I just did all of my shopping in preparation for my relaxer at the end of the month.  I love Sally!  I love how you can go in there, collect a cart full of items and pay less than 20 bucks!  I feel the same about drugstores too, they are my dream!  My Sally card expires at the end of the month so instead of renewing right away, I'd like to save my 5 bucks and go in again and really stock up.  I'd have to think of what I need, and make sure it all doesn't come out to too much.

I finally tried my Sunsilk conditioning creme sample.  I tried it to moisturize my dry hair but I didn't like it, it doesn't help with the stiffness from the cassia like my other stuff does.  

Today, I was informed that my dress (above) won't be processed because it was recalled by the manufacturer.  I wanted to ask if they could send me one anyway because I'd already bought shoes to match, but knew I'd be wasting my breath so I didn't even bother.  Now, I have to figure out what to wear with the shoes, it's going to be difficult to find something else to match with them so well.

Hi Lisabelle, your post was fine, not rambling.  I think the trick to healthy relaxed hair is making sure that you moisturize well to keep brittleness away, to not use heat on the hair and do up do's whenever possible.

I wonder why your friends mother relaxed his hair?  I did a hair show for a salon once, and they decided to relax the hair of a friend of mine who is white.  She didn't mind, but I thought it was such a horrible idea.  I know that there are some nonblacks with really tight curls who get them,  but I feel that unless your hair is too kinky to manage, that you should stay away from them.  The chemicals are so harsh that even though you can prevent most breakage, it is impossible not to have any at all, so you must be extra careful with relaxed hair.  

I've heard of Botanicals.  I never used it, but there is no relaxer that is completely natural.  They may have included a few natural ingredients, but they all contain chemicals that brake down the hair in order to straighten it.  Seeing that there is no way to completely avoid the chemicals if you relax, another trick is not to relax often.  Some people relax every 4 to 6 weeks.  Althought, no one should ever relax every 4 weeks because it's way too soon and they'll most likely overlap the chemicals and overprocess their hair.  Every six weeks is the absolute soonest to re relax if you want to do it often.  I relax no sooner than every 3 months although some people only relax once or twice a year.  The longer you can go the better.  

Too bad you all don't have a Sally.  Is there a store in Canada that's similar?  

I was on the Fredericks site where that dress is sold and for some reason it doesn't look like they recalled it in size 12.  I was thinking that maybe I could buy a 12 and then have it sized for me.  I'm not sure if I'll do it though because I don't even know if my seamstress can do it.  Most likely I'll just continue to look around for something else.  So, far I'm not having any luck but I didn't need it for anything special so I can take my time.

When my husband saw that yet another pair of shoes arrive in the mail for me the other day,  he told me that we'd better be going out somewhere and real soon.  Well, tonight he finally got his wish, we went out.  

Yesterday, I got an email from our local comedy club, they were giving away free tickets to this evenings performance.  I called to reserve our tickets but had to get completley dressed in 45 minutes which for me can be tough.  Although I went over my time taking a whole hour to get ready and had my husband calling the time out to me every 15 minutes (which I hate), we made it there on time and had a lot of fun.

The headliner was Chris Rock's brother Tony Rock, who in my opinion was funnier than Chris (who I'm a huge fan of).  I was laughing so hard that my stomach hurt and I had tears rolling down my face, so yeah, I guess that makes it a good night. Afterwards, we went dancing and out for tacos.  So now, I'm a bit dehydrated and hung over but it was worth it to see my husband happy, we really enjoyed ourselves.  

Hair:  Recouperating.  I didn't have time to steam curl so, I used a curling iron instead and of course, after a night out it smells like smoke.  Later, I'm going to deep condition in an attempt to make this all up to my hair.