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Kurly Klips! Want them!

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Been a savin’ and a scrimpin’. I can’t wait to own these. I’m aiming to own these for Winter 2014.

So the lowdown on these klips. They’re 100% human hair and run by Lana Boone, a woman with a great hair journey. She has tons of helpful tips and and stuff on her youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/KurlyKlips

 

UPDATE 06/16

I actually bought these in March 2015, its been a year and a half and I have been happy with them. My hair is actually closer to 2 color than 1B, and so was the donor’s hair so luckily I did not have to dye them, but dye them I did lol. Here’s a pic of me wearing my klips n_n, a detailed post about them coming sooon.

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I’m a Weeb, I think…

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Hello! My name is Chanaia and I have a language addiction. Some would say I’m a weeabo (someone obsessed with Japan), a Koreaboo (obv) , a Chinophile (obv). These derogatory labels are just that-labels. Do I watch anime? No. Do I like sushi? Hell no. Do I want to run away and marry a Korean oppa? Maybe lol.

What I DO know is that i really enjoy Eastern languages, specifically the asian ones. Why? I’ve no clue. I go to language meetups and we all ask each other the same question: Why are you interested in [ insert language]? They always have reasonable answers, or deep ones, such as; My spouse is from [insert foreign country] so I wanted to learn his/her native tongue, I want to watch anime without subtitles *barf*.

I have no answer. At least not a good one.

Honestly, I’m nosy AF (as f**k, for our non internet savvy readers). I just want to know whose talking smack at any given moment. At least, that’s how it began. I was twelve, and I went to the Dominican salon with a friend of mine. I lived in one of the many projects of the Bronx, and the only hair salons were run by Dominican women. Sooo we went to get $15 wash-n-sets, when I overheard a stylist call my friend a horse. Granted her face is longish and she has these big beautiful eyes that she grew into, at the time I was not amused.

I wanted to make sure I wasn’t overreacting. So I waited. Lo and behold, there it was again “caballo”.Ā I literally had a spanish vocabulary of five words: feo/fea, dame, sientate, comida, y caballo. Ugly, give me, sit down, food, and horse. Freaking horse. I glared at the stylist and she squinted at me , wondering if I spoke Spanish or not. A week later some called called me “fea” on the bus, and that was all she wrote. I was determined to never have a language barrier again.

More on why/how I became interested in languages in my next post n_n.

 

Time Warp

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As you can tell I’m terrible at blogging lol, sooooo here’s to try try again n_n. My hair has grown a lot and so slideshow. No one reads this anyway, so I’m off the hook–possibly lol. I’ve recently gotten into photography. I’m an avid hobbyist who is addicted to Adobe Lightroom. I just spent about four hours messing with it. Anywho , enjoy le pics.

Afro Summer 2016

That Big Chop though…

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I ended up big chopping in July 14 (eight months of transitioning. I couldn’t take the two textures anymore. I had wanted to transition for 1.5 years like other girls I had seen on YouTube, but lol it wasn’t in the cards for me.

So I cut it, and got pissed off! Because I didn’t see any curls. It turns out IO had to wet my hair for it to show up lol. 20140709_161307

Threw some ECO Styler gel in there, and I was feeling myself lol.

The Beach… effed up my hair lol.

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Ahh the beach. Fun in the sun, waves, and sparkling sand.
Try, murderously hot rays frying my poor ends, salty ass waves depositing anti hair minerals in my scalp and that hot ass sand digging its way into my kinks making knots.

NOT FUN.
Armed with my spray bottle of water, Shea Moisture stuff for damaged hair (the yellow one. My hair isn’t actually damaged, but I bought it before the pink curling souffle stuff came out so its all I have) and essential oils mix in handy nozzled bottle, I thought I could stay cute.

Didn’t happen. I enjoyed the water and waves, and then my hair dried. I had a bomb ass twist out the day before, so MISTAKE #1 i went to the beach with second day hair. This after a semi BC of my sides and back for a tapered look. I still have relaxed ends on the top of my head mohawk style. Well, they dried straight and the rest didn’t and #transitioningproblems.

So this was before the semi BC, and the first time I left it free since Nov 13′:

2nd Day hair.... mistake numero uno...

2nd Day hair…. mistake numero uno…

Ā So, lol it DID not turn out well.

Good things to note: Saturating the hair with water prior to going in is a MUST. Try to plait/braid your hair before going to the beach, 2nd day hair is not cute afterwards lol at least not for a beginner like me.

There ya have it, my beach day ^^

Better posts coming up! Stay trendy

-TBG

Update :D

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It’s been roughly 5 months since my last perm Nov 27 2013. Hoping to do a length check at 6mo, but I probably wont seeing as how I braided my hair.
My next post will be about how I braided my hair for the first time, and the pros and cons.
Toodles! your friend TBG

Skin Bleaching- Light Brown is not a Darker Shade of White

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LOL people are crazy.

Was on YouTube watching hair makeup tutorials etc and came across some bleaching controversy. Lol one person said “lighter brown skin is not a darker shade of white.”
Lol that got me thinking. The Tyra episode Bleaching for Beauty showed a woman who bleached her little boys for whatever reason lol.
My question is, even if you ‘hide’ or bleach your real skin color and fool everyone for life, when you reproduce, your genes still carry the coding for darker skin. So what’s the point?
Is it a secret infiltration of white people? Look lighter, fool people, snag a light and/or white partner, reproduce then… OMG whose baby is that?
You might be accepted or whatever in your lifetime, but what about your kids? Gonna bleach em’ in the womb?
Smh I don’t see the point in it at all.

What do you guys think?

 

Shea Butter how I love thee…

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Hey guys,
TBG here with some good news. So I broke down and bought a transitioning hair kit by Shea Butter Moisture. It cost me $24 and came with a deep conditioner, shampoo, a deep treatment masque and argon oil spray.

The deep treatment masque is also a leave in that made my hair feel like heaven.Ā  What I did was apply a liberal amount to my fingers as I was twisting and words can not describe theĀ  moisture. I swear my hair was thanking me.

Here’s a pic of bantu knots without the shea butter:
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They look alright but trust me my hair was sooo DRY. It’s kind of scary because my hair started breaking and shedding due to the rough treatment I was putting it through. Olive oil hair moisturiser is NOT enough lol. I was using Jamaican black castor oil and olive oil hair lotion (typically comes in a green bottle) for the bantu knots and it’s not enough.

This is the transitioning kit and it’s constituents:
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And individually:

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And my two life savers:

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Deep Treatment Masque

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Reconstruction Finishing Oil

I used the masque while twisting and sprayed the finishing oil on my scalp when I was done before putting on a satin cap. My hair feels light, fluffy and looks well moisturised. I’m very pleased.

So I will definitely be purchasing a larger version of these products. My natural friends told me to try Cream of Nature, but my YouTube hair idols use Shea Butter Moisture so I tried that instead.

Remember, everything doesn’t work for everybody. Try different things and see what works for you.

As always,
your friend TBG!

Um… I think it’s working?

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Hey guys,
So I was eager to look natural for some reason and started bantu knotting my hair as per YouTube tutorials instructed lol. Im using the time between my relaxers to see if this is what I want, and so far it is.
So, I tried my first Bantu knots on semi damp hair after it was freshly co washed and conditioed. It was a frizzy mess when I untwisted them the next night. Why? Dryness, dryness, DRYNESS!
I severely underestimated how much moisture my hair needs because I’m so used to running from water with relaxed hair lol.
I also, didn’t realise it would take two hours to do. I started at 11pm and gave up at 1am lol. I had neat rows to about the middle of my head then BSed the rest. I ended up pinning the back up. It came out alright, a little wild, but alright lol.
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This is how it turned out. Also, it’s December and I figured I could get snowed/rained on a little bit because my hair was dry anyway. Nope, lol. The water just weighed my hair down and made my curls look droopy and sad.

So that’s it. I bantu knotted the next day and it was dry again. My next post will be about how I combatted the dryness. I hope this helps someone.

Your friend,
TBG!

Return of the Wayward Son, er… Daughter

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Hey Everyone,

I’m back šŸ™‚

So my HHJ didn’t go so well my first attempt. I gave up pretty quickly lol and returned to the hair crack. But NAY I say, NAY. I’m tired of the extensions, running from my shower head and not getting it wet. Being a party pooper at the pool, running like a headless chicken in the rain. I want to be able to lay down and not whip out a comb when I sit up. Ā #blackgirlproblems.

Anyway, I’ve reached out to a few friends of mine who are lovely naturalistas; TnicoleSmiley, BreeBree, Rebka, and Sheba. They are my beautiful natural friends whom I admire and adore. I want to join them and their fabulously free hair.

So, root for me because here I go (again!)

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