Allow me to vent.

I’m struggling today. Blame it on the hormones.

I think the change of seasons is disrupting my balance. The moisture balance in my skin is changing. My face is more oily these days and my hair is more dry. My hair was doing so well. It was beginning to feel very moisturized. Now, I feel like whatever I put in it just sits on the surface. It feels dry. I’m not used to my hair being in such a damaged state. I know that it’s just a phase and I have to go through this to get to the other side, but sometimes it gets to be too much. I keep wondering what I can do to help it… what will make it grow faster so I can finally cut off these relaxed ends.

I slightly obsess over my hair as I did with my face when it broke out. Ok, maybe it’s more than slightly. I think all of my free time is spent on the computer looking up hair related things. Sometimes my job gets in the way. LOL. I stay up until like 1 in the morning because I’m so into it and the time just escapes me.

Another thing is that I haven’t been getting in my 64oz. of water daily. I think I’m making like 48oz. Close, but no cigar. I’m working on it. I suppose that will help my face and my hair.

Lastly, my hairline is still irritated. I’ve been trying so hard to get it back into shape. The longer it stays irritated, the longer it’ll continue to peel daily. If it’s constantly peeling, hair can’t grow properly, which will ultimately result in a bald spot. I’m not interested in a bald spot on my hairline. No ma’am! I don’t remember what I was using before that resolved my problem. I’m like 3 seconds away from going to the dermatologist. I’m glad I’m blogging, because hopefully in the future, I can look back and see what works and what doesn’t work.

Thanks for allowing me to vent. I’m done.

XOXO,
Rece

I learned a valuable lesson this weekend.

Lesson: “Tester” bottles are there for a purpose. To test the product.

This weekend, I hastily went to Carol’s Daughter to buy some hair products. I had already looked online to see what I wanted, so I was going in there to purchase and leave. My sister suggested the Hair Milk and I already had it in my mind that I was going to buy the Hair Balm. I decided on the Hair Balm because of the ingredients in it. Everything sounded like things my hair generally loves.

So I go in the store, pick up my two products and I go to the counter to pay. The girl at the counter asked me why I’m getting the smaller bottle of Hair Milk that’s $9 instead of the bigger bottle that has way more product for $20. I told her that I’ve never used it before and I don’t even know if I would like it, so I think the smaller bottle would be best. I must admit, she almost got me though!

She started to show me some other products in an attempt to get me to spend more money. While she was showing me other products, something told me to check out the “Tester” bottle of the Hair Milk. To my surprise, I hated the smell! It has lemongrass in it and that’s what it smelled like. No matter how great a product may work, if it stinks, I’m not going to be able to deal with it. I like yummy smelling hair. I immediately put back the $9 bottle of Hair Milk. Now, instead of getting me to spend more money, I ended up spending less. I did get the Hair Balm though. I realized that I generally don’t like the smell of Carol’s Daughter products.

When this situation happened, it dawned on me that I’m so quick to buy products just because of what someone might have said that I don’t even bother to find out more information about the product and how it can benefit me.

Lesson learned. Almost the hard way.

In other news, my TnC finally came out nice again. This is my 4th attempt and only the first time and this time it came out nice. I realized that my hair has to COMPLETELY dry in order for it to look good. I’ve also realized that NYC in June is too hot and humid for me to wear my TnC down anyway. I need more style options now. Help!

XOXO,
Rece