Hair Diary: Nighttime Qredrew

Moisturizing our curls is something we should do on a pretty consistent basis, if not daily, but many of us forget or don't make the time. Admittedly, I have been slacking on moisturizing my baby locs and with all the hair color in my head that's a double NO-NO. So last night, before bed, I decided to give myself a steam treatment. If you're not aware, steam is a more beneficial method to moisturizing the hair because it works to slightly raise the hair cuticle while also delivering moisture (water); which allows the moisture to have a better chance of reaching the cortex, where moisture is stored. So you think, typically we'd just spray with water on our hair, which hits the cuticle layer of the hair, but if you have a tight cuticle or low porosity your hair may not be receiving enough moisture, if at all.

Here's a visual of the structure of hair if that last paragraph went over your head. 

 As you can tell I am learning so much in Cosmetology school and try to apply it as much as I can, but I'll get back to my story now, lol...

So yeah, last night I popped out my Q-redew, which is a hand-held hair streamer, and proceeded to moisturize my hair. A treatment last about 10-15 minutes and after the first treatment, which felt AMAZING, I added more water and did another.

[Product Review] As I Am "Smoothing Gel"

You know that product that starts off ok, gets better with further use, becomes a staple product, and then fails miserably? I don't personally have too many experiences like this but the As I Am "Smoothing Gel" (sadly) definitely falls into this category. 

I picked up this product about 4 months ago from the Cosmetology Store because it looked interesting (one of the key elements of discovery, lol) and I know my hair likes light-weight gels. The product said it would provide "moisturizing shine and hold" and the ingredients seemed good too:

In the Stylist's Chair: Relaxed to Marley

As much as it pains me, my little sister has a relaxer **POUTS** but I have started taking care of her hair and since then its become a lot more healthy. As we all know, "good hair" is healthy hair so relaxed or not she is doing what makes her happy. 

When she asked me this week to put "Marley Twists" in her hair, I was so excited because you know the marley braid hair is textured and so I knew it would give her a more natural look and deep down inside I was going to try to convince her to go natural again **sneaky grin**. Unfortunately, the "Marley Twists" didn't change her mind about being natural (lol!) but they did give her a beautiful island-look.... 

Hair Diary: Shiny Dry Retwist

I'm still on the search for a really good retwist product, sadly the As I Am Smoothing Gel isn't doing the job (review coming soon), and in order to find you have to explore. So today in class we had free time to create a freestyle look on our mannequins or work on each other and I took advantage of working on myself and trying some products, lol. Even though I retwisted my locs last week with the new color [HERE] it was a loose retwist and a week later its pretty frizzy and unraveled so I thought I'd see what the Aveda products could do. I was impressed! 

I Dyed My Locs Blue!

Didn't I tell you it was time for a new color?! Well, here is my new hair color... Blue Loc Highlights! And I am in absolute LOVE!