Ok, so last week, I finally washed my hair! This is not really a problem since i did do that before straightening my hair, but the problem was, what to do with my hair AFTER I wash it. My usual routine would be be to start blow drying it for literally 2 hours (Yes, it does take that long! I know!), and then to start straightening it, which takes another two hours. Now you might be wondering, does it really take THAT long to do your hair, you must be over exaggerating it. Well here's my answers, IT DOES! If you don't have the same coarse and thickness of my hair, you wouldn't understand, so stop trying lol!
Since I'm trying to minimize the amount of heat I put on my hair now, i bought this gel every black person on youtube recommends, its called Eco Styler Olive Oil Gel (here's the link: http://www.walgreens.com/store/catalog/Treatments/Olive-Oil-Styling-Gel/ID=prod6031122-product?V=G&ec=frgl_&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=sku6029680). After washing my hair, instead of reaching for the blow dryer, I started applying the gel to small sections of my hair. Supposedly, this gel is suppose to bring out (couldn't find another word!) your natural curls, so this would work for a wash and go. My hair is weird, I started gelling my hair, but some parts had perfect curls, and some other parts of my hair just looked frizzy and not curly! So since I did not receive the results I was hoping for I started to twist my hair into single strands with the gel. The end result looked decent, and not too bad. I kind of felt proud of myself. I would show pictures BUT... I can't find them! I did take some picture, but i don't know what happened to them, can't find them in the camera. So maybe next time guys!
Don't forget, i'm always open for Questions and Answers!
See you t'ill my next post.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
PREFACE
If you are reading this blog, i seriously have no idea if this applies to you or if it seems interesting to you but it doesn't hurt to continue reading. If your wondering about the title of my blog "Bauté Naturelle", well your probably right, it's in French! Its means Natural Beauty, and that's the theme of my blog: Natural Beauty.
This blog is about me and my hair journey, (yes you heard right, me and my hair). In all seriousness, I'm sort of keeping an online journal of my journey to being natural and away from heat. I have big thick hair, and I've never permed, texturized, or done anything that has to do with putting chemicals in my hair ever in my life. Well your probably asking yourself "then what's you problem?". Well my problem is that since I was a freshman in High School (Approx. 4 years ago), after buying a straightener, I've never stopped straightening it since. I was literally straightening my hair every other day, not really caring about if I was damaging my hair or not. Long story short, I came to realize that I needed to stop using heat on my hair and start using other means to do my hair other than using heat, because my hair is damaged due to the excessive heat! To keep readers from falling asleep as I write my whole life story, I will try to keep stories short. But certainly ask questions if you want to know something, ask me questions!!!!!!!!!!
You guys might be wondering how will I go about my journey to my Beauté Naturelle. Well the other day I was inspired by this women named Nikole on Youtube, she went through this similar journey a year ago, and her hair is wonderful. I want to achieve what she achieved, so i plan to: Use products that she recommends, try the the natural hair regiments. I"m basically doing what she did a year ago, and hopefully i come up with the same results.
Here's the link to her Youtube account: http://www.youtube.com/user/MopTopMaven
And guess what, she also has a blog: http://www.moptopmaven.blogspot.com/
Hopefully this blog will help me stay on track with my journey. BY the way, my hair is actually straightened right now. I have not started my journey yet, but this will be the last time my hair will be straightened for quite a while (maybe 3-6 months). After I have all my materials to start my journey, no MORE HEAT. It's not fun being a slave to my hair. Hopefully i also inspire others through my journey, but i know it will be hard. See you guys t'ill the next post!
Au Revoir!
Shout out to my BFF Vivien LOL :)
-Marthe
(P.S. Please bear with me, I am a soon to be college student, and I'm bound to have some kind of spelling, grammar mistake!)
This blog is about me and my hair journey, (yes you heard right, me and my hair). In all seriousness, I'm sort of keeping an online journal of my journey to being natural and away from heat. I have big thick hair, and I've never permed, texturized, or done anything that has to do with putting chemicals in my hair ever in my life. Well your probably asking yourself "then what's you problem?". Well my problem is that since I was a freshman in High School (Approx. 4 years ago), after buying a straightener, I've never stopped straightening it since. I was literally straightening my hair every other day, not really caring about if I was damaging my hair or not. Long story short, I came to realize that I needed to stop using heat on my hair and start using other means to do my hair other than using heat, because my hair is damaged due to the excessive heat! To keep readers from falling asleep as I write my whole life story, I will try to keep stories short. But certainly ask questions if you want to know something, ask me questions!!!!!!!!!!
You guys might be wondering how will I go about my journey to my Beauté Naturelle. Well the other day I was inspired by this women named Nikole on Youtube, she went through this similar journey a year ago, and her hair is wonderful. I want to achieve what she achieved, so i plan to: Use products that she recommends, try the the natural hair regiments. I"m basically doing what she did a year ago, and hopefully i come up with the same results.
Here's the link to her Youtube account: http://www.youtube.com/user/MopTopMaven
And guess what, she also has a blog: http://www.moptopmaven.blogspot.com/
Hopefully this blog will help me stay on track with my journey. BY the way, my hair is actually straightened right now. I have not started my journey yet, but this will be the last time my hair will be straightened for quite a while (maybe 3-6 months). After I have all my materials to start my journey, no MORE HEAT. It's not fun being a slave to my hair. Hopefully i also inspire others through my journey, but i know it will be hard. See you guys t'ill the next post!
Au Revoir!
Shout out to my BFF Vivien LOL :)
-Marthe
(P.S. Please bear with me, I am a soon to be college student, and I'm bound to have some kind of spelling, grammar mistake!)
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