I did a pinned up style the other day. I guess I kinda missed the "short cut" look on me. Hope you like it.
All I did to achieve this hair style was to take the back of my hair and make a high small pony. The hair at my crown was pinned up and the front of my hair was pinned forward.
I did a dry twistout on previously blown out hair and then styled it. The style consisted of two humps and then loose hair in the back.
Heres the style:
left side
right side
To achieve this style I did a normal hump in the front and then I rolled a horizontal section of hair towards the middle of my head from both sides creating the second long hump at my crown. I then bobby-pinned it down. It was really easy so feel free to duplicate it!
I oil rinsed with olive oil. Then I shampooed with Nature's Gate biotin shampoo. Next, I deep conditioned with both Aubrey Organics Honeysuckle Rose and Shea Moisture deep treatment masque mostly because I'm trying to conserve the Aubrey Organics and I had the Shea Moisture laying around. I let my hair air dry for like 20 minutes or so in twists because I didn't want it soaking wet before blow drying (I wanted my hair to soak up as much moisture as possible even though I used low-cool setting to blowdry). Then I preceded to blow dry my hair in sections. I sprayed each section with Silk Elements Megasilk heat protection spray. The whole process (from the first time water touched my hair until I put down the blow dryer) took me about 2.5 hours.
Here's what it looked like last night when I finished blowing it out:
This is how I wore it out today
(it shrunk some and had less movement than the night before but it was still nice)
I went and had my nails done a few weeks ago so I thought I'd share.
They ended up being a little too "princess/fairy/flowers/ and gumdrops" for my taste but they're still nice.
I honestly can't wait to take them off already though!
I'm back!! ...or at least I will be soon =]. This semester was pretty hectic so I had to take a break from blogging for a while...BUT summer is right around the corner SO I should be back to blogging frequently very VERY soon. I've already been wanting to blog about some things. I've got some thrifty purchases to show, I'm going to begin doing outfit of the day posts, and I'm about to begin making my own earrings because I'm sick of searching everywhere for some when I have designs for some in my head already. Hopefully that works out LOL but if it doesn't I'll still let you guys see the failures! =]. ALSO, I'm going to be blowing out my hair next Tuesday or Wednesday!! I haven't decided if I'm just going to take pictures of is I'm going to venture in to making videos of things I do. Either way that'll be coming soon as well!
Sorry for being gone so long but I'm sure you all understand that school had to come first! =]
**** I think I'm going to be changing my blog layout. I want something fresh. So if you come and things look "strange" that's what's going on lol. I'm somewhat picky so we'll see how this turns out **** __________________________________________________
T-SHIRTS& ACCESSORIES!!!!
You like Tshirts... I like T-shirts... and now I'm making them & other accessories with the help of ZazzleDOTcom! So if you ladies have any ideas of what you would want on your own personal Natural Tee shoot me an email @ mslarutan.yahoo.com and I'll get to it!!
ClickHEREto visit my own personal Zazzle store (www.zazzle.com/naturaltees) where I've designed a few T-shirts thus far. I'm in the process of creating more Tees and I may decide to design some bags as well. Feel free to check them out.
This is one of them--->
The color/design above is only $20.95! Offered in a variety of colors and on different styles of t-shirts!! ***price can either go up or down depending on what color or T-shirt style you choose***
Hey all,
I bought some new hair items so I just thought I'd come through and share.
First item, Diane boar bristle brush ($7.39)
It's kind of hard right now, but with more use the bristles should soften up more. I'll only use this brush to smooth my edges when I'm feeling like looking a little more sleek and polished.
Second item, Annie rubber cushion brush (Denman alternative-only $1.59 at my local BSS, Beauty 4 U)
This is the cheapest denman alternative I've ever seen or heard of. I believe the Conair and Goody versions are around $5 so this buy was basically a steal. It detangles my hair very well when damp or completely wet. It's a lot quicker than using a wide tooth comb, however, I'm afraid of breakage so I both modified it and I wont be getting rid of my wide tooth comb any time soon.
Here's a youtube video that shows how to modify a denman (or denman alternative):
Sorry I've been M.I.A everyone, I had finals and other things I needed to attend to but I'm back to talk about something that not only I, but alot of other women trying to take care of their hair, experience...
My name is Ms. Larutan and I'm a product junky...
A product junky (PJ) is someone who just can't seem to keep their hands off of hair products. I've tried so many things and whenever I hear about something new I can't wait to "experiment". For me it started around the time when I started taking better care of my relaxed hair. My PJism spun into overdrive when I decided to go natural. I was going all over the internet seeing all these reviews for this product and that product. Before I knew it I was buying products for my natural hair before I had even big chopped. It was outrageous lol. Eventually I lowered my purchases down but every once in a while I still buy something new. I LOVE buying hair associated things. I get happy in the beauty supply store or in a common hair aisle. Whenever I walk into anywhere that has hair products/accessories, even the average grocery store, I feel like I have to go look.
Sure, I find alot of good things that I end up loving and buying more of. And sometimes these product buying urges turn into my staple products. However, sometimes... they don't.
The thing about being a PJ is that not all products are going to work the way you fantasize they will. That review that you heard from that one random youtube girl that one day a few weeks ago?.....she doesn't have your hair. Some product purchases aren't going to melt away your tangles. The truth is that you've probably got something underneath your sink that'll do that already! lol.
So to all my fellow PJs, we've got to do better lol. I think I'm one of the worst PJs because I've just recently started tweaking the products that didn't work for me... a lot of the time I had just ended up pushing them to the back of my sink. But that's going to change. I'm going to try really hard to at least use up three-fourths of everything that I don't like in addition to using up everything that I do before I go out and try to find something that could possibly work better.
And to anyone who has just gone natural, TRY not to become a PJ. I've found that a lot of products seem to work better with every use so give it a little bit of time before you move on to the next thing. And also, don't jump on every hair product bandwagon. Basically just spend wisely. You (and your wallet) will thank me for it. =]
