Brazilian Hair LESSON LEARNT!!!!

So during my Brazilian hair research I found out that there’s Processed and UNprocessed(Virgin) hair and there are different grades of hair. The processed hair is hair that has been treated with chemicals and often has a brand name. e.g Chocolate, or ebony Brazilian hair. Virgin hair is just virgin hair. It doesn’t come in a packet with a brand name. The fake Brazilian looked like this.

Fake brazilian hair is always packed like this

Beware as some retailers take them out the packet  and tie them into bundles. The virgin hair I bought had no brand name wasn’t in a packet, it comes in bundles like the picture below. I really cant explain what Brazilian hair looks like or feels like, I was fooled the first time.

Virgin hair is unprocessed and has never been in contact with any chemicals and is still in its natural form with its cuticles facing the same direction(meaning less tangling or no tangling) and can be coloured just as you would with your own hair and it lasts longer. The hair is also graded. The higher the grader the more luxurious the hair . 5A+ or AAAAA IS the highest grade I have managed to find on the market. So anything from AAA  and above is good quality, no shedding, no tangling.

I choose Brazilian hair because it has got lots of volume, density and its soft and bouncy and doesn’t look so frail like Indian hair. Its beautiful. I bought 3 bundles (300grams) . Its always best to buy 3 bundles as just buying 200grams wont look like it has body.300 grams will give you natural fullness. I have a small head so I like hair with volume. I went for an open sewn in to allow my hair line to recover but on my next sew-in I intend on having a closed sewn in with a fringe to give my hair time to grow in the front and as a protective style.

Having Brazilian Hair means no heavy oils in it(i.e castor oil). It will start to look greasy and ewww. Even without oiling it , it tends to get greasy from sweat and the natural body oils. So you need to wash your hair at least once a week or just spray some water on it and let it dry. It loves water. Ladies your hair should love water anyway. Clean hair just looks good and healthy.

Because Brazilian Hair doesn’t like greasy oils and I still want to maintain my own hair its often now difficult applying my castor oil. I do however apply castor oil on the hair that’s out daily so I apply on my hairline as its still in recovery .  As for the parts that’s  sewn, I mix the castor oil with water in a spray bottle and apply . It still requires me to wash my hair or spray pure water on it to remain grease free once a week.

Its been a minute.......

Its been a minute(maybe some hours) .Hello dear readers, Im sorry i havent blogged in a while.I got to tell you what happened to my hair in December first. So  I been on the open weave tip just so my hairline gets to recover and breathe a little. The hairline recovery journey has been long  and a little bit of moving a few steps back but its definitely been some improvement since that first picture I showed you back then. I swear by castor oil everyday till now. Im on my 4^th bottle of castor oil since August. Heres a pic of my hairline on 23 November 2012.

 So I've always wanted to have Brazilian hair, I just think it’s the best hair in the world, (IT BLOWS WITH THE WIND LIKE MY FRIEND WOULD SAY) and I just think its an investment cause you can re-use that hair many times maybe about a year or more depending on how you take care of it with the intial cost being the hair and the expense of the sew-in each time . As a Finance graduate I still think it works out to being cheaper than getting fake hair done every month , for 12 months in a year.

So anyway in December I finally bought the Brazilian hair, I chose Brazilian as I found the texture thick and beautiful and after doing my research before buying I ended up buying FAKE HAIR. I could believe it. It looked like nice the first few  days and as the days went by it started to shed so bad like I would have this ball of hair everytym I brushed it , I would put it in a plait just to avoid me losing more hair and on top of that it stopped blowing with the wind, I couldn’t even run my fingers through. Was a total waste of money, at least I had only bought 200g. My hair looking good always is priority to me, I am not well if my hair doesn’t look good.

 My hair got lesser and it just ended up looking like candy floss so I took it out. On that Fake Brazilian hair I got it sewn in twice in over 3 days as the first time the hairdresser I went to did a closed sewn in which the cornrowns below were so tight I started to feel pimples on my scalp and had a headache for a whole weekend. I did a full sewn in weave as I had bought a lighter brown shade and wanted to protect my hair as it had been breaking. Wrong  move as it damaged the progress I had made with my hairline recovery, so I took it out and ended up getting re-sewn to have an open weave. My hair didn’t blend with it as my hair was black and the hair was light brown so I decided to colour that small part.

And then it started shedding till it got to the point where I couldn’t even put a comb into it.

I did more research , as I really wanted that hair , I been wanting that hair for two years now. So I managed to get in contact with a lady who sold me REAL BRAZILIAN HAIR that blows with the wind its been one month now and its just beautiful. In the next post ill tell you what I discovered in my research and what i learnt from my first fake purchase.

The Fake Brazilian Hair

99c or something like that!!

Ladies if you run your fingers through your hair or weave( especially that weave) and your fingers come to a stop and you suddenly cant take them out and they stuck, you either got a very Cheap weave or you aint brushing your hair. If you think im being mean or whatever try let your BOYFRIEND RUN HIS FINGERS THROUGH THAT WEAVE and see that look on his face.

Any hair that aint Brazilian,Indian, Mongolian, Peruvian is considered Cheap hair these days, I mean we  cant all afford it. The usual weaves like the one they call 100% human hair is great too, u can tong it, curl it, straighten it and it looks more and blends in with our African kinky hair so why the hate. Plus you can run ur fingers smoothly through it . the market price is about R 80/10 USD  for 10’’ .

Come on now!!!

Black womens Hair HATES WATER

Black women have the Impression that water destroys hair, destroys the hair style and will do anything to avoid any contact with water whatsoever .  my hair hates  water,

·         when I relax my hair and it comes in contact with water it goes frizzy

·         When I don’t put my hair in a shower cap in the bathroom it goes frizzy

·         A steamy hot shower or a hot bubble bath moment is ruined continuously worrying about what the water could to the  hairstyle.

·         Black women wont swim because they are scared WATER will ruin their hair.

·         A sweaty work out at the gym will mess up a hairstyles

Those are just excuses !!!!!

I know women who wash their hair when they are about to get a new hairstyle  and only when it comes out 8 -10 weeks later. How disgusting!!!!You cant oil your hair every 2 days throughout the duration of a hairstyle and not wash your hair even once im sure ya’ll have come across hair that smells. Dust accumulates in your hair and with oil the hair will start to not looking very nice and worse smell. Greasy dirty hair doesn’t look nice either especially with weaves. Come on ladies WASH YOUR HAIR OFTEN!  Your scalp has skin its like not washing part of your body for like months, its so unhygienic .

I find that its mostly the people who get braids are the ones that will go for about 10 weeks without washing their hair as they believe washing the braids will make the braids look untidy and old. I been there thinking that too , it has nothing to do with water , it definitely has to do with your braider’s skills.

Ladies lets not make excuses to avoid wash our hair, moisture is good for your hair and water does just that.

The Perfect PONY???

OIL VS WAX

                                                                               VS

My scalp recently discovered and felt the differences between oil and waxed based hairfoods. I prefer oil based. I have in the past 2 years used mpl , castor oil and alma oil, and serum. I find waxed based hairfoods are a bit sticky and don’t leave room for your hair to be free and flowing( as my friend would say hair that blows with the wind). I just hate it when you get a nice weave done then you see the hairdresser dip her hand (yes hand) into that big jar of petroleum jelly to apply on it.Is it just me or what but I think only your real hair shoul d be oiled. It seems like , well to hairdressers the shinier the weave the better looking.

Sorry had drifted from the main topic. Waxed based hairfoods are a bit heavy usually after application , a blow dryer is used  to melt it in the hair. I have noticed that when you get braids and have been using wax based hairfood  u start seeing white dust particles accumulating under each braid which creates knots and makes your hair hard to comb, while  with oil your hair is more manageable to comb after the braids.

A little oil goes a long way and covers a larger surface area so you don’t need to use a lot as it can drip down your face if you use too much.

Oils are a great way to lock in moisture, and control frizz! Some oils can feel greasy, and leave your hair feeling weighed down. But here are some great oils that penetrate quickly and are excellent at nourishing from scalp to tip, without that residue feeling!!
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I relaxed my hair!!!

Hey guys sorry I been a bit quiet and haven’t blogged in awhile. So let’s continue from where I left off. The last article was about my hairline update. I got my hair relaxed after that update. Before my final decision I was torn between relaxing or going natural again, so I choose relaxing. I have told you guys how my texlaxed  hair just wouldn’t relax so I gave my hair one more chance after I undid my weave. Ever since I started I relaxing my hair I had been self-relaxing it so this time I decided to let the hairdresser do it incase I might not have been doing it right and guess what, it came out so well it was actually over relaxed. I washed it after 2 days as I thought it was over-fried during the relaxing process so I wanted to make it a bit thicker. I used TCB super relaxer so since it was successful I will continue to use it from now on. My next relaxer  will be beginning of January 2013 which will mark my 12 weeks from the previous one. Currently I have a full weave. I begged my hairdresser to still leave out my hairline as its still in the process of recovery and im still contuining with my castor oil regime. Im a one product type of person so I only use castor oil in my hair and nothing else.