I'm able to go 5 days without washing during the week, but washing Thursday or Friday and my hair is oily by Sunday so I still had to wash this morning.  I must play with my hair a lot more on the weekends.  I slathered my hair in olive oil, wrapped it in a bun, wrapped in a scarf and slept in it, then washed it out this morning, including a brown sugar scrub (and facial exfoliator, how NICE).  I'm amazed at how fast my hair dries.  Its not completely done, there is that shoulder length patch that is damp in the middle, but almost all my hair was dry after an hour.  Seems incredible. 

I am also trying cold water rinses for my conditioner.  Need to ask what other people think of these and if it is even worth the time. 

I left my hair cutting scissors in my van, and on my lunch break I'll keep tackling my splits.  Looks so much better now, I'm not embarrassed to wear my braid down, since at least at this point someone would have to be examining my braid to really see any splits.

The wedding was Sunday and was very nice.     I KNEW that Sean and I would be having our own freak out sessions the day of.  We always do when we have to get dressed up and go anywhere, and I really wanted to look pretty, I mean the photos will haunt me the rest of my life.  But we got through it, mostly kept our freaking out to ourselves, so I spent hours in the bathroom, and Sean spent quite a while online trying desperately to tie his tie, when he finally had to have his Dad do it. 

The night before the wedding I thought of a pretty style that I ended up using.  I wanted to have a 'crown' braid around the front with the length falling down in big curls.  I decided to take a small section from the bottom of my hair, braid it in 2 braids then bring it up and around like a heidi braid.  I also did rag curls the night before, and low and behold, I got IT!!! Unfortunately I put in too many and ended up w/ Shirley temple curls, which I didn't want so I spent hours finger combing them out so that I could do hot rollers.  Oh well, I'll know better for next time.   It took me quite a while to get the braids around my head right.  Pinning them was difficult, and keeping my hair pulled back, while I kept playing with the 2 braids proved challenging at times.  But it ended up looking very nice I think.  I pinned the 2 braids up, and layered them along side each other for a while, but pulled out the holders, and let the curls from each braid hang down.  I put in 4 rhinestone bobby pins along the front, and ended up with my 'tiara.' 

The ceremony was beautiful.  It was based on a celtic handfasting.  The rev. and his wife officiated, and they had 7 ribbons to tie around our hands for different vows.  I'm going to frame the ribbons along with one of the photos.  I just can't believe how well everything turned out.  The weather was perfect, mild and cloudy, the flowers were GORGEOUS, the cake delicious, and the family and friends wonderful.  The innkeeper delivered our photos to us the next day.  It was so much better than we ever expected. 

I'm going to work on photos now, and I'll post some later.  You can definetly tell that the dye is coming out of my hair.  It amazes me that when I dyed virgin dirty blonde hair red, I had red hair until I cut it all out, (and this was supposed to wash out in 6 washes), but I dye bleached hair brown and the color fades.   

I washed my hair 2 days ago with honey and baking soda.  Just put a couple tablespoons of honey and dumped a bit of baking soda on top, then mixed water with it and dumped it over my hair.  It felt great while it was in my hair, but when I rinsed it out my hair had no slip and I wasn't very happy.  It dried nicely though and my hair doesn't look oily at all.

The thing about CO washing is that if you're wearing your hair up, it really doesn't matter if your oily or not.  My olive oil and shea butter conditioning too.  The length of my hair feels very heavy and slick when I'm playing with it, but it doesn't look greasy at all when its up.  I'll stick with it for now, especially since I'm in the shower multiple times a day from the heat and see how it goes.  If I could really get away from shampoo I would be really happy.

I'm on a braiding kick, which has been fun.  But I still can't get the crown braid which is what I really want to do.  Herringbone braids are gorgeous though and I'm having a lot of fun with them.  They are very simple, but take a lot of upper arm strength since they take so long to finish.  Next time I go out, thats how I'm going to wear my hair.

I bought horsetail supplements, jojoba oil, sweet almond oil, and rosewater today.  I spritz my hair with the rose water, then put a bit of the almond oil on.  I smell wonderful!

I bought lots of protein at the store too.  Imitation crab meat, I just don't have it in my to cook meat lately, but this is at least something.  And yogurt and cheese.  If I can get one yogurt, and a serving of meat, along with the cheese I already eat, I hope it will help a bit.

Valerie, I'd love to see a pic of your gibson tuck w/ crown braid.  I love the look of the gibson tuck, I'm still a bit short to achieve it myself.