Surprised by hairstyle

On Monday November 30, 2010, I washed my hair and set it in some small pink rollers. The next morning I combed out my hair and as it was still a bit curly so I combed my hair into one big finger curl.

I decided to go to work with my hair like that. It was in my opinion that it was looking presentable enough to go to work with. To my great surprise two of my friends liked my hair style and actually came close to me, touched my hair to see what I had done with it. I was really surprised.

I took some pictures for you to see - see below. Sorry the pictures are a bit blurred. At night, I roll my hair into two big pin curls - that's it. I find that when I comb out my hair it is nice, full and bouncy! I like that!

Unwanted 'DreadLocks'!

Okay people, this is my latest update. In my last post, I had a picture of my hair braided. Well even though it looked great, I did not want to leave the braids in my hair for any lengthy period of time. So the next weekend I decided to have my hairdresser style my hair. Unfortunately I did not take any pictures. 

She twist the front and put the balance of the hair in one and rolled it into a bun. I left the salon feeling good about my hair and saying to myself that I can keep this hairstyle for a few weeks.

Well after the third day I found that I was scratching my scalp alot and it was quite aggravating. Make me feel as if I was unclean. I don't think I made a week after I had my hair styled. A few days later I unwrapped the hair and applied some moisturizer to my scalp. I felt alot better and I noticed that I was not itching as much after that. 

Well on Friday evening after work, I decided to remove the braids, wash my hair and have it relaxed on Monday on my day off (the braids was looking very untidy). It did not take long to remove the braids because the plaits were large. But after I washed my hair, the nightmare began. 

Certain parts of my hair knotted up and I was unable to untangle them. It was so ironic. I was thinking of ‘locking’ my hair and here I was with parts of my hair in unwanted locks!

So Saturday morning bright and early I want to my hairdresser to have her untangle my hair. I was a bit scared as I thought she would have told me that I would have to cut my hair to remove the knots. But it went well.

Twist Braids

Okay everyone, this is my latest update. It has been a while.  I had some braids put in my hair yesterday.  Something that I did not really wanted to do.  As you know I have been thinking alot about 'locking' my hair but I don't think I am quite ready yet.  And the last person that I spoke to, they said that it hurts, during maintenance, restyling etc and it is a bit expensive.  So I am still doing my research on the idea.

In the mean time I still have not touch up my hair.  While my hair was being braided, I am sure my new hair growth is about two inches!  This is not the braid that I wanted.  I wanted the twist, yes, but I wanted each twist to be fatter and the hair length shorter.  But my hairdresser told me that if she cut the hair, it would have unraveled out.  I was too tired to argue with her.

My husband took these pictures and they look great!  As I was setting up my camera to take some pictures, he came home and I asked him to take these pictures for me.  He did a great job.  Maybe this is finally something that we can do together and enjoy!

My Dread Locks

Okay it is officially four months since I last touch up my hair.  I have alot of new growth and it is a bit of a chore to comb after I wash it.  But I will continue to stretch my relaxer until I really decide what I am going to do with my hair.  Maybe as the new hotel industry season starts (around November) I may think of doing a touch.  But we will see.  I am enjoying playing with my natural waves when ever I get a chance. 

Yesterday I had the opportunity to meet a fello SBIer who has a site about dreadlocks.  I was so excited to meet her.  There is alot of great information on the site.  Its list info like testing the lock style with synthetic locks (if you indecisive in making the transition like I am) which I found to be a great idea.  Check out her site.

Shake It Baby!

On my visit to Anegada on August 11, 2010, I had the pleasure of meeting this gentleman, he was retrieving a basket of lobster that they keep in the shallow part of the beach.  He informed me that it is a method of keep the
lobster fresh.  Well as he came out of the water, he shook his locks and as he noticed that I was taking pictures, he shook his locks some more.  Marvellous!

Having His Dreadlocks Re-twisted For His Wedding Day

This is the groom for the wedding that I had to attend in St. Vincent on August 1, 2010.  He wears his hair in a dreadlocks hairstyle and was having it re-twisted for the wedding.  I took the opportunity to chat with his hairdresser, telling her about my thoughts of wearing my hair natural, maybe in a dreadlocks hair style as well.  I saw alot of people wearing their hair in locks in St. Vincent.  Some were looking a bit untidy. 

This young lady told me that she too was thinking about locking her hair but she keeps changing her mind for two reasons.  Eventhough she can do it for herself, it would be quite difficult to do so plus it would be a bit costly to have it done.  To have it re-twisted would take about 2-3 hours.  As you see the gentleman took the opportunity to have a little nap!

Dreadlocks Stocking Cap

My Mother-In-Law Natural Grey Hair

This is my mother-in-law, she was unplaiting her natural grey hair so granddaughter could re-plait it for the wedding on August 1, 2010.  She has a beautiful set of natural grey hair, it is so soft and light.  I am sure she never put any sort of chemicals in her hair.  

My mother use to relax her hair and now she has a Jerri curl.  She is now in her 80's and she does not dye her hair, she hardly has any grey hair!  She is truly blessed!

How I Styled My Hair For Wedding In St. Vincent

Okay this is what I did with my hair for the wedding. I took my pom pom hair piece with me. One evening we were hanging out in the front porch at my mother-in-law's place in St. Vincent and I was telling my niece-in-law about my desire not to relax my hair. So she simply began to comb out my hair (she had a little problem) and applied some hair dress to my hair and scalp.  She even gave me a scalp massage.  It felt really good!

Then I realized she was parting my hair to plait it, I was about to protest but I allowed her to do her own thing. She braid the front of my head and left the back alone in order for me to pull it back in one and clip on my hair piece. I kept the hair style until I left the Island.

Before I left for St. Vincent I did a test of twisting my hair into small Bantu Knots but as I came out of the airplane and walked to the Airport terminal in Antigua, my curls were blown out. In addition to that, I sweat a lot so I decided against twisting my hair for the wedding.

One of my visitors suggested that I set my hair in small rollers. I did the test with my hair dry but the setting did not stay for too long.

I thought that it should work if my hair is wet, so I decided to wash my hair but as I have so much new growth, I had great difficulty parting my hair. What I should have done was to set my hair dry and THEN sprayed my hair with some water.  Unfortunately I was unable to get a really close up picture of the completed hairstyle.  Maybe you can see it in this picture on the right.

Monet

I am quite behind in my postings because all my time has been injected into my recipe website which I have recently designed so I have to transfer each pages (about 150 of them). 

About my hair, right now I have alot of new growth and have a strong desire not to do a touch up. As I have mentioned in a few of my previous posts, I have to attend a wedding in a few days and again there is no desire to relax my hair.

This is Monet, my son's girlfriend.  She wears her hair natural.  She recently has her hair re twisted and I asked her how long it took to have the hair style done and she said that it took about three hours!  On the days when her hair was longer, it would have taken about five hours!  Lovely isn't she!

What To Do?

I can't decide what to do.  My husband and I have to attend a wedding, in St. Vincent, in August and I am having a hard time deciding how to style my hair.  I know the choices are many but many them I am not willing to do. 

Okay my choices are to braid or weave my hair.  I am not prepared to spend that many hours and money at the hairdresser plus I know soon afterward I would want to remove the braids/weave.  In addition, if I have it done before I travel, by the time of the wedding the hairstyle will be 'stale'.  I would be traveling on the Friday and the wedding is on the Sunday.

My other option is to do my regular Bantu Knots hair style but to be frank, I really would like to do something different.  If I set and style my hair, the style would not hold for (I sweat alot) very long unless I apply some hair spray.  Don't want to do that either.

Any ideas?

Chris Rock

I recently saw a documentary hosted by Chris Rock, it was about black woman and their hair. One particular interview that he did that stood at me was with a group of about four ladies. He asked them what are the disadvantages of growing your hair natural and one woman gave her opinion that when - a women attends an interview with her natural (some women wear their hair as if they plait it the night before and just unplait it the next morning), she personally would not take the person seriously. It is a fact, some people do still think like that. There was a lady, within the group that Chris interviewed, who wore her hair exactly like that.



But if the bearer of the hairstyle, just styles the natural hair, I think she/he would be more respected. It’s just like the first impressions of a person wearing a Rasta hairstyle are not of a serious nature. It is totally different if that same person walks into a room with their hair well cut and groomed.


When I first migrated to the BVI, you were not permitted to stay on the island if you wore a Rasta hairstyle. I remember one year for BVI Music Festival, Singing Sandra (a singer from Trinidad & Tobago) was sent back home because the wore this hair style. She was to perform at the festival.


The BVI laws were revised a few years later.
Things are changing these days and alot of black men and women are wearing their hair in locks as a choice of hairstyle. It is their choice to wear their hair natural and the world needs to see how beautiful the black hair is AND it can grow very long!!!!

Bouncy

My routine every night is to moisturize my hair and twist it into Bantu knots. Last night I realized that my curls were nice and bouncy so I applied a small amount of moisturizer to my hair and pulled it back into one big Bantu knot.

This morning I just sprayed my hair with some ORS Oil Sheen spray, finger comb in my usual fashion and that was it. My hair feels so bouncy this morning. I just love it!

So I realize that I don't really have to twist my hair every night. But I will do so tonight because I want to comb out my hair and apply adequate moisturizer.

Felicia's Hair Style

I like this hair style alot.  I have a wedding to attend to in August of this year and it would be great to have my hair styled like this for the occasion.  The only problem is that I will be travelling on the Friday before the wedding which is on the Sunday and I know for sure, the style would not look fresh by the Sunday.  So having my hair styled before I travel is not an option.  Hmmmmm.....  What should I do?

Orlando - Model Of The Day

This is one of my co-workers, and friend Orlando.  It has been a while that I wanted to take his picture and I finally got it yesterday.   When he saw the pictures he was very surprised at how his hair good looks.  He said that he does not really get the opportunity to see his hair from a back view.  So my response to him is this is what attracts the ladies.  LOL!!!

He expressed that the maintenance of the locks could be quite time consuming. To have a good looking head of natural hair, it has to be washed and ever so often the hair has to be re-locked. He said that this can be a bit painful (I did not know this). And there is also the financial aspect of it. Certain products will have to be bought to keep the hair looking healthy.  Some men have their locks styled - maybe in braids for example.

Very talented 2

 These are some more pictures of a talented  young lady's work.  The model has her hair in locks and my friend styled it for her.  I was talking to a male friend the day (he also has his hair in locks) and he express that the maintenance of the locks could be quite time consuming.  To have a good locking head of natural hair, it has to be washed, ever so often the hair has to be re-locked.  He said that this can be a bit painful (I did not know this).  And there is also the financial aspect of it.  Certain products will have to be bought to keep the hair looking and some people pay to have it re-lock and styled like the model in these pictures.

 This look can also be achieved with artifical braids.

Cut and Style Relaxed Hair

These are some pictures of a friend of mine.  I have known her for some time and she recently cut and styled her hair.  I was quite surprised.  But it looks great!!!  It gives her face a different look altogether.  One good thing about this hair style is that you can still pull it back into one if you are having a bad hair day.

Touch Up Time Again

I had my hair touch up, on Wednesday 7th April, with ORS relaxer (I bought the box about 4 months ago and I use the second bottle of relaxer that day).  When I went to work today (Saturday 19th April) I was complimented on how good my hair looks.  I am a bit disappointed that there is not much hair growth.  But I should not complain much because I had new growth but apparently there has been some hair breakage.  But looking at this picture I must agree my hair looks good!!!

My Niece New Relaxed Hair Cut

 

These are some pictures of my niece who recently has her hair cut and styled.  It looks absolutely lovely.  

I remember the days when I had my hair in this type of style.  The front of my hair was not that long though.  The problem with this style is that it is high maintenance.  There are some days when you may have a bad hair day and you CANNOT pull your hair back in a pony tail.  And to keep the style looking good, you will have to keep the hair at the back very low.  I never did like how my hair looked (at the back) when it started to grow back.

One advantage I could remember is when I set my hair, it would last for the entire week.

Very Talented At Styling Dreadlocks

It has been a while since I have posted pictures of other peoples' hair.  You see when I first started this blog, I took pictures of my friends hair and posted them here.  Last night I met a young lady who does hair as a hobby and this is one of her samples.  I will be posting some more pictures of her work.  She is very talented.

Guess What?

Can you believe it?  I have many post about Bantu Knots and now the other night I twisted my hair in some knots and I found it quite difficult to sleep.  I tossed and turned for most of the night.  The corn row comb outs are really the 'bomb'.

Home Stretch

Beach Waves

Pincurl Braidout

Faux Bob

Follower's Blog

Its ironic, I just checked one of my follower's blog only to realized that she has been wearing her hair in a comb out hairstyle (similar to mine) for the christmas holiday.  Checkout her post.  She also has another post about how to french braid (this is the name of the plaits I braid my hair in at night) your hair for yourself, check out the post with the video.  I think the video was well done and quite simple.

Pictures Of New Setting Style - Simple And Effective To Style My Relaxed Hair

In my last post I wrote about my latest technique of styling my relaxed hair.  I am enjoying this one too.  Today I am posting some pictures so you can see what it looks like.  Now keep in mind that I took these pictures at the end of the day PLUS it was very windy today so my hair was all messed up when I went out for lunch today.  But at the end of the day it was still looking good. 

This is the way I plait my hair at night (see photo above), as you can see I did not even create a straight path but it does not matter.  I then secured the ends by twisting them into a little Bantu Knot and then securing them with a hair tye.

The next  morning I just finger combed my hair.

As much as I like Bantu Knots, I have realized that it looks better and I have more control when my relaxer is about approximately 6 weeks old.  After a touch up I think I will use this braiding method.

ORS Carrot Oil

Hey, I posted some Organic Root Stimulator (ORS) Carrot Oil and I applied some to my hair last night.   I then braided my hair in two vertical corn rows. 


This morning, I unplait my hair and finger combed it.  I was very pleased with the results.  My hair looked nice and wavy.  The only problem was that the weather was a bit damp so my waves became  a little loose soon after.  But guess what?  I will be doing my hair like this for the rest of the week!

Protective Styling

Pincurls

Twisted Up Do

Signature Bun

As much as I try to avoid combing my hair in one every day,this bun looks cool and simple, I must give it a try. The only thing is my hair is not as long as this model so my bun will not look as full and thick as hers.

Shoes Haul

I went to the shoe store today to purchase a bedroom slipper for my mother and I saw these shoes, I just went crazy!  They are so cute and are just my style.  I am starting a new job in February and I would need 'slippers' (I just love 'slippers') that are comfortable.  The price was just right too, $20.00 each.  I bought three pairs and plan to purchase another two pairs today - a red and tan.  I may not bother with the tan as it is close in color to the gold.

So much like me

My daughter was in the BVI for the christmas holidays and on her first night, I twisted her hair in Bantu Knots and took these pictures. She look so much like me in these pictures.  But unfortunately she did not like the results of her Bantu Knot outs so I don't have any results pictures to show.

Not looking good

This is my attempt to style my Bantu Knots out after twisting them and then wrapping.  Not looking too good.  Maybe I will try it again sometime.

Bantu Knots No No

Simple II

This is so simple, I am going to try this tomorrow!!!  As you will notice she double twist the hair before twisting them into the knots.

Simple 1

Poofed Hairstyle

I really enjoy this lady's videos (they are fun), she really enjoys different hairstyles and they are all look so cute.

Curly Braid Out

Braided Bautu Knots

Big Mistake

A few days ago I plait my hair in two vertical corn rows.  The next day I unplait them in order to wash my hair.  I had a little problem unplaiting the end of one row, so I left it with the thought that while washing my hair I would have been able to unplait it easier.  That that was a big mistake!  I still could not unplait that end as a matter of fact it became more difficult after wetting my hair.  To be truthful I had to bust that knot out.  I was most upset after I had done that.  Big Mistake!!!