Well, no super henna conditioner for me... being the silly goose that I am, I didn't wrap the henna brick right and it was kinda yucky when I pulled it out of the freezer. 

That's okay... I really need to just go to the beauty supply store and get more henna powder anyway. 

I'm on day three since I washed, and my hair's holding up well... though I have hair plans for tonight.. mwahahaha!  Going out for my *belated* birthday dinner with the in-laws.  I got to pick the resturant (yay!) a new Italian place that's so scrumptious it should be a sin.  Last time I went I had this rainbow trout in lemon butter sauce with artichoke hearts.. Oooooo...

At any rate, I want to do something a little special with my hair (because it's been so long since I've done something with it that was neither a bun nor a braid...)  I'm thinking about some hot rollers, or maybe just a different hairstyle... I've got time on my hands, so I figure now's the time to experiment! 

Happy belated birthday!


Hope your dinner is scrumptous.   

Thank you, all! 

Sakina, I got sweetie to snap a few pics last night with his camera phone... I'll see if I can talk him into dowloading them to the computer tonight!

Bikerbraid, dinner was DE-Lish! Yum yum...  thanks!

Angel Spun, this is like, the BEST italian place ever!  You know.. you could always go out for italian just to re-celebrate your own birthday... 


Okay, so recap of last night: Met said in-laws for dinner, had the same super-yummy trout with the lemon-butter and artichoke hearts... I really need to learn how to make this at home!  And I've been craving fish everyday... maybe because it's just too hot here to cook anything else... 

At any rate, I decided to do my hair simply.  I used my Con-Air jumbo hot roller set to set my hair (which, by the way... twelve of those suckers isn't enough anymore... had to do my hair in "batches" *giggles*  No complaints, though!).  No hairspray, but I did put a drop of Aussie's leave-in conditioner in a teacup filled with water, and I used that to wet my fingers and run it along the length of my hair so that there would be a little steam to help "set" the curl. 

Very loose spiral curls to the bottom half of my hair.

I pulled the front part up (parting from ear to ear) and secured the hair away from my face at the crown with a barret.  Barrett?  hrm...  That said, I need to find more like this one I have.. it isn't (thankfully) a french styled clasp.  It has a bar of metal that runs along the back, but there's a.. like a little lip of metal at the open tip that catches the closure.  And not your hair.. ahhh...

But I haven't been able to find any more barrets like that.    Any ideas?

When I got home last night, I decided it was high time that I did a deep conditioning treatment, so I combed my hair out well and applied massive amounts of JoJoba oil to the length from the tops of my ears down.  My scalp doesn't need it as much, since it was already begining to greasy as my third-day hair does, but the ends needed some spoiling.  It was hard using only JoJoba oil, as I have misplaced my BB brush....

At any rate, I also used some of my Zum Rub.. I love this stuff!  I found it at my local New Age store, but they have a website and a catalog, which I receive... here's the link: http://www.indigowild.com

I currently have the rosemary mint Zum Rub.  It's great, looks a little grainy at first, but it melts like butter in your hands, and it made my hair SOOoooooo soft!

The ingredients for the Zum Rub: sunflower oil, grapeseed oil, coconut oil, beeswax (natural, not refined or bleached), carnauba wax, shea butter, goats milk, essential oils and vitamin E.

This is good stuff. 

Well, my hair's still a little coated from the deep conditioning, but that's okay. I went swimming on Saturday, and got chlorine in my hair.. 

When I got home I just rinsed my hair with cold water, then followed with a vinegar rinse. Haven't done much with my hair otherwise, just left it in a braid for the rest of the weekend.

This morning, though, when I went to comb it through.. eeeks. Tangles, ahoy! 

Hair needs another shampoo wash, but I'm holding off until I can get over to the health food store for a non-sulfate shampoo... sulfates are just too harsh. And I found out that it's in near EVERYTHING that you wash your hair and skin in.. yuck. No wonder I had been struggling with dry skin and scalp...  Organics, here I come... 

I looked at the Avalon organics (lavendar, actually..  ) while I was at the health food store, but I ended up getting the Jason Natural Biotin shampoo because 1. Avalon had sulfates listed higher up on the ingredient list, and 2. The Jason shampoo had more at 16fl oz and cost less than the Avalon...

Though I am very intrigued with Avalon, and I really dug the lemon scent as well, so maybe next time...   Thanks for the tip, Sakina!    And by the way, please let me know when you try the Ouidad chlorine shampoo... I love to go swimming, but getting a swim cap on my head is like trying to stuff a cats head in a gym sock... 

As for my skin supplies, I bought an almond Zum bar back when I bought the Zum Rub and the difference is AMAZING.  The goats milk soap makes this soft, wonderous-smelling lather, and more often than not, is gentle enough that I don't need the Zum Rub afterwards.

Very nice.. I'm really liking the Jason's shampoo... my hair dried super soft, shiny, and lovely.  Smells great too... wow... I didn't know hair could feel this good after a shampoo! 

This morning I got a hair compliment... a person who normally sees my hair all piled up in a bun everyday saw my hair "down" (read: half up with a barrette) this morning and said, "Oh, your hair's so pretty down."   

As for life stuff.. well, life is good... okay.  I have a cold.    It's all in my sinuses, bad headaches and the like.. eww.  And to add insult to injury (if you can say that) I got my.. monthly feminine thing today, so I run back and forth between my head hurting and my abdomen hurting... yuck yuck...    A little tylenol fixed both, but I'm hoping that my illness will get better before I leave to go to a convention in mid-July...  conventions aren't fun if you're too bleh to get out of bed...

So... thoughts, prayers, healing light in my direction would be greatly appreciated.    In the meantime, I'm chugging all the juice I can find...

I just thought of this.. no one on the boards knows me by anything other than novusfemina... it's about time I remedied that, eh?  *waves*  Hi, everyone!  My name's Elizabeth. 

Sorry to hear you're feeling unwell.  I'm sending healing thoughs and energy.  How about a bit it Reiki?

How nice you got a compliment!  No one at work ever says anything about my hair.  Sometimes I style it kind of wild and still no comment.  I was once asked, however, if my waves were a perm.  I don't think that counts.

Feel better!!!!!

how about a Kripalu class and  a Hatha class.  You'd really be good to go!!  Chakras would be all doing pretty well afterwards!