Dry hair be gone!

Hello ladies,
Welcome to my blog to all my new subscribers! I am here taking you through my hair journey from unhealthy, dry, neck length hair to long beautiful healthy hair! So far I have reached about Shoulder length! yay me :)

Dry hair:4 weeks post
So my hair, well actually just my ends have been really dry. No matter what I did they would not hold moisture for some reason. I've tried trimming the ends, DC for hours, Hot oil treatment everything I could think of. So I decided to seek help from hairlista site, and I found the answer. My hair was porous, I needed to use something with acidity or pH control to help my hair. One of the suggestions was to use Apple cider vinegar (ACV rinse). I cowashed my hair, then ACV rinsed then I DC, with ORS replenishing conditioner with my Aphogee 2 min reconstructor. I did this for about 15 mins under a hair dryer. I rinsed it out and my ends were lovely! They held some moisture. I still need to do this probably one more time to keep my ends moist. I also started bagging my ends after I moisturize and sealed. So far my ends are liking it.

Next week I will be 5 weeks post. I plan on flat ironing my hair for Christmas. This will be the only time I will flat iron my hair this month. I plan on stretching my hair til my Birthday in March! (I'll be 22, man I am getting old lol) I'm trying to go to Florida for spring break so my hair has to be on point! I will be around 16 weeks post.

My goal for 2011 is to have APL (Arm pit length) by my graduation in May! Then to have BSL (bra strap length) by December 2011. We will see how that goes! Hope I reach those goals.

I will do a product haul of what I use on my hair now, either today or some other time. Until then Have a blessed day!

Relaxer at 12 weeks Post November 2010

So I decided to relax at 12 weeks because of an event coming up and I need my hair done. I let my mom put in the relaxer, and she was talking about how relaxers are bad for the scalp and stuff like that because she just watched good hair by chris rock. I was like I seen that but you need to know how to take care of your hair and scalp to be relaxed and maintain healthy hair. She didnt want to hear that. So when I let it air dried and then flat ironed and she saw how healthy and how long it gotten since the last time she seen it she was like oh what do you do to your hair. So I showed her the site and now she might get in to it. Then when I got back to school everyone was complimenting my hair and how long it got. I was showing off and doing the flip! lol So I am happy at my progress for the past few months I am finally SL almost APL. I plan on doing a relaxer in March around my BDAY! here are the pics

Why I've been gone

the past few weeks I've been grieving, my grandmother passed away nov 13th. She had cancer and was diagnosed with it last Dec. So she made it almost a yr even though the doctors said she wasn't going to make it after so many months but she did. I was at college in Iowa when I got the call that she probably won't make it in the next few days. So I hoped in the car and drove 20 hours to New Mexico. Where I made it just in time to say I love you grandma. When I saw her it wasn't the grandma I knew. I had some hope that she would get better. But from the looks of it I knew this was it. But I thought she would have a few days left in her. But she passed away the same day I got there. I had prayed that she would still be here when I got there just so I can tell her that I loved her. I am still in shock. It feels like she is just gone on vacation and she'll come walking in the door anytime soon. I cried that night she passed but I haven't cried since. I think when the funeral comes I'll probably break down and cry. I never had anybody this close die so this all feels too unreal. I just wish she made it to my graduation in May. It seems selfish to say that because she isn't in pain anymore. but i just wanted to see that proud look on her face knowing that her granddaughter is the first in the family to graduate from college, but I know she was proud of me she always told me so. On the other hand my grandfather is not doing well. They been together for 52 yrs. And I'm afraid he will not make it either due to heartbreak, But I will keep praying for him