Alright so I've decided to start a journal, for the most part it will be about my hair, duh, not entirely sure how much other parts of my life will leak into here but we'll see.
So how about some hair background before I go bringing it all up to date.

I had medium length hair typically as kid until my mother cut it to a chin length bob when I was ten because she was sick and tired of all the knots. I had bangs too, until I was eleven and started growing them out for middle school. My hair stayed just past shoulder length from the time I grew it out until I hit fifteen, then I cut it to shoulder length, but quickly grew it back past my shoulders, as I was having trouble getting it to style into anything. When I was sixteen I got my hair done at a salon for the first time, I got it layered but left the length alone. I got my hair cut at salons three more times before I then began to decide to grow my hair long. After a misshap with a return to bangs early in my senior year I was content to simply let my hair grow out.

It probably all comes down from having some friends with waist length hair, it just looked so pretty and after awhile I decided I wanted it too. So I grew my hair out for a couple years. Then in one of my extra self deprecating days, no doubt due to the joys of PMS, I decided I looked like a little girl and ordered my mother to cut my hair to my shoulders. She did, which actually turned out to be a good thing because I hadn't cut my hair in a while, and was trimming only a quarter of an inch off every six months, so all the hair that was cut off was damaged anyways. So of course I think I liked the short hair for a few days then wanted to desperately grow it all back and then some again. I think the fear of looking like a little girl with the long hair stopped when I started looking more like a woman. So that was hah, only a year and a half ago, or something like that. So now I've decided to be a woman with long hair. I'm hoping it will give me an unfair advantage against other girls when it comes to guys.  In this day and age where every 20 something is all starting to look the same: tall, thin, tan, bottle blonde, blindingly white teeth etc, you know the type. I like to believe that growing long healthy hair, daringly in my natural color, may actually turn more heads then those who are being to all resemble clones. We'll have to see won't we, seeing as my hair's not too incredibly long at the moment, and due to the heat I'm not wearing it down at all currently it's hard to gauge an impact. 

So that brings us up to speed. Currently I'm fighting humidity frizz. Cutting back to washing my hair once a week helped but the dryness and frizz has gotten bad lately due to the massive swings in humidity we've been having. Now when my hair's clean I have to use my spray leave in, oil it, and add my avocado butter for shine, and some days it's still dry! I miss the good old days of only last year where I all I did was wash and brush and my hair was ready to go. Suddenly it's taken on a high maintenance life of it's own. Sigh 

Wash Day

So after another week, today is wash day. And amusingly enough my ends are some how still dry and fly away when I comb through them. Even though there is several days worth of natural oils, added oil and spray on leave-in on them they still have the audacity to be dry!  So before I wash today I'm going to try an oil treatment that someone else posted on here that is good for thick hair. It's 1/2 cup of olive or almond oil (I will be using sweet almond because it's cheaper). Comb it through dry hair, concentrating on ends, wrap it up in a towel for 15-30mins then wash and condition as normal. I will report back tomorrow to tell you how it worked, or didn't. 

I love shopping clearance!!! That is the first place I head to when entering a store! My Mom doesn't understand how I find all the good buys and she gets nothing!

I do a modified Edwardian style, too.  I do a 1/2 up section, flip the pony and then bun it, either as a ususal twisted one or braid.  Its so soft and feminine.  I hope you'll post a pic of your version!

Of couse you can wear barrettes!!  As long as you're careful and know what works for your hair type!

Less brushing will lead to more softness as you will be less abusive.  Too much brushing causes split/broken ends and that is not soft.

Sakina Your variation sounds pretty I'll have to try it some time. I'd post pictures but I don't have a digital camera yet. As soon as I get one I'll probably make up for it by posting a bunch of pictures 

livingandlovingx3 Yep exactly I hate that clothes where I'd have to either double myself to wear or cut myself in half to wear. I doubt you're husband has too much trouble finding clothes left over in his size, there aren't many men with that waist size, lucky. 

livingandlovingx3  You know if we had to rely on guys having the babies there would be no children being born lol. But yeah I hear having kids does that to you *has absolutely no idea personally* You're young you'll get back to it, mind you it won't be fun or easy, but it can be done. Then you'll be the one buying the tiny sizes on the rack. 

Wash Day

So today is wash day again, I oiled my hair again, but this time I'm using just the sweet almond oil, no conditioner on top, and I'm not wrapping it in a towel it's just kept up off my neck. Last time it felt like the towel had taken all the oil off of my hair and my hair never got to absorb any. Tomorrow I will be measuring my hair since it will be clean and I will also be hunting for, hopefully, a new shampoo and conditioner, because I don't think my hair likes the pair I have.

Hair Nightmare

Sakina Thanks for the tip, that's what I had to resort to this morning... after the fact. 

Alright so when my hair dried yesterday it must have had absolutely no idea what to do with the oil I had left on for an hour before I shampooed. My length was totally stringy and greasy and gross.  So this morning I did an acv rinse and then worked some shampoo through it before ending with a cold water rinse. As I type I am about to take my hair out to of the towel, and work a comb through it, hopefully the gunkiness is gone.