hiya!!
Its been a minute!!Hope all is well with you all! So I was looking through my pictures the other day and I found a picture of a lady I stalked, YES STALKED at the Palms last year!! She was walking past Health Plus and I spotted her and like a tiger who has just spotted its prey I approached her keenly and told her I loved her hair and wanted to take a pic of it for my blog and she kindly obliged me, so here is RiRi's (the name she gave me) healthy hair;

Hiya,
It's been a minute! I am still trying to adjust to work mode at my new job but God dey! How are you all doing?! Hope all's well!

Well, Sunday came along and I did the relaxed hair version of a wash and go, then styled my hair to church but by the end of the service I looked like a lioness with frizzed out rain beaten hair (it rained) all over my face, I just felt like singing to myself ' meh meh meh meh, I told you to pack your hairrrrr'. I just felt like a hot mess, then I looked at my ends, uneven and annoying with splits here and there, I tell you split ends no dey look face oh, even with all theTLC I try to give this hair!hmmm

Without much ado, out came my hair cutting scissors! I cut off 2 inches from my hair




 That's about 4 months of growth if my hair grows 1/2 an inch every month, it was hard but very necessary!!

Below I will put you through how I trimmed those ugly split ends off and then how I cut the 2 inches off myself.  You know I am the DIY Princess and handing over my hair to a stylist for a simple trim at the risk of the stylist becoming scissors happy was not worth the risk, I still have the picture in my head of a lady that came in with neck length hair at a salon I visited but left with an Anita Baker  hair cut after asking for a trim!!! So my advice? Trim your hair yourself!! I advice you get a trim as often as you relax your hair which is for most people every 2 months. 

Any ways lets proceed with how I do my DIY hair trim!!

Step 1; Straighten your hair on low heat setting(for an accurate trim) and divide your hair into 2 sections like this;

Hiya,
A new month has begun and I have been really down because of the unfortunate plane crash that occurred on the 3rd which happened to be the same day I dedicated my baby in Church! My heart goes out to all those who lost a loved one in that crash, the Lord strengthen you!!

Well with the start of a new month, calls for another hair challenge!  This month lets challenge ourselves to relieve the combs and brushes a bit while we make use of our fingers to smooth out our hair. I got this idea when I was browsing through You tube some weeks ago and noticed that some hair guru's actually rely heavily on finger combing and for good reason.

You see, when you are constantly combing and brushing your hair even when it is moisturized, you loose hair unnecessarily due to the tugging and pulling even with a wide tooth comb and if you are like me, when I get a comb in my hair I want to make sure it glides through it and most times that takes at least 3 times of raking the comb through the hair and doing that every single day can be costly to your hair because aside from shed hair, there will also be comb raked out hair on the floor!!

So whats the solution? Your very own fingers. One of the hair guru's gave me a brilliant idea! She said she combs her hair with a comb just twice a week!! Yeap, just twice, on the days she gets hair hair washed which are Sunday and Wednesday. She uses the comb to detangle her damp hair and allows it to air dry and styles it with her fingers for the rest of the week! What she noticed is that she recorded more length retention and that's all you want if your aim is longer hair.

So ladies we have our work cut out for us this month. I am going to try using a comb on my hair just twice a week and finger comb the rest of the time. The comb's job will really be to detangle and remove snags from my hair, once I am detangled then I will use my fingers to gently rearrange my strands and keep them neatly in a bun or some flat twists or braid out- Whatever style option I choose, I will be using FINGERS MOSTLY!!

Join and lets see how this goes, you can also modify it the way you want to maybe just once a week or every other day or just on wash day; whatever the case just try and significantly reduce your use of combs and brushes this month for more length retention.

On the 8th of June this blog turns 1 and I am super excited and will do a giveaway!! Stay tuned for my post on that day and make sure you participate so you can be the lucky winner that receives my 1year anniversary giveaway!!

Xxx
Dabs


*photo credit- africannaturalistas.com

Hiya,
The weekend is here in a flash! Wow! I was browsing through different hair blogs over the week and came across a very interesting, informative blog that has had me hooked all week. It's called curlynikki.com and is run by an African American lady called Nikki with beautiful natural hair, she also has ladies with natural hair that often contribute to her blog and one particular post caught my eye the other day.

Basically the post talked about a new method of ensuring your hair is well moisturized and the moisture sealed in for longer than the regular moisturizing and sealing I have been doing. This method is called the LOC EASE METHOD.
LOC stands for Liquid, Oil and Cream; these are the products you will put in your hair in their appropriate sequence
EASE stands for Edges, All over, Sections and Ends; listing the sequence in which the products are applied to the hair.
 The lady went ahead to post a picture of her hair before and after using this method and I must say, the difference was clear! So I decided to try it and to be honest I didn't need much convincing as it makes sense, sometimes we moisturize and seal our hair without focusing on vital, sensitive parts and they remain neglected and before long become problem areas.

Okay let me elaborate a bit more on this method;
L- First you use a liquid based hair product, my liquid of choice was my Glycerin/Water mix in a spray bottle, your's could be leave in conditioner.