Naturally Kinky

As I was surfing youtube. I found a couple of videos. This guy has found a way for men to straighten their hair without perm. The titles of his videos are "Nappy No More". He has disabled embedding to these videos, but click here and here.





He basically just wets down his hair and puts a lot of product in it. He wets it, puts in gel, then some hair grease, then some hair spray, and then uses a small tooth comb to slick it down and create a part. He tells us he is providing this for free, so that we can hear his signed artist Truth on Shattering Records (don't laugh at the site, ok you can laugh, here is another link, since whoever decided to make the site, make the hyperlink hop around and disappear). I thought a music video might be more beneficial, as he is talking over the song and you can't really appreciate it, but hey, who am I to judge? He is hustling and trying to push his artist, I can't hate. He feels his hair technique might take over the world. Black men everywhere will be vying for this secret. I didn't know the Nat King Cole look was coming back.

But why can't we be happy nappy? Why must we be "Nappy No More"?

I will point out something that made the videos funny, the fact this man says in his profile on youtube that he is 28,when obviously he is someone's granddaddy. That and you can't tell this man he ain't fine, he is super smooth, super classy, and he rolls in a 2008 Navigator, something he felt the need to point out in this video. CLASSY.

This weekend I went to a candle and soap making supply store and bought some scented oils. This lead me to make some products, I made a coconut oil/shea butter moisturizer that smells like pomegranate and I made an hot oil.after wash oil conditioner out of sweet almond, coconut oil, vegetable oil, and olive oil that smells like heaven. Not really heaven, but vanilla almond. The vanilla almond is really strong and smells really good. I think I will go back to this place and buy more oils. They were very inexpensive. I am thinking essential oils might be more natural and better quality, but these oils work in a pinch.

I also made some more spritz, I go through that like water with conditioner, sweet almond oil, olive oil, honey, and water.

My hair was really feeling dry, so today I did a deep conditioner with the oil I made, I wet my hair, added the oil(heated), stuck a shower cap on and left it in for 30 minutes. Then I washed it with Burt's Bees shampoo. Then detangled with Suave Naturals conditioner. Left the conditioner in, added my other homemade product of red palm kernel oil and coconut oil, then added more of the heated oil, spritzed, and added aloe vera gel. Gently towel dried the ends so I wouldn't drip. My hair is well moisturized now.

The almond vanilla smells really good :)

On a side note. The vegetarian diet is going ok, but I am thinking of incorporating raw into my diet and going 50/50, I think this is healthier and will make weight loss a bit easier. I also need to work out something fierce, it has been over a week!!!!!

I have a "baby hair" around my temples. It is the soft wispy hair that little babies have, that becomes a bit more coarse and thick as a child ages. I have always had it, I just never thought to slick it down like Ms. Chili from TLC:





Chili has always embraced that baby hair and will never let it go.

My mother has a slight obsession with this, she loves to try to comb down my baby hair, she is excited that at age 32, the edges of my hair never developed properly like the rest of my hair. I don't understand the love of baby hair. I also don't understand the need to slick it down to show everyone, or better yet, create baby hair with gel and relaxer?

This blog is about hair, and I often go to black hair care sites and post pics of my hair. Many times you find hair twins. I have found quite a few. Los Angelista, for example has hair similar to mine, hers actually might be slightly different,as she is bi-racial and my hair may be thicker and coarser, it is hard to tell in pics, but we have the same curl pattern.I have found hair twins on myspace and every where in between. I will say that on occasion I get hair twins, that are more like fraternal twins than identical.


Me and goddess glory are fraternal hair twins in which we wear our hair natural. But our hair is different in pattern and texture. Her hair is awesome by the way, I want her to grow a big afro really bad. Sometimes women tell me I am their hair twin, and I can't see it, and then I often wonder why? How do you respond to the hair twins that really aren't your hair twins?

I just bought my fair trade shea butter here. I love this stuff, I bought 5 pounds, that should last me a long while LOL. Shea Butter and coconut oil are so awesome for my body, hair, and face. I don't know how I ever lived without the stuff to be honest.

I have no one to go out to eat with when I want to try vegetarian restaurants. It totally sucks. My husband hates vegetables and the thought of taking me to a vegetarian restaurant gives him the heebie jeebies. My friends are all meat eaters too. I gotta go out to eat by myself? :(

I have attempted to go veg many times, but I found that many have this holier than thou attitude about things and it gets overwhelming. This article is funny, yet true.


DISH
Five things Vegetarians do That Piss Everyone off, from a fellow vegetarian

DAVID BERRY / david@vueweekly.com

Sure, omnivores have their annoying habits, but they’re hardly the only ones making life worse for everyone. Here are five things vegetarians need to stop doing to help make the world a better place for us all.
Complaining about a lack of vegetarian options on a menu

Yes, it would be wonderful to live in a world where every restaurant had the option of substituting (well-done) tofu, but them’s the breaks. Absolutely no one is going to enjoy a meal after somebody spends the whole menu-perusal time bitching about what they can’t eat, and unless you’re actually willing to storm out of a restaurant, complaining isn’t going to do anything anyway. Just do the considerate thing: ask them to take the chicken out of their penne, and make a mental note to never come back.

Complaining about paying the same as meat-eaters

Splitting the bill is one thing—hey, everyone should pay their fair share, no more, no less—but vegetarians who insist on paying less in general just because they’re not eating meat need to give their heads a shake. (This happens an awful lot at Indian buffets, which is especially annoying considering Indian food is one of the most vegetarian-friendly cuisines there is.) We’re the ones who’ve decided to cut meat out of our diet: anyone willing to charge us less should be regarded as a saint, but by no means should this be an expectation. If paying the extra $2.99 for chicken you’re not getting on your caesar bothers you that much, stay home: the world does not revolve around your lifestyle choices.

Making non-vegetarians feel guilty about eating meat

It’s fantastic that you’ve decided to make what is no doubt a high-minded, moral choice about your eating habits that makes the world a better place, environmentally, ethically and spiritually. There’s something to be said for quiet dignity, though: give the unwashed, carnivorous masses time to come around. Besides, being a prick never won anyone to your side: save the overt moral superiority for those wild, incredible, vegetarian-catered moral-superiority orgies we’re always having.

Eating heavily processed faux-meats

Most of the stuff you can pick up at the supermarket (including, especially, non-organic tofu) is about as bad as eating meat in every way except for the fact that they don’t have to kill animals to get it. It also perpetuates the stereotype that we’re all a bunch of secretly repressed carnivores trying to bury our insatiable urges with a stew of delusion and carrots. There are plenty of other ways to get your protein, including milk, eggs, organic tofu and a wide variety of beans. If you want faux-meat, there are a variety of terrific wheat gluten recipes on the internet, and if you’re not much of a cook, Padmanadi is open, and the Truc Lam Monastery puts together a fabulous spread of take-home options every Sunday.

All that said, exceptions to this fact can be made for the Tofurky, because no one is an island, especially on Thanksgiving.

Being useless in the kitchen

Some leeway can be granted to new vegetarians here, but the rest of you better know how to cook at least one fairly delicious vegetarian meal. Partly it’s to help destroy the popular conception of vegetarians as people who spend a lot of meals crying into salads, but mostly it’s because this is a lifestyle based on eating, and therefore should encourage some kind of knowledge about food. People who participated in Earth Hour bought candles, because even though they wanted to save energy, no one likes sitting in the dark: the least you can do is get a cookbook. V

Ok the past few weeks I have gone veg. It has worked out pretty good. I sleep better, feel better, and I think I am losing weight without having to track. I decided in my transition to veg I would not write down everything and just focus on going veg. It seems like a good thing, it is kind of expensive for me right now, but working well.

My downfalls still are soda, coffee, dairy, and eggs, but a positive is that is has helped me eliminated fried foods all together.

Only time will tell. I hope to get off of soda, and get rid of my dependence on dairy and eggs.

Let's stick with the lacto-ovo though first and get through that LOL.

Oh how I missed the curly hair!!!!!!!!!

To get back to curly, I tried to give my hair extra moisture. My hair felt so dry straight. I made a hot oil treatment out of palm kernel and sweet almond oil. I wet my hair, applied and did my normal washing in the shower. I then rinsed that out and used Burts Bee's shampoo to get all the hot oil treatment and whatever residual chemicals in the hair. I had a bunch of silicone in it as protection when I flat ironed it. I then did the suave naturals cowash and detangled. Rinsed that out and reapplied as a leave in. Then I did my regular hair routine. I think it will take a couple of more washings to get it really moisturized really well. I might also rock a bun for a while as a protective style to get my hair back in awesome natural curly girl shape.