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Henna

Ok so last 2 days I have done this whole process. My goodness it's alot of work. I had to boil the hibiscus flowers to get the red fluid, mixed that into the henna powder, let it sit for 24 some odd hours and waited. Last night I put it on my hair and rinsed it out this AM. It's a coppery brown in the house, my greys are straight up copper penny. I like it, it supposed to level out in 3 days, I don't know if it will become more reddish or what. I would love to acheive the deep red tones. I should've taken a picture this morning, but my camera batteries are dead and gone. Darn it.

Happy New Year

Good day, Good start new year and everything is all right. New Year was nice, had a great time at my friends party. My fiyah man went and enjoyed himself as well. Lately something has gotten my fiyah man down. I'm pretty sure what it is and I know I can't do anything to help. But it's plenty difficult to watch someone go through problems and just stand by. I know it's best, but still it isn't easy. Relationships are work. Anyway, another thing I resumed was taking better care of myself. I am back to exercising this time with my 16 year old. I figured he is fit and works out on the regular for the high school sports he's deep into. Well, golly, I went from 180 down to 174 in the first week. I was dying the first couple of days, it's all good now. Some of the weight was of course all water but it looked good on the scale anyway. Another positive with the water was it helped with my supreme bloating. My belly was so huge. My fiyah man noticed it and asked if I was near TOM. There are a zillion people at the gym, I'm sure it's the new year thing and all. It's like the gym is too small, but I'm sure it's just the number of people inside at the time. I imagine it will decrease along with most people drive. I'm hoping that by the time I lose hope, I will have lost enough fat weight to continue and push through, my son will be a huge driving force. I figured if I gave him some extra cash in his account for the workout help, his drive would push me through my lack of. My hair is growing and not growing. the ends I think are in need of a trim. I will attack this later.

My product free hair.....

My hair has grown, I mean alot. I had my last perm 1/2/2008. My stylist moved some 200+ miles away and I was more or less stuck. I always had a problem with stylist not really listening to my requests or goals for my hair. My hair grows, but I assumed it was from the trims and care of the stylist, not true. I was kinda giving myself good cae in between visits. I never used heat (I always had a wrap), would slather my head with coconut oil (I loved the smell, my hair happens to thrive in it) and my styilst used quality perms and took her time nevr overlapped. Funny how I thought it was her, "great care" when all along it was me LOL. The above picture is my hair washed and air dried without product. My camera is in my friends car, so I can't upload the image aI want to add right now. I have learned through trial and error over the last year how to make my curls pop. IC fantasia gel, cocoa butter and a little glycerin. I'm still working on the exact mixture. I LOVE Kenra shampoo and conditioners, I wish Kenra had a leave in. What I have been doing is saturating my hair with water, then putting a little of the Kenra back in and kinda rubbing that in, then applying the gel mixture section by section "raking" it through only with my finger, pulling the curls downward. At first the look like the waves in the picture, but as my hair dries it curls up perfectly. The process takes me less than 15 minutes, but it's cute. My 15 year old son said it looked like "a babys curly hair". My fiyah man at first stared at my hair, then said " you do have curly hair". He and I had a conversation about my hair a week or so ago. Another thing I've noticed with the whole hair thing, Hair types become the focus as your hair grows out. I really dont understand it so much, it can become vague and is the source of angry disagreements on the hairboards that I frequent. From what I understand: Type 1 straight Type 2 wavey Type 3 spirals Type 4 curls Each of the catogories is further broken in to sub catagoreis, but this is where it gets stickey. Type 3 curlies follow a size of curl width, however in the type 4 catagories, only the A and B have true curls. Yet 4C and to many 4B have no curl pattern.......like I said, confusing. All this being said, I forgot to mention you must have all natural hair and you must wait at least to have a couple inches of growth to really be able to assess. When I cut my permed hair off, I thought I would know right then. Wrong, wrong , wrong. My hair seemed to have no curl, no clumping together pattern at first, but as it grew a bit I noticed a defined curl pattern all over. My hair grows out, then curls on the end. I grew my hair out in braids and such so I never really saw it unless I was in between a take down. Looking at my hair now. I am constantly playing in the little curls and waves. I cut a tester piece below the curl to see what would happen, the cut peice just curled the same. This goes back to my saying you must grow some out first then assess your possible hair type. Back to my hair up top in the photo, it looks big, whispy like, but everything on the end curls. For more pics, check my Fotki and add me as a friend....I'm MSAJ.

Winter Blahs

Where the heck have I been???? Funny, I have not really been away, I actually look at this blog daily and start to write/type then start something else. I think it's winter, anyone else feel the blahs? This daily grey, cold,wet weather is a drag. I've read about this syndrome of seasonal depression. I know from my medical backround that it mostly has to do with the fact that I am not getting the amount of sun (vitamin D) that I normally get it the summer. I've heard and read of some folks going so far as to buy specific lights to sit in daily. I forget where, but I believe just 10 minutes or say per day is supposedly enough. Enough of the blah thoughts, it only reminds me even more of how blah it really is.

Merry Christmas

Inner me

Ok, again I have gotten very lazy in my inner self. I feel a bit heavy, but somewhat appropriate for my body. I want to lose weight, but dont want to be a skinny flat bump on earth. Right now I am very curvy. I could tolerate everything else, but my belly. I am seriously thinking about a tummy tuck,