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Fizz :)

My Baby Hair Game Is Tight! Apparently.

Hey, she's the poster child for baby hair...

I only bring this up because so far a couple of people have mentioned my baby hair in reference to why my hair apparently rocks, based on texture alone. Both the girls who said this were reluctant to go natural because of their coily/kinky hair textures.

Which led me to wonder:

Is baby hair considered a sign of 'good' hair?

What are your thoughts or experiences with others regarding baby hair?

I'm curious. I didn't know baby hair was all that.

Um...

Zara asked me to put this up... recent twist out. I look just like my sister in this one lol.

TWA Bantu Knot-Out

I'm so proud of myself for trying out new styles. Y'all don't understand how lazy I am. Truly. I bow daily to Miss Fizz for the ish she attempts (so successfully) on her hair.

So, I decided to try bantu knots solely because I found my little black rubber bands. Took me about an hour and a half and I did it with my mix of shea butter & coconut oil. Then I wrapped it up in a silk scarf and slept on it.

 When I took them out, I had partings that you could land a small plane on. I had to do some finger twisting to cover up the gaps. I also fashioned a cheeky side parting, lol.

All in all, I'm a big fan of the bantu knot-out. I'm actually doing it again as I type this.

My hair was fluffy and old-school.

Yeah, baby. Yeah.

Jazzed up Braid-Out

I've had very little sleep in the past week due to having to meet up with back to back deadlines. So glad it's over and I've got some free time. Anyhoo... I was too tired to do anything clever with my hair this week and wore a braid out. It came out very defined but was crushed when I slept on it.

I didn't have time to fix it but I didn't want to look homeless so I sprayed a leave in mixture on it, fluffed it and grabbed a scarf (that my lovely adopted ma got me) tied it around my head. I used to rock this style when my hair was shorter and I got the idea to tie the scarf into a bow from Nnenna who was featured on BGLH recently. I thought it looked really cute and it gave me the boost I needed to stay up for 24 hours straight... ah the joys of grad school *sigh*... enjoy.

Question.

I've been wondering-

"How many of you dry your hair with a t-shirt instead of a towel?"

Just been running into that all over the Interwebs recently...

And if so, why?

TWA Twist-Out

So, being tired of doing just wash and go's, I decided to attempt a proper twist-out. I had originally intended to box braid my hair in order to stretch it out, but that was frankly too difficult for me.

I shampooed and conditioned my hair and sat down with some Sulfur-8 for my scalp and some shea butter mixed with coconut oil to use in the twists. I've actually stopped using a leave-in conditioner for a while because the mixture I had would form clumps when I added aloe vera gel to it, and the pure form of the leave in just made my hair hard. What I've been doing instead is just patting Poofy dry, then applying a light coat of oil over her to seal. Calas.

I did two strand twists all over, let them dry, wrapped them at night then took them out the next day. The parts showed more than I wanted, and I washed them out on the third day because my scalp can't be unwashed for that long, lol.

Randomly, does anyone have problems with silk scarves simply falling off at night?