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LOL!  Don't feel too bad.  My daily routine consists of, combing out my sleeping braid, putting my hair into a bun.  Taking my hair out of my bun, oiling the ends a bit if they need it, combing my hair and braiding it for sleeping.  I wash and condition my hair about once a week.

Congrats on taking first in the horse show! 

Trimming up the layers will certainly help with neater braids.  Also - when braiding if your hands are wet/damp, it will dampen the hair which will keep the sticky-outie hairs more in place.  If water doesn't do the trick, try some aloe vera gel or a light oil like jojoba.

Ooooo,  Susan just put more of your hairsticks in your Collections folder.  I love the red, black and white pairs - I could see wearing one of each with a black outfit, white blouse and a hint of red somewhere, like a scarf!

Ah - henna is fun!     Messy, but fun!

One heck of a mess in the kitchen, 6 hours with a saran wrap cap, and a fully installed closet organization system later, and I have quite the mass of red hair!  I was daring and didn't even do a strand test.  My husband was more worried than me!

I've never had copper hair before - but I do now!  Thankfully, the director likes it, which is a good thing, cause I really didn't want to try to do a synthetic color over the henna.

I've actually got before and after pics, if I ever get around to uploading them to the computer, I can show it off.

Oh - I also bought two new pairs of sticks to celebrate. 

Please, pardon both my very messy bathroom AND my sad attempts to take a picture of my own back.  

8/31/2006:



Today:



HEY!  I just realized, I'm now a chestnut, just like my mare!



Yeah, any excuse to show off my beautiful horse.  I admit it.  

I love the color of your henna'd hair!  (It matches your horse!)

Godyssey wrote on Sep 28^th, 2006 at 7:36pm:


Erm, yes.   

It depends on the mat and the cat, really.

I can brush most of Sidian's out, but she's 17 and I've been de-matting her since she was 4 weeks old.  She's an old hand at the whole process, and I think she just enjoys the attention really.  I use a metal comb and just start at one end of the mat and gradually pull it apart.  When they're really big, (we're talking about 2 inches in diameter) I use a sharp pair of scissors (my split end scissors, actually) to either snip the mat in half to then comb apart or to just snip the whole thing out.  She's got a super thick undercoat and a thinner, oily topcoat, which makes using a slicker brush impossible on her - so I try to comb her out at least once a week, but even so, she still gets small mats.

Visa is our retired barn cat, also a longhair.  He gets smaller mats, but he's such a pig about mat-combing that I cut all his out.  It's best just to take the slicker brush to him weekly (which he loves) to avoid the mats in the first place.

Ferdinand, our third longhair has a PERFECT coat - he doesn't mat at all, even though I hardly ever brush him.  It's almost impossible to brush him, because he thinks it's playtime and tries to attack the brush.   

And just for completeness' sake - Memre is a shorthair, but I take the slicker to her about once a week.  She enjoys it, and it keeps the shedding down. 


Also, since this is supposed to be my HAIR journal - I thought I'd just say that henna is a great conditioner, my ends have been super easy to deal with since the henna.

Well, I figured out why I didn't have any drying issues with the henna.  I used henna from a company called LUSH - and they mix cocoa butter and clove oil into the henna and sell it in blocks.  So, I actually did both a henna and conditioning treatment when I colored.  :p  I just need to remember this, if I ever do use a different henna.

However, I'm noticing a bit of drying on about the last half inch of my hair - I found a bottle of jojoba oil and have started oiling the ends.  My hair likes it very much.  Unfortunately, I'm not very good at getting the oil on that last bit that needs it.  I'm supposed to get a trim on Monday, to start trying to even out the evil layers, I figure that'll help a good deal.

I got my LL display case on Friday, but I already need a second tray.     With my case, I got my two new sets of LL sticks - the first I've bought in two years.

The first pair is Frozen Summer - the first all green ones (all my other 'green' sticks have had green gems or crystals, but the stick itself was another color)  They're also my first ArtiStix - so vibrant!  I need to remember that the pictures tend to be just at tad darker than the actual sticks!

The second pair is Montanna Stardust - they're more in line with my 'standard' type of sticks.  I'm wearing them today for the first time.  These are my first Holostix, sparkley!

Lastly, I've figured out why I'm having so much trouble getting my hair up in a bun, twist or braid when I really had no trouble before.  It's the layers!  Yes, it's taken me this long to figure it out.

Well, I chickened out and cancelled the hair trim appointment.  My excuse was I've not yet met with the woman who is doing hair for P&P, but in reality I think it's because I'm not quite (mentally) ready to lose another 1/2 inch of hair.    Even if losing that 1/2 inch will start getting rid of the evil layers that are keeping me from doing a decent bun.

Bock... bock... bock!

My wonderful husband was out shopping Friday and picked up a nice Burt's Bees shower gift set for me.  Full sized bottles of Grapefruit & Sugar Beet shampoo and conditioner and a full sized bottle of Citrus and Ginger body wash.

I tried it all yesterday - and I think my hair liked it, but it's so UNRULEY!  Basically, when I can't give my husband a kiss without hair getting in the way, it's just a little crazy.  He's been calling me the wild woman of Borneo.  

Lastly - proof that Allie and I match!



This was Sunday (two days ago) before our XC school.  We're both the same shade of red!