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That Time I Thought I was a Kitchen Beautician #NaBloPoMo

November 16, 2015 by Alisha 2 Comments

When I first went natural 4 years ago I got sucked into all things natural…when it came to my hair. I tried every product none to man and even attempted to make a few of my own. Sometimes you just need to leave well enough alone… LOL

So I decided to try and make my own flax seed gel. #FAIL
The recipe I used was:
1/2c of flax seeds
2 cups of distilled water
*a few drops of essential oil (optional)

Once you boil your mixture, you will start to see the water congeal. After boiling for about 5 minutes, remove the mixture and use a strainer or thin pantyhose. The seeds are really tiny so a colander won’t work and don’t be like me and use tights. (Let’s just say I did a lot of squeezing for a tiny bit of gel!)Then add a few drops of your favorite essential oil, mix and you are done! It’s best to refrigerate the mixture and it’s good for about a week. [Read more…]

3 Ways I Keep My Daughter’s Hair Healthy & Maintain My Sanity

September 28, 2015 by Alisha 7 Comments

If you’ve been following me for a while then you know I’m team #ShortHairDontCare and part of that is because I have 2 daughters with enough hair for a small village. Thankfully my teenager is at the stage in her life where she is pretty independent and can do her own hair…thank you Sweet Baby Jesus! But my youngest daughter is 6 and if I left it up to her she’d be sporting one ponytail.every.single.day. -_-

Both of my girls came out of the womb looking like they had a lace front wig on. Their hair was so much easier to deal with when they were younger. Now I don’t know about you, but spending an episode of Jessie doing hair is just no fun. Luckily Mo will sit still and isn’t too tender-headed, but I the stress of daily hair styling on her hair (and me) were not healthy. During the summer our go-to hair style is using 8 jumbo braids because we are usually in the pool a lot and it’s easy to co-wash and condition her hair when it’s like that. But now that school has started I didn’t want to send her to school looking hella crazy every day and I SURE AS HECK didn’t want to have to do her hair each morning. I am so not about that life. [Read more…]

The Mane Choice: How Much Did Sybil Grow in a Month?

September 24, 2015 by Alisha 1 Comment

Last month I discussed the jacked up haircut I got and how I planned to grow the top of my taper cut back out. I’ve been taking Manetabolism Healthy Hair Vitamin (30 day supply) 60 capsules faithfully and could definitely tell that my hair was growing back well. Whenever I get the sides and back tapered pretty close it always grows back quick so I expected that part. What I didn’t expect was for my hair to grow as much as it did. My hair typically grows 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch each month. When I measured my hair last month it was just a little over 2 inches on top. Today when I measured my hair it was just over 3 inches…3.inches.people!!! Now usually I’m not one for the hype that a lot of HSN (hair, skin & nail) vitamins “claim” they can do. But I can actually say for me that my hair, skin and nails did well. [Read more…]

Hair porosity and why you should give a d*mn!

September 17, 2015 by Alisha 4 Comments

If you’re newly natural or you’ve been natural a long time, next to hair type another common term you may have heard is hair porosity. If you’re like me, after a while you just get inundated with all the terms and start to dismiss some of the “noise” that you hear. But today I want to talk with you about hair porosity and why you should give a damn!

I’ll be honest and let you know that I just recently started to actually pay attention to my hair porosity and how to better take care of Sybil. I’ve been natural for almost 4 years and I can definitely notice a difference in my hair and styles when I use products that are geared toward my low porosity hair. [Read more…]