Another discovery in my natural hair journey

Soooooooo I was in Macy's the other day looking at Carol's Daughter hair products when I started reading some handouts from her.  One of them talked about the "scab hair period". This hair period is the first 6-8 months of your hair grown.  According to Carol that is not your true curl pattern because your hair is growing out of damaged hair follicles. Once the follicles heal, your true curl pattern will start to come through.  I don't know how true this is, but it gives me something else to look forward to!

Reflecting on 2012

I woke up this morning to a phone call from the University of Virginia to officially offer me the position of tutor coordinator. After talking to the women in HR I started to reflect on everything that has happened this year.  The year started with me dating someone I was not very interested in and ended with me being in love with a wonderful man. Of course each year starts with me in financial ruins (that is a bit extreme I know) but this year is ending with financial blessings.  I started the year with relaxed hair and I am ending it natural and getting to the point where I love my hair.  This year I lost a close friend but reconciled with an old one.  I am transitioning into a position that will allow me to try new things and change a tutor program for the better.  As I type this I realize that this year I got something in my life that I have always lacked in the past: balance.  More than any other blessing from above I am thankful for that. I am praying that this will continue to be constant in my life.  finally I am looking forward to seeing what 2013, and age 29, will bring.

It's been a minute!

Wow time sure does fly.  I didn't realize it had been this long since I hit up the blog.  In the past few weeks I have been dealing with a few things: my hair and my spiritual walk.  I feel like I am at a crossroads in my spiritual walk.  I am not sure where to go next so keep me in your prayers as I listen and walk with God.

As my hair gets longer, it is becoming more and more difficult for me to manage. Since my post about my first official bad hair day, I have had about 10 bad hair days.  This may sound a bit conceited, but I am used to looking a certain way with minimal effort.  Natural hair definitely makes you redefine what beauty is!  Yesterday was really bad, so after viewing numerous YouTube clips, I decided to try finger shingling.  Oh I am in absolute LOVE with my hair!  It looks so shiny and neat.  I have absolutely NO frizz, which is something I was beginning to think was impossible.  I think I found my twa style, YAY!

Through all of the difficulties of the past few weeks, I am so glad that my relationship is still going strong.  Normally it would be the first thing to go, but I think I have found the man that fits me.  Never thought I would say that.  Boy does it feel nice...

The ugly phase

So I think I have reached my "ugly" phase; the phase in your natural hair process when no matter what you do, every day is a bad hair day.  Today was bad hair day five.  My hair routine was working perfectly until this week: Co-wash, oil, gel and go.    You Tube has been my best friend these past few days viewing natural hair clips one after the other.  Nothing has worked.  The up side to all of this is that my hair is growing so quickly.  The down side is nothing that I do is preventing this frizziness.  Maybe it will quickly grow through this phase.  My fingers are crossed...

1st official bad hair day

Well it finally happened.  After 3 wonderful months of growing my hair, today was a bad hair day.  I know that every product won't work in my hair, but so far I have had great luck with every product I've tried.  I purchased a leave-in conditioner a few weeks ago and decided to try it this morning after watching natural hair blogs last night.  Oh man, all day my hair looked like those tennis balls that you throw at the pad with the Velcro on it.  My day was so busy though, that I didn't notice it until around 6:30.  All I could think was "really, I looked like this ALL day."  Bye bye leave-in conditioner!

A pain in my...

No not there, in my neck!  Yesterday I had the worst back pain of my LIFE!  It bought me to tears.  Even pain meds didn't help.  I was at my wit's end when my homegirl offered to give me some muscle relaxers until I have my chiropractic appointment on Friday.  I was hesitant, but the pain made me give in.
Yo, whoever invented these things I'm sure have been thanked a million times over.  It felt so great to be able to sit on the couch and watch TV instead of laying in the floor.

One pound down!

I know that may not sound like a lot but after 4 months of losing no pounds, losing one in 6 days has really put a smile on my face!  AND I cycled 22 miles today in spinning class!  That is all.