Now, I know EXACTLY why these women just twirl their hair.

The obviously really LIKE IT!!!

And I've become one of them. I can't keep my darn fingers out of my hair! I keep touching it, pulling it, playing with it...and I CAN'T STOP!!!

There may be some days I just don't like the way my hair looked, but I still twirl a few strands...just because. I sit in my car at a stop light and my hands automatically go to my hair and I still pull this or that, or detangling. Just having fun with it.

So...yeah, I'm one of those women now, and I use to wrinkle my nose of them, they thinking they're all cute and stuff.  LOL!! Oh well. Be careful how you act towards others, because you just might become what you don't like.

BUT I LIKE IT!!

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Here is what my hair looked like in September. I've skipped August. I couldn't find a picture. But I really do love the below picture. My hair looks like this right after a wash. It's fluffed out and curly. By the end of the week, though, it looks much shorter

Here's you can see it shrinks just a bit

Then I have my length when it's wet and I twisted it to dry and keep from tangling. It's just about the same length as my perm before I started to go natural...almost. Still got maybe a few inches to go.

    

Sorry, the picture came out a bit awful, but you get the idea. Anyway, just wanted to give you an update on my 

I had started off not promising myself anything and really thinking I might just quit with all the hard work I had to do while transition, but it really paid off.  It's actually been worth it. I'm enjoying the texture of it and watching it grow. This part is really fun and not much effort or work at all. I can say that now, since all the hard work is OVER!!

Thanks for stopping by!

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In the picture below, i's kind of flat on one side because I didn't fluff it out a bit after lying on it for a nap, but it looked very nice during the portraits.

Ok. Just sending a real quick update. I really don't have much more to add. I'm still washing my hair once a week with putting my conditioner on sectioned hair and rinsing off. I'm also now using shea butter mixed with jojoba oil and almond oil that I only put in after I wash my hair--once a week. 

I've even stopped wearing my shower cap in the shower so I can get some moisture on my hair before bedtime. It mostly soaks up the lower back of my head, but I spread it around. I don't put my entire hair under the water, but I just let it get wet while I bathe. The coconut oil is on my hands, that I use on my body after a shower, is basically what I do after the shower on my hair as well...just the remnants of it, not a whole lot, and I do that every night.

In the morning, I use my sprints of oil and water, and put my scarves on, and night cap, for my commute drive to work.

That's about it! Takes me less than 3 minutes to do my hair in the morning...which I am completely Loving it! It actually about the same amount of time I took to do my hair with my perm, where I have to take out rollers, brushed it back, and use a banana clip. Hmmm...it might take less time.  I had thought I would have to take sooo much time on my hair, but now that the transition is over, it's a piece of cake. It's a lot less time to do my hair and work with it, and that is what I wanted and I am quite okay with that!

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I wanted to show you how I put my hair up for work. I used a thin satin scarf to hold back my hair and another scarf around my sides to keep the sides down. This sits on my hair during my 45 minute commute while I drive. Oh yeah, and a satin night cap for for the Afro puff on the damp hair.

    

And this is how my hair looks after I take the scarf and night cap off

     

I had trimmed the ends this month of June as well.

Just showing off how my hair is looking during this summer in Houston. And it's been very, very easy to keep it going.

Ok..now for July pictures.

I've been on medical leave and put my hair up in twists for 6-weeks, using only hats whenever I went out. I only took it down twice during that time to wash and trim and get the excess shedding hair out. Here are the pictures for the second washing of that.

First, I took my hair down after spraying it A LOT with water.

   

Then I section my hair so that I can then put in my  mayonnaise. I ran out of those clips with teeth on one side, so I used normal long clips on the other side. Also, I only used the teeth clips because I also did my mayonnaise/egg combination (2 eggs, 3 tablespoon of mayonnaise). Sorry, the fourth picture is very blurry, but it has the mayonnaise in it.

       

When I do the mayonnaise/egg protein conditioning, I make use of stuff...like my daughter's food mat. Yeah! I really like this idea because I can still sit in the living room and make a mess without messing up the carpet.  Pictures below is her Winnie The Pooh food mat, which, being now 2 1/2 years old, she no longer needs. So, Mommy's using it!

Starting from Left to Right for the picture below are all the items I use for my mayonnaise/egg and then conditioner routine. I made some closer images of the items as well.

      

After rinsing out the mayonnaise in the sink, I then put the conditioner in and rinse that out in the shower. I applied the oils and then, when twisting, I used my Shea-butter mixture. Below is the bags on my head for when I had the conditioner sit in my head for awhile.

  

Here is the hair shedding and trimming starting from left to right.

This was the final trim of getting out the last bits of permed hair. Most of the hair was cute little, natural curls.

  

Here's the result at work after all of the hard work. It's the first time I had it out after six weeks of being in flat twists.

I must say, I do love the little afro puffs when I section out my hair, and now, my hair is so much easier to deal with, especially without the bits of perms ends.

Though, I will still complain that this is A LOT of work!!.... I'm still enjoying the adventure

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I needed to do something with my hair for my recovery time during my medical leave. I twisted my hair ithout looking in a mirror. I'm not the best at doing hair, so it's not some decor to look at. LOL! I was waiting for surgery when these pictures were taken. This was actually end of February. I rolled the ends up with rollers and took the rollers out in the front.

            

They were two-stand, flat twists, and they actually held up for 3 weeks until I took it down to take the below pictures. My hair is a wee damp so that I could handle it. I just sprayed the twists with water before unraveling them. I put them up in individual sections, put my conditioner one each section, and rinse them out. That's my washing routine now.

    

My hair actually looked more like an Afro--like in the seventies! Pretty cool! I think it's grown more since I last saw it before the twist. Hmmmm.

Next month, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with my hair since I'm going to retwist it back up until I go back to work. As for going out, I'm not doing much of that lately, but if I need to, I just put my hat on.

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Here's what I cut (below). I cut A LOT. But I haven't had any, ANY, fairy knot problems. I've noticed that if I keep the hair in sections, twisted and rinse off each section at a time, I don't have problems with knots...at all! If I try just washing my hair like I did when I had perm hair, just mush it all up, scrubbing and washing...I get knots Galor! I might have mentioned that before, but I decided to state it again. The section-hair-washing-thing has greatly kept my knots away.

So, here's what it now looks like at work after the hair cut.

    

Looks like I went backwards and not have the length I wanted, but it might just be the End of the Permed hair. Like I said, I'll know for sure at the next hair cut. Sorry, I look so pitiful in my picture. Haven't been my happy self lately :)

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I tried washing my hair the normal way again without sectioning, but that just causes knots again. So, I'm back to washing my hair in sections, and putting the conditioner on first and rinsing out each section separately--once a week.  I do the three-strand twist with the leave-in conditioner, holding them with the Flexi-Rods, and go to bed. 

However, I just watched a YouTube video where they leave their twists in and rinse out the conditioner and says it works fine without unraveling the twist.

Hmmm... I don't know how THAT would work, but I might just try it.

Here's all the hair after it's been cut.

And here's the finished product with the hair cut...

   

I definitely need the hubby to shave the back of my neck. Heh. Heh.

I'm still using the 100% Aloe Vera Gel and water, and then tying it down with a scarf to keep the sides down. Well, I actually just use the Lady DURAG #141 Black, keeping it together and tying it with a big knot in the back leaving the top open. I LOVE that Durag!

That's about it for this month.

Until Next Time.

Heh. Heh.

I ended up cutting the majority of the permed ends because I was so tired of the limpies...the limps, the limpy. 

I figured that keeping my hair moist would work better without having to deal with the ends that won't stay curled. And it did. Cuting the ends made things SOOOO much easier. 

Of course, my hair is much shorter than I wanted it to be (just like when I had to cut off a lot due to the fairy knots), but it's extremely more manageable.  It seems that the more natural hair growth I get, the easier it gets.

Here's the Second cut of trimmings of my ends. The first amount of trims looked just like this.

And here's what it looks like now with my pulled-back hairdo.  It doesn't look too much different.

   

  

I'm continuing on with my journey along with finding a WONDERFUL hat that I can use whenever I just don't have my hair did: Women's Throwback Knit Beret with Brim. I found it on my favorite site, Amazon! I actually bought three different types of hats, but this one was my favorite. Even my Mom wanted one, so I bought her one too. Underneath this hat is my wet hair, with plastic cap and satin bonnet. It was, again, one of those days where I just washed my hair and I needed to go out really fast.

Awesome Hat!  Until Next Time!

I had some snoods, but both had unravelled! I decided not to get another one. I then find this thing at a flee market. Someone crochet it and it was pretty solid.

I want more and decided to research HATS FOR NATURAL HAIR.

I ran into several words for the types of hats I wanted: "tams" and/or "beanie" and/or "slouchy"

I put in an order on my favorite place, Amazon, for two of these. I'll see how it comes out.

In the mean time, back to my story.  So, my hair is soaking wet, right, and in the elastic twists. 

There was nothing I can do about it.

I toweled dried it. Stuck a plastic cap on to cover the wetness. Then put on my nap/sleepy time satin bonnet, and put my beanie on or my favorite Women's Throwback Knit Beret with Brim (from Amazon, but they're currently not there anymore darn! Hopefully it comes back. 4th picture below). The satin bonnet was to just cover up the plastic so it didn't show through the holes of the beanie or beret.

        

Just add some large hoop earrings and I was okay to go. My hair got the moisture it needed for the day, and I was somewhat decent for the public.

Life was good.

I just need something that looks a bit stylish, and so off to the online store to find them. I'll take pictures at a later date to show how they look.

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You know how it goes with natural hair. It's natural, alright, naturally free to do what the heck it chooses to do. It can't make up it's mind... it keeps changing what it wants to do....it wants to do one thing, on one day, and the next day, it wants to do something else....  Just like a darn woman, I tell ya! :)

I found out that my hair liked the Three Strand Twists instead...AND GEL. I kept wondering how the women on the YouTube videos and other pictures have these twisted braids that look so thick and shiny.  GEL. I kept thinking maybe it was because my hair was not completely natural so it wouldn't create thick, pretty twists.  But now I'm thinking their Twist Outs were created with the Three-Strand twist...AND GEL. They just say "Twist" so maybe it's Three. That's what it looks like.

I know I said I wouldn't be doing the Three Strand anymore, but the darn hair stated otherwise. It was hard to do...at first. Now that I've been doing them for a few weeks, yeah it's a bit slower than the Two-Strands, but it looks a lot better. You can take a looksie at my 1 year Transition pictures to see.

But yeah, the Three Strands Works better than the Two-Strands, so if you're having a bit of time, I would give it a try out...PLUS GEL.

At first they would unravel at the roots, but I kept thinking "ROPE" and twisting all the hair tightly as I twisted the strands. That kept the roots from unraveling. Sometimes I use a clip close to the roots to help.

I'll be sticking with the Three-Strand Twists...until my hair "DECIDES" it wants to change next month....or next week. Heh.

Until Next Time!!