A Quiet Little Woman

curly girl catch up!!

okay, I've learned my lesson, ALWAYS save a draft when you start, then half way through and again towards the end!!  I had a long post all typed up and well.. it's gone!!  Here is a brief version as I don't have time to type it all again!!

I'm sorry I haven't been doing curly girl updates, I just don't usually have time to do it everyday!!  Plus, my new blog has been keeping me busy!!  Guess what!  I have now been doing the curly girl method for 2 weeks and I think it's working great!  I've only shampooed (is that a word??) once as we retired a flag and I had lovely smokey-smelling hair!!  I've also used the baking soda/water a couple of days as I've had slightly greasy hair a couple of days.  But, I would say that is pretty good for not washing for 2 weeks!!  (i can just picture all the disgusted looks, "no washing or brushing for 2 weeks and you expect us to think it looks good??"  no worries, it's looking pretty good!)  It has actually been a little less curly than usual, but I remembered something I learned from the curly girl book... the top part of your hair is called the canopy and it is exposed to LOTS more than the rest of your hair (wind, sun, chemicals, etc.), so it just might take awhile longer to rehydrate!  On sunday the top part of my hair was really wavy and frizzy, then next layer was better looking, but the bottom layer was simply beautiful... moist and curly!!!  I hope and pray that the rest of my hair starts looking like that!!  

So, has any one else been trying the curly girl method??  If so, have you had any luck?  OH, and on a side note, Belle asked about taking care of straight hair... here is a link from a curly girl website on taking care of straight hair!  I think that a lot of you straight haired (believe it or not, that IS A word!!) girls might really be wavy ones in disguise!! 

photo courtesy of fotosearch.com

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12:51, Wednesday, June 4, 2008 .. Posted by GypsyFarmGirl

Nope I am a straight chick through and through, I cant keep my hair curly for nothing. Anyhow I have been doing the No poo thing myself for a couple of weeks and Its been great, for my lil more oily days I just put my hair up.My mother who is naturally curly(I am talking thick and curly hair) is trying this Curly girl bit herself, she is excited to see what will come about it( shhh but she is 61 years old)

JEANNIE

Thank YOU!

03:07, Wednesday, June 4, 2008 .. Posted by Belle

Thank you so much for posting that link, Alex! I will looks at it.

When I was a little girl, I had very long, really wavy hair. I look at pictures of my hair, when I was little and wish that my hair still looked like that! It was very pretty.

All of that wave from my hair left, when I was four and gave myself a hair cut. I cut it all off!!! It makes me so sad that I did.

Sometimes, I wonder if maybe I have wavy hair and shampoo and chemicals have weighted it down so there is no wave in it.

I am still sticking with no shampoo! I think it has been one or two months since I haven't had it.

The reason why I went no 'poo was because the SLS in Shampoo cause my face and back to break out in in pimples. SLS also caused my skin and hair to be extremely oily, all of the time!

I will looks at the link!

Belle