30 days to better hair

So, what does my blog title mean? Exactly what it says. I am dedicating the next thirty days to healthy hair. I am going to refrain from heat, take biotin five times a day and use castor oil everyday for thiry days. I have 35 days until graduation, and I want the best and the thickest my hair can produce for this special time. So I am on a this mad dash to the finish line. I cannot believe how fast the time has passed me and how soon graduation date is approching, May 11th. So, my heart is like buh-bump, buh-bump, buh-bump...literally trying to beat out of my chest. However, its just not about hair. This is spiritual and mental and physical. I want to be the best I can to take on everything that comes with post-graduation. So I will TRY my hardest to keep you updated every five days. I have an ANDROID now, so I have to be able to keep up with my blog better now, lol.
MUAH!

Ramblings

So it has been a min since my last entry. So Imma catch up. OK...I found I'm graduating in may. Excited. I have been all up in my schooling. I have only free time to air under the dryer and there too I'm studying. I'm under here now and decides to put down my notes to write this blog. I am two weeks post today. My next relaxer will be the week of my graduation which is may eleventh. I may do it Monday evening or Tuesday. Still debating. I have relied more on roller sets and hood drying. Also...I have eliminated wrapping for right now. I'm trying to grow my thin spots in. Speaking of thin spots, I got tired of the thin ends so I cut about an inch and a quarter away. I relaxed my hair and got it back. My ends r not blunt but they are not thin. So I'm satisfied. What else? Oh! I'm on my biotin hard. I'm trying to have longer hair for graduation. I'm also trying to achieve a thick looking rollerset for graduation. OK...so I really want to try clip in extentsions as another tool to help grow out the thin spots in the back. My goal is to have them by graduation because if I am in happy with the thickness of my real hair I will have a plan b on standby lol. That's funny to me but I'm so serious. Changes are being made constantly about my hair. So I will alert you on anything at any time on my new Android phone. Yes!!! Lol. So...happy Thursday and until the next entry.....

More Goals

Hello ladies. I decided to give myself about three challenges over this year. I believe these challenges will be beneficial to me in the future, kinda, lol. So, I am adding on the following challenges to add a lil bump into this new year.
First challenge, I am going to use black soap and only one other facial product for my skin. I believe that I have complicated it enough. I believe I am going to stick to black soap and a moisturizer. I am at the point in my facial reg where the more simple is the best for me.

Second challenge, I am going to drink water everday. I have yet to do that, lol. I know that I haven't had a drink of water all day today. That is sad. Water so beneficial to me. I believe that I can feel alot better if I am drinking more water. I will also NOT cheat with flavored water, lol.

Third challenge, I am going to pray and have more devotion. When I was in community college, I went to church more and I prayed more. Then, I also prospered more. I feel like I have lost my way somewhere here at my four year institution. Back then, I prayed alot, pretty much every night and I felt great as a person. I felt like I was able to wake up everyday and conquer the world. For the past three years, I haven't felt like that. So, this will all change in the new year.

Here are my challenges. I will try my best to check in every month, but this challenge will end December 24th. My ultimate goal is to have this stick and become a permanent thing in my life. Wish me luck!!!
Muah! :*

Happy New Year and Hair Updates

Hello lovelies. I hope the new year was brought in with much love. I apologize for not blogging too much over the holidays. I am coping with my lost still and its hard not having him around. So...I am back and with a purpose. Its 2012, and I am claiming this year for me!!! I am graduating this year (finally). I am going to have hair down my back again. I am coming out of 2011 swinging. I am going to be serious this entire year. I have goals that I am trying to reach. To prevent a long blog, I am just going to give you a brief overview. My only new years resolution is to complete a goal list and its entirety. THAT IS IT. However, this list is long with many goals. I believe that I can do this. If I complete this list, it will be the only one I have ever completed. Graduating on there. Growing my hair to BSL is on there. A few more. What I am going to do is blog about me accomplishing each goal. I am hoping this will be a beautiful year. So, I am particpating in Longing 4 Length's Rollersetting Challenge. I have a couple of problems, though. 1, I do not have a hood dryer at school, so I have to work on purchasing one these in my spare time. 2, Because I do not have a hood dryer, I may have to go to bed with those hard magnetic rollers in my hair. Its like riding a horse while trying to go to sleep. However, I have DIY'ed a perfect bedtime roller. I have tried it out for the first time last night, and I slept like a baby. No tossing and turning. No rollers coming out. No sore head. And NO crimps in my hair. I will definitely have to put y'all on game by the next blog post. So, I am going to end it here, and Happy Growing!!!
Muah!

Watching for Length is making me INSANE!!!

I have given up straightening my hair looking for more growth. I have grown tired of looking for length after my relaxers. I am just so irritated with not having any growth. But I am thankful for my healthy looking ends. I am thankful that my hair is growing back in on my sides. I am thankful that my hair is growing in where it has broken off from my bonnet. I am thankful for lesser breakage and lesser shedding. I am thankful that I can put my hair into a pony tail. I am thankful that I can call this hair MINES. So, yea I may be disappointed about not meeting hair goals, but my family continues to compliment my hair like its dragging behind me on the floor. SO....I guess that is better than nothing. At this point, I am on a strict hair regimen which includes washes weekly, more clarifiers, more moisturizers, more oils, more vitamins, more protective styles, less heat, less heat, less hands in my hair. My three year heathy hair jounery anniversary is TOMORROW. Three years in a commitment to doing better by my hair. I have done better by my hair, BUT I can do way better. I am so in love with my hair. Currently, I am air drying from a protein wash and coconut deep conditioning.
3yr anny blog post to come soon.

Happy Turkey Day and more news

Happy Turkey Day everyone. I hope everyone is doing well. Well, I will be when the food gets ready, lol. I decided to write this quick blog to talk about what has been going on the last few days. If you are on Hairlista, I wrote a blog on there talking about how I cannot get enough of direct heat. It is more like an addiction. I get so frustrated from doing my hair with bummed sets and dud hhair styles that never turn out right. So, direct heat always come in and save the day, but at what cost? I asked was heat once a week really that bad if I moisturize properly and oil properly. Like I expected, I got mixed opinions. So basically, I decided to try one more time with the different less direct heat hair styles. Before I commit to that, I straightened my hair one more time, lol. When I straightened it, I was so disgusted with the middle in the back thinner than the sides and one side was longer than the other side. So, I jumped the gun from my 2012 goal and went ahead and evened my back. It is not as blunt as I would like for it to be, BUT it looks a whole lot better. The middle doesn't look that thin, the sides are even and my ends are on their way to being at the bluntness that I am looking for. I lost about an inch of hair, but I parted with it because I said that I could be fried from all of the heat and that I was going to enjoy my bluntness more than length. So I am think I am right at APL right now. So basically I am going to miss out on my goal of the year which was to meet BSL for December. But thats ok. I am glad I did it last night so that now it will be no problem for me to continue to keep up with that cut and not be so apprehensive about cutting off more hair to maintain the blunt ends. All and all, I am satisfied. That's the price you have to pay if you love direct heat like me. But like I said in my previous blog, I am more serious about my hair's health more than ever, because I feel like I am behind in growth. I won't be left behind anymore.

Until next time, and don't have too much dressing,
Lex

Contemplating

Hello, world. I hope this message reaches some happy people. I am doing well considering some things, lol. Anyways, I am currently at home enjoying my thanksgiving break. I have been a little confused with my relaxer info. I am usually so good about keeping with this info. This entire time, I thought I was four weeks post. No way! I am actaully six weeks post. I was so taken back. This doesn't sound like a big deal, but I am just so amazed how I lost two whole weeks from my stretching. Anywho....I am going to relax my hair *fingers crossed* (because I have become so impatient) December 14 at 10 weeks. That is only four weeks. I should be able to make four weeks, right?

I have a few goals for the new year. my goal for December 31st or January 1st is that regardless of how high I have to go, I AM BLUNT CUT MY ENDS!!! To me, blunt ends shows good hair health. I am too terrified to go to the salon and get this done. I do not want to leave with this major hair cut. The girl I do trust to do this, well, she didn't know until she was 29 weeks pregnant that she was with child. She is hospitalized until she has the baby. Scary, right? So, I am going to attempt this on my own. I believe when I do this, I will begin to start a new year of healthy hair journey. 2012 is the year of seriousness and hard work. I am going to do WHATEVER I have to do to make it to BSL (if I do not make to BSL by this December) and MBL. I have a small feeling that I will not be quite BSL by graduation, which is fine. After the trim, I am setting a goal for BSL by April 2012.

Also, my 3 year HHJ anny is coming up next month, December 8th! I cannot believe that it has been three years since I made the move to do good by my hair. Oh, I cannot wait. Watch out for that blog, I am going to talk about everything, from the beginning, to my starting picture, to my five week stretches between relaxers, my mother's disapproval, my new hair styles I learned to make, wigs, weave, boyfriend, edges, trims, swimming regimen, texlax, considering going natural, difficult hair, weak hair, hands always in my head, constant questions whether this is my hair, ETC!!! The list goes on and on and on. One more important thing is where I avoid being a product junkie and started loving my hair. So, be on the look out for that blog, and it is going to be a long one.

Another goal of mines is to have a more active blog. I am trying to get my mother more involved in the hair journey. I already have my grandmother on board, but I need to educate her alittle on what products to use and when. I am also going to do longer stretches, so I can have more NG for my relaxers. I would love to do a four month (16 week) stretch in 2012. I would love to do it from July 1st to November 1st. I would also love to do two whole months in braids at a time. I would like to have braids from Feburary 20th to April 20th. I would love to have my hair relaxed on May 1st and stretch from May 1st to July 1st. My goal for 2012 would be also to only get four relaxers that yearm but if not no more than five. I do not want to do another trim until December, just a S and D. I am also considering cutting the front of my hair different, just to have variation in the front.
So...this is only the tip of the iceberg with what I have planned. None of this matters if I do not put it into motion. Follow on my journey to have long healthy hair.

Muah! See you in the under the dryer...