Twists with home made curly custard

Decided to do a video how-to/review on my curly custard creation. Pictures of the twistout will shortly follow :)
In the meantime, this is more or less where my hair is at now:

Taken this afternoon. You're up-to-date now mate!

My Curly Custard Creation!

Hey guys!

So I've been awaiting my ingredients to come through so I can make my whipped hair butter.. But with all the bank holidays going on, I think royal mail have gone on strike again or something. So I'm still waiting. But in the meantime, I stumbled across a few naturals on youtube who make their own hair custards etc. So I gave it some thought, and gave it a try today! Read on...

Above are the results of my curly custard creation. The texture turned out really creamy and light! I was pretty pleased. But I was especially pleased after I saw the effect that it had on my hair! I'd left out some strands of hair for some weeks and added a bit more hair to test this out. I moisturised it, twisted it up, and took it out about 10 minutes later. Again, read on..

Then I let go.. -boing!-

Curly indeed! (Sorry about the fluff trapped in the ringlets lol.)

It came out pretty soft and curly! I'm so happy to have learnt of something new that my hair takes to so well.

So that's my home made update for today. I think I shall be making more use of this custard this summer (and maybe other seasons??) Can't wait to try this on my whole head!

Whipped hair butter trial soon come...

Till next time curlies!

Undercover Sister

Yes, it's true! My hair and I have been undercover. Sorry to those who have asked me why my posts have come to a halt!

The reason for this is that there hasn't really been much to say. My hair has been in twists as a protective style for just over a month. Here's how it's looking:

(This picture was taken a couple of days ago. So I think we're fairly up-to-date now :))

So just to let you guys know what I've been putting in my hair during my absence (it's nothing special really, but it's been good to me!):

Olive oil around my edges

A glycerine, rosewater and olive oil spritz (stopped my dandruff and kept my scalp happy)

And.. Well, that's about it! 

I'm in the process of gathering ingredients for the summer hair butters that I want to make, as my hair will be let loose in the sunshine! But I can't seem to find any reasonably priced oils/butters in bulk. :( Bad news ey?

But to bad news there's always good news. And the good news in this case is:

We have reached 6 inches in 9 months! Huzzah!

I only realised how much it had grown when one of my twists fell out sometime last week. I did a measurement and was well pleased :D

Well, that's it from me for now. I shall continue my search for my ideal ingredients, and will be using them myself as a testimony. 

Soon come!

Headscarf with a twist!.. No pun intended

So I had to run into town really quickly to sort some stuff out today, and I was a bit fed up of doing the basic side-bun.

I remembered that I'm planning to do a puff but twisting the hair left out into a kind of.. nest-like style lol.. Then I wondered how it would look if I added that edge to the side-bun that I always seem to do with my headscarf. Because I'm so into this ultra-protection thing during this cold season, I always have a headscarf on. I've looked at some tutorials of different headscarf styles but only few really tickled my fancy. I've been getting bored of the same old style, so I'm wondering what else I can do with these head scarfs of mine..

Not sure how I feel about it. I'll probably do it again though!

I had a satin scarf on underneath. If you're in the south of England at the moment, you'll know how harsh these strong, cold winds are getting!

The camera angle didn't do it justice in the picture above. Looks a bit too bulky!

Next post should be the twisted puff hairstyle that I'm planning to do next Saturday, providing I can actually pull it together..

..But expect the unexpected I guess!

Hectic Interview Morning (with quick hair pics!)

GOSH!

10am I was supposed to have woken up. I slept through that very well!

I ended up waking up at 11am. My job interview was at 12pm. I had one hour to get up, get ready and get out! And amongst all this, even whilst in the shower I was thinking, "what am I going to do with my hair?!"

My hair was in chunky plaits at the time (as it always is. I do about 6 chunky plaits down the left side of my head, and the same on my right, and just cover it up with a headscarf. I'm promoting maximum protection during these cold times!) and I had no idea what I was going to do with it.

At first I thought, hmm.. I think I'll just take out these chunky plaits and do a puff. But I wasn't sure about that and I didn't have any more time to waste! Plus, I didn't really want to separate my hair even after undoing the plaits. It's already bad enough that I'm taking them out, the least I could do for protection purposes was to keep the strands bundled together.

After I took out my plaits, I quite liked the waves it left my hair with. I really wanted to work with it, but I didn't know what to do. So I just thought to myself, 'Rachel, be creative!! COME ON! You made a clock in the shape of a pair of boyshorts in year 8, there's no way you can't do this'. So I turned to my long, dark, slim trustee(s)...

BOBBY PINS!

Just stuck them wherever my impulses lead me!

Here is the spontaneous style I ended up with:

..These pictures were taken after I got back. I just didn't have ANY time to take them beforehand!

Nevertheless, I was pretty pleased. :)

(Oh, p.s, because I didn't fingercomb out the plaits, the separations at the roots stayed, as you can see. I found it really added to the style quite nicely. The plaits were in for about.. 3 days? And back in they shall go tonight!)

Watch this space!

Experiment Update!

So as it stands, my hair length (stretched and after my trim) is 5.5 inches. It's been 6 months since my big chop. That's good, right?!

Let me go ahead and show you the products I stumbled across in Tesco today. They looked like the most appealing hair wash products, yet they were the cheapest! 99p each.

Avocado and Macademia shampoo (left) and conditioner (right) by Timotei. Whilst getting to know my hair, I noticed it behaves well when I give it Avocado (or coconut), so after seeing these products I thought "hmm.. this looks OKAY.."

Obviously the next thing I did was read the ingredients. I was quite impressed! NO PARABENS! I was torn between these two and the Everyday Coconut Shampoo and conditioner. Although, the ingredients for the coconut one were very disappointing in comparison to these. IN ADDITION - BOTH these products were on a half price sale! Bargain hunted and LOCKED!

So I've now used them and was very pleased with my hair's behaviour. It really brought out my natural curls, and the conditioner saturated my hair really well. Here are some quick pics that surprised even myself when I took a look at them. I guess my hair type is 4a, ey?!

Hair was left feeling thicker and softer. To top it off, I gave it an Avocado and Coconut treat. Dia's leave-in conditioner, obviously!

http://www.dias-allnatural.co.uk/

Hairstyle for 25/12/2010

So I'm going to break down to you how I did my hair for the 25th December (finished product should be shown at the bottom of this post)

1. Separate hair into 8 sections (depending on your hair length. In my case, 8 sections did the trick).
2. I used Dia's rosewater spray mix first to hydrate my hair. Select your first section, and hydrate it.
3. To seal in moisture, I used Afrocenchix's daily conditioning oil. Apply this (or an alternative) to that same section of hair to seal in moisture. http://www.afrocenchix.com/
4. After applying that, I applied Dia's Avocado and Coconut Oil Leave-In Conditioner. This left my hair softer than ever before and FREE of tangles. http://www.dias-allnatural.co.uk/
5. Plait up that section and repeat on all other sections until you have something a little like this going on:

After this, I put on my du-rag and went to sleep (eventually). I kept my hair protected like this for about 3 days. When 3 days were up, I took the plaits out and used Sazzy Waves Styling Gel with Aloe Vera (the only unnatural product I use) and a hard brush to flatten the sides and top. To hold it in place, I used one of my hair heroes.. BOBBY PINS! You can fiddle about with it to style it however you like at this point.

Here's how mine turned out!: