YouTube Hair bloggers

Just saw this over at AOL Blackvoices. The beautiful Patrice aka Afrobella compiled a list of YouTube hair bloggers. They are definitley worth a look. I have shared a video or two by them on here.

Black Voices top YouTube bloggers

As for my hair. I think I will try to do Kinky twists again or Senegalese twist. Looking for more tips.

tight micros and lesson learned

My good friend Mary did these micro braid extensions for me. She says there is no excuse for a mother not to have her hair styled. Bless her.

If they look tight that is because they are.

My hair has been braided using Jazzy Kanekalon fibre. It is only braided about an inch and half which meant lots of my own hair is left out. Then the hair is braided into 5 or 6 big tight braids hence the extra tension on my scalp.

Then the hair is dipped into boiling hot water for about a minute. This curls the hair or gives it a waved crimped look. Now when this was done in my hair the hair was unraveled wet. Which meant when it dried although moisturised my hair frizzed up, Next time my hair will be left in the big braids untill completly dry so that my own hair stays in that style shape.

Now i have taken these out but found one of the braids came out by itself. From my investigation it was on my hair line. Which feels tender. Lesson learned. Next time i will insist my hair line is not braided so tight and that i take them out sooner.

Oh yeah please note yet again it took me over a week to take these out even though it wasnt plaited down to the length of my hair. micros and newborns are a no no. if it wasnt for another friend i would still be taking them out now

micro madness

I cannot believe that it has taken me 4 days to take out my micro humain hair extensions. I cut my own hair as i forgot my hairs lenghth. It was just pure madness. Luckily my friend helped me with the last few.

Now i am in style limbo. So my hair was seriously dry that my hubby pointed this out to me. So i gave my hair a pre-shampoo oil treatment. of coconut oil, amla etc. its called Vatika and indian hair treatment 100% natural. it felt nice in my hair i am tempted to use it as a daily pick me up when my hair needs it.

After my micro hell i am considering canerows som much easier to take out. I did try doing my own hair myself but i cant canerow backwards the way i would need to make the style work.

Well as they say practice makes perfect

dry scalp

Happy new Year !

Right now my scalp is suffering. Its dry and flaky which is not good when your hair has been immaculately braided by someone else. My friend suggested lavender water whih i never heard of. I am a bit scared of using an additive as such. i have considered many things but feel the best i can do is get a cloth damp it and wipe my scalp clean. Then oil my scalp again. This time i will use the dry and itchy. I am tempted to go and buy sulphur8 though if i do i will buy the light formula.

i was going to keep my hair in these micros for 3 months so that i wouldnt have to re-do my hair for my holiday. But i will take it out and get some canerows styish ones at that.

human hair

Got my micros done. Which i must say i am so pleased with. This is the first time i have used human hair to do my extensions. My aunty chose the hair type which is wet n wavy. i bought two 14 inches but turned out i needed one 14 and one 16 inch as my hair was longer than what my aunt thought. Her back is not too good but she braided my hair for me in what could have been done in a day but left the last hours work till the morning. It is shoulder length. she had some red 16inch hair so she used that to top up mine. in all it worked out that we only used one bag of hair roughly.

No i like human hair but for curly styles though. Me, I just need to work on my grip to be able to take up those small curls on my neck