Hair Update- June 2011

Excuse the crazy face. Lol. Time for a hair update. I have been using Kinky Curly Curling Custard once a week and refresh my hair in the morning with a combination of Kinky Curly Gloss Pomade and Jane Carter's Nourish and Shine. My problem I have been facing is shedding; my hair never shed before, but it is summer so I have to pay attention to how my hair responds to the weather. I have to do my homework on that. Also, I have to make sure my hair is moisturized at night. I used to use oils but that wasn't working so next week I will use my Shea Moisture Curl Enhancing Smoothie and see if there's a difference....other than that....my hair has been growing since I chopped off the sides and most of the top. I have a wedding in September so I have to look for some ideas for hair pieces. Enough rambling for today. Be blessed.

Fayruz Abdiaman- Sutherland Models

I LOOOOVVVVEEEEE her hair: Fayruz Abdiaman

Ferris of Urban Vintage

Too cool.....

Rachel Stewart Jewelry

Jodie Smith for ASOS Magazine June 2011

I love this girl:

ASOS

New Haircut!!!!

It's very military inspired.

Jodie Smith for ASOS

image source: flygirls.typepad.com

Short Hair, Don't Care!!!

"with short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. and you brush your teeth more often. short hair removes obvious femininity and replaces it with style. when it starts growing out a little and losing its style, you have to wear sunglasses until you can get it to the hairdresser. that's why you need a variety. short hair makes you aware of subtraction as style. you can no longer wear puffed sleeves or ruffles; the neat is suddenly preferable to the fussy. you eye the tweezers instead of the blusher. what else can you take away? you can't hide behind short hair... you may look a little androgynous, a little unfinished, a little bare... but your face is no longer a flat screen surrounded by a curtain: the world sees you in three dimensions."


- joan juliet buck for american vogue, c.1988 (via the political quotidian)
 
 
Thanks to the glamourai for posting this quote!

I Am Not My Hair......I Am Not My Hair.........I Am Not My Hair.............

I found myself saying that over and over recently. It's been something I have been trying to avoid, but since I cut my hair off you can't really avoid a topic like that. Lol. I decided a couple of days before my birthday that I shouldn't have to try so hard, I should be me and make no apologies for it. I love dressing up, make-up, fashion etc. but I wanted to start wearing my hair natural. It was too much work keep my hair short and straight at the same time.....so a couple of days before my birthday I walked into my cousins' barber and told him to cut my pixie off.....it has taken me awhile to get used to it, but there's a freedom in having my hair cut off and natural. I can't wait until it starts to grow out. I'm still me (in love with fashion gowns, 1940's, Jane Austen, Katharine Hepburn, etc.) but I have grown into me.....if that makes sense. I think that when we try to fit into a mold of a type that has been accepted for years, we lose ourselves. I just want to me, and wake up every morning with no regrets but new plans because I lived my old ones yesterday. I want to look into the mirror and be grateful that God has made me this way instead of trying to find new ways to change myself so I can blend in more.....Sure, I stand out ( you can't miss the girl with the honey blond buzz cut, lol) but I now I make no apologies for it....Be blessed.