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With prior success with the no heat challenge, ( see this post ), I decided to start a "No Heat Challenge" for 30 days. The last time that I used heat on my hair was February 14 for Valentine's day. But for the sake of my followers, I wanted to motivate those on a healthy hair journey to challenge yourself to give up all direct heat for 30 days.   After the first 30 days, feel free to continue on with the second part with is the 60 day challenge (just another 30 days at the conclusion of the first challenge). Let's start this challenge on 5/12/19.  Take starting pictures of your current length. No measuring allowed during the challenge. Again, no direct heat (flat irons, curling irons, straightening combs, blow dryers, etc...) are not allowed during this challenge. However, hooded dryers can be used to dry hair with roller-sets, or wraps.  Who's ready? I will post a picture of my current length in the following post. If you would like to follow...

Want to try something cute, quick, and easy to do? Well, this may work better for you than it did for me. I tried this previously and it came out perfect, but this time, it was a major fail, but I did find a way to make it still look cute and wearable in public. Check out this before picture... The hair is not combed after washing the day before. I had just worn it in a top bun the day prior. Me and my hair have this love/hate type of relationship. One minute it is the best in the world and the next, the most annoying thing ever. So since it was one of those "annoying" moments, I decided to do SOMETHING with it.  I decided to do six mini buns (wraparound buns also known as bantu knots). I gathered the products. Products Used: Peppermint Oil. Jamaican Black Castor Oil Garnier Whole Blends Leave in Conditioner Lottabody Setting Lotion Eco-Styler Hold & Shine Moisture Mist by Shea Moisture I mixed the Peppermint Oil and JBCO together and applied to ...

If you remember from this post , then you remember when I chopped off all of the heat damaged hair that I was suffering from. I started my natural hair journey in 2010 and become completely natural in 2012. My hair reached all the way to near waist length but I always had to chop away hair due to heat damage, or because the ends were breaking constantly. Last year, Sept 1st 2015, I decided to cut off ALL of the heat damaged and color in my hair. It left me with ear length (lol) hair. I mean, I couldn't do anything with it, but I found ways to make it work. Now in Sept 2016, I am almost near where I started with healthier strands. My hair is so thick, even, and healthy that I now hate to even mess with it. So here is the long awaited one-year before and after. To view my complete hair journey from the beginning, click here . Before: September 2015 After: September 2016 Comparison chart: Sept 2015 - Sept 2016

Follow my  instagram  for daily hair pics.  My hair has had its struggles through the years; some good, some bad, and some just ooogly (ugly). But through it all, it has been a learning experience as I continue to get a full grasp of this hair of mine. As a kid, I had a decent amount of hair and would get it pressed a few times,which would let my hair reach mid-back. That was until a friend of the family put a perm in my hair and then the process started from then - a downward spiral that I never fully recovered. As of right now, I cannot find any pictures of my high school years, but I did find a few from those "awkward" years after high school. I used to fry, dye, blow-dry, cut, wear bonding glue to attach weaves, and everything else you could possible imagine, I did. I didn't really care about my hair because it looked cute and healthy to me. Little did I know at the time that I was damaging my hair to the extremes with perming, then blow-drying, then color...