NEW DISCOVERY

Experimented a little last night with olive oil in my hair, it felt soooo soft and it was looking so good, the curls all clumped together.
UNTIL it dried... oh man, not pretty. apparently, my hair does not like olive oil! it was more frizzy than normal, greasy looking even though i rinsed well and my scalp itched a little. i will upload pics of it soon!

WEEK TWO

Today marks two weeks of being natural! I am beginning to like what I see. The first day of my second week I used honey with my rinse out conditioner, it was amazing! I went a little overboard with it but I didn't just get second day hair, I got third day hair! It was insane! Then I started feeling greasy again because as I said I am still in the beginning of my transition and that happens. I am also wavy and a lot of wavies use what we call a low poo. A low poo is a shampoo that is organic and doesn't have any sulfates or harsh chemicals but it still clarifies your hair. However, even a low poo can dry you out so only use it as needed. I went out and bought one because I figured I needed it to feel better. I bought Giovanni triple tea tree oil. I think that's the name, it felt so good and it smells kind of nice. Then to compensate for using a shampoo, I deep conditioned that day with lustrasilk shea butter cholesterol with mango. Okay that lustrasilk stuff is AMAZING. You get a big tub of it for only 2.79 at Sally's and the texture feels nice and it smells beautiful. I loved it and as I rinsed it out, I decided I wanted more and used it as a leave in conditioner as well. Since then, my hair has felt extremely soft! As I begin my third week, I notice that my hair isn't getting so greasy anymore. This was my hair yesterday... I liked it so took two pictures.




You can tell that my hair looks a lot more shiny and not so dehyderated. Also, that triangle shape seems to be going away because I use clips on my roots as the hair is drying. I've also been plopping and most of the time, I don't even use gel or mousse which is really surprising to me. My frizz is down probably 70% but I don't know if that is because it is nice outside and not humid for once or because of the routine! Who knows?
I will post more this week hopefully. If not, I will see you next week!

p.s. sorry for all the smiley pictures, I don't know how else to pose, also I will start putting make up on for the upcoming ones haha.

WEEK 1

Well I've been meaning to update but have been extremely busy, I have just found the time and barely considering I have a sleeping baby on my arm as I type.
Anyway, December 28th was my last shampoo using a sulfate shampoo. My hair felt the same as normal and I didn't wash until the 30th again. Here is my hair that day:



As you can see, my hair is pretty weighed down but the curls look a little more defined. Apparently, going natural is sort of the same as going natural as in foods. Like when you go from a normal diet to a raw food diet, your body has to adjust. Same thing goes for your hair and because I always used shampoo which dried out my hair, my scalp had to overcompensate oil. Well, this is normal and your scalp has to get used to what it is SUPPOSED to do. So my first week was pretty oilly and gross and all I wanted was to wash my hair with shampoo!! I didn't cave in, I use the V05 passionate fruit smoothie as my cowash and makes my hair feel so good and I feel as though it really cleans my scalp well then I just use garnier strong and long (i think that is the name) for a regular conditioner.
I read the book and I have realized that the message boards at naturallycurly.com are a lot more informative! the book was still good though and it gave me a confidence boost about doing this!
Here is my hair at the end of the first week, it was so oily that it almost looked straight.

I'm really not crazy about the way my hair looked. They say you should give this process up to six weeks and you will notice more drastic changes that are pleasent. Because as of the first week, I was not really feeling it.
Sorry for the blah post, I'm just late so I wanted to explain how it was.

p.s. I told my mom about this who has straight hair and she thought it was disgusting that I'm not using shampoo. I forgot that it does sound gross and I just said it casually haha. Whatever, I know I'm clean and that is all that matters, right?