BRE SCULLARK

With the right maintenance and attention she give her hair, Bre Scullark from ANTM keeps her hair so lovely. I loves it. I always did.

PRODUCTS & TOOLS UPDATE

My new daily right hand... thing, is the Moist Spray.  I made it earlier today, yeah it may look like a bath & body works Amber Romance body spray but that orange/green stuff inside of it is EVOO, BioInfusion Leave In Conditioner and a little water.  Throughout the day (at work and school when I go to the bathroom mainly) or when I'm about to go out somewhere I spray it on the very front roots of my hair.  For some reason it's the hardest and driest spot in my hair compared to the very back of my hair. VERY smooth and moisturized and soft.  I spray this on my edges and front roots consistently throughout the day and it helps ALOT.  If it wasn't for this I'd be taking Noodlehead back to Sally's to return it but now that I like the effect Noodlehead does I use my moist spray for the moisture.

It's a good guaranteed sealant to me.

Shampoos:

Redken Smooth Down Shampoo

Neutrogena Replenishing Shampoo (clarifier)

Conditioners:

Suave Tropical Coconut Conditioner (mostly for co washing)

VO5 Strawberries and Cream (smell is just bearable co wash alternative)

Redken Smooth Down Cond.

Deep Conditioners:

Redken Smooth Down Butter Treat

Organix Cholesterol 

Leave In Conditioners:

BioInfusion Leave In (daily)

Garnier Fructis Sleek & Shine Leave In (sometimes)

Misc:

Extra Virgin Olive Oil EVOO (now mixed with my conditioners)

Beyond the Zone: Noodlehead Curling Creme (just started using it)

Paul Mitchell Super Skinny

Garnier Fructis Anti-Frizz

CHI Silk Infusion Serum

CHI Iron Guard

And of course, my Jilby.  So much easier to detangle now.  Less strands are showing up on my fingers and comb or on the walls or shower curtain after opening my eyes.

BTZ: NOODLE HEAD CURLING CREME

READ THIS WHOLE REVIEW  I've read many many mixed reviews on this from HT, BHM and LHCF. I finally brought it today at sally's for $5 and change along with awhole bunch of stuff I stacked up on that I wanted to try and need which will be reviewed later next week after giving them more than once or two chances. I had to do the Noodle Head right away as far as a review and let me tell you, It was an emotional roller coaster for me. I was anxious to try it that I put it some on my wet hair. I let it air dry for like, two minutes HAH! I should've waited it out just a little more and then put it on. I did not like the feeling at all! Even in my hands it felt sticky and gooey right after squeezing the crap out of the tube.  Immediately I could tell it wasn't going to be good.  I had just got done doing a little sealing with EVOO after my daily leave-in and yaddi yadda and I couldn't feel the moisture anymore after putting this on. Just being real.  So I got fed up and took a break with my hair and did other things, as it air dried more I scrunched my curls/relaxed waves/curls if you want to call it that, up some more maybe half and hour to an hour later. My hair was feeling dry and dead, and I know if it was fully dried like that it would feel horrible.  To be honest this was the exact reason why I stopped using moose for my wash & go's before I educated myself on these websites. It was hard and crunchy. Not softness.  No flexibility.  So I went to my leave-in conditioner and put some more on throughout my head and the front of my hair where it's the only place thats drier and harder than the rest.  It got better and scrunched it up some more and out of nowhere, my hair just plopped out bouncy with more defined curls/waves. Lol. This is what I meant emotional roller coaster; I still got the big fully dried look but without the frizzes.  It still felt a little dry so that was when I made something I think will be my forever Moist Spray that will be close to my heart and in my purse everywhere.  I called it the Moist Spray soon as I tried it.  That's awhole-nother post to talk about. 

BIOINFUSION LEAVE-IN

Right now this is my "it" leave-in.  I brought it at Walgreens on sale and was iffy about it since it was so cheap. On buzzillions I was shocked because for a con it said not organic but when I read the back it was organic enough for me.  Coming from nothing but chemical name brand products at least.  Some Henna, rosemary, hawaiian awapuhi, chamomile, aloe vera and jojoba. Now again, I'm new to transitioning and also natural/organic products or ingredients so some of this stuff I didn't even know but just that it's suppose to be good. So anyway, I never heard of hawaiian awapuhi so I googled it and found this:

"The clear juice of the Awapuhi (ginger) flower was highly prized by Hawaii's early Polynesian settlers for its ability to bring shine and softness to their hair."

I've been using this leave-in for the past two weeks, if that, and I like it. I only straightened my hair once while using this and I used the leave before drying my hair.  I still had the softness in my hair so it didn't do anything different negatively.  As far as my wash and go's I love it.  It's so light and the smell grew on me. Some of the leave-in's I used were thick and heavy but managed to the job only for wash and go's, but this leave-in is pretty versatile to me. 

I now use this and the super skinny or some anti frizz for the shine and frizz control.  My somewhat curls are softer after my hair has fully dried.  I don't look like a rough six year old anymore at the end of the day when my hair is fully dried. 

When my hair is straightened, at night I apply some lightly on my roots and edges and mainly focusing on my ends and do a baggy at night. And FRIGGIN WHOA in the morning. They feel like they did the first time I washed my hair in the week. Never getting too greasy or stiff and keeps it moisturized.

MY REGIME

DAILY (wash & go):
- Co wash and detangle before rinsing out (RK Smooth Down Conditioner).

- Moisturize by section (BioInfusion Leave In)

- Paul Mitchell's Super Skinny for shine and frizz control

WEEKLY:
- Wet hair
- Massage/Detangle a little with fingers with ELTOO/EVOO per section.
- Massage Conditioner over hair and detangle with wide tooth comb then rinse. (RK Smooth Down Cond.)
- Wash with shampoo or shampoo bar.
- Deep conditioned with butter treat per section, used Mane & Chics Baggy Method for 25 to 30 min. (RK Smooth Down Butter Treat)
- Barely rinse butter treat/deep conditioner out.

- BioInfusion Leave In 

STRAIGHTENING:

- Spray CHI's Iron Guard evenly after hair air dried

- A dime size Silk Infusion over all hair

- Blow out hair per row

- Apply Silk Infusion again, but per section this time

- Flat ironed per Chi

JULY UPDATE

I decided to do my updates the beginning of the months because my last perm was the beginning of June around this time. I'm starting a new job on Monday also and during orientation I have to get a picture ID, so I decided to do my update tonight since I'll be straightening my hair for Monday.

Since I'm out of shampoo and waiting on my mom to go out and buy some more, (yeah I freeload while I can, and?) I still decided to deep condition and such and work my around this not being able to wash. I searched my kitchen pantry to see if I can find something that I can use for my hair, atleast olive oil. I didn't find EVOO but I did find Extra Light Tasting Olive Oil. Now I googled this up first before I used it and it wasn't a big difference between EVOO so I tried it anyway. I WILL now be adding this to my weekly regime, which is near what I did tonight. 

What I did tonight:

- Wet hair

- Massage/Detangle a little with fingers with ELTOO per section.

- Massage Conditioner over hair and detangle with wide tooth comb then rinse.

- Co-washed with conditioner. (For now on I will be rinsing with a shampoo bar or shampoo after doing a Co-Wash with ELTOO or EVOO. But for tonight I had to co-wash again, I don't think it got all of the olive oil out.)

- Deep conditioned with butter treat per section, used Mane & Chics Baggy Method while I sat under the dryer for 25 to 30 minutes. (Used the baggy method only because I can't stay still for anything and the cap would move constantly when I did.)

- Barely rinsed butter treat out, not all of it.

After air drying I went back to my regular straightening regime. 

- A dime size amount of Chi Silk Infusion before blow drying/blowing out all over hair.

- Normally I'd use Chi's Iron Guard for both blow drying and flat ironing but I can't find it. So I skipped this.

- By section, smoothed Silk Infusion over hair, and flat ironed.

The first picture is while air drying where you can see my new growth. Second is during my blow out, third is after I flat ironed.

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Next update, September 6th.

Butter Treat Review

I decided to share this on here, someone from HealthyTextures tried out REDKEN's Butter Treat and reported back to my HT and let me know what her first impression was.


 Comment by Shawna on July 2, 2008
 okay reporting back. Last night I used this as a leave-in and sealed with some EVOO! My hair today was fab-ou-lous! Full of moisture and so soft. I really like! I'm so glad this worked for me. :-)

Are you natural, relaxed, texlaxed, etc?
relaxed

WASH & GO

These pictures were taken friday night after before I went to sleep, this has been my main hairstyle recently.  Eh, I don't really like pulling my hair back that much, maybe I'll do it for like an hour through the day if I happen to even think about it or when it gets extremely hot but, I don't know I just don't like pulled back hair on me.  I think my wash & go's would look better on me once my hair, especially my bangs and sides, grow out near or almost evenly, with those parts being the shortest my hair looks like a jerry curl sometimes, during the day when its still damp to dry and shiny. It really does =|

Anyway when I do wash & go's I co-wash in the morning (when I wake up my hair is most likely too blah to continue the day without co-washing or to just slap some more leave-in in there.) I put some leave in conditioner, starting today I'm trying the new leave-ins I got sale at walgreens, today I used Garnier Fructis, it's ok. When I use the butter treat as a leave-in it feels more moisturized.  And then I smooth on some Super Skinny for the shine and frizz. 

CRACK COCAINE

NOTE: I fixed my comments to where anyone (even if your not registered) can comment. Sorry about that.

This post is pretty much about my rocks, my crack, my addictions. Some people don't like them, some people do. What I did notice is that there are alot of products that people don't buy simply because of the ingredients they have without even trying it, or tried it and didn't like it. These products pretty much have been doing my hair more justice and I personally see a difference/outcome.

This first one to the right is CHI's Iron Guard (heat guard). Spray it on before I apply any heat. I make sure I spray it evenly too. At first your going to use it and your ends (if their not perfect) will get a little stiff. That means you didn't let the spray dry into your hair. I always get that first impression from everyone I know that used it. It truly protects my hair, ends more importantly, from frying with my blow outs and my flat iron. Everyone ask me if I got a trim recently or a cut and I honestly haven't in so long. I love this too because it still has CHI's men-cologne-like smell (i love it! call me weird) and its very weightless, its like water almost but it just has results.

To the left is CHI's Silk Infusion. I seen this in Mane & Chic's blog and other people's regimen on Fotki. The smell, the shine, and the result. I smooth just a little on when I'm blow drying sometimes cause I'm sketchy with blow drying my hair with no type of serum on it, and then I smooth some on per section as I flat iron. I still have the weightless bounce with more shine, and I haven't had the damage I normally would get with blowing out my hair and flat ironing it with other little to no products. CHI products as everyone knows is expensive, again, the very small tiny bottle (that my hair eats up like, a bottle per two weeks, its $12. The bigger one, the 12 oz is like $17 to $24. I forgot. My mom gets the bigger one now for both of us to use. 

To the right again, is Paul Mitchell's Super Skinny Serum. I use this as my last part of my wash and go. When my hair is fully dried its big and crinkly/curled/waved in most of its places with alot of shine. Handles most of the frizzing. My hair still frizzes but that's what happens while transitioning trying to find styles away from heat, to me at least. 

That's it for now.  Walgreens had a sale according to Jerica, she went online, but I went into the store with moms card to go pick up her perm and I saw some specials myself. I picked up a new leave conditioner with some Henna in the ingredients, Rosemary, jojoba, all that good stuff Garnier Fructis leave in so I will be back with those results. Signing out.