Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Take the survey! Is it JUST hair?
I have noticed there are two VERY different schools on natural hair. Let me know what you think. If you fall in the grey please put in your own answer. When we get 50 answers we'll post the results!
Monday, September 17, 2012
Style sNaps: Summer in the City (Boston 2012 edition)
For awhile, I just didn't notice. I didn't realize that the impact had reached my city. I failed to recognize that the natural hair movement (trend? phenomenon?) had made waves (see what I did there?) in Boston. It really only hit me earlier this summer at the Shake the City rally (a peace rally organized in the wake of the brutal fatal shooting of three young women here in Boston). As I walked around Franklin Field taking pictures, I found myself distracted from my sober and serious surroundings by sistas all around me rockin' fly styles. Who were these women? Where had they all come from? Had I been asleep only to wake up to an invasion of naturals? Again, at the Caribbean carnival in Cambridge, I was struck by the array of natural styles in the streets. As I snapped more pictures, I decided this level of loveliness should be shared. Thus, Style sNaps was born. From time to time, I'll share natural hair street style pics so that we all may be inspired by the flyness of others.
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| Carnival queens |
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| Lovely lengthy locs |
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| Natural rainbow |
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| Masterfully mature |
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| Tone and texture |
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| Pretty in pink |
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| Twist and puff |
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| Viewing the variety |
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| I didn't know whether to admire her locs or her abs. |
So, that's it for the inaugural edition of Style sNaps. Let me know what you think and if you too have noticed an increase in the natural population in your area.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Like IJH on Facebook!
We finally made the move to separate IJH from our personal FB accounts.
No need to keep inundating my co-workers and old classmates with pictures of my hair styles lol. So please like us over there!
All the blog posts will go up on there and we'll also be posting things we are reading on other blogs and sites that we find helpful or interesting (like the "what we are reading section on the sidebar here).
We still don't have anything to hawk or sell, or endorse (makes plotting rat face as we gaze into the future). But here or there, let us know what types of info you find helpful or beneficial! We'll try to keep the product reviews and staples top of mind.
www.facebook.com/itsjusthairblog
No need to keep inundating my co-workers and old classmates with pictures of my hair styles lol. So please like us over there!
All the blog posts will go up on there and we'll also be posting things we are reading on other blogs and sites that we find helpful or interesting (like the "what we are reading section on the sidebar here).
We still don't have anything to hawk or sell, or endorse (makes plotting rat face as we gaze into the future). But here or there, let us know what types of info you find helpful or beneficial! We'll try to keep the product reviews and staples top of mind.
www.facebook.com/itsjusthairblog
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Fluffy Wash&Go! Product combo I Like
It's been a rough week for me over here. One of those weeks where you spend a lot of time thinking and ruminating while physically balancing work, home life and social life yet there is nothing really even happening, but nothing... lol.
And there lies the rub. And the energy you thought you had all just goes in that hole with the nothing.
But everything still got done! And it many ways it was a great week, indicative of the changing season.
I have yet to set my hair for a roller set of any sort to kick start the fall. But I have been doing more Bang and Buffs, and I found a conditioner I love. Suave Professionals Black Raspberry and White Tea Color care conditioner. It smells DIVINE, it has a ton of yummy ingredients BEFORE the fragrance and I could really feel a thickening and coating effect. yum yum yum.
I love the smell of the V05 Blackberry and sage $1 conditioner, and this has that type of scent but the added hair yum effect for $2.50.
I did a co-wash with that and applied some Nubian Heritage Heat Protect Leave-In Conditioning Cream Honey & Black Seed. Now this stuff has a STRONG smell. STRONG!! Off putting at first because it's so STRONG! lol.
STRONG.
But it smells like a chocolaty hazel-nutty vanilla sandlewood sweet earthyness..... Not bad by any means... I was out once recently and a random girl was like wow you smell like cocoa butter, and the guy next to her was like... yeahhhhhhh... lol
But the smell has grown on me and a little goes a long way. It's like the Shea moisture smoothie but is isn't as sticky and yet it goes a little further. It is also absent any coconut oil that I can decipher. (oh I must tell you how definitively incompatible Coconut is to my skin!) So I used that and some castor oil and then a scant amount of my KMF gel because I wanted my hair to be big. These picts are of day 2 hair, the morning after pinappling my big fluffy do from the night before. (the first two picts I shot on a whim, before I put any makeup on, orrrrr took my eye makeup off from the night before lol. Excuse the morning face lol)
I really liked the way this combo of products played out! It was soft and defined and the pinappling really stretched it out. I'm back at APL so I get a little hang time. PLUS, even without heavy gel, I got an additional day of "out hair" and today I have a high buff.
And if you are still with me- I promised a picture of my fancy painting job in my dining room. I cleaned up in there and did a little decorating. voilà, magic. Or errrr, periwinkle....
And there lies the rub. And the energy you thought you had all just goes in that hole with the nothing.
But everything still got done! And it many ways it was a great week, indicative of the changing season.
I love the smell of the V05 Blackberry and sage $1 conditioner, and this has that type of scent but the added hair yum effect for $2.50.
I did a co-wash with that and applied some Nubian Heritage Heat Protect Leave-In Conditioning Cream Honey & Black Seed. Now this stuff has a STRONG smell. STRONG!! Off putting at first because it's so STRONG! lol.
STRONG.
But it smells like a chocolaty hazel-nutty vanilla sandlewood sweet earthyness..... Not bad by any means... I was out once recently and a random girl was like wow you smell like cocoa butter, and the guy next to her was like... yeahhhhhhh... lol
But the smell has grown on me and a little goes a long way. It's like the Shea moisture smoothie but is isn't as sticky and yet it goes a little further. It is also absent any coconut oil that I can decipher. (oh I must tell you how definitively incompatible Coconut is to my skin!) So I used that and some castor oil and then a scant amount of my KMF gel because I wanted my hair to be big. These picts are of day 2 hair, the morning after pinappling my big fluffy do from the night before. (the first two picts I shot on a whim, before I put any makeup on, orrrrr took my eye makeup off from the night before lol. Excuse the morning face lol)
And if you are still with me- I promised a picture of my fancy painting job in my dining room. I cleaned up in there and did a little decorating. voilà, magic. Or errrr, periwinkle....
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Puff and bang. Fall styling?
This past week was, for all practical purposes, the last week of summer :-(
Labor day weekend eeked by me with nary a fun thing to report, though I did get to see Sheila E perform live at the Howard Theater on Thursday. It went to prove that I am still a little young, compared to those in attendance who remembered not only all of her songs, but all the songs by the opening act, formerly known as "The Family" o_O Booties were shaking lol.
But that was it for my weekend. I mowed my front and back lawns, tended my gardens, and painted my dining room a shade of periwinkle. By myself. (forever alone? lol) I spackled the holes and pits, and sanded and blue-taped and everything :-) I was afraid to replace the furniture quite yet but I will post a pic when the now-floating table can go back where it belongs.
Sooo my hair didn't really need to be done this weekend since I went nowhere. But I guess some sort of "hope" of a fun time lurking behind the next circuit of the hour hand kept me from totally protective styling it away. I wore my hair as seen below on Friday and just pinappled it most of the weekend. I co-washed it late Saturday, but essentially styled it right back to how it was.
Then I got paint in my hair Monday.
Just a lil bit lol. I finger smoothed most of it out, only to find more every time I looked in the mirror.
I'm thinking, however, that when I finally do co-wash again that I want to put it in a braid and curl or twist and curl set. I want to begin doing those for the fall and winter to retain some length. I've been trimming my hair often to offset the SSKs resulting from my wash&go habit. I prefer it a little shorter for many reasons but I realized that if I were to press my hair right now that it would look much as it did a year ago. I guess after several years of medium length hair I might be ready for longer hair again. You never know when that time may come. Or when it may go :-) After 11-12 years with no relaxer, length goals are not so much a factor as is diversity of styles.
Labor day weekend eeked by me with nary a fun thing to report, though I did get to see Sheila E perform live at the Howard Theater on Thursday. It went to prove that I am still a little young, compared to those in attendance who remembered not only all of her songs, but all the songs by the opening act, formerly known as "The Family" o_O Booties were shaking lol.
But that was it for my weekend. I mowed my front and back lawns, tended my gardens, and painted my dining room a shade of periwinkle. By myself. (forever alone? lol) I spackled the holes and pits, and sanded and blue-taped and everything :-) I was afraid to replace the furniture quite yet but I will post a pic when the now-floating table can go back where it belongs.
Sooo my hair didn't really need to be done this weekend since I went nowhere. But I guess some sort of "hope" of a fun time lurking behind the next circuit of the hour hand kept me from totally protective styling it away. I wore my hair as seen below on Friday and just pinappled it most of the weekend. I co-washed it late Saturday, but essentially styled it right back to how it was.
Then I got paint in my hair Monday.
Just a lil bit lol. I finger smoothed most of it out, only to find more every time I looked in the mirror.
I'm thinking, however, that when I finally do co-wash again that I want to put it in a braid and curl or twist and curl set. I want to begin doing those for the fall and winter to retain some length. I've been trimming my hair often to offset the SSKs resulting from my wash&go habit. I prefer it a little shorter for many reasons but I realized that if I were to press my hair right now that it would look much as it did a year ago. I guess after several years of medium length hair I might be ready for longer hair again. You never know when that time may come. Or when it may go :-) After 11-12 years with no relaxer, length goals are not so much a factor as is diversity of styles.
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