Mini Update

Hey, I've played in my hair for the past three months and have had many single strand knots as a result so I've decided to go back to my braids. Right now I'm wearing cornrows. I've discovered that my hair can be knotty and rough and grow slowly when I constantly manipulate it. This has led me to believe that braids are the secret ingredient to get my hair knot free and to keep it soft and highly moisturized almost like a secret ingredient makes hamburgers taste like steakburgers. I know weird analogy but it works. I'll be back later with more details on what I plan to do for the next few weeks.

Happy New Year!!! LOL

Okay I know I'm three months late, but I'm here. I've been trying to get my self together so that means less blogging and stuff, but I have managed to get some of the surprises together for this year.

The first being that I have reopened and updated my fotki (click here) . So some of my old pics which are already in my earlier posts are there including some new pics of what I've done recently with my hair. I've been debating on how frequently I want to update this, not quite sure yet.

The second surprise is that I'm finally on twitter (check the sidebar to the left). Well technically I've been on twitter, but I have not been tweeting because I had no idea of what to tweet. So I've finally come up with my idea of tweeting a Hair Tip of the Day. Sometimes it might be quirky or silly, but I promise to always tweet truthful facts.

Update on challenges

As you know I started on 6 challenges. First the Braiding for 2010 Challenge: I'm completely failing this challenge. After the 6 month HYH challenge I've been wearing my hair out in puffs, rollersets, washing and bunning. I think I've only worn a braids/weave once this year and it was only for two weeks because the hair was horrible it shedded everywhere and... UGH it was a hot mess. Batik is what I used, it usually works for me, but then again I never get color and this time I did and it was horrible. I've been thinking about calling this a quits because honestly I'm sick of braiding my hair and I refuse to pay for something I can do myself.

Valentines Day Challenge: I pretty much didn't keep up with this challenge. I never checked in and on reveal day I had the funky braids/weave, I wish I never did them they caused so much drama the whole two weeks I had them. SO MUCH DRAMA. I won't go into detail. So yeah umm I've been a very bad challenger in regards to these two challenges.

Baggy Challenge: I'm in this for two sessions which equals the whole year. I slacked a little last month by only baggying twice a week instead of four like I stated I would. But I'm going to up this especially since I've planned my exercise schedule to work with my hair washing, styling, and baggying schedule. This helps to make both regimen simple.

Super Healthy Ends Challenge: I have really been into this challenge. I've been super gentle to my ends moisturizing and sealing them everyday and always snipping at my single strand knots. I'm going to reduce my search and destroys to certain days of the month. Because honestly S&D's are extremely time consuming. Its bad enough I spend hours on wash day caring for my hair, but its well worth it.

4 month Ayurveda challenge: I've also been actively participating in this challenge. I wash every weekend with ... We'll talk about Ayurveda in another post. Its in my regimen now lets just leave it there for now.

MBL Challenge: Most of the time I wear a PS ponytail or bun even when i do my rollersets. I'm very paranoid about my hair touching my shoulders. Even though it passes my shoulders now I'm still not comfortable wearing my hair down because sometimes I feel my hair snagging on my shirt. This is a big no no. Also taking care of my ends every night is definitely helping me retain length and I ALWAYS wrap my hair with my silk scarf before I go to bed.

Okay I feel like I'm missing one, but these are the ones that I remember, I'll have to check later for one that I may be missing.

Upcoming

Of course I still have to do my reviews, and those other things, but also coming up is my length check on the 19th of this month. I haven't officially checked my length by flat ironing my whole head since September or October of last year. So I'm super excited to see where I am now. I hope to do more posts once I find a way to publish a post through my phone it always only goes to the edit file... Okay I'm rambling now. Chat and Tweet with you all soon.