A Crazy Moment With My Natural Hair

I received a telephone call a few days ago and the caller invited me to a job interview for an application that I submitted.

The appointment was for the next day at 9:00am. So I decided that it was a good idea to style my hair the night before and gently combed out my hair.

Here are a few pics that I took, I felt a little crazy with my hair opened out like that.  It has sure grown a lot!

Using Baking Soda To Clean My Pandora Jewelry

Last year around this same time, I was about to put on my Pandora bangle bracelet and realized that it was tarnished!  The bangle bracelet was my first piece of Pandora jewelry that my son gifted to me a couple of years ago.  And I already had acquired a number of charms.  Alot of people would tell you that a Pandora jewelry collection could be a bit expensive.
 

The jewelry is available in sterling silver, gold, rose gold, sterling silver with bits of gold etc.  At this point I have only purchased the sterling silver Pandora Jewelry.  I have one leather bracelet that I received during one of Pandora's annual specials.

So you could understand when I got very upset to see that my Pandora jewelry was tarnished, to the point that I almost threw it away!  Then I thought about applying some baking soda on the jewelry. So I placed the Pandora bangle bracelet with the charms into a bowl and poured some baking soda (aka bicarbonate of soda) over it.  Then I mixed in some water to make a paste.  I rubbed the paste on the jewelry and left it for about 2 hours.

I then washed off the baking soda paste from the Pandora Jewelry and was amazed at how shiny it looked!  I was so happy!!  I am also grateful that I made an early decision to pull out my camcorder to record the event so my viewers could see the transformation!  That first video was not planned and was a bit unorganized so I recorded another one and explained what I was doing step by step.

I have received numerous comments on the first video from viewers reporting that they tried this tip and it has worked great for them.  Other people would tell you to take the jewelry to your local Pandora store to have your Pandora Jewelry cleaned.  Sometimes it's just more convenient to clean it yourself at home.  Note:  I tried cleaning the jewelry with dishing washing liquid but it left my jewelry looking dull.

Pandora Sterling Silver Jewelry Maintenance/Cleaning Tips

You might also be interested in Pandora's cleaning kit. Here is my video reviewing this product. CLICK HERE 

Using Baking Soda To Clean My Pandora Bangle Bracelet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah-lnwDweKQ

How I Use Baking Soda To Clean My Pandora Jewelry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDjsGktXQSg

Blog Name Changed To Pearlina1925 about my Natural Hair Growth and Pandora Jewelry Collection

Okay so I have changed the name of this blog again!!!  I have a related YouTube channel and the name was Beautiful Hair (or something like that).  On that channel I have also done a few videos about my Pandora Jewelry collection and a few beauty tips.  I have realized that the Pandora jewelry videos are more popular than my natural hair growth videos.  Then I realized that the content on the channel is not only about my natural hair growth journey and made a decision to change to name to Pearlina1925.

Why Pearlina1925?  Well I thought this would be a great opportunity to give a tribute to my mother whose first name is Pearl and since I keep forgetting which year she was born, I decided to combine her name with the year she was born so I would not forget.  Now my first name is Martina, as you may already know so I used the last three letters of my name and attached it to Pearl and walla!!!  Pearlina!!!  Pearlina1925!!!

My YouTube channel Pearlina1925

Conversation With A Natural Hair Twist Out Model

I had a very entertaining conversation with a young lady yesterday.  I went into a store to purchase some stuff for my kitchen and while doing the checkout, I observed that the cashier's hair is natural.  It looked like she did a twist out - it look full, lush and beautiful!!  

A twist out is when you separate the hair in sections and separate each section of hair into two and then twisted them.  Also known as a two strand twist. The next day or maybe days later, the sections are untwisted and left like that or styled.

I told her that I made an attempt with unplaiting my hair and did not like the results, my hair would just stick out.  She also shared that her hair needs alot of water and her experience with braiding her, she realized that she had to keep moisturizing her hair even though it was in braids.  

As you can see even though her hair is natural, some chemical dye was applied to her hair to change the color.  This causes the hair to be dry so that's a double set of dryness as our hair is naturally dry.

Extra caution has to be taken to moisturize the hair even though it may be in a protective style.  Which is where a lot of women fall short in their natural hair growth journey.

Black Men And Natural Hair

I got the inspiration for this blog post from YouTuber Sava Mounage.  He did a video about Black Men Hate Natural Hair (see the video below).  Now I will talk about my personal experience.  I started my personal natural hair journey in 2013 and initially it was going very well as there was still some relaxed hair with the new growth.

Eventually when I was almost fully natural I started to cut off the little bits of relaxed hair that was left.  Then my husband will tell me that he did not like my hair.  Basically every time he looked at my hair he would tell me this.  I too went through a bit of adjustment where I did not like my hair.  I even did a video about this. I think I just did not know how to style my hair also I know I had to go through a bit of mind adjustment.

I Am Not Enjoying My Natural Hair!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S-Qf0gcNdA

There were times where I would protective style my hair with bantu knots and my husband did not like that.  I felt a but guilty as I was not making myself look attractive when I went to bed.  Lets face it ladies, we still have to look attractive to our man when we go to bed!! Maybe my husband thought I would have go back to relaxing my hair as he did not like my natural hair but I had already made up my mind to continue on this journey.

Now these days he would pass his hand through my hair, I think he is getting accustomed to my natural hair now.  We (both men and women) were brained washed into thinking that our natural hair is not beautiful so it takes time for us to readjust and 'open' our eyes and see that our natural is beautiful!!!

Its refreshing to listen to the opinion, from a man - to be precise - an African man, about women growing their hair natural AND men as well.

 

This video is so funny I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did