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February 3, 2016
Woosah: Relax Relate Release
It's been an interesting couple of days for the hair movement around these parts. After being lazy, having too much to do, and desperately searching for M51 Xpression braiding hair (thanks ebonyline.com you were a life saver) I finally took my hair down this weekend. Sunday to be precise. I knew I wasn't going to spend much time at work on Monday because I had to make an airport run and the most I would likely do is run to the gym so it seemed like having the few recommended days down between installs would both be possible, good, and relatively easily. Except yeah my hair never does easy lol. It was fine Sunday and most of Monday. Gym went great and all was well as I got home, made some fresh pasta, and then finally got around to washing my hair. The minute the shampoo made contact with the different textures they began a struggle to the death. It was ugly, it was long and by the time it was done I had little remnants of anything that could be considered straight hair lol. When I woke up in the morning it was thick and annoying. I was about 20 minutes away from slapping a relaxer in my hair but I remembered in a previous update that I said I would let my hair sort itself out and to be fair it completely did. On the upside, the long time post relaxer meant I had at least an afro to work with when it was finally trimmed the next day. In a variety of spots there was no more relaxed hair to deal with. In the longest spots it was a loss of another two inches. I tied it down last night and woke up to a slightly smushed afro and wasn't loving the product that was in it so I washed it then added some of the curly products I bought last night on the way home from the stylist. I ended up with this look this morning lol.
Notice the copious amount of gray hair and the little bit of black holding on for dear life. If I stretch it there's maybe another inch or so of hair but as my plan today was to get retwisted I didn't see a point in blowing it out or trying to straightening it. I'm sure I confused some people as I had what amounted to a twist out on Monday and showed up to the office rocking this midday. They will be equally confused tomorrow because I did this tonight lol.
I am super sad because I just went to see if there was more M51 left in stock to make sure I could keep this color as again most of my hair is white but they don't have any. I need at least one more back based on what happened tonight. I can go with the slightly lighter M44 which seems to be more readily available in lots of brands but yeah I like the super gray. Meh if anyone sees any Sensationnel Xpression braiding hair in M51 let me know lol.
How goes life with the rest of you? Back to the gym tomorrow after work since dinner is made for the rest of the week now. Yeah for diets and trainers. Night all.
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Your fro is fierce!
ReplyDeleteThank you. I was actually surprised that there was that much hair to work with after the visit to the shop trimmed and shaped it a bit. Looking forward to seeing what it looks like in a few weeks, well several weeks, when I take the twists down.
DeleteYour TWA is EVERYTHING!!!! And you are gorgeous in grey chica! Please don't ever dye it!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your #washdayexperience!
KLP @ www.savingourstrands.com
LOL thanks I am definitely not dyeing it. Mom will be ever disappointed about that but I made peace with my pigment lacking locks a long time ago.
DeleteSo you decided to big chop! I've been MIA and trying to catch up. Congrats! Love the fro!
ReplyDeleteMy hair actually decided for me. When I was combing through my hair the relaxed hair and the natural hair were like we are not here for one another no more. I did a little bit of chopping and then went in to see my stylist and boom tiny fro.
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