Confessions of a PJ: You know You're a PJ If...

You stand in front of the 'hair stash' and examine the ingredients of the six...yes six bottles of leave in condish to decide which will work best with the wash and set you are doing.

#dontjudgeisufferfromaseverecaseofpjism

You Know You Are A PJ If...

You have more hair care products than you do cooking spices...

#Iamjustsaying

Hair Crush Alert! Shelli of Hairscapades

They saying goes "a picture is worth a thousand words.'

And The Curvealicious Chronicles agrees...

Not only is she stunning!

Not only is her hair gorgeous!

She is also a sweetheart!

Shelli and I had the opportunity to chat via phone this past weekend and her personality literally jumps through the phone. We bonded over what else...HAIR and could probably have spent the entire afternoon dishing on products, treatments, hair obsessions, etc.

Shelli has agreed to guest blog here on 'The Curvealicious Chronicles'...can we say SCORE?!

If you are not familiar with Shelli's blog check it out at www.hairscapades.com, great content with product info and styling tutorials to help naturalista's like me get out of our 'bun rut.'

PJ's be warned...Shelli's blog will send you on a 'Google' search and/or straight to the BSS perusing the aisles for the products she talks about...I know I trolled through one yesterday and picked up the Devacare No Poo and had to talk myself down from the ledge...Why? Because I need to use the 3 month supply of shampoo that I have in my house up before I buy another single thing!

Have a curlicious, curvealicious day!

Etoile,
Just a Curvy Girl Living in Her Self Professed Curvy World

Confessions of a PJ: Doris New York Olive Oil Hair Cream

I cannot stay in a long term relationship...past a month...with my hair products that is.

To know me is to know that I am a licensed, card carrying, professionally certified, don't try this at home kids PRODUCT JUNKIE!

But I have entered a 12 step program, I am attending meetings on a weekly basis and I have the support of my fellow former PJ's.

The main reason for my reform was that I entered the Grow Out Challenge on http://www.hairscapades.com/. One thing that I do know is that when you want to retain length and grow your hair it is imperative to maintain a regimen. I decided that I would stick with one line of products for the duration of the challenge while wearing my hair in low manipulation styles and maintaining the same weekly regimen.

For the challenge I decided to use Doris New York Hair Care Products. The product line was created by a family whose life has been hair care. Doris has spent the majority of her life as a hair stylist and has owned a salon in the greater New York Area for quite a few years. The products were developed to help achieve and maintain healthy hair, & were tested on salon clients. Both Doris and her stunning daughter Marlene have GORGEOUS heads of hair...umm can we say 'hair crush'...

I began using the products last week and I am in love with the Olive Oil Hair Cream. The weather forecast in the Northeast has been high humidity=frizz-fro and this cream helped me maintain a shiny, moisturized, 'lil tiny hairs stayed in place, polished bun all week. The product is light in texture and not greasy. Score! Product just made it to my list of HG (holy grail products).

For info on the line go to: http://www.dorisnewyork.com/

Until Next Time,

Etoile

Just a Curvy Girl Living in Her Self Professed Curvy World

Confessions of a Curvy Curly: PJ'ism

I hate to admit it but...

The PJ haul reached EPIC proportions this week!!!

Ok so you already know that I had a hair affair last weekend. I cheated on my hair stylist and am already soooo smitten with my new hair stylist that I may never go back...and thus began my downward spiral...I fell off the PJ 'wagon' a week ago and have yet to recover.

I need a meeting. I need a support group, I SERIOUSLY need help "Hello My Name is Etoile and I Am a PRODUCT JUNKIE!"...sigh...

So following my haircut and style a product was recommended to me. What did I do? Bought it of course and the proceeded to the beauty supply store and stocked up...when I left I had a grocery store sized bag of product in tow. Then I went home and ordered curly girl products from not one but THREE on-line retailers. Yeah, yea, yeah I already know.

To know me is to know that I am absolutely, positively hair obsessed!

The haul this week included:

Yes to Cucumbers Color Care Shampoo & Conditioner
Keracare Humecto
Joico K-Pak Intense Hydrator
Wonder Curl Get Slick Hair Smoothie
Wonder Curl Butter Than Love Hair Pudding
Blended Beauty Curl Styling Butter
Blended Beauty SilkShake
Dabur Vatika Oil

I am doing a deep condish as I type right now with my Joico K-Pak Intense Hydrator...

Reviews of my epic haul to follow in the coming weeks.

#dontjudgemeIamapj

Until Next Time,

Etoile
Just a Curvy Girl Living in Her Self Professed Curvy World