Help: Does anyone have any plant fertilizer?!

So to know me is to know that I have had long hair pretty much all my life...with the exception of the day after a very bad break-up when I went and hacked my hair off and dyed it honey blonde...nothing like a break-up to have you make a major life change.

Last year I went to see my hairstylist who told me that after one too many trips to get my hair roller set, blown out, & doobie'd up and one too many uses of the flat-iron, curling iron, and blow-drier that my formerly luscious locks were FRIED.

Sigh. He suggested a cut....I ignored him and proceeded to take 18 months to grow out the creamy crack, & nurse my hair back to health. My formerly BSL hair is now just past shoulder length. I rewarded myself with a great cut and color. I am in a 12 Step program for former Heat Abusers...and on my way back to healthy hair!

I have entered the 'Grow Out Challenge' on http://www.hairscapades.com/, and for the next 6 month's I will be pampering my hair with products from Doris New York (check back for reviews), working on retaining length, and sharing my journey with other curly bella's on the road to long, strong, healthy hair.

I must confess that I have 3 hair crushes:

A. Tracey Ellis Ross...need I say more?!

B.. Curly Nikki of http://www.curlynikki.com/

C. Shelli of http://www.hairscapades.com/

Wish me luck! I will be documenting my journey here. Stay tuned for plenty of updates, photos, & more! Oh yea...the bet...tell you about that some other time but can someone please send me some plant fertilizer?!

Etoile

Just a Curly Curvy Girl Living in Her Self Proclaimed Curvy World!

Photo: Me! Cut & Color By Tameeka of Christo in NYC

I Cheated...The Story of My Hair Affair

I cheated. On my hairdresser that is. Yep, I felt guilty...but boy am I LOVING my new hair style.

See the thing is the hairdresser that I 150% loved and adored moved away 5 years ago and I have not found that one person who just totally gets my hair. You see this mane of hair on my head has a mind of her own, she's thick, she's a mix of textures, she's brazen, and if you don't play nice she will show you that she ain't having it...sigh. Oh yea and I call her Luscious Lola.

Lola and I have salon hopped over the years, we have fallen prey to quite a few slick marketing gimmicks, we have allowed hair dressers to put creamy crack in our hair, we have been the victim of carrot top aka when the color goes oh so horribly wrong, we have beaten and subdued our hair at The Dominican Salons...which caused heat damage you could not even believe...you name it and Lola and I have done it.

Late last year we started seeing Mr. Big (the name has been changed to protect the innocent - smile), and we really do love him. He pampered Lola, he nursed her back to health but still she and I just wanted something more.

And then we found her. Yesterday we walked into Christo in Manhattan met Queen Curl herself Ms. Tameeka McNeil-Johnson and so our Hair Affair begins. Tameeka is a gorgeous curly who looked at Lola and got it. She played nice with her and coaxed her into gorgeous ringlets. Who knew??!! Lola swooned, blushed, and fell in love.

Christo Fifth Avenue is a salon for curly's and is located in Manhattan. Find them on the web at www.curlisto.com; but be sure to ask for Queen Curl: Ms. Tameeka who can also be found at her web-site http://www.jadedtresses.com/.

Until Next Time,

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