Simple Hair care -wash and stretch Only the best for my Sis

 Simple Hair care -wash and stretch Only the best for my Sis

Foam rod hair stretching

Curly hair coils result

 At this point in her hair care and I know its been a long time. My sister hair has gone through a lot of damage from her letting her friends press her hair with a flat iron. All my warnings did nothing but with a little cute she is back on track. Here is the Family Thang I call doing my sister hair care for easy up dos and school. While she sleeps I creep in and play. This hair style was done after her hair had been washed ( African black soap style ), detangled using a brush, and divided into section. Then while still damped with a blend of aloe vera jel, glycerin and essential oils its ready to seal. Her hair is then sealed with Cocoa butter and Shea butter mix to give it a few days of moisture. I used those bendy Foam rods for each section wrapped her hair with a satin wrap and here are the results and the style she wanted.

Two ponytail hair style

Salmon out!

Two strand twist hairstyle- Hair jewelry

Being natural can be a challenge but with all the blogs post out there how can anything go wrong. I know for those people who think I can't it wont so I wont bother trying to convince anyone. Natural does look good on me but then again so does wigs, braids and genie locs. Then again I am not like other people I will fully do ridiculous things to my hair and wear it out in public. Like bright neon pipe cleaner( perfect for hair stretching)  hair styles. I fully embrace the wierd punk raver type style cute and fun. Hair care should be all about trying to have fun. Play in your hair and these are my favorite toys- hair combs and head bands.

Hair growth check after genie loc

Wow growth this time around amazing results after removing my yarn braids.  I measured 9 inches growth since my hair was super short in the beginning of last year. Now at the end of this year I have regain all that I have lost and I have stronger softer hair now.


After all the crazy things I have tried taking a break from it all was the best thing for me. Gone were the days of MSM or biotin pill mixing Castor oil( started giving me head aches). For me I had to make it simple cold washes and deep conditioning was all I kept up. This latest growth check caught me by surprise made me want to scramble all my hair check photos to see how far I had come. The from is now chin length and the back arm pit length so happy with my natural hair. salmon out!







Newest edition coming soon!!! my hair is way past this length.

Last Genie locs hair style of this season

Missing my real hair real bad. Since I started undoing my yarn braid twist. Checking the length by undoing just around the edge.
Bangs to my chin nice
side burn areas to my collar bone awesome
and back part Wow hair growth galore. Nothing official but arm pit length is only a few months away. The fro goodness to come in the summer time will be epic. After 2 years of health living to benefit my hair skin whole body. Loving the results of all the fun recipes and hair care blogs that have helped me along the way.

Saying good bye love, to my genie locs, need a trim and wash. No more  hours spent drying all the yarn on my head. I will miss this style but right now missing my natural hair more. Although its getting colder Ill be braving the random temps for some good old me hair days.

Family thang! hair fun

Hair care day having a chance to research and use ayurvedic herbal hair treatments. Just search  youtube and someone is sure to show you recipes annd how to's all the benefit.

I just found just one easily accessible store that carries Amla neem etc so that i  can see what al the fuss is about. I have a  month to go still before I   am able to notice any positive signs. Richer darker shine and strengthening is what i am hoping to have at the end.

Oh yes and after months of having my Sister's hair in genie locks "the horror". Her hair is a knotted confusing that only I have any hope of smoothing out. This is the first real conditioning in a long while. Air drying and still damp I would like her hair to look this  under control when fully fry.

Length check on my way to bra strap lenght slowly and steadily as I keep my ends safe this winter. The golf may have my bones but it will not take my hair.






Here is her fro-magesty in all its pillowie softness. I needed to rubber band stretch  her hair due to the foreseen shrinkage when full dried.

Two strand twist Hair Style, fun handmade hair accessories

Its been a along while since I have talked about hair and showing how much fun I like to have with my hair. Now that  I am wigged out in these colder months I wanted to share some hair success and randomness.
 






Here we have some curly results after wearing a twist out for two weeks. Then turning those twist outs into china bumps to add that extra twirl in the ends. Both these styles are excellent protective styles and by combining them Like I did a natural super curl is created.









Here you see the random style I was trying out. First single strand twisting my hair then styling into this interesting design.








Thus creating two front bumps.









(Side view) keeping everything neat and flat a love natural design  the absence of perfection yet I was able to create balance. While never exposing too much scalp giving hair a thicker appearance.






Dressed up with a hand made hair accessory ( This is the easy flip on hair clip with black head band)







This random free style  hair do.Which I created blind wrapping the single strand twists into a curve pattern for the front and mid section of my hair. It vaguely looks like a ying yang sign which is kinda cool.








Dressing it up with a mad made hair accessory clip on with black head band. I was able to turn a simple two strand twist hair style  into a t continuously changing fun styles. Thank you for reading X

Hair style on my flat iron hair this time faux hawk two strand twist puffs

To really show my growth I lightly flat iron my hair making sure I protect it as much ad possible and never reaching  bone straightness.












This look is very cute fun and simple  love this style. I last  three day of out of bed ready wear.  Wrapping at night and using Shea butter is key and keeps this looking soft and shinny. Then if needed its just a quick undo of problem bed head sections a  brush a pat and off I go.











I add my personal touch with some hair accessories I made  a few cute bow clips to add a little colour. Just from these pictures you can see how this style is done. I part four sections the first a four head puff. The back starting at the top of my ear and the middle section in two. I dislike  solid parts lines they leave the scalp exposed and to me give a thinning appearance to my hair.





I am still in awe of how well my product work and a healthy lifestyle is affects the overall thickness and growth. Adding another bow to downplay  this monster front puff. Where did I learn these mad skills at puff faux hawks...youtube of course its all over this thing call the cyber-web. So just search away and find a tutorial that benefits your learning style.

Genie locs un-done still wearable

This was a slow four day process of unraveling but still having my hair wearable for work. I pulled this off by completely taking out the yarn in sections. Starting with the front section for a curly bangs look. My hair is growing back thicker which is the desired effect I wanted

To remove the yarns from my hair I had to pre- wet each braid with water. The hard intertwined hair I also wet with water first then a mixture of Shea butter and conditioner with Shea oils as a De-tangler.








I used my fingers to separate each one of the braids and to pull apart the strands that were clumped together.Once the yarn was removed I mini twisted the section and this is the result. 

 

To complete the wearable style I use rollers to achieve a wavy curly bang.

Loc love great find

Stumbled onto this great site for loc hair styles its my new favorite with videos and links to some awesome stuff. I started out on this hair journey to avoid this happening to me. catch it early and make it easier for your hair to return to a healthier state. I will be sure to try out the recipe at the end of the article . I will be  adding this to my Shea butter Edge balm that I am currently using to see the results.

My recipe 

In Shea butter mix - 2 oz    

Vitamin E, 6 drops

carrot oil 1 tsp

castor oil -1 tsp

rosemary essential oil - 4 drops

Genie loc updo # 4

It's almost time for these bad boys to come out I will be adding colour to the front section before the very end. Fun times with these locs. My epic genie loc hair style a cross between a faux hawk and just whimsy.

Here are some photos of a style I got alot of good reaction where I wore it out dancing with my ladies.
 Here is a link to all

New style genie locs curl updo

Once I finished wrapping up a few strands look to me earlier post to see what they look like down-these are my results and its a fresh look that I will updating with a change in colour very soon.

Love trying updo's with this coil like spiral strands and its a simple matter of twisting and tucking in place no pins no rubber bands just hair holding hair keeping it together. This style is more of a fancy front puff great for a night out or day in the office.

I love wearing my hair like this two sections off to the side and a ponttail in back.

multi-tasking it up business call lol.

I just get a kick out of how simple styles twisted up gives new dimension to all my tried and true styles.

Toss in a hair accessory for good measure. Just made these dunno if i will post on etsy.

Genie loc curls coming soon=Finally

I wet it, I set it, I left it over night even a few days and every time the curls would drop and it would turn into a flop on my yarn braids. I am suffering from a mad case of curl withdrawal. I love my kinky curls and in august these genie locs are coming out so that I can flaunt those curls to full justice. I cant wait and have been looking for a quick fix  and thanks  to NaturalReview and their featured style By April.B(girl is a hair locing genius) gave me some hair inspiration and at this very moment I have tried my idea on my genie locs and Success!!!. No hot water and no over night setting. I tested about 5 strands so far and wow curly pattern is rocking and minimal falling going to do my whole head to the max and then  I will have to upload some photos to show the results. So for all you Genie loc loving theses are my trails and errors

Puff bunroll ponytail

I will soon be having a giveaway with these head bands so stayed tuned. This is how I rock this headband.


This style was done by separating the front section of my hair. Starting from the top of each ear.making  one part with two section.

The front section is for the puff the back for the ponytail.

Taking the front section I rolled the hair under like a Cinnamon roll working it till it looked neat. Then I brought the back section up to meet the puff and gathered all the hair and secured it  with a hair tie and some hair pins. placing pins in the side where needed even into the hair tie to attach the ponytail and puff. This is the results. This style can be jazzed up with hair flowers or ribbons.



To give the style more dimension I added a headband( I will have to up cycle with fabric due to hair pulling). The headband  will also hold up the back section making a neat bun on top. Work out a little hair in the front to make a super mini puff the twist the puff to the side and tuck it under the head band.Presto

Genie loc update hair vitamin update

found at Walmart

So glad I found MSM it has done amazing for my hair still seeing results. It was the only hair growth supplement I could stick to still have the almost full bottle of hair and nail vitamin unused I recommend watching some video and ready up on MSM. It is suppose to extend the growth cycle in hair and is also good for joints bonus I was able to get rid of my creaking joints and My hair does more growing than resting...awesome!

Onto My genie locks update I will be placing more photo results. When deciding on a style I chose to do what dread heads do. I turn to awesome styles behold the loc twist on genie lock these are some example I used to pull off this style. I wanted a change for those hot summer days  now I have a cute little bob looking twisted and curly I am missing my curls no longer. My ladies know best so check out my inspiration From the good hair shop facebook page loving the look of Locs and Summer Styles: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150256956890907.368827.76670250906

Its cute and when I get tired of long hair change it up to short again

Boiling yarn braid genie loc twists, hairstyle, curling style

First attempt at curling my genie locs was interesting. One thing that set me back from the curls being defined was not having a over night towel dry.
To change up this style in a few weeks I am attempting to keep these in for 4-6 weeks while still maintaining a good hair care routine with moisture and growth oil and my various herbal hair rinses. Next time I try this curl technique I will be letting it dry overnight.

There are sooo many youtube videos on "How to"all it takes is a search.






 


After a week my  scalp is nice and clean, itch free and I continue to moisturized using my daily moisture spray, shea butter cream and deep conditioning. I don't do it often but a daily scalp massage help me notice faster hair growth result I need to get on that again been kinda lazy with that routine.




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I love this style this is why I did my big chop was in a faux hawk style. My hair has been growing faster at the middle crown area and slower on the sides. My focus now is to get the sides the same length as the crown area in the next few months. Then I am on to the next thing in hair care herbs and stretching maybe even straightening with low heat and every 6 weeks a trim.











My hair journey is going great and I have learns so much and there is still so much to learn about this amazing texture of mine loving the curls naturally. My hair journey photos are all at this link see the progress I have made










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Its a family thang! Sister in yarn braids with hair toys

My beautiful sister wanted me to do her hair like mine and it is almost complete I ran out of yarn.



 Surprisingly her hair is way longer and thicker than my hair but we used about the same amount of yarn. One whole roll + of red heart yarn as talked about by blackonxy77 on youtube "red heart yarn doesn't bleed when in contact with hot water".


 she is so into her own styles lately this way she can wear her hair down, up, pony tall without the poof. She dislikes the poofy state her hair returns to when it humid her hair now reaches past mid back. I am aiming for tail bones with proper care.

She is rocking my new hair accessory Its a work in process have to head out and get some gem stones and the like to set it off for her Divaness my baby sis love her snugly ways (^_^) hugs!