Well, here I am, new name, new community, new hair products and a new start along the same old hair road.

I was using Ojon under the advice of a very dear friend who shall remain nameless.  I had been using Kiehls and liking the results I got with it, but not really loving it.  So I happily switched to something that was slyly and subtlely touted as the Holy Grail of hair products but said dear friend.

And being the product and scent wench that I am, I went for it.    

I started using Ojon S & C and loved it.  After about 3 or 4 weeks I was not getting the same results as I had in the beginning....past that point I was disliking my results intensely.  I had frizz and unmanagebility and it just wasn't working for me at all.

*sigh*  Back to the drawing board.

At that point, dear friend said, hey, I just wanted to tell you about LML and how great it is!

You would think at this point my spidey senses would tingle and such.  However, I know my friend is honest and doesn't exaggerate and with Ojon, she jumped the gun a bit, it worked for about a month before you notice a difference and this time she had been using LML for about 3 months before she mentioned it to me.  I had, at that point, used Ojon for about 2 months, so I thought, I'll try it.  Anything was better than what Ojon was doing to my hair.

While I waited for by LML long hair beginners pack, I went back to my trusty Kiehls and my hair got better finally.

Tomorrow I start writing about my LML pack and my journey as I figure out if this is the right product for my tempermental hair.

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*cough cough* - well, I think your friend sounds like a delightful and charming person *cough cough*.

I'd bet your friend is deeeee lighted to hear that this latest recommendation is working out so well and I'll bet friend feels like a real poop for "jumping the gun" with Ojon - but hey, I'm just guessing  .

So anyway.... I just love having you over here (((M)))...g, the nameless

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My friend is very delightfull.

Yes she feels bad, but she doesn't need to, it's quite alright as I have told her a few times already. lol

I am loving being here, thanks for showing me the way.

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Hey Maroula Hon - I would make a really strong guess that your hair will be back to it's best and maybe even better glory and length within no more than six to eight months.

And besides - it's still humdinger gorgeous and no one but you can see any decline in quality...g

I started LML on July 28th, with the purchase of a long hair beginner's kit.  In it came the BTN Duo, the chillout spray, the #18 SOS scalp oil, the smoother comb the flexipic and the small scritcher horn comb.

Prior to the order I had emailed LML with a few questions and always received prompt and courteous replies.  

This is what I wroteon August 5th after I started LML in my live journal.

"It's been about a week since I started LML and I have to say, so far I love it. But then I loved Ojon in the beginning too.

"We have had an unbelievable heat wave with extremely high humidity the last 3 weeks it's disgusting. While I was using Ojon (after about 2 months being on Ojon) my hair was this massive puff/frizz ball. It was gross. If I decided to put a leave-in in (either Kiehl's or Giovanni), my hair had greasy areas. It was a lose lose situation and made me want a buzz cut...not kidding. It was so bad, I was embarrassed to go to work, I felt like at some point I had fried my hair.  I got so disgusted I turned to my Kiehl's for a temporary solution until LML arrived. It helped, but not tremendously.

"With LML my hair is fluffy, but not nearly as frizzy and dry looking. The waves are more defined and the halo of frizz on the head area is contained. My ends that always disgust me, look fuller and don't just hang there begging to be chopped off.

"Now, granted, this is only after a week...and I might change my mind. I also only have the beginners kit, so I don't have other products that may take care of the frizziness and bring out the waves more. I am trying to get some money saved up so that in a month I can see if I want to magic pack it.  So for now, I love it. "

Still waiting patiently for my order to come.    The first order I made, which would also be the last order I made   ,arrived within a week so I should have it by Monday hopefully.  

There are a couple of things that have occured with my hair that I am very happy for.  The first I had mentioned already and that is how much faster my hair dries.  I really found that difficult to believe when Gabi mentioned it, even though I know full well that that girl does not exaggerate.

To be able to wash and go in an hour and a half and not use the hair dryer and have my hair presentable for work?  Unbelievable, and yet that is exactly how it goes.  It will be interesting to see if I get the same results all the time.

Another thing is the fact that more of my waves are coming out then before....no matter I do with my hair prior to washing, or whether I scrunch or not afterwards.  And this is without additional product use.  The only two thing I use that are not LML is Aubrey's MM and a hair spray that I do not like.  I am hoping for something comparable in the surprise pack, or else I will purchase replacemeents when I need them.

Also, and for me this is a biggie, I can comb my hair and it is good to go.  I have been visiting hair boards since 2000, and have tried too numerous to count hair products, natural and not, and there has never been one item that allowed me to use it and go with just combing my hair and having it look full and actually brushed and not stringy and piecey looking.  I am a nut about how I want my hair to look and could only get the results I liked with brushing.  Now I don't need to, and prefer not to because of the waves I am developing.

I can't wait to see what the next few weeks bring using LML products.  I want to see if other products of her line yield similar, better or worse results and if it will work for me in the long run.  Right now it is working, but it hasn't been that long and I have had fantastic early results with almost everything I've tried.  Time is the answer of whether something works for a person's hair or not.

Sounds like you're getting a routine worked out!  I hope LML works for you.

Maroula, I just noticed that you had started up a journal, my apologies for not being more conscientious. Something struck me while reading, you were using one product and it wasn't working. Then, you started another product and, rightfully so, are waiting to see if it falls short too. Might you simply have product build up? Do you ACV rinse at all? Over the years, even before I started to allow my hair to grow long, I would always get a product build up; perhaps, not in the way most people think, my hair simply became immune to a product over time.

I would notice this when I used to go to a salon to get my hair cut. Everytime, I'd come away and my hair felt, somehow, lighter, better feeling. I finally asked my hair-cutter about it and they suggested that I switch shampoos every once in awhile. I followed this advice and lo' and behold! They were right. My hair had acquired, if you will, an immunity to the product I was using. I wonder if an ACv rinse might restore your excellent results with your old favored product or, should your new product follow the same path?