Monday, July 18, 2016

My Struggle To Maintain My Natrual Hair

I work from home full time and lately I have been struggling to maintain my natural hair. Before I was working from home, maintaining and styling my hair was a daily routine, as I had to go to work, plus my hair was much shorter. I started my natural hair growth journey in 2013.

Now my hair goes for days without being combed.  About a few weeks ago I tried something different.  I would wet my hair, apply some moisturuzer and pull my hair in one and leaving the ends exposed.  But on the day I decided it comb out my hair it was a little difficult to comb out even after wetting my hair a bit.

I don't like installing braid extentions and weaves into my hair. Presently it is my intention to get one of those brush straighteners.  I am very excited to try this product out.  If that doesn't go well which I think it will based on the videos I have seen reviewing the product.

However my plan B is to apply a mild texterizer to my hair.  I did this before and my hair looked lovely it was not straight my curls were just slightly stretched.

If you are thinking about growing your natural, first ask yourself why you want to do it.  Maintaining the natural hair is not as easy as it looks.  There is a lot of preparation involved.  Its not like you could just pull back your hair in one and go about your business if you have to go to a casual event.  For me most times, as long as I know in advance that I have an event to attend, I like to style my hair the day before.  Style in the sense that I will wash my hair, divide in sections, moisturize and twist.

Most times if my husband says let's go for a drive, my hair is not in an attractive style to go out the house because sometimes I may have my hair in mini twists and I don't really like how it looks when I go out.  Untwisting them takes a little time and my husband is very impatient.

Then the other side of that scenario is when I return home, I have to twist my hair again, which most times I don't do.



Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Review Of My 1st Soufeel Charm Jewelry Order

My 1st Soufeel arrived a few days ago and I was extremely excited to open my package.  The first thing that I removed from my package was a slip of paper that is a certification stating that my purchase is 925 - Sterling Silver.  The other things that were in the package were the charms that I purchased, a velvet pouch which I received free and it had a little slip in it with the words printed on it - POLY TAB - DO NOT REMOVE - ANTI TARNISH, a black piece of cloth which I assume is to clean the jewelry.

I purchased two charms for my test run.  I got the Hollow Lake Flower charm that has some tiny blue gem stones in the center of the flowers in the charm.  The original price was $45.00 and I got it at a whopping discount of about 80%.  I paid $9.99!  The next  item that I got is a dangle charm titled the Sydney Opera House.  I purchased this one for my travel bracelet.  The original price was $50.00 and I paid $25.00.

With this purchase I earned 11 points which can be used in a future purchase.  Soufeel has items on sale every day.  Each day a different one.

Note:  I purchased these items and they were NOT given to me free of change in exchange for a review!

Soufeel sells jewelry similar to Pandora and the great thing is you can put their charms on a Pandora bracelet or chain.




Friday, June 17, 2016

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!




Friday, April 29, 2016

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.


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






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!!!