Two Awards!

Hello!

 I received two awards, one recently and the other since February. I had so much on my plate then so I saved it till I was free, which is now.


These awards are from blutifulblaqhair.blogspot.com and wishfullengths.blogspot.com, thank you ladies for thinking of my blog for these awards! :)

Both awards have basically the same rules so I'll just do it combined so that you don't have to read 14 things about me lol.

Here we go:

7 Random things about me

1. I am not sure what I want to do with my life. surprise surprise! lol I am 22 and a senior in college (fall 2012) and I am not sure what direction to take. I think I'm pretty good at what I do (Mass Com/Journalism) but I have no set career. which leads to number 2.

2.I'm a hippie at heart! I don't want to be tied down to one dream or career, so I have many leads on where I want to be but no definite path. I change my "style" regularly, I don't know yet what country I want to live in and I think you get the point.

3. I am in love with my boyfriend of 4 years (well July makes 4 yrs). Relationship life is usually left behind when I enter hair land but I plan to be his misses soon, so y'all can know that lol.

4. I am a bit of an overachiever which sometimes clashes with my hippie heart. I want to be the best and that means that a B on my transcript makes me cry.

5. I am a soca junkie! Soca/calypso is music from the other islands (Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, St. Kitts & Nevis, etc.) but Jamaicans aren't really avid soca fans. I believe that Kes' song "Coming Over" (the second verse is definitely speaking about me haha) I used to only like dancehall and reggae (Jamaican music) but I listen to soca now just as much.

7. I love peppery food. I didn't like it when I was younger, but now I put pepper on everything it can be put on.

6. I think I have hair-orexia lol thats my word for the inability to see my hair for how long it really is. In my mind my hair is short and thin.

Thanks for reading, and I tag everyone who is reading this and haven't done the tag yet!

Aly.

School Is Out..Hair is In baby!!

So as you probably guessed from the title, I am officially on summer break!! yaayy!!

This means I'm in Jamaica!!

I wanted to stock up on hair products before I left NY but I couldn't because of the weight restrictions.

I still wanted to tell you about the products I've been loving lately.

I am in love with Garnier Fructis Sleek and Shine Intensely Smooth Leave-In Conditioning Cream, Fantasia Hair Polisher Daily Hair Treatment and my new Annie comb.

Garnier Fructis Sleek and Shine Intensely Smooth Leave-In Conditioning Cream

I used this when I was in New York (it was still cold) and I have been putting it to use while in Jamaica (its extremely hot). I am completely nuts for this leave-in. I even use it as a moisturizer and its great. I have frizzy hair when I air dry, but this seems to solve the problems, and it smells great!












Fantasia Hair Polisher Daily Hair Treatment

I don't even know if I should be using this serum to seal my hair after moisturizing, but I do. It contributes to the smoothness immensely and the comb glides through smoothly. Plus it has a nice scent and it leaves your hair shiny.




















Annie Jumbo Comb

This comb is so bomb, I don't know why I was still using my other wid-toothed comb. Little to no hair comes out. This may also be attributed to my slowed down shedding and breakage since the ending of the semester. Maybe I was just stressed but I love the comb.










Do you guys like these products?

Thank you for sticking out the semester with me :)

Aly

Giving my hair some Lovin'

So I finally got serious with my hair after weeks of saying I'm gonna get back on the "hair growth and retention" road.

Last week I did an egg and olive oil overnight treatment. I put lime juice on my scalp to ease the dry and itchy scalp issues I've been having. I kept this on my hair for the night and half of the next day.

I didn't do a  moisturizing deep condition because I was lazy, so I thought my hair would be hard. It definitely wasn't, I know my hair loves protein so no real surprise there that I didn't need the moisture treatment.

So I just added my leave-in and left it to air dry.

I then clipped like a half inch off my hair, it took loads of courage to do this but my splits were crazy. They had to go.

So now I'm split end free and my hair is strong. yaay!!


This week I decided to go back to my crazy growth aids. I went back to the cayenne pepper & castor oil mix.

 I massaged that onto my scalp and then sprayed water on the hair itself and coated it with olive oil. I put a plastic cap and a winter beanie on my head and am now going to sleep. 

Thank God for Good Friday, its a well deserved rest and meditation day.

So, after resting, I'll co-wash and then deep condition my hair. I really want to do a flexi-rod set but I'm afraid it won't come out right.

Well we'll see how it goes.

Thanks so much for reading,

Aly

Relaxer Update

I did something I haven't done in over a year now. I relaxed at just 8 weeks! :0

I just had to, it was my birthday and my hair was shedding all over the place. I went to the dominicans in New York to get it done last weekend. As usual I was upset at them for being rough but very pleased with the result. Just my typical love/hate feelings towards the dominicans.

Anyway, I used ORS Olive Oil Relaxer and had it deep conditioned. I, after the relaxer, inspected my ends and realized that I have major splits....again!

I feel like my hair is spiraling out of control. I'm gonna have to push the restart button on this, maybe go over my old posts, when I had the fragile hair troubles.

I'm going to get a real trim soon (it's really a cut but that thought scares me).

So here is my hair on Tuesday afternoon --->

Its still long but it doesn't feel great. Again I may have to attribute the shedding to the stress I have to face right now, I think I just need to relax.

I'll let you know how everything goes though.


Thank you for reading :)

Aly

Hello!

I think I need some hair help. I'm not sure if its mind over matter or if its really happening, but I think my hair is excessively breaking and shedding. I have experienced one or the other but never both at once.

I have tried to fix the problem but I just can't find the correct balance. I've tried baggying, protein treatments, deep conditioning, and clarifying (just once). Its just not working.

I even did a strand test and the area on the strand that I tested didn't fail the test, but the end of the strand broke off really quickly.

I also found a few splits. So I did some dusting to get rid of them, but I'm afraid they'll come back.

I have changed some of the products I've been using because I've been testing out new products to do reviews. Maybe that is the issue, I should probably go back to my original staples. That just takes money and that's not something I have much of at the moment. I can't even identify the problem product.

Well its almost my birthday, so maybe I can squeeze some birthday money out of my people lol.

I'll let you guys know how it goes.

Thanks for reading


Aly :)

Review: BSY Noni Black Hair Magic

Hey Ladies! Today is my blogger-versary!!! I didn't even realize it till I was at the end of writing this post. So I thought I would put it at the beginning. So its been a year since I first started my hair journey.  

Now for the review

 This can be found on Amazon for about $9 


These are the claims the producers have made:

Noni Black Hair Magic is formulated with herbal essense such as

• Noni
• Lingzhi mushroom
• Polygonum multiflorum
• Wild Ginseng

It has 6 advantages over normal grey hair treatment

1. No harmful chemicals
2. Easy application
3. Long lasting color
4. Saves time
5. Affordable Price
6. DIY- Anytime, anywhere, fast results

Other than blackening your grey hair, BSY Noni Black Hair Magic treatment has 6 other functions

1. Prevents Hair Loss. Double up as hair conditioner
2. Encourages healthy hair growth
3. Provides essential nutrients to hair roots
4. Eliminates dandruff
5. Treats scalp problems
6. Alleviates migraine headaches
7. SY Noni Enzyme has 4 miracle functions
   1. Powerful immune booster
   2. Repairing damaged cell
   3. Identifies abnormal cells. Medically proven in retarding proliferation of abnormal cells
   4. Eliminates toxins, restoring body’s ability to maintain itself in an alkaline state

My thoughts

Some weeks ago I used the BSY Noni Black Hair Magic dye the same day I did my relaxer. I am now four weeks post and my hair is still very black. I really love this product. Its really easy to use, you just work it in your hair just as how you would use a regular conditioner.

I had some reservations when I first saw the packet because it was all in some other chinese-y looking language that I didn't understand. Only the directions and the name were in English. Someone was also saying to me that I shouldn't trust it especially since I had just done the relaxer. After a little on the spot research, I was convinced that it was ok to use it. 

I thought the packet was small, but I really didn't need anymore. One packet was enough for my hair. Maybe if your hair is waist length you may need two, but my hair is  APL in "length check" stance and one was good enough.

It has a plant-like smell that you will experience for a week or so, but it isn't really bothersome. 

I thought that I wouldn't last long in my hair because sometimes I prefer to sleep with my deep conditioner in my hair overnight, instead of sitting under the dryer. When I did keep the conditioner on my hair, there was some color drain in the plastic cap. It didn't completely affect the color, however.

Overall I love this dye and will definitely be using it again. I mean, its dye thats good for your hair, what's better than that?

I hope this helps and Thanks for reading,

Aly

kinda long post, but if you miss me, even a little, you'll read :) <3

Hey ladies,

Its been what feels like forever since I last did a blog post. I apologize for my absence, but I've been  having the roughest few weeks.

First my comments are not on my blog anymore, so I now have to start over with the comment building. If  you are a blogger of any sort, you know comments are important for building the blog. So I decided to just continue the blog instead of remaining frustrated with the comment situation.

The second thing is that my college life became hectic in just a week after school resumed from winter break. I have an internship, a tutoring job, an editor position at the school newspaper and my regular scheduled classes. A lot, right? Also I have to maintain another blog for my online journalism class because my professor doesn't see this hair blog as "important". I'm joking, the hair blog just isn't "news-y", which is understandable. If you want to check it out, it's yaadspot.wordpress.com

I feel like I'm stressing y'all out with my issues lol, but this is the last one, I promise.

 I have been on an endless search for money to pay for school so if any of you, my lovely hair colleagues,  know about any scholarships for a mass communications, international student, who has a 3.67 GPA, just hit me up here . Thanks :)

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Next, I was given a blog award by blutifulblaqhair.blogspot.com and even though I'm not sure when I'll be able to do the post, I still wanted to say thank you publicly. THANKS GIRL!! :)

Ok now to the hair


I have been doing the same things to my hair. My routine hasn't changed, I deep condition every week, I only use shampoo when my hair feels dirty, or when I used products with ingredients I don't approve of. I moisturize and seal my hair every night. There was one period where I used heat two or three times, but nothing detrimental happened.

I still have to do the review on the natural hair dye that I used and my hair dryer. I also had the chance to use one of the Wen leave-in conditioners, and I want to do a review on that too.

Thanks for sticking with the blog even though I've been absent. It really does mean a lot that 32 people want to read what I have to say.

How is this fixed??

Hey can anybody help me?

All my comments disappeared from my blog but they are in the comments section of the settings section.

Does anybody know how to fix that?