Your hair is beautiful!  I love the bun cover too - especially paired with the stick!!

Cynde

So it seems that day three is the day the Aubrey organics makes my hair sticky.  The first two days, it is very nice and smooth and no frizzies at all.  Day three it is still nice and smooth looking, but my hair feels very weird to the touch - very heavy and a bit sticky/damp/gummy feeling even when it is completely dry. 

For years I used Herbal Essences and never noticed any icky feeling like this.  I read the label and it has some really long unpronounceable ingredients, the conditioner has dimethicone, and I was trying not to use any products with silicone.  So I have been trying all of these organic products.  Unfortunately, none of them make my hair feel clean, manageable and smooth.  More and more I am wondering if my hair just likes silicone?  Or am I not used to hair with no build-up?  I don't think that's it, my hair always felt clean with the Herbal Essences.  Also, I only notice the build-up sticky feeling from the ears down, where I apply the conditioner.

Ok now, writing this all down and thinking about it is making my hair feel worse and worse.  I think I am going to go wash with Herbal Essence just to see how my hair feels afterwards.  Maybe I will just use the Aubrey on days I want to leave my hair down.

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Sasha, I know how you feel.  We all go through this. I too had lots of product hanging around that didn't work.  But you'll see, you will find the right stuff! 

Lisabelle,
Thank you for the encouragement!  I know the right thing must be out there but it helps to hear that I am not alone.

Caui,
Thank you for the compliment.

Last night on my way home, in a fit of desperation, I stopped at Rite Aid.  I picked up some Herbal Essences for normal hair, maybe the dry hair shampoo I have used for years is not necessary since it has been a long time since I abused my hair?  My hope is that is what is making it feel gunky and that using normal shampoo will help. 

I also picked up some Suave to try.  Its inexpensive enough that I felt better buying some of that to try than another expensive organic concoction that would make my hair heavy.

I used the Suave daily clarifying shampoo in an effort to de-gunk my hair.  Today it feels much cleaner, there is a bit of that sticky feeling in the length but I did just let the shampoo rinse through my hair.  Tonight I will probably work the clarifying shampoo all through the length to try removing the rest of the crud.  My hair dried much faster than it does when I use the organic products. 

I do not want to get my hopes up, but my hair feels soft and smells nice today.  I would find it really ironic if after all the expensive products I have tried, Suave turns out to be the thing my hair likes. 

Yesterday, we had the review for our final exam so I will spend the weekend studying.  I am really really nervous about this.  The test is next week, and then we have 2 days off for the holiday.  Our manager says he will try to have the test graded before we go home for the weekend, but he may work on it over the weekend!!  I usually do well on tests, and am pretty sure I will do fine, but I am still really worried about it.  This is a huge step up for me and I want to succeed.  I do not want to wait all weekend to hear how I did.

For the past few days I have been using a CWC routine on my hair.  I have been using the Suave conditioner first, then the Herbal Essences.  My hair feels clean, smooth and silky.  It smells nice, is not tangly and fly-away and best of all it is not sticky! At least for now, I seem to have found a routine that is working.

The rope braid is definitely a winner.  No one at work has mentioned my hair really other than my long-haired girlfriend who also works there.  We rather obsessively compare hair notes.  The first day I wore the rope braid half a dozen people stopped to tell me they liked it.  One said she did not even know I had long hair.  Not sure how she missed that, but I suppose the mass of my bun is pretty deceptive since my hair is so fine.

I picked up some Pantene to try again.  I cannot even remember why I stopped using it in the first place.  Since my hair gets frizzy I decided to try the smooth & sleek and I have really liked it so far.  My hair has been drying fairly quickly, and it feels soft and silky, not built up at all.  I think I want to try the Curls line and the Winter Protection line if this works out. 

This afternoon I spent over an hour clipping splits out of my hair.  When it was finished I was covered in bits of hair and my neck was stiff, but the comb goes through much more smoothly now. 

For the first few applications, the red henna faded really quickly.  Last time I henna'd I used the red only underneath and put the blonde on the top and ends, but it is really red now.  The color did finally build up and I think it's here to stay.  And of course, now I want my gold back!! I thought red would be fun and different but I want to be more blonde again.    Never satisfied, am I?  I don't really mind since the red is pretty, but next time I am going to just use the blonde henna and try to get back to more of a gold colour with some reddish to it rather than the other way around!

When I took my hair down last night, it smelled like sandalwood.   Even though I used the Ionic Hair Wand yesterday!  Maybe it only removes bad smells?  I will have to keep track of what it removes.

Last night I tried CO again because my hair had been pretty flyaway all day.  Today it is soft and smooth.  I wonder if it will work for more than one day in a row without getting greasy?