Sesame Street Embraces Natural Hair

Sounds like Willow Smith singing to me.

CURLS

So I have been trying this new product for a couple days and I know I should wait about a week before I post a review but I'm already in love. The product I am talking about is called Curls. I bought this product from target each at $10.99. I bought the daily leave-in moisturizer and the crème brulee. The reason I bought it is because I've been looking for something that can replace Miss Jessie's curly meringue because $22 for 8oz is just too much for me right now. Anyway so I was at Target and they have a lot of cool curly hair products but for some reason "Curls" caught my attention.

The crème brulee claims to define curls and eliminate frizz without the hold of a gel and let me tell you it works. The curls were poppin and when they dried it was crunchy feeling or hard at all. They were really nice and soft.

The leave-in moisturizer is good for next day hair. So I sprayed my hair with the product and I did not like the way it comes out the spray nozzle. I thought it would be misty but instead it was a streamline so it concentrated too much in one area. I diluted it with water and put it in my spray bottle and that way worked much better. So I sprayed my hair and added the crème brulee as needed so now my second day hair looks just as fresh as my first day hair. That has never ever happened before.

New Hair Regimen

So my hair has been so soft and moisturized lately and I just wanted to share with you all what I was doing to get it that way.

The process begins on Friday night
1. Wash hair with Avalon organics lemon clarifying shampoo
2. Deep condition O/N with Aubrey organics honeysuckle rose conditioner and olive oil/coconut oil mixture (this is just pure coconut oil and olive oil that I mixed together myself)At this point I detangle completely with a shower comb sometimes I put my hair in big two-strand twist but most of the time I don't
3. Rinse out conditioner and oil
4. Herbal Essences Hello Hydration as a leave-in conditioner along with my OC oil mixture, since it is being used as a leave-in it doesn't take much
5. For styling I saturate my hair with water section by section and use ecostyling gel to finger style

Weight loss story

I love that she said you have to be mentally prepared to lose weight. That is so true but I don't reccommend her diet....it sounds really unhealthy, but then again I'm no doctor.

**There is a part 2 to this video but y'all get the gist.

Finger Styling

The way this girl is doing her hair is exactly what Taylor did to my hair. The only thing is that in the video the girl says that you shouldn't mix the Curly Meringue and the Buttercreams but Taylor did in my hair and it was just fine, however I am noticing flakiness and dryness so that maybe the reason. I haven't added any other moisturizers or oils to my hair since I got it done so that could also be the reason for the dryness and flakiness.

edit ** She also stretched it by using a blow dryer while gently streching the roots

Curltopia

I went to Curltopia today to get my hair colored because I needed a change. Well it was very professional, my appointment was at 1:00 and I was about 15 minutes early and was seated very promptly. I was able to research the person doing my hair online and I chose her because she is a color specialist or whatever. I assumed that because it was called curltopia that it was a hair salon for Black women but I was surprised to see a lot of Caucasian women there which got me nervous. Now I knew my stylist was a white lady before I went but when I saw that most of her clients were white as well I was thinking "Oh gosh what if she doesn't know what to do with my type hair". Well I did not express my concerns because after all it is a "curly hair boutique" and I'm sure she wouldn't be working there if she couldn't deal with all hair types so I sat in her chair and explained to her what I wanted.

I told her I wanted light-brown-honey-blondish- hair in the front and a darker brown color in the back but it should be a gradual change. Then I tried to talk in terms of weave, "OK I want 27/30 in the front and 4 in the back" she looked at me crazy then showed me pictures and I pointed out exactly what I wanted. The color came out exactly how I wanted but next time I want to go a little lighter in the front or maybe just add some highlights. The brown color in the back is so close to my natural hair color that I'm kinda mad (but not really) that I paid extra for a third color cause she could have just done the two light colors and it would have looked the same I think...

Anyway to make a long story short I really loved the technique she used to style my hair. They call it a finger style which I kinda do but not as well as she. She used Miss Jessie's Curly Meringue on my hair which just put my curls on a-whole-nother level. She sectioned my hair off and using only her fingers detangled and separated my hair. She then put me under the dryer and let all but the roots of my hair dry, then stretched the roots with a blow dryer. Super cute I must say, I am going to have to get me some Miss Jessie's stuff and try those techniques.

Prices were regular salon prices, I paid $110, which included a small tip, for three colors.

Skinny Jeans

A few months ago I was pushing a size 20 in jeans (true story)and the only place I could really shop was Plus size stores like Ashley Stewart and Lane Bryant. Well last weekend I went shopping and bought a pair of skinny jeans that were a size 14 (tooting my own horn) they fit perfectly. Needless to say I was too hype. I'm keeping up the good work and I must say I am proud of me. :-)