product.

Two Samples: Hand Cream and Hand Scrub

The Polishes came in this pretty pink tissue paper

Alfre is a very pretty purple frost; Cameron is a gorgeous summery hot pink [FLASH]

You can see Alfre's frost better with this picture [NO FLASH]

 I really liked my first box and I will be signing up for next month! I think they had me in mind when they came up with this ;) Talk to you guys later!!

*MWAH!*

Celebrity Challenge-Day 7

Day 7: Current Celebrity Crush #3

I've always thought this guy was hott. Every since the show first started!

 

Jensen Ackles AKA Dean Winchester from Supernatural

Beauty Swap/Secret Santa!

If you follow Nav's Blog, you will already know that The 2011 Christmas Swap is actually happening!! 

If you want to join in you need to go over to Nav's blog and fill in the form to register yourself

Everything is very well explained on there but basically here's an outline:

There is a minimum spend of GBP £15/USD $23/EUR €17 

All Packages must be sent by 1st December to ensure they arrive before Christmas!

You must register by 25th October 2011!!

I'm really thinking about participating! how about you?!