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update on survey
Reply #420 - Feb 13^th, 2006 at 5:19am

Update on survey

Current hair length: about tailbone length, but I haven't measured. Best estimate is 35" - 36"
Goal hair length: Golden Ratio, or about mid thigh, or about 44(?).
When did you start growing your hair? summer 2003
What is your average monthly growth rate? don't know
Do you trim your hair, if so how often? very seldom (about every 6 months) and it's a microtrim. My last trim was sometime last week.
What supplements do you take? N/A
Do you eat any special foods for hair growth/nutrition etc? No
Do you do scalp massages? No
What is your favourite shampoo? N/A, although I'm just exploring organic soap instead of the first C in CCC.
What is your favourite conditioner? Suave BioBasics
Favourite leave-in conditioner? stuff I make myself: shea butter, jojoba, Lemon EO, BPAL Eggnog. (Jehovah's Sheajoba), or Giovanni Direct Leave-in
Favourite deep conditioner or treatment? Broccoli seed oil
What are your favourite basic oils? shea butter, broccoli seed oil
What are your favourite essential oils? BPAL, though not really made of all essential oils
What is your favourite product of all time? shea butter
What is your least favourite product of all time? straight jojoba oil
Is there anything you would never put on your hair? (-cones/quats etc) tar, bubble gum, sea salt after Snowy's fiasco
What do you like most about your hair? its color
What do you like least about your hair? its color
Do you colour your hair? I plan to do full-blown henna soon.
Do you clarify? Yes, ACV every wash
How often do you wash your hair? every 7-9 days
How long does it take to dry? 6+ hours when sock curled just-dry, or 3 hours when loose.
Do you prefer you hair up or down? down
What is your favourite updo? infinity bun or single braid
Bangs or no bangs? no bangs
Whose hair at LHC do you aspire to? Elle, Hairstorm, LittleFlower's waves, KBF minus the color because that's against the laws of physics for me
Do you keep a hair journal? Yes, on Longlocks and an archive on Livejournal (see sig)
How many hairtoys do you own? my Mamacat collection has grown. 8 pairs of Mamacat sticks, 1 Mamacat curtain rod, 1 Blondiesturn fork, and velvet scrunchies. I don't use anything else.
What is your favourite hairtoy? Anything Mamacat and anything Blondiesturn, I am a Cult Member to the very death.
Brush or comb? CombS (Ric Vest Pocket, Ric LH comb, MP Rake, Rachael Stephens #42, LML horn comb, HeavenlyHarvest horn comb)
Do you use hot styling aids on your hair irons/blowdryer etc? None
Do you make/sell any hair care products? I used to ; haven't the time anymore
What is the last hair-related thing that you bought? Chagrin Valley shampoo bars, due to arrive soonish
What's your favourite kind of cheese? Havarti or sharp cheddar
Share a funny/inspiring/shocking hair story if you have one: I started growing my hair out because of a bet. However now that I'm not in a relationship with K anymore (long story in journal), I've by default won this bet.

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Anais Satin Stardust Offline Tailbone in March 2006, classic in March 2007 Posts: 1265 Bill Gates' backyard, WA Gender:	Edward Gorey Reply #421 - Feb 14^th, 2006 at 3:58pm Celebrating with Edward Gorey. The Gashlycrumb Tinies. My favorite is "X is for Xerxes / Devoured by Mice"
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NaturalRogue Emerald Offline Dancing at night playing the music of human soul Posts: 427 Dallas, TX Gender:	Re: The Diary of Anais (Satin) Reply #422 - Feb 15^th, 2006 at 11:35am Anais! That is so very sick and twisted! I loved it!
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Lisabelle

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Re: Edward Gorey
Reply #423 - Feb 15^th, 2006 at 1:19pm

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Celebrating with Edward Gorey.
The Gashlycrumb Tinies.

My favorite is "X is for Xerxes / Devoured by Mice"

Anais, I am a big Edward Gorey Fan! I have a childerns book called, The House with a Clock in its Walls. All the pictures are by Edward Gorey. I've had the book since 6th grade. It was and still is my favorite books! 8)

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Angel Spun Ex Member	Re: The Diary of Anais (Satin) Reply #424 - Feb 15^th, 2006 at 5:26pm Ahhh the Ghashlycrumb Tinies... Gorey is a standard fixture in my "realm." But I must say, I never expected to find his influence here at LongLocks. tee-hee
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Anais Satin

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hairwash, CV bars, etc.
Reply #425 - Feb 16^th, 2006 at 3:30pm

Chagrin Valley soap order arrived!
The order included...

Carrot Milk and Honey shampoo bar

Pumpkin Spice soap bar

Patchouli Herb soap bar

Chocolate Orange swirl soap bar (which is gorgeous and I will photograph it tomorrow)

sample sizes of Dead Sea Spa and Java Orange Mint, which are quite big for being called "samples"
All of the full-size bars are ginormous 6-oz. densely-packed naturally-made domestic soap from Ohio. I am so happy!

Hair. Did a full wash yesterday with the new Carrot Milk and Honey (CVCMH) shampoo bar that arrived. My last hairwash was on Friday Feb. 10 with Villainess' Ginger Snapped soap. I haven't decided which one I like better - although the new Chagrin Valley bar has a lot less fragrance than the Villainess.
If anything, washing with a bar will probably result in noticeably less itching than my usual wash method of CCC-C. At this point I don't know yet... and the wash frequency would be likely to change if I like the bar better than the Pure-A-Teas for the scalp. Last night's wash was CVCMH, Suave CS, KLG, and no Giovanni leave-in. Wet-combed, sock-curled, called Duke and went to bed.

What usually happens with a neckwarmer, which is my answer to hats that don't fit all of my hair.

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firefly42 Amethyst Offline Reader, writer, dreamer... Posts: 35 my own world... Gender:	Re: The Diary of Anais (Satin) Reply #426 - Feb 16^th, 2006 at 9:25pm can youexplain the golden ratio to me, please?
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Anais Satin

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Golden Ratio
Reply #427 - Feb 16^th, 2006 at 11:11pm

Here's a crossposting; I think I forgot to post it in this journal:

Greek mathematicians have determined the most attractive proportion (visually) to be "phi", calculated at 1.618 or 0.618. This means the most attractive hair length on an average human being is at mid-thigh, or about classic length, because mid-thigh/a.k.a. fingertip length is approximately 61.8% of a person's height.

I suspect that classic length is at butt-crease and not mid-thigh because.. mid-thigh is about fingertip-length. And the difference between classic length and fingertip length isn't a big deal, but maybe the curve of the butt and the curve of the hair's hemline were complementary. That's just my speculation.

The "inverse Golden Ratio" length would be at waist, which exposes about 61.8% of body height.

When measuring to determine your Golden Ratio length, measure "actual length": from the top of your head to the tips of your hair. Do not measure starting at your hairline/forehead.

Hope this helps
Anais

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CHAGRIN VALLEY EXPERIMENT
Reply #428 - Feb 17^th, 2006 at 12:23am

Chagrin Valley experiment. : I'll have to keep adding to this text and repost it whenever I have updates.

What I'll probably do is go through each one of the soaps, one per week, to see how I like each of them for hair use. Each one (Pumpkin Spice, Patchouli Herb, Chocolate Orange) has a unique combination of natural carrier and essential oils. It will take three weeks to go through and try each one. I'll be taking notes along the way.

Carrot Milk and Honey
2nd Day: Today's hair has been interesting. It's been not "crunchy" per se, but slightly dry. It definitely feels cleaner and not "sectioned". Maybe it's my imagination. It's not very noticeable.
Scalp has not been itching, or I just don't remember the itch.

Work. I'm training an assistant! Met with her today; she's such a marvelous gal. She'll be a great person to work with, a real personality. I'm really happy with her.

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Anais Satin

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Chagrin Valley
Reply #429 - Feb 17^th, 2006 at 10:03pm

I'm going to keep reposting this as I add days to the tracking.

Carrot Milk and Honey

2nd Day: Today's hair has been interesting. It's been not "crunchy" per se, but slightly dry. It definitely feels cleaner and not "sectioned". Maybe it's my imagination. It's not very noticeable.
Scalp has not been itching, or I just don't remember the itch.

3rd day and having done a wash with CVCMH: My hair feels average, not great, not splendid, not incredibly slick and smooth like the day I first tried Giovanni. But it does feel very clean and very un-sectioned. It's different, and not better or worse than my usual hair. This might also be because of not using Giovanni Direct Leave-in for this sock curling session. I usually put on GDL-i after each wash. Maybe that's it.
These shampo bars are a really nice alternative to CO washing and so far I haven't itched very much, if not at all. THAT part I REALLY like.

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Galadriel Stardust Offline Posts: 1671	Re: The Diary of Anais (Satin) Reply #430 - Feb 18^th, 2006 at 6:18pm I'll follow your experiment with interest. I love Ida's stuff, but haven't tried most of the soaps you ordered. still thinks that she just might be able to resist ordering Chocolate Orange soap...
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Anais Satin

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Re: Chagrin Valley
Reply #431 - Feb 18^th, 2006 at 8:53pm

Carrot Milk and Honey

2nd Day: Today's hair has been interesting. It's been not "crunchy" per se, but slightly dry. It definitely feels cleaner and not "sectioned". Maybe it's my imagination. It's not very noticeable.
Scalp has not been itching, or I just don't remember the itch.

3rd day and having done a wash with CVCMH: My hair feels average, not great, not splendid, not incredibly slick and smooth like the day I first tried Giovanni. But it does feel very clean and very un-sectioned. It's different, and not better or worse than my usual hair. This might also be because of not using Giovanni Direct Leave-in for this sock curling session. I usually put on GDL-i after each wash. Maybe that's it.
These shampo bars are a really nice alternative to CO washing and so far I haven't itched very much, if not at all. THAT part I REALLY like.

4th day hair on CVCMH. So far, my scalp has a very negligible amount of grease. I discovered that my scalp hasn't been itching but I still scratch anyway out of habit. So far so good with this shampoo bar. I like the fluffiness of my hair, it gives a lot more thickness and helps my hair hold wave really well.

CV bars: Carrot Milk & Honey, Patchouli Herb, Pumpkin Spice, Chocolate Orange Twist, Dead Sea Spa and Java Orange Mint: the sample sizes are about the size of 1/3 a bar. They are truly ginormous bar-sized samples.

The braided do with the neckwarmer

results, 4th day hair, Chagrin Valley Carrot Milk & Honey

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Anais Satin Stardust Offline Tailbone in March 2006, classic in March 2007 Posts: 1265 Bill Gates' backyard, WA Gender:	Re: The Diary of Anais (Satin) Reply #432 - Feb 19^th, 2006 at 5:17am Quote: still thinks that she just might be able to resist ordering Chocolate Orange soap... No way! I can't believe Ida makes the Chocolate Orange soap with REAL CHOCOLATE. and it smells divine! I think you should try a sample size of this stuff with your next CV order, minimum. enable enable enable...
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LJ Ruby Offline Posts: 59 Gender:	Re: The Diary of Anais (Satin) Reply #433 - Feb 19^th, 2006 at 10:06am Patchouli & Herb....mmmmmmmmmm. I use it on me, on the kids and on the hubby. We all smell like hippie wood sprites.
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CV experiment continued
Reply #434 - Feb 20^th, 2006 at 2:31pm

Carrot Milk and Honey

2nd Day: Today's hair has been interesting. It's been not "crunchy" per se, but slightly dry. It definitely feels cleaner and not "sectioned". Maybe it's my imagination. It's not very noticeable.
Scalp has not been itching, or I just don't remember the itch.

3rd day and having done a wash with CVCMH: My hair feels average, not great, not splendid, not incredibly slick and smooth like the day I first tried Giovanni. But it does feel very clean and very un-sectioned. It's different, and not better or worse than my usual hair. This might also be because of not using Giovanni Direct Leave-in for this sock curling session. I usually put on GDL-i after each wash. Maybe that's it.
These shampo bars are a really nice alternative to CO washing and so far I haven't itched very much, if not at all. THAT part I REALLY like.

4th day hair on CVCMH. So far, my scalp has a very negligible amount of grease. I discovered that my scalp hasn't been itching but I still scratch anyway out of habit. So far so good with this shampoo bar. I like the fluffiness of my hair, it gives a lot more thickness and helps my hair hold wave really well.

5th day hair: scalp itched a lot, or maybe it was just me. The Chagrin Valley thing doesn't get me the silky amazing hair that I got with CO and GDL-i.

6th day hair remains to be seen. I will probably wash tonight though.

Verdict: This shampoo bar is wonderful for bringing out fluffy defined waves in my hair. It is not good for silkiness though, and my ends feel slightly dry (I'll have to oil when using this bar)

Next bar: Patchouli Herb, which is actually a soap, but it's supposed to be more moisturizing and less drying than a shampoo bar.

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