My condition isn't improving. Though today would normally be my washing day, I simply don't dare to wash- I get otitis really easily. 
    I hope that my scalp will appreciate this.

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i received my stuff from bronze jewelers today ... believe me, i can maybe not do a "complate" french twist since there's just too much hair to tuck in but all those semi-twist styles ... the comb holds it all and my hair was freshly hennaed and washed! they made the teeth slightly longer. it glides in smoothly and comes out without ripping a single hair.

Thank you all for your nice words! I'm sure that though she is probably about to drown in orders, Rapunzel is happy to help you to ease your hairstick envy (not to mention, that I'm sure that if I saw your collections, I might turn green of envy myself! ) Greek Lady, I was on the site when new DecoStix were posted there, took one glimpse to Misty Mauves and ran to fetch my Visa. LOL It was love at first sight. I think I wouldn't have been able to get a good second sight as I remember that all the DecoStix posted at that time went really fast.
 Styg: I think I really need to order something from Bronze Jewelers soon.
  13bodies: Thanks for your concern and advice. I really hate having tendency to develop otitis though I'm adult.

Anyway, today I'm feeling a bit better. I'm not still healthy, but I'm not sneezing constantly either. My hair was very dirty, and when I received my shampoo bars, I didn't wait a moment before going to shower.

My lengthy review of shampoo & soap is here:
http://www.longlocks.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=products;action=display;num...

Let me just say again that I'm very happy of being clean again, and very much going all-natural in my shower habits.

Hairstick review update

When I came back from Helsinki, I was in for a real surprise. Longlocks hairstick shipment in my mailbox! I've usually needed to fetch them from nearby post office, but as I was very tired (not still in full health...) I was really glad to find them from my mailbox.

This time I had a special reason to be excited: both pairs that I had ordered, I had ordered after a little struggle. Caramello SE pair was in the shop for ages, and though I really liked it, I always kept telling myself, that I already have several nice pairs of MT hairsticks that are brown and I still almost never wear them... but still, I kept coming back to drool Caramellos and finally I just couldn't resist the urge, especially since they just stayed there in the shop...
   Lacerta Holostix where a different matter, a struggle over my prejudice towards Holostix. I knew that I needed badly a pair of black hairsticks. But I never quite liked the look of Holosticks...the pictures of lacquer look a bit weird on the site I guess. However, I was there when these Holosticks came to the shop and found not just one but two pairs that had so nice crystals that I was ready to order them inspite of some little nagging doubts. Someone beat me on Dark Matter, and Susan notified of that, and I switched to Lacerta. I didn't mind the switch at all, I had actually liked Lacerta more right away, but had thought that all-black hairsticks would have been more "practical".  Now I'm really happy this beginning brain problem didn't have chance to grow!
   
And now they're both here. Just like I thought when I first saw Caramello pair, they are just the kind of hairsticks that are a perfect fit with nearly all my clothes. The beads, however, where a big positive surprise. In the picture they looked...well...somehow a bit ordinary, but in reality they're far from it! The color is really luscious and if they didn't have this nice three-dimensional effect, they would look exactly like little caramel candies. Super cool! I'm so happy I couldn't resist that temptation. I guess that my Maiden's Treasures hairsticks will continue to suffer of too little attention... I don't think the issue with them is really the color, but the fact that they are not LongLocks!

Lacerta's crystals are just as lovely as I envisioned them. Lacerta means "lizard" in latin, and is a name of a constellation...cool... The biggest surprise was holographic finish. It is really STUNNING!!! It looks silvery at some angle, but then there are these little sparkles in all colors of rainbow, changing in reflections of light. They're really, really beautiful, and I'm totally in love with them. And I want more Holostix in future.

Too bad my new pairs don't match, because I'd like to wear them both at the same time right now! *is in happy hairstick heaven* 

Today I washed my hair second time with Honey Beer& Egg shampoo. Before washing, I spent a moment dusting. Split end situation seems to be good and there aren't too many around, but I also prefer to keep it that way.
    Washing with shampoo bar was even more pleasant than last time. It lathered more (I luuuurve lather) and the "squeaking" feeling wasn't as strong as last time. I shampooed once, and then applied ACV. From then on, everything went just like last time. I shed quite a bit while wet combing, but not handful. I think my shedding is slowly creeping back towards normal again.

There's a group order of Mei Fas in LHC. They offer hairstyx at half a price...now how am I supposed to resist that? Answer is, that no way. I put an order to three pairs of Allwood hairstyx  and am struggling hard against temptation to order a certain beaded pair. And you know that I'm not very good at struggling against hairtoy temptations...

Today's a gray and rainy day. Though I usually prefer not to wear colors while working, today there seemed to be so little color in the world that I found myself needing badly something to perk me up a bit. A pink striped shirt and my pink FuturiStix certainly did the trick. I feel more relaxed about lecturing and am not so worried about my appearance on lectures any longer.  It's philosophy anyway, and I'd be disappointed if students swallowed whole everything I say. 

I'm also thinking of making changes in my diet again. After I recovered from worst flu, I've been craving for salads, which is good. I've also started to bake our own bread. Not only is homemade bread easy to make and tastes good, but it's really easy to slip seeds and other super healthy stuff in the dough. So, two good changes in my diet so far. But, the sad fact is, that whatever weight I lost in beginning of year, seems to have creeped back (I blame certain chocolate chip cookie recipe for that ). I'm hoping to cut eating sugar again and return to three meals per day rhytm, which felt really good while I was on the diet. My days are irregular, but, at least I can try.

I've been overweight since childhood. While I don't think I'd feel comfortable being of normal weight, I do try to keep my weight in limits that are comfortable for me. As for lately, I've been pushing those limits and ended up being on a diet quite often.   So I'm trying to think of some small changes to healthier direction. It's just difficult because I don't remember to think of things from healthiness perspective... I'd probably need some talking wrist watch to remind me in grocery store...

Back to the hair. Yesterday I had two long hair sightings while I was at the uni- or, two long hair horror sightings, to be more accurate. I've always been appalled of how insensitive comments people can make of long hair, but these two gals had heads of hair that made even me think of scissors (and of course, huge jars of jojoba oil and conditioner). Both had longer than waistlength hair that was dull, full of breakage from top all the way down and the whole looked really bad. I wondered, whether my long haired future would have looked like that had I never found these boards. Probably. I have never heard or read a single good, natural haircare advice in my mother tongue. Not to mention, how much my hairs' condition has improved since beginning of this journal. When I started this, I would never have really believed that I'd be able to stop using hairspray altogether, that shine spray would become completely obsolete. Not to mention, that I'd be able to quit visiting hairstylist and on top of that, be able to trim once in 6 months. Right now I've done everything except the last, and it seems that I can manage that, too.   My ex-stylist would faint if she knew...

EDIT: edited word "wrist watch" so that it passes the monitoring eye of ever vigilant censoring program