What I'm Thinking...

So I'm pretty sure I'm going through my quarter-life crisis...I'm pretty sure I'm having an internal breakdown of some sort. I've come up with many acronyms to explain my condition. LOP...MAH...HTFDIGH...IWTSMVA...lots! I won't go into what each of those mean, but for my besties...they already know.

It seemed to be leading up to 30 and now fully into 30 I feel like I should know more about myself. What to do to make me feel and look better, but I feel somehow turning 30 started me off at scratch. Again...HTFDIGH! Really! I feel like my natural hair journey initiated some other internal journeys inside of me...and hey, everyday, I'm even surprised at the stuff I think and feel about myself.

Yeah...its some bullish. Dirty, dirty, dirty thirty. You dirty ____!You did this to me. I want that self assuredness I had at 25. I loved 25...and 24...and 26...and almost anything that started with a 2 in front of it. This 3 stuff is really not the deal. I've only been at it for 2 months, so I guess I'll give it a try, at least for like another 10 months.

I'll keep you posted...

Curly Fro

This is by far one of my favorite hairstyles. To achieve this look, while I was in the shower, I slightly wet the twist out I was rocking the night before. Not enough to soak it, but just to get it wet to the root. I then get out of the shower and shake shake shake the water out.

It stays wet for maybe another hour, but it shrank it back the way I like it and tamed the frizz. I put a lil' coconut oil on it and that was that!

I'm still rocking it today. Its a lil' bigger, but still hot.

20 Days of HCG

20 Days...give or take. And I got down to my lowest weight in the past 3 years! Until...yesterday I went out for fondue for my baby's mama birthday. The scale showed me...3+ lb gain overnight! What. The. F! It could have also been the scotch and late night shrimp fried rice catching up with me from the night before with the girls where I was super tiny, but it was really tragic to see that today. Here is a pix of me on Saturday at my all time low...only 9 pounds from my goal!

Tiny right! Those are skinny jeans...with no overlapping side fat (yes, I did have on a slight girdle, but still...) Tiny!

I've been working out every night for at least 20 minutes. I try to do a fit TV circuit on the Comcast On Demand. My favorite lately has been Jillian Michael's Fat Burn. Its quick and hits all the stuff I need to get tight and get right. My problem areas are arms, legs, butt...hell, everything. So I still have a lot of work to do to look good naked, but I'm looking pretty good in clothes so far.

So today I did a partial apple day. Its with the HCG, if you cheat (like I do every weekend) you eat apples mostly all day. Its supposed to be all day, but I can never get through the whole day. I have like 3 at work and a little salad for lunch. Then another later and a bowl of cabbage when I got home.

So far I'm done like 1.5 lbs from my super high weight gain this morning, so I'm hoping to be back at my goal by the morning. I'm going to try to do a whole hour of work tonight...so wish me luck!

For my hair in this picture, I did two-strand twist with Shea Moisture, wrapped it for a couple of hours, and then untwisted them. My front and middle never really curl, it was super straight after the blow out the day before, so I put on one of Kennedy's ribbons and kept it moving.

5 Month Blowout

 

So, its been 5 months and here is my growth. Some days I think its long...some days I don't. For this look I put Wired (a styling creme for blowouts) on my wet hair and blow dryed...blew dry blowed dry...my hair on high/cool setting. It actually got reallllly straight. I'm not sure if I like how straight it got. For my afro I'd like it to be a little bit more kinky, but it gave me a true depiction of my length. I'd say its about 2.5 inches or so right now.

I'm still using Castor Oil and Coconut Oil. I maybe use the Castor Oil twice a week instead of everyday. My hair is so dry lately with the weather, I'm still trying to figure out my moisture mix. The Castor Oil definitely helps!

From this style, I did a twist out. And from the twist out I wet it a little to shrink it back up. Those pictures will come in the blogs to follow.

Lady K's Minnie Mouse

Typically Lady K's hair is braided or twisted up, but she was on her way to a birthday party so I decided to do some fun Minnie Mouse Buns. She liked it!

We are still working on her poses...lol!

My adventures in sleep

So if you look at the time of these posts you will see I've been on the computer all freaking night. It is now 5am and I should be getting up for work at like 6 so you have no idea how pissed I am that my body will not allow me, now matter now tired, and irritated it knows I am, the opportunity to go to sleep. I tried to take a shower, look up some blogs, watch the weather, take some more theraflu....nothing.

I know what the issue is, I have anxiety issues and am about to go into a few new business ventures and it is hard for me to process all of the information alone without lots of research, user reviews, advise, etc. I feel I've fallen down a little and of course my DH doesn't get it because he's ....uh...a man, but its cool...I'll get over it.

So I'm up. I'm up and get more pissed the closer the clock gets to 6...tick tock, tick tock. And then I'm expected to totally perform for 9 hours and them come home and perform for my family and friends....

....so maybe this is my body and minds way of giving me a little semblance of time. Though I would have maybe tried to schedule myself in a little early, say 8pm, I guess I gotta take what I can get.

Knotty Blowout Fro

Can you say 9 day hair! I didn't think I could....but I am and its super cute!

When the winter first started, it was just my mission to find styles I didn't have to wet in the am. Now, I'm kinda styles I don't have to wet for several days. I had been rocking my coil out for a few days and it was getting kinda old, so I wanted some bigger hair. I sprayed my hair with the talijih waasjid protective leave in, oiled it with coconut oil and pulled out my blow dryer. I blow dryed each section with a denman - like brush (from Goody) and it didn't take more than 15 minutes. Once this was completed I rocked my hair in a fro for a day. See picture below:

After the fro day, I parted small sections and twisted. Because my hair isn't long, some areas wouldn't twist so I twisted and pinned this areas to my head. I slept with a scarf and in the morning unwraveled with coconut oil. So the top pix and bottom pix are with the same blow out, just made the top one a little more developed with the overnight twist.

I'm hoping to get another day out of this style because its 5 am if you can see when I'm up posting. I haven't been able to sleep all night and won't have time to create a new hair style for work in the am.