My dilemma

I'm so damn fickle. I can't not figure out how I want to start off my locs. Right now I'm debating between braids and comb coils. The braids will give me length and not unravel much whenever I wash, however, it takes awhile for the braid pattern to go away. The comb coils are super cute and I've read they lock faster but there is the issue of unraveling with every wash. Now I have no clue how the coils will work with my hair. I feel like my hair is tightly coiled but I also feel like they would fall out. I'd like to be able to wash my hair without going to my loctician. I see braidlocs that are awesome and I see comb coils that are awesome. I guess this is something I'll have to figure out when I go for my consultation next month. I'll discuss the concerns with the loctician.

Annoyed

So of course I've been telling folks that I'm going to loc my hair. The one question that annoys me is, "so can you take them down?". Of course, I tell them that locs can be taken down, but they ask me as if it's a hairstyle like braid extensions or a weave. I'm trying to understand what makes folks think that I'm going to get locs and then turn around and take them down. I intend on keeping my locs for several years, possibly for life. If I take my locs down, it'll probably be to start over with a different size/look. lol

I had to post this pic because it is so bad ass. I love love looooove it! Isn't she fierce?

I'm going for a consultation in the middle of next month. I'm going to talk to a loctician about the condition of my hair and the best method to start my locs. We shall see how this goes. If I like what I hear, I'll be starting them very soon. Time to stock up on scarves, headwraps, headbands and hats.

There's a way

where I can start my locks off with extensions. Meaning I can get my hair braided with hair added and simply latch the new growth. What does that mean? My ends will still be loose and puffy when I'm ready to remove the extension hair. It's an idea to play with but I kind of want to go through the different stages with my locks. Idk... I'll sleep on it. Either way I still have some time to go. Consistency and patience.

I lost

all of five pounds and I discovered that back in October. I haven't lost any weight since, how depressing. I've been staying on top of my water intake and eating less. Working out has been sporadic, but I do exercise at least three times a week. I really don't have any excuse because there are a shitload of exercise programs on my ondemand. So far I've been doing a last chance workout for the biggest loser (Jillian Michael's is NO JOKE!) and some yoga. I want to do the sunrise yoga in the mornings, but I seriously don't get up early enough for that. I took a nap earlier when I got home from work, so I just might not be up to do it tomorrow. That's okay because I did some yoga today so I'm okay. Jillain Michael's tomorrow... y'all pray for me. lol

SN: Can I do twenty pounds by the end of february? Hmmm... I must stay consistent and patient. I must adhere to this in order to see results. It will be needed as I embark on new journeys.

So I'm at a point

Where I don't want to straighten my hair anymore. I'm too afraid of any potential damage that can set me back and I don't want it. I burned my hair straight something terrible back in '08 and lost a LOT of progress. I'm trying to retain as much length as possible before I lock because of the shrinkage. I MIGHT straighten one last time before I do lock. I don't know. We'll see.

My Loc Obsession

Sooo here I go with my obsessions. It's always something. Around this time last year, I was obsessing over which new smartphone I was going to get. lol I'm a mess. Well this time it's locs. As I wrote in my previous post, I'm locing my hair. I still have my official date for June 2012, but I have a stroonnnng feeling that it will be some time next year. The date? I'm not completely sure yet. The method? For the life of me I can't choose a method. I keep changing my mind on how I want to start them. Initially I wanted sisterlocs, BUT I want to start with a quite a bit of length and the price just continues to go up and up and up the longer your hair gets. I was going to save up to get them done, but I don't want to do that anymore. Besides that money can totally go to something else. Not that the sisterlocs aren't worth it, they are, but there are cheaper ways for me to get started on my locs. I can still have small locs, I just won't be going that small. I've actually been liking the look of traditional locs. Again I won't be getting them that thick but they are still pretty damn awesome. Soooo for the next several months, I will probably be blogging about locs. lol My friends on twitter are already tired of me. So this will more than likely be my outlet. Even though, I do talk all things hair, just not locs on there.

Anywho, I love this woman's locs. They are so awesome. Take a look.

Sisterlocs! Yes, yes and yes!!!

So I have come to the decision that I'm going to loc my hair. I'm giving myself a year and a half to do whatever I want with my loose hair and then in June of 2012, I'll be getting sisterlocs. I heard that they are expensive to start and maintain. I think I'll start out with a loctician and eventually transition to maintaining the locs myself. I'm suuuuuper excited. I'm all on youtube, loc blogs and nappturality obsessing over this. Not to mention the fact that I'm annoying my followers on twitter with my obsession. lol Anywho, I've decided to get sisterlocs because I believe it will be best for my hair. I can't wait! Watch the time fly by (just like it always does now that I'm an adult).

Slightly off topic, no one believes that I'll stick with the locs. I'll admit that I've been HELLA fickle with my hair in the past but I'm done with that. I promise I am. lol Other than color, after the locs I won't be doing anything drastic to my hair. In the meantime, I'll continue doing my research because like I said, I ultimately want to maintain my own hair. I'll be the first and only person to loc out of all my friends and family. Hell out of everyone I know. I love to stand out. ;-)

I finally decided...

to give weaves a break. Idk if it will be for good or what but one day I just got tired of it and took it down. I've been sporting my natural hair ever since. It's not as long as it use to be since I have had to transition all over again, but it's long enough. I've mostly been wearing a puff or a bun. Twistouts aren't looking particularly good on my hair so I think I'll attempt a braidout next week. Even if it looks good, I'll save that style for the weekends.

I'm back on my haircare tip after wearing weaves for so long. I wore them for about ten months straight. Ugh! I'm so disgusted and over it at this point. Oh and I did something to my hair that I wouldn't have done if I was still weaving and that's color my hair with permanent hair color. I got the haircolor and developer from Sally's. It was Magenta (don't ask) and that ish came out BRIGHT on my hair. Hair color doesn't usually show up on my hair like that but I'm sure it's because I used 30 developer instead of 20 this time. Anywho, it was entirely too bright for me and I turned around and put a demi-permanent over my hair. Like a chocolate red. It looks much better. It doesn't appear to be fading yet, or the color has settled in. The hair color pops in the sunlight. Not so much in artificial light.

I'm going back and forth on whether or not I'll straighten next month for a length check. I REALLY want to avoid any damage and I'm sort of afraid of my hair being burned straight. No quiero. We'll see though. I'm thinking of straightening once maybe twice a year for length checks. I can't wait until my hair is longer because then I'll be more comfortable wearing my hair out. In the meantime, it's a puff or a bun. :-D

Oh I am pissed

Today was my weigh in and guess what? I'm up four freaking pounds. I can't believe it. I'm super active now and I have not lost one pound. Hell when I was doing half assed workouts before I was losing weight. I don't know what's going on. But it's resorted to me doing calorie counting. Nothing exact but I'm tracking what I eat to get an idea of what I'm intake is. Oh and I have to eat something like 800 calories less than the daily intake of 2000 to lose one pound a week. Oh em geezy. I have to stick with this until the end of the year. This is going to be hard. I totally miss the days of when I was younger and I could eat whatever, whenever and not gain weight. Right now I'm hella jealous of everyone who has a naturally high metabolism. This some bull. lol I'm pretty sure I'll be evil for the rest of the year. Can't eat (well I have to be extremely careful) just to lose weight. I never thought that I would have to diet. Well at least I can up my calories once I finally get the weight off... :-/

I've been slacking on studying for the GRE. The same way I'm going hard in regards to my hair and weight, I have to do with my education. The economy is hella unstable at the moment and I need to go back to school. I know exactly what it is I want to do with my degree and everything. I just need to study for this GRE, take it and do extremely well. I'm contemplating taking an online English course through a local community college to brush up on my writing skills. It's been a very long time since I've written anything academically and it was never my strong point. There's a lot of writing and research to be done for the master's degree I want to pursue. I need to get on it. I'm over here being lazy and that is unacceptable.

I'm back on my workout tip. I'm going to try to go everyday this week, but we'll see. I'll have to go at least five days this week. And I had to change the day I weigh myself because water retention has me sad on the scale. lol

I've been told that I look like I'm getting smaller. I don't really see it, however a friend of mine took a pic of me and I didn't look too bad. It's going to have to be drastic in order for me to notice it. And even then I'll probably still think I'm fat. lol Like I said, I need to stay consistent. I'll get my gym membership in about six weeks but in the meantime it's me and the good ol' outdoors. haha I'm interested to see where I'll be by the end of the year. There's nothing to do but wait and see.

My hair today

So the double bun didn't work. I don't have enough hair for it to look decent. I did pin my hair to the side and tucked the ends under. It looked cute... but only on that side. I also added a flower to it. It was okay. I wasn't in love with it. I can't wait until my hair gets longer. Tomorrow it looks like I'll be wearing my bun straight back.

Oh and it's hella random but I'm getting a weave before my nephew's dedication. I want to look cute for the pictures. A bun straight back with my fat face is not what's hot but I so needed to give my hair a break from weaves.

Sssssssssssy Smith!!!!

I finally got to see Sy Smith live. I was like uber juiced. I mean lowkey trying to control the big ass grin on my face when she came on stage. I'm a huge fan. I've been following her since '05 or '06. I remember being at my grandmother's house and her video for "Fa Sho" came on BETJ. So of course when I got back to my apt I looked her up and since then I've been a fan.

Anywho she did a free show out here in L.A. and she rocked the hell out of the stage. She sang her ass off and her band was the shit. There was this guy who was playing the guitar and when it came to his solo... he played the FUCK out of that guitar. I loved it. The whole band and Sy were rockin' out on stage. There was a guy on bass who reminded me of a chocolate Andre 3000 with locs. He was smiling the whole time on stage. It was awesome. lol

But the show that she put on... I could have easily paid for. I can't wait until she performs out here in L.A. again because I'm so going. Even if I have to go by myself again.

Anywho, I got video of her on stage. It was a bit shaky because I was dancing in my chair. I couldn't help myself and be still. But I'm glad I was able to get the little bit on camera that I could. I wish I had gotten it all. Here she is sangin' her ass OFF! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEcAbvw94UU

Fickle about my hair

Soooo this week I was putting off exercising to do my hair. I was putting kinky twists in with afro kinky bulk by Bobbi Boss. So I get close to being done and I look at my whole head and it looked a damn mess. Now it didn't look so bad when it was pulled back and pinned up but I wouldn't be able to wear them down. So damn near a whole week was gone for twists that I put in and turned around and took out.

I had the bright idea to install my weave with the indian hair I had in. That didn't turn out too hot either. So what do I do? I take that sucka OUT! I'd rather look just okay with my own hair than walk around looking ratchet with a weave in. I mean tracks were showing and everything. I'm not sure what I did wrong. If I'm going to do my own weaves, I should stick to kinky curly weaves. Those are cute when I put them in.

For now I think I'm going to wear my hair out. Besides my last couple of hair styles (including the two I put in and took out) were too tight. I like wearing my hair loose... well not weaved up or twisted with hair extensions. Earlier I put in some twists and was going to d a rollerset. Took the twists down and put in coils and then took the coils out. lol Now I'm sitting with two braids in my hair. I'm going to try a double bun to the side tomorrow. This should be interesting. I had to get some gel earlier. Keeping my fingers crossed.

I so need to get a bunch of BIG earrings. Like huge. I so want the earring with the continent of Africa on it. Those are hot. I'm excited to get some. I can't wait. And I think I'm going to get some headbands. Hopefully that holds me over for awhile. I'm not sure if I'm going to do anything with my hair other than a bun for awhile. I just know I want a big ass afro. I have awhile. So bunning it is.

New phone?

Lol not until next year. But I did peep the BB Torch and I totally see it in my future when I can upgrade. It's like my palm pre. I mean damn near exactly like it. However, RIM is bigger than Palm. So it looks like I'm going back to a blackberry next year. I don't have any qualms with my pre right now... well except that it cuts off at random occassionally. I read on the palm forum that it could possibly be that the battery is loose. For whatever reason, after you take the battery out to replace it or do a battery pull it's not as secure as before. Idk why that is. But a loose battery and sliding the phone shut can cause the phone to shut off. :shrugs:

Anywho I can't wait to get the Torch. I live for things like this. lol Okay not really but you get what I mean. More info about the phone here. http://na.blackberry.com/eng/devices/blackberrytorch/

Today marks the end of three weeks of working out consistently. Now I know that it's not a big deal to most people but to me it's a huge deal. Even more so because these last two weeks I have been going hard and exercising for five days out of the week. I'm proud of myself. I'll be even more proud when I get this weight off.

This is a struggle for me because it is soooo easy for me to come home after work and chill and be lazy. SO EASY. But I've come to the realization that the only person that's going to get the weight off is me. And I'm not comfortable with this extra weight on me, at all. So here I am.

I do my weigh in on Saturday. I'm not looking forward to it. Probably because I was weighed this past Monday and there has been no change. I don't want to be pessimistic so I'll just say I won't have any expectations. I know this is going to take some time. For some odd reason I'm looking to drop 20 pounds by the end of September. Lol @ myself. We'll see.

Trying to plan a menu with less meat. Not totally vegetarian though. I don't want to play myself. Let's see how this goes.

I really should be writing more lol

Well more updates with the hair. I've been wearing weaves since the beginning of the year. I finally cut off all the relaxed ends of my hair on June 12, 2010. I'm so excited to be all natural again but I have no clue what to do with my short hair and round face. A puff? But all the time that could be boring. However, the only way I'm going to get long hair is to be boring. No coloring, cutting, straightening and definitely no relaxing. I can't do weaves forever either. :sigh: I may have found some styles on youtube to try out. We'll see once I take this weave down. Anywho here are some looks I've been wearing for the past five months. I'm so fickle when it comes to my hair. lol

And finally my hair. Yay for nappy hair!

Of course I changed it up.

So I've been sporting a straight weave for the past six weeks. It's cute and all but I'm ready to take it down and sport the curly hair again. Thank goodness for my girl because she hooks up the curly hair for me for free.99. I'm juiced for that. Spring is in the air and curly hair is in order. It might be a full sew in with no hair left out or I'll leave hair out and sport some micros with the hair that is left out. We shall see... anywho, here are some pics of the straight hair. Enjoy!

Curls!

Me and my little brother.

Cut some bangs because I was bored with my hair.

The Great Debate

Well not really. But sometime last year, I was trying to figure out what phone I should get. I had my heart set on the htc touch pro 2 and that was my decision up until the week of purchase. So I did a last minute switch to the Palm Pre Plus. It's a pretty kick ass phone. I have yet to customize it with patches and whatnot, but I'm enjoying it as is so far. It's basically a touch phone with a slide out qwerty keyboard. I say mainly touch because there is no trackball or dpad or anything like that to move a cursor on screen or anything like that. But I love it so far. I did have a problem with my keyboard last week but a battery pull solved that. Most of my helpful information comes from the Pre central site (can be found here http://www.precentral.net/ )and of course I'm on the pre forum on there as well. If anyone is looking to purchase a pre, make sure you do your research on the forum before hand.

Some of the apps I have on here so far (all freebies) are hangman, checkers, the weather channel, tweefree, asphalt 5 free (kick ass 3d demo of the full paid version), friendsbook (could be better), pandora, the l.a. times and a comic app. The app store isn't that extensive but I don't mind considering I didn't have a whole lot of apps on my blackberry. I have seen posts on the forum about people complaining about the lack of apps (mainly folks coming from the iphone). But developers are coming out with apps daily.

Alright it's been a minute...

So I haven't updated in a looong time. I've been hella lazy about that but I'm back... sort of... kind of. lol I did end up getting my hair cut and it was such a shock. I haven't had my hair this short in YEARS!!! And I had no idea what to do with it. You can't exactly wear it curly and it look cute with an angled bob. It's just not happening. The best option is to wear it straight and I don't wear my hair straight often. Straight hair requires heat on my part and too much heat will cause my hair to break and possibly get heat damage so I'm not risking it. But here is the one pic I'm willing to share of my hair.

But I have been wearing weaves since then. I hope I don't end up bald by the time I'm done with them. lol However, I SERIOUSLY have nothing else to do with my hair at this length.

Red hair

Same type of hair but with my natural color

This Friday I'm going for a straight/wavy look. Wish me luck.