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khrome Stardust Offline 1bM/Ciii Posts: 1035 santa barbara, ca Gender:	Re: juri no monogatari Reply #15 - Aug 17^th, 2005 at 1:00am Wow your hair is so pretty! Congratulations on two years of growth! Cynde
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Maroula Emerald Offline Coffee first, then we'll talk. :D Posts: 285 NY Gender:	Re: juri no monogatari Reply #16 - Aug 17^th, 2005 at 2:38am You're hair is beautiful!! Congratulations!
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Anais Satin Stardust Offline Tailbone in March 2006, classic in March 2007 Posts: 1265 Bill Gates' backyard, WA Gender:	Re: juri no monogatari Reply #17 - Aug 17^th, 2005 at 5:24pm That's great to hear! Your hair is in really lovely condition. Anais
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Reply #18 - Aug 18^th, 2005 at 6:24am

Thank you very much, ladies!!

I think my hair got a lot better after coming to LL; that helped quite a bit. Well, that and daily conditioning. I don't even want to know what my hair would look like if I didn't do that. Tongue

This week I'm trying out a new shampoo and conditioner. For the shampoo, I tried Alba's Replenishing Shampoo on Monday. Although it smells nice, it's either too weak and didn't get all the grease off or it's too emollient for me. I say that because the next morning my first day hair looked more like second day hair. However, my hair looked shiny, but not greasy. That sounds a bit strange, but I'm not sure how else to describe it. I think I'm going to have to try it a couple of more times before I decide if I'm going to continue using it or have to look for another shampoo.

For the conditioner, it's Aubrey Organic's Honeysuckle Rose. I've used it twice and I love it! I wish I had discovered it when I bleached my hair last year. Anyway, it's extremely thick and is more like paste than a regular conditioner (kind of like Infusium 23's deep conditioner). It's a little hard to rinse all of it off, but it made my hair extremely soft and it felt rather silky. Yay! I've finally found a conditioner without cones that works as well as the conditioners that are packed with them.

I have hair that's on the finer side of coarse--if that makes sense--and I think AO's Honeysuckle Rose would work well for people with normal to coarse hair. For those with fine or thin hair, it might be a little too heavy.

I'll post the ingredients for the shampoo and conditioner in my next post. I'm too lazy to do it right now. Tongue

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Reply #19 - Aug 20^th, 2005 at 2:32am

Okay, here's the ingredients for the Alba shampoo and the AO conditioner.

Alba Replenishing Shampoo: echinacea angustifolia, golden seal, nettle, certified organic aloe barbadensis, sodium lauryl sulfoacetate, disodium laureth sulfosuccinate, cocamidopropyl betaine, cetyl alcohol, glyceryl cocoate, vegetable glycerin, glycol stearate, certified organic jojoba, panthenol (pro-vitamin B5), phenoxyethanol, methyl/propylparaben, citric acid, grapefruit extract, and botanical fragrances.

Aubrey Organics: coconut fatty acid cream base, organic aloe vera, organic shea butter, wheat germ oil, organic jojoba oil, organic rosa mosqueta rose hip seed oil; extracts of fennel, hops, balm mint, mistletoe, camomile, yarrow, chrysanthemum, angelica, forsythia and magnolia; honeysuckle oil, carrot oil, aubrey's preservative (citrus seed extract, vitamins A, C and E)

I don't think I want to try the Alba for a second time. With the Nature's Gate jojoba shampoo, I could go four days before washing my hair, but last night I had to wash my hair on the third day. Not too happy about that. I don't see the NG jojoba shampoo at the store anymore so I got a shampoo from Origins today. Hopefully that one will work better. I'll try it the next time I'm due for a wash and post the results.

I had a funny hair experience today when I went to lunch with one of my friends. We were coming out of Origins and she commented that she has to wash her hair everyday and could already feel it getting oily. I said that daily washing could be contributing her oily hair. When she asked how I learned that, I embarrassedly told her that I belong to a hair site. It's kind of sad that I was embarrassed to tell her that; it's not like I belong to a group that promotes ritual goat sacrifice. Anyway, I ended up pulling out--er, not literally-- the things I learned from LL and gave her some suggestions on improving her hair care practices. The funny part was when she jokingly said, "Wow, I've never seen this side of you before!" (I don't normally talk about hair/hair care outside of LL).

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panpeus Diamond Offline Posts: 604 Gender:	Re: juri no monogatari Reply #20 - Aug 20^th, 2005 at 3:35am Is sodium lauryl sulfoacetate a gentle cleanser? I have never heard of -sulfoacetate before. Edit: I just saw your picture! WHOA!! That's two years of growth? Amazing, you have great growth if it was in a bob! It looks so healthy, even the ends that had been colored.
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Reply #21 - Aug 20^th, 2005 at 9:21am

Thanks, Panpeus! Daily conditioning works wonders. Acutally, I think I had about 13 inches of growth since I started growing; just slightly faster than the average 6 inches per year. I'm just under 5'4" so 12 inches of growth (had one inch trimmed in January) would look a lot longer on me than a taller person. *cough Panpeus cough* Sorry! Sometimes I get a little envious of tall people. Happy

;; I remember in the volleyball class I took last spring, none of us short girls could block the ball at the net.

I looked up sodium lauryl sulfoacetate and according to Toadie for Soap, it's used in bath powders, cream and paste shampoos, and other cosmetic products. Additionally, it is "milder to the skin than sodium lauryl sulfate. It is hard water stable. It is often used to replace soap whenever soap sensitization is found...Sodium lauryl sulfoacetate is completely biodegradable. Is much milder than other foaming agents and is safe for children's bath products." So, I guess it is a gentle cleanser. Grin

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Reply #22 - Aug 22^nd, 2005 at 12:44am

Today is third day hair and it looks better than when I used the Alba and even NG's jojoba shampoo. When I washed on Thursday, I used some old Aveda "hair detoxifier" shampoo I had laying around. It makes my hair quite clean, but it has ammonium lauryl sulfate. I've heard that ALS is harsher than sodium lauryl sulfate so that might acount for the unusually-clean look that's going on right now. Tomorrow is supposed to be a wash night and I'm going to try the Origins shampoo.

I had a weird hair dream last night. I don't really remember a whole lot, but at one point there I was in a restaurant and a waitress had looong reddish brown hair that I thought was really nice. At another part of the dream, I looked in the mirror and my hair had been cut back into a bob. I freaked, but then I noticed that my hair was a lot thicker than normal and I didn't mind the hair cut. Sheesh. Tongue

It's funny but lately I've been noticing that a lot of women and children in my state have long hair. When I went to the mall yesterday, I must have seen close to thirty women and children with hair that was waist to classic length. I knew a lot of people here have long hair, but I didn't think it was that common. Considering how some people get a bad time for having long hair, I'm happy I live in a place where a longhair would more likely be asked, "Do you dance hula?" and not "Are you going to donate your hair?"

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Reply #23 - Aug 23^rd, 2005 at 7:16am

Ended up not washing my hair. I'm not planning on going anywhere tomorrow so it wasn't "oily enough" to deem a wash. It's funny, but four months ago I wouldn't have asked myself if my hair looked greasy enough to have to wash it. Man, that ALS is strong stuff.

I was bored and did this. I think John William Waterhouse is rolling over in his grave. Tongue

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gabi Ex Member	Re: juri no monogatari Reply #24 - Aug 23^rd, 2005 at 7:34am Sheesh Juri - that is just about exactly the kind of hair I want (and of course ain't gonna get) - the other choice is curly wildness (which I also ain't gonna get. But hey, we have to appreciate what we have, right ... RIGHT !!! ??? ...g
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Reply #25 - Aug 23^rd, 2005 at 6:41pm

So true, Gabi. It's taken me a while to accept my hair. For a long time I wanted red or brown hair that looked like Christine's from The Phantom of the Opera.
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I must be insane. I just bought a furisode from Ichiroya.com. For those who don't know, a furisode is a formal kimono worn by young, unmarried women in Japan. On Coming of Age Day, parents usually buy their 20 year-old daughter a furisode and, traditionally, that signifies that the young woman is an adult and single. I have no idea as of yet where I can wear this, but I've been looking at it for a few days and unfortunately it's not one of those things where I can wait a couple of weeks before I decide to get it. There's only one so someone could have bought it before I did. At least that's what I'm telling myself. Oh geez.

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khrome Stardust Offline 1bM/Ciii Posts: 1035 santa barbara, ca Gender:	Re: juri no monogatari Reply #26 - Aug 23^rd, 2005 at 8:35pm WOW the furisode is so pretty! I didn't know that about Japanese tradition, in fact I didn't know that was a furisode. I thought it was a kimono. I'll have to do more reading! So many things to learn, so little time.. Grat's on your new outfit! Cynde
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Anais Satin Stardust Offline Tailbone in March 2006, classic in March 2007 Posts: 1265 Bill Gates' backyard, WA Gender:	Re: juri no monogatari Reply #27 - Aug 24^th, 2005 at 6:05am Oh my, that Waterhouse spoof is GENIUS
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gabi Ex Member	Re: juri no monogatari Reply #28 - Aug 24^th, 2005 at 8:01am Couldn't get to the furisode yet but ditto on the waterhouse ...g
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Reply #29 - Aug 24^th, 2005 at 8:21am

Khrome--Thanks! You're right, you know. There's different types of kimono and furisode is one of them. Then it gets complicated because there's subcategories depending on the length of the sleeves or the pattern of the fabric. Tongue

It's kind of confusing. I don't know all of it myself.

Anais and Gabi--Thank you! There's several more in my Photobucket account that are waiting to be posted. Yay? Undecided

Edit: got rid of a redundant "confusing"

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