Diary of Nouveau Nappyhead: The Early Big Chop....

Monday, November 23, 2009

Yep... She's back!! The natural hair is once again gracing the earth again after over a year of suffocating in a relaxer. I didn't feel liberated or stronger when a BC'd it...but relieved. That damn relaxer was hell to keep up, even at my cheapest tricks to do it.

I chopped about a month early than I promised myself. I said the first of the year but when I washed my hair Saturday and looked at those busted relaxed ends, I said "enough!"

This the first BC I've had that I actually have length. The previous three or four I've done have been straight low fades but through the help of the info on blogs and hair boards I was able to transition out to some length and cut it off by myself. I think that made a difference too. I went to my own head with the scissors, so cut off what I wanted to.
Sunday night, I did some small double strands twists with gel and my oil mixture( shea butter,olive oil and coconut oil) and it gave me this cute textured look.
I'm pretty happy with it....i will occasionally throw that wig back on on a bad day, though. Still looking for new wig for good measure.:)


Jamie

NOTD: NK ( Nicka K) Lime.....

Happy Monday!!!

Today I'm wearing NK ( Nicka K) Lime( cost $1.00)...loving it:) Two coats and its completely opaque....( with flash)
Without Flash.....
With final design on the ring finger:)


Jamie

Shoppin My Stash: VS Sexy Vice and Beg Me.....

Friday, November 20, 2009

I felt like being " too much " today...Putting on alot makeup and stepping out in the world. I dug up VS Sexy eye shadow in Vice and VS Sexy lipstick in Beg Me....

I have no idea why I never used Vice. Its a matte dark purple. Fucking awesomery.:)
The lips are Beg Me. It goes on creamy with bit of shine but then it gets matte. I'm rocking every look with Beg Me this weekend. I guarantee my mother will want this lippie. Its right up her alley.

Jamie

Wishlist: Heidi Klum Eye Shadow Palette and Powder Gems....

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

I can't get my mind off Heidi Klum for Victoria's Secret Powder Gems and Eye Shadow Palette. I saw them two weeks ago at VS and fell crazy in love with both!!

The Powder Gems are gorgeous. I've never own anything like that even though various beauty companies have made something like this. Physician's Formula used to make a bronzer in that form that never got.
And this palette....Lord!

All I can say that the palette is only $24 for 5 shades ( pretty good deal, eh) Then, the black shade is like coal soot, it was so black when a swatched it. All the colors when crazy pigmented.... I probably can dupe them all but I want this.


Jamie

Diary of Nouveau Nappyhead: 20 weeks post relaxer...

Monday, November 16, 2009

Happy Monday!!!

So, I thought I would update on my transition out of my relaxer...yet again. This picture is 20 wks post relaxer with about 1 inch of relaxed ends cut off. Parts of my hair are fully natural now( my crown to almost my nape) . But, the top of my head, I have alot to go before I'm ready to cut off the ends. The nape is tricky. My hair at the back is a 3b texture, so I actually don't know what's relaxed and what's natural.
This how I prep my hair for my wig. I braid it in two 'plaits'. LOL!

ALSO, I have a Nu Gro review coming up....:)


I hope to cut those ends off and full natural by Jan 2010. I plan on still wearing a wig as a protective style til' at least March or April.


Jamie