I've Been Featured!

Hello everyone!  I have been soooo busy with my studies that I have been MIA for over a month, but I had to make myself stop reading journal articles to do a quick post.  I have been featured on my university's web site!  I did a flat twist out and I'm the only minority featured!  Check it out and let me know what you think.  Until next time...
Blessings!

Featuring - Danielle

Hello everyone!  I have finally gotten around to posting my feature on Danielle.  I met Danielle a couple of years ago at the bible conference my family attends every year, but this year was the first time we got to know each other.  Danielle and I have sons that are about one year apart, so with me  being in charge of the nursery I got to know her and her son. 

I love her smile!

Danielle has been natural for over seven years.  She once had relaxed hair that went a little beyond her shoulders.  She got tired of all the maintenance of relaxed hair and one day she cut it all off.  I don't mean like she transitioned for a couple of months and then wore a TWA.  No, she buzzed it all off!  She wore a fade.  The type of hair cut that had her father walk past her because he didn't recognize her.  Some family and friends thought she was crazy, but she stuck to her guns.

When I asked her about her routine the first thing out of her mouth was to say "I use water".  Just the opposite of when she was relaxed.  She also uses organic olive oil and that's it at this point.  Danielle is very much into natural products and that is why she uses water and olive oil.  I suggested to her to try Terressentials because it is mud and you can't get more organic than mud.  Unfortunately, Terressentials doesn't have a store location near her so she would have to order online.  Check it out Danielle I have heard a lot of good things about this mud!

Now, when I touched Danielle's hair it was super thick.  I mean so thick that when she wanted to get it flat ironed she was turned down by multiple Dominican salons.  Hello, the Dominicans turned her down!  She ended up going to several Dominican salons before one of then said that they could straighten her hair.

I love this headband!

While at the conference Danielle wore twists in the front and then a twist out.  I loved her hair accessories!  I had to get a picture of one of her hair styles with the white headband.  Overall, Danielle's best accessory is her smile.  The entire week I observed her laughing and smiling and basically having a great attitude about everything, including the 6 am fire alarm that went off Sunday morning.  Danielle's strong faith in God and her lovely personality just had to be featured.  Much love and thank you Danielle for allowing me to feature you on my blog.  Until next time...
Blessings!

Featuring my niece - WARNING super cute!

My niece, nephew and son playing in the sprinkler.

Hello everyone!  So, my niece, nephew, and grandma (my mom) are spending the week with me.  Grandma drove them down and my son is tickled pink to have them.  Today we made pizza and ran through the sprinkler and I asked my niece if she would allow me to do her hair.  I co-washed with Hello Hydration and then I decided to do some two strand twists.  With the conditioner dripping from her hair, I detangled her hair with a wide tooth comb and she said to me surprisingly that "it doesn't hurt when you comb my hair".  I told her that the key is that I'm detangling her hair with the conditioner still in her hair.  After rinsing the Hello Hydration conditioner out of her hair I smoothed some Mop Top over her entire head and then sectioned her hair into four parts.  Each section I then added 1-2 pumps of Mop Top daily conditioner with some jojoba oil and then some Mop Top medium hold gel.  Using only my fingers, I then started to section her hair for medium twists.  She ended up with about 30 twists.  From start (co-wash) to finish it took 55 minutes and she didn't seem to mind me twisting her hair.

I really like, no scratch that I love these twists!  She has never had her whole head twisted before.  Usually she wears a fro or braids, but this is the first time she has had her whole head two strand twisted.  My mother took pictures and posted to facebook.  The hubby took pictures and sent them to her parents via his phone.  I took pictures because I really wanted to post on my blog.  This poor girl just wanted to watch Dora and every adult in the house was demanding she stop and smile for the camera.  

Picture of the back of her head.  Check out that shine.

Trying to watch Dora with my son.

Tomorrow we are going to the MN Zoo and the zoo has a fountain splash park so I plan to have her wear the twists until Friday if they hold out.  Then if possible I will do a twist out, we'll see.  I parted the front so that she can wear them with a part in the middle or the side.  She really likes them parted in the middle with one or two twists in her face.  Her curls are to die for!  I just pray that my hair will have this kind of look when it gets longer.  

When we went shopping today I got a compliment about how "pretty my daughter" was and I had to correct the nice person that she was my niece.  I'll be honest, I've been wanting to get my hands in her hair since I went natural.  As I was co-washing her hair, I started to educate her about reminding her mama to detangle her hair with the conditioner still in it and that leaving conditioner in her hair will help keep it moisturized.  If possible I will try and take pictures as the week progresses and post later.  Until next time...

Blessings!

I've been featured!

Hello everyone!  I have exciting news!  I've been featured at Deepbrown & Kinks.  Nat contacted me and asked me to share my story with her readers in Nigeria.  How exciting!  Please check out my feature here!  Until next time...
Blessings!