How Low Can You Go?

V-Day Flowers hand delivered by my Hubby

 It's February... the month of love, black history month, and now - the month I always get bangs, LOL.  This is year 2 of the v-day bang (no pun intended) and I'm loving it.  After desiring, wishing, and hoping that I had the balls to change my hair, I finally went through with it... over the course of a couple weeks.

I Had a Dream

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Since the beginning of the year, I've been wanting a new style.  And for some reason, a new style always means bangs for me.  I did it last year and maybe I'll do it again this year.  Well last night I had a dream.  I dreamed that I wanted these fabulous bangs and that I was going to cut them myself.  But as I sectioned my hair to cut for the bangs, my hair was self cutting itself and I didn't have to do anything!  So when it was all said and done, I had fabulous thick arch shaped bangs and I wore it down and in a ponytail.  And no, I don't remember anything else about the dream, LOL.

I've seen several women at work with the style and I feel like they're taunting me by having the guts to wear the style I want.  Then I think about having to flat iron more often, or how I'd sleep with my hair, or how much more I'd break my hair by doing so.  That's another thing I noticed this year, I have a lot of fly-aways.  All over my head.  I don't just have a section of broken hair, but several random broken hairs everywhere.  I don't think it was like that this time last year, so I'm going back to the basics.  I did a scalp massage off and on for an hour, I shampooed and conditioned with my Roux Porosity Control, and I'm currently deep conditioning with my Shea Moisture.

I'm not really sure what style I can do that will not cause me to flat iron each day, but I need to find something soon... 

Switch Up

Before you say anything... I know I've been MIA for a while, but it's been for good reason.  I have had a lot of personal changes recently, one being I finally got a new laptop today, so I'm ready and prepared to get back to regular updates.  This one is a few weeks old, but hey, it's new to you : )

I've taken my hair into my own hands again.  I was bored with the regular and not ready to go for layers again so I decided to give myself side swept bangs.

Before

Sick - On Multiple Levels

This week did NOT go as expected for me.  I had planned to fully take advantage of working from home and really treat myself and my hair to some TLC after a week of neglect, only to have my body come under attack and suffer from a few illnesses all week long... Nevertheless, I am doing alright at the moment and contemplating doing a late night co-wash.  Hmmm, maybe I should do an all night oil treatment instead?

I did spend a little time on facebook during the week, reminiscing over the 500 plus tagged photos of myself.  As I went through, I saw picture after picture of beautiful layered hair.  It made me sick!  Oh, how I wish to CUT MY HAIR!  I'm at a crossroad right now.  Do I try to find new ways to style my hair or do I go back to what I know and love?  Cutting my sister's hair has really given me the confidence I need to put layers in my own hair.  Maybe I'll just chop a little around the frame of my face? I probably won't do anything but continue to talk about it, but you already know - I'll keep you posted.

When is a Good Time to Say Goodbye?

Ok, so I believe I have an obsession with cutting my hair.  Every so often, I just feel the burning desire to take scissors to my hair, LOL.  Nothing drastic, just some trim-age. : )

With that in mind, I started doing some investigating last night on proper techniques for cutting hair.  I bought proper hair cutting scissors a few months ago, but I actually only cut my hair once.  So I hit up google and found a Lady that I like.  She talked about the search and destroy method, along with a few other tips:

I'm going to give it a try as soon as I finish cooking dinner!

Oh and to provide an update to last night, when rinsing the concoction out of my hair, it felt wonderful!  So soft and silky.  My hair was very easy to detangle and air dried rather quickly. After rinsing, I applied my Neutrogena Leave-In Conditioner and sealed with my Shea Moisture Oil. 

In the morning, I flat ironed my hair and I wore it semi-down.  It looked okay.  I applied Chi Hair Serum before flat ironing to get it shiny - and it looked shiny and felt silky from about the base of my head to about 12 inches out... then my hair just looks raggedy... I'm hoping a little trim-age goes a LONGGGGGGGG way!

 My hair is a very comfortable shoulder length.  Lots of lonely stragglers of hair sticking out around my head...

This is a close up of the ends... Yes, I think today is a good day to say goodbye.

 My shears and some of the hair lost.

 Oh the damage... It can only get better.

Hair Cut!

After many months of "letting it grow out" and not really seeing the results I wanted, I finally got my hair trimmed and layered.  I'm happy to have the flow back again, but for some reason, my hair still doesn't feel as thick as it should be.  It's very relaxed and tame.  I'm not sure if I'm losing a lot of hair or what...

I have not followed any type of hair regimen at all.  Shame on me!  This summer and fall I have been crazy busy with work and I allowed it to have huge impacts on my everyday life.  Speaking of which, I need to go eat some breakfast.  I'm going to get back on track, put some plans in place for my life, and keep this party moving.

Has it Been a Month Already?

Yes.  I have been MIA for about a month and a half now.  Any particular reason? Nope.  So hopefully all is forgiven and I can give a brief run down of the past few weeks.

So about a week after my last post I did a relaxer.  I made it about 7-8 weeks.  I had a terrible experience with my relaxer though... I don't burn easily or normally at all, but that time was ridiculous.  I'm not sure what was going on, but prior to the relaxer, I had soreness out of this world and I'm assuming the tenderness also meant some types of sores/bumps on my scalp that lead to the easy burn.  I had been giving myself extra head massages because of the tenderness of the new growth...

I had some very successful going out hair styles after the relaxer.  I was very pleased.  I kept the regimen for the weeks after that.  Continued with the pony/bun.  But I got bored.  I was tired of not knowing what to do with my hair.  The limpness.  The same old/same old.  So last weekend, I decided to switch things up.  I got a hair cut.  Not really a "hair" cut hair cut, but I got my ends trimmed, a few layers put in around the face and in the top, and I topped it all off with a bang!  I haven't had a bang since middle school.  So far, I'm loving the variety in styles - I can wear it up, down, bang, no bang, curly and fluffy, or straight.

I'm about 6 weeks post relaxer again and I'm hanging in there.  My head is tender, but it's manageable.  I have lots of different styles - some protective, some not - so I don't feel like a fluffy head all the time.

Until next time ; )