Crown of Glory

My appointment for my 11th retight was supposed to be this past Sunday, but unfortunately I had to cancel it because as a grad student my money is not looking right about now.  I have 1 inch +/- of new growth and of course, my roots are starting to get out of control. Between the $85 visit and the price of gas to travel 2 hours to get there, I’m going to have to move the task of learning how do my own retightening up higher on my tasklist.

So I was just talking with one of my good friends Glamorous online. There was this chick we went to college with who was always on this nappturality ish. She wore a weave for the majority of the time (the weave looked like semi-kinky natural hair). I personally had always thought she was natural underneath, but I guess we will never know. Well I was browsing through ‘the book‘ as I occasionally do and saw that she decided to get a relaxer. Yeah, I was a little taken aback by it. I showed it to Glam and here’s how the conversation went:

Glam: … it looked nice

Me: No it doesn’t. What’s nice about fried and laid to the side??? lol

Glam: I like relaxed hair but like I said abt the cell phone companies earlier & I will repeat abt hair….DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS, u ain’t got to like it or agree. Read more…

I’ve moved and I did not locate my digital camera. Unfortunately, it looks like I need to purchase a new one. That won’t happen until sometime in September, so bear with me. After that, I should be able to post more pics.

A few days ago I decided to experiment with bantu knots. A while ago when I had my loose natural hair, my beautician told me how bantu knots could give me a nice “twist-out, crinkly” effect on my hair. So I thought why couldn’t this be done on SLs? I tried it and the first time didn’t come out so well. I did it on dry hair and did not use two strand twists; instead, I simply twisted the hair on itself using a swirling motion with my fingers. I also did not use any products (i.e. setting lotion). Furthermore, I let my hair air dry instead of sitting underneath a hair dryer. As you can see from the 1st set of Bantu Knot photos, the hair turne dout ok, but the curls weren’t as tight as I like them. Also, by the end of the day, you could not tell that I had even styled my hair at all. If you are viewing this post in a reader and cannot see the images, click here to access the post on http://bloglorious.com.

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