Mother Teacher Scatterbrain

I have natural hair.  Been having it since tenth grade!  Ok, really, I only had a perm from eighth to tenth grade.  However, I wore my hair pressed for years.  So, I feel like I am quitting the creamy crack, too.  Especially now that I seem to have less time on my hands.

My sister found this tutorial on YouTube and did her twists. So I decided to try them myself. The video is below. For anyone who is in Detroit, the beauty supply where I am buying the hair is listed below, too. It is like $5 a pack so...

I chose this video because her instructions are very clear and she demonstrates so slowly that I found myself frustrated. I understand though.



And here are tips to maintain healthy hair while wearing your twists.

Kay Beauty Supply
7746 Wyoming St, Dearborn, MI 48126 » Map
(313) 934-4922

Will post a pic when I finish.

I washed and trimmed my hair today. I had intended to do it on Mother's Day, but all plans went awry! So today I decided to just do it.

So, in looking for styles to try, I had three qualifications:
No, loose ends
They had to keep during a workout
They had to be pretty quick

In the last post, I described how to go from wash to flatiron in about an hour. I did highlight ways in which you could reduce the heat in your hair during initial styling, but now I want to explain how to keep straight hair without adding heat daily as so many of us do. So this post is all about styles and maintenance

Back in the day, I used to get up at 5:00 in the morning, knowing I needed to wash my hair, and be out the door by 6:45. I mean I would wash, condition, blow dry, press, and flatiron my hair in additions to showering, eating breakfast, getting dressed (and I was a slip and pantyhose type of girl), an making my lunch. And this post is on how I did it! And just to warn you, it involves looking like a pickaninny between the wash and dry.

In my first or second blog post, I stated that over the next six weeks I would find go to healthy meals, but what good is all this fly (I mean beyond obvious health benefits) if my hair looks like rats been sucking on it?

I have been looking at natural hair care regimens and this is what I am finding:
Friday: Pre-poo overnight (put grease and conditioner in your hair and sleep on it.)
Saturday: Co-wash your hair. (Wash with conditioner which no cosmetologist will tell you is a good idea. They suggest using a sulfate free conditioner.) Do whatever you plan on doing to it so it can dry.
Sunday or Monday: Take it down! You are fit to leave the house.
Somewhere in the middle of the week: You require some sort of hairdo renewal so that you can make it back to...
Friday!

So, I have been looking for a few go to styles for when I go back to work and just in general. I need to bring sexy back! I have been considering how I will maintain my fitness routine when I go back to work. One issue that I will face is maintaining my hair-do. A lot of black women don't workout because it will totally ruin a do. (I know! I was one of those women for years, but all that changes now!) We don't have the luxury of having hair that is well accepted in its natural state within the workplace. You can do semi-natural--you know all the styles with all the products all over YouTube. That is what I call semi-natural because there is nothing natural about all that work! So, I began my quest for a few low-maintenance hairstyles that will allow me to work out and not look like the 70s THREW UP on my head (although I have donned that look on many occasion).

So tomorrow, I have a plan! This is something that I need to have perfected before I go back to work. I am no fan of doing big work to my hair more than once a week. Even when I wore my hair pressed straight, I never did more than wrap it at night to maintain. Never put heat in more than once. In fact, contrary to popular belief, my hair grows really well pressed! but is isn't so good for my new active lifestyle. Anyways, I refuse to spend too much time getting cute. There are too many other things I would rather do!

So, tomorrow: