Style of the Week: Twist Out

Hey Yall! My style of this week is a twist out! This is THE hardest style of my natural hair life simply because my hair does not stay raveled upon itself (sad face lol). I've attempted this style numerous times and every time I take the twist apart, I hate it and put it in a high bun, but I've found the light and now I may make this style my staple! Even though I hardly ever put heat on my hair, in order to achieve my twist out I have to sit under the dryer for about 15 minutes to set the twists. This style is done best on clean hair because it can last me for about 3 days, a plus for me!

1. After freshly washing my hair a DC-ing it, I separate my hair into 2 sections, a left and a right.
2. I apply Giovanni Direct Leave-In to my soaking wet hair and split each section into 3 sections.
3. With each of these mini sections, I form my twists. I simply grab a small piece of hair (my twists work better in a smaller size because the curl pattern is more defined), apply a bit of Shea Moisture Curl Enhancing Smoothie, a bit of coconut oil to seal in the moisture and twist with 2 sections.
4. When I get to the end of the twist, I seal with shea butter. Usually this would hold a person's hair together but not mine, o the next few steps may not apply to you!
5. Being that the back half of my hair is way curlier than the front, which is almost bone straight, I choose to flat twist the front of my hair in extremely small sections, bantu knot the ends of each twists and rubber band them (bad, I know) to mimic the curl pattern of the twist in the back.
6. After all my twists are complete I sit under a hooded dryer for 15 mintues.
7. After my 15 minutes are up I simply tie my hair up with a silk bonnet and sleep. I usually do ALL my styles on my hair right before I go to bed, it's kind of relaxing :)
8. The next morning I rub and bit of coconut oil on each twist, unravel and fluff. BAAM! Gorgeous twist out!

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My Weekly "Regimen"

Hello all! I have a new regimen that I've recent started in order to rebuild my scalp strength after my allergic reaction to the Terresentials Mud Wash. I've used Shea Moisture before but I used their African Black Soap Deep Cleansing shampoo for my dandruff. Now that my dandruff problem is fixed, I've began to use their Organic Raw Shea Butter Moisture Retention shampoo for my dryness and let me tell you, my hair is soft even before I apply the conditioner! I usually co-wash one or twice a week and use the shampoo whenever I feel like my hair have heavy buildup. I then apply their Organic Raw Shea Butter Restorative Conditioner, I apply in the shower on soaking wet hair, comb through and pin up while I actually shower lol. I like to get my hair and body done at the same time! After I'm clean, I flip my hair over and rinse the conditioner out with cool water (I actually rinse my body with cool water too). Once I'm out the shower, I apply my Giovanni Direct Leave-In, shea butter or coconut oil to seal in the moisture and place about 6-8 twists in my hair and let air dry. I like to do my styles on damp hair so once my hair is as damp as I want it, I apply a fingertip sized amount of Shea Moisture's Curl Enhancing Smoothie to each section and twist or braid, do whatever style I'm doing. On my hair, it doesn't take a lot of the smoothie, if I apply to much my hair will never dry and it'll feel waxy, so be weary of how much you use. In combination, these products keep my hair soft, moisturized and manageable!

Back Again! A Terressentials review

Hello you guys! I've been pretty busy working and doing school work and I haven't had time to post and I apologize for that, but I'm back!

So as you all probably know, I started using Terressentials Mud Wash after wonderful reviews and a recommendation from my absolute FAV vlogger Whitney, aka Naptural85 on YouTube. I LOVED this mud wash from the first use! I detoxed for about 4 days and used the mud wash every week and a half as I would a regular shampoo. I applied the mud wash exactly how Naptural85 and Terressentials said and it worked beautifully! By using this, I didn't have to use any conditioners! My hair always retained moisture and was soft as soon and I rinsed out the wash, but then I discovered I was allergic to one of the ingredients *insert sad face here*. I really wish I could have continued using Terresentials, I could actually see myself becoming reliant on my natural oils and all natural products! After about 6 weeks, my scalp started to become more and more tender and red and started to scab up. I thought this was just a side effect from switching from one shampoo to a mud wash so I continued using it thinking the itching would go away. I finally realized that it was indeed the mud wash. Not speaking ill of Terresentials, I HIGHLY recommend their products (I used the Lavender scent) and really really wish I could continue using them. I may give them another try actually but use the fragrance free kind. I will def let you all know!

DevaCurl Review!!!!!!!!

Hello people!!! It's closing in on Christmas and I just decided to do a quick review on DevaCurl products!

So my mother is a master cosmetologist and I am apprenticing under her in her BRAND NEW salon! This is a perk that allows me to shop in the professional products stores! I've tried just about every shampoo out there and my fav is def DevaCurl!

I recently (around a month ago) purchased DevaCurl No-Poo shampoo, DevaCurl One Condition and DevaCurl Arc AnGEL.

To start, I washed my hair with the No-Poo shampoo, I HATE shampoo that lathers, it strips my hair and makes it extremely hard and dry and I need moisture seeing as how I have eczema in my scalp. I first noticed the tingly sensation of the shampoo! It is a very mildly scented shampoo that leaves my hair AMAZINGLY SOFT! It's even mild enough to use everyday lol, in fact I do use it everyday during summer months!

After I rinsed out the shampoo (that I only had to use once! No repeating means more product lol), I applied the One Condtion. I LOVE the fact that the whole line has one major conditioner! So I applied the conditioner which felt really weird. I automatically hated it, but as soon as I rinsed it out I fell in love! It left my hair feeling like BUTTA lol

So usually after this I would apply a leave-in and Curls Whipped Cream (My ABSOLUTE FAV PRODUCT!) but I decided to try the Arc AnGEL, this I hated lol, my hair needs moisture and this made my hair extremely sticky and stiff so i rinsed it out and applied my Curls lol

All in all I LOVE DevaCurl and will continue to use it! I has knocked Miss Jessie's and Kinky Curly out of product cabinet lol

Leave comments if you decide to try DevaCurl! Enjoy :)

Homemade Shea Butter Deep Conditioner

After a long and tiring search for a deep conditioner that actually worked and provided my hair with moisture (other than WEN Remoist), I decided to make my own!

Ingredients:
2 tbls raw, unrefined shea butter (google it, surprisingly cheap)
3 tsp Olive Oil
2 tsp Tea Tree Oil
1/2 cup conditioner (I use Cantu Rinse Out Conditioner but you can use your favorite brand!)

1. Pour the conditioner in a bowl and mix in olive oil and tea tree oil.
2. In a separate bowl, melt shea butter completely in microwave (my house is always cold so the shea butter is always hard)
3. Add shea butter to conditioner and mix well, let it cool down.
4. After washing or co-washing your hair, apply mixture soaking wet to hair in sections (I part my hair into quarters and apply) DO NOT COMB!
5. Sit under a hard bonnet dryer for 45 mins to an hour!
6. Allow hair to cool off.
7. Comb with a wide tooth comb.
8. Rinse out, leaving about 5% of the conditioner in.
9. Style as usual
10. Enjoy your moisturized hair!

Ingredients....see! There's the shea butter lol

End result. ENJOY!!!