~I am fascinated with the power of words~ Words have the power to elevate you (lift you up) or depress you (bring you down). The right words can lead you in the right direction or the wrong direction towards weight gain or weight loss
towards poor self esteem or self confidence towards anger or happiness towards wealth or poverty towards the right faith or the wrong faith.
Words have power to inspire your next thoughts, influence your next words and in turn your results.
Who has inspired you to live the life you live now?
Are you in a path of positive growth or a path of struggle?
Whose words has influenced you?
I fall in love more and more with caring and styling my hair in its natural state especially with results such as the photo above. These were fresh twists with straw curls the day after I did them. :) Giovanni Gel is a must for me for such a great shine!!!
Before my curls were completed here are pictures of my growth!!! I photo'ed after I detangled my hair with water and coconut oil. :) I am very excited with the height of my hair.
Check out this link to one of my first posts of my journey to natural hair...It's a photo of my version of the "big chop".. I Believe I Am Officially Natural The fifth photo in my blog shows how much shorter a height I had
Here is how it looks when I finished curling my twists on the straws and photos the next night after removing the straws in the morning.
The photo of my right profile shows too much of a gap in between my twists/curls, I'm working on that...
*********************************************************************************** I went to a wedding a week later with the same twists and later that evening I untwisted them heading to a BBQ and Club. Unfortunately I can't stay to complete my post...I will post photos of them when I get a chance. ENJOY!
Here are the first photos of my experience with natural hair since my post on my last chop of permed hair months ago!!! A mix of twists and straw curls*!!!! I rocked the style at my cousin's party celebrating her son's 1st bday which was entertained with face painting!!! Fun stuff!!!
I definitely had fun with it and went to club afterwards with the face paint!! I want to do it again. It felt so fun dancing with it on...I highly recommended doing it when you go to the club for a unique and fun experience :)
I detangled my hair from my previous style of straw curls spraying water on a few curls and smoothed coconut oil per curl to untwist and comb out...the coconut oil and water makes it really easy for me to avoid unnecessary breakage ..
After my hair was indulged with coconut oil and smooth from curls, I washed with Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps - 18 in 1 Hemp Peppermint Pure Castor Oil.
I would start my twist and curls from the back to the front.....I would part a line of hair from the right to left which is not to thick or too small...you can judge the amount of hair you want to work with by your preference.....and leave the rest of my damp hair covered in the shower cap....make sure to keep a spray bottle near by with water or your own mix nearby
I would smooth African royale Hot Six Oil on my parted hair and scalp and starting at the right I would part a small amount of hair that was thick enough for me to twist to my liking....i would pin the rest of my hair on the left to keep aside...
I would twist my damp and oiled hair with Giovanni L.A. Natural Styling Gel (strong hold) then curl my twist on a straw almost an inch of length...(the length of the straw will be judged by the length of hair)....I would curl my twist around the straw keeping them close together so they won't loosely spiral when I remove it after it dries.
Continue the same method throughout your whole head....
It takes time and patience, my experience was relaxing...for me it took at least 3 hours....."3 hours???!!!" (<-- was that what went through your mind?) heh heh well it is worth it when the style lasts for a week!!! It's very low maintenance all thanks to Giovanni's gel!!! You will have a great sheen as well!!!
************************************************************************************ While riding the trolley on my way home this morning, a chill came over me when I caught a glimpse of a bug slowly crawling my left jean. I relaxed once I realized that it was a ladybug. I just stared at it and my mind kept juggling the question...:"is this good luck?.... how is a ladybug good luck in the first place? how can i tell?"....
I said my farewell to my ladybug doing my best to gently brush it to flight so it wouldn't get trapped in Shaw's supermarket but it still had the interest of walking so it was on the ground doing it's thing....maybe to pass it's luck on another fortunate person. Entering Shaw's, I was directed to the right as I searched for the restroom and caught my eye on a display of flip flops....it was evident that they were on sale.
I nonchalantly walked over to check them out and found Okabashi sandals 75% off....my thoughts were "75% off??"... "that's over 50%"... "so the cost most definitely have to be a good deal".....
It turned to be very much so....enough for me to purchase sandals for my whole family. At this very moment I am wearing these deliciously comfortable sandals which is presented to your right. What a deal indeed! $2.75 each!! I bought 7 of them for my father, mother, lil sister, my twin, cousin, myself and a male friend of mine which is the reason for me encountering this ladybug :)
*********************************************************************************** As I fantasized some more on the ladybug being a brush of luck for myself and my family....I fantasized how I never would of came across the ladybug if it wasn't for B...let's name him B....I'm developing mixed feelings for him...
I was heading home from his house after spending the night...it wasn't intentional....we've hung out since 11pm and fell asleep by 4a,....which was pretty close to leading to a certain level which is found when a male and female is still up in the wee hours with the ambience of a room lightly lit by a shade of red....2 candles lit atop candle stands...romantic zouk and kompa music playing in the background....shadows of a wine bottle and 2 wine glasses on the window curtains gently blown within due to winds of a gentle thunderstorm followed by the calming sound of thunder and rain....very tempting ambience indeed.
We've been talking for a short period of time and I had to control myself not to let it lead into anything when it was too soon to tell where our relationship would develop....
He is an adorable 30 yr old bachelor, who knows how to dance zouk love* and kompa music to the point where it blew me away the first time we met at a little dance club, a really good dancer always peaks my interest in him...and he was definitely on point. :)
Tonight we may be able to dance again at the Sheraton Hotel in Braintree, I can't wait :)
************************************************************************************ FYI *How to dance Zouk
The video below is a more intimate..sensual style which almost had me fainting when dancing with B. :)
While helping my sister find a song which had the words melody in it on youtube we came across this video which was totally random!! But cute and you can't resist a smirk...I can imagine teaching this to the kids during a birthday party to entertain them as well. Would you?
Did you find yourself humming...singing or dancing along? :)
