Wordless Wednesday: A New Found Friend

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Until the next time... Stay Blessed!

Happy Holidays from Us to All of You

Des wanted to post this for everyone sooner but we have been busy with the holidays. Des rewrote "The 12 Days of Christmas" with words of things she likes. Hope you all enjoy. FYI, this is our first video so please keep that in mind. 

Until the next time... Stay Blessed.

Happy Birthday Des...

My life changed so much 11 years ago when God blessed me with one of my greatest gifts. On Dec. 3rd of 2000, I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.

Please join me today in wishing My Princess a Happy Birthday.

Dearest Des,

I wanted to write and tell you that I prayed many a prayers for you. I loved you long before I laid eyes on you. You make me a proud momma. I think of how far you have come, from being a premmie to the young lady you are now. So many times I wondered what I did I do that made me lucky enough to have received you but I am glad God chose me. You are a beautiful young lady both inside and out. As sad as it is to watch you get older, I am in awe of how much you have changed, how your have evolved into a thoughtful, caring, loving, and God serving young lady. I will continue to do the best I can to keep you safe, lift you up, help you remind you are beautiful, guide you to make good decisions and be here to lift you up and dust you off all while encouraging you to try again. You have helped me through many trials and without you and your brothers I honestly don't know where I would be. I look forward to seeing exactly what you will accomplish because I know it will be great and touch many people's life. I pray that you will always look first to God,  then me and your father. I will love you always and be here for you forever. I love you sweet girl.

Love,
Mommy

Curly Hair (a Poem) Written by Des

Curly hair is sometimes called nappy

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Unless it's yours

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Reactions are sometimes rude but sometimes astonished too

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Likely they LOVE it

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You'll just have to wait and see

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You should feel all of the following things about your curly hair

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Happy

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Amazed

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Intrigued

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Really Pretty

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Note: Des and I would like to thank all owners of the pictures shown. If you wanna see more to them click on the "Source" caption under the pic. 

Des wrote this poem Saturday while I was doing her hair. Hope you love it as much as we do. 

Until the next time, Stay Blessed. 

Conditioning Queen

 Hello Bloggies,

This is Des again, and I wanted to tell the steps of how I recently started taking care of my hair. First, I decide whether or not I am going to be shampooing. Then if my hair is up I go to my mom and ask her to take it down. Now it's time to start conditioning. This is the set of steps I use to condition my own hair.

1. Let warm water rinse through my hair for 2 to 3 minutes.

2. Start at the ends of your hair with conditioner.

3. Let the conditioner sit for 3 minutes (longer if you feel necessary.)

4. Rinse the conditioner out with warm water.

5. Finish by rinsing with cold water.

         These are the steps that I use to condition my hair.

                                        Love,

                                             Des

Wordless Wednesday: Diamond

Diamond, a girl's best friend

Des and her dog, Diamond. Diamonds are a girl's best friend, Right?

Be sure to check out the other Wordless Wednesday post at the blogs below. Until the next time.... Stay Blessed.

Wordless Wednesday

Peace and Blessings from Des and T.L. to all of you.

Kinky Curly Products on JoJo and Des (Picture Heavy)

This post is going to show how JoJo and Des' hair looked when I used Kinky Curly products as well as a narrative of how I applied them.

Well this post was a treat for me since JoJo and her family have moved I have really not seen her as often as I would like. JoJo, her baby sis and mom came down a few weeks ago shortly after I had bought the Kinky Curly Product line. I had bought the KC Come Clean Shampoo, Knot Today Leave In/ Detangler, and the Curling Custard and had only used the Knot Today on Des at the point that JoJo's visit happened.

After JoJo and her mom agreed to let me wash and style her hair with the Kinky Curly products. We set out to wash her hair, her mom had said JoJo's hair hadn't been shampooed in a couple of weeks so I took this opportunity to shampoo her with the Come Clean shampoo. JoJo's hair had a lot of product on it and the Come Clean worked wonderfully at getting it out. JoJo said she loved how it smelled and that her hair felt good when I was shampooing her hair. Once her hair was completely rinsed I put a T-shirt over JoJo's hair to get some of the excess water out. I must say JoJo's hair definitely felt clean.

Right after washing with KC Come Clean, still wet.

With Knot Today and Macadamia Nut Oil in it.

Shrinkage.

I then sat her down and we began the process of detangling which can take a while just due to how much hair she has. I used Knot today mixed with some Macadamia Nut Oil for added moisture, since she has 4b/c hair it tends to get dry. The Knot Today worked like a charm at assisting with the detangling. The whole process was a lot shorter than it usually is. I love how defined her curls looked as well. 

New Growth, still wet with KC Curling Custard.

Defined Curls.

Once I finished detangling her hair I took small sections and put Kinky Curly Curling Custard from root to tip. I made sure that I raked my fingers from the root to tip to evenly distribute it through her damp hair. I continued this process through her whole head. I was really loving how the Curling Custard was making her curls pop and defining them. 

Almost Dry, shrunk up so more. 

Now as long as I have known JoJo and her mom any time her hair is worn "out" it immediately starts to grow bigger, so this particular day was definitely an experiment to see how well these products worked. I instructed JoJo to keep her hands out of her hair till it was dry to keep it from frizzing cause I read that somewhere, not sure where off the top of my head. I will say that for JoJo's hair this product did just what it said it would do, it reduced the frizz, gave her hair shine, defined her curls, and provided hold. 

JoJo loving her hair "out."

Day 3 and Day 5.

I am now going to show you how these products worked on Des' 3c/4a hair. Just recently the weather started to get cooler so Des decided she wanted to wear her hair down to school something she had not done yet. Well we decided to do this really quickly cause we had to get to church. Des co-washed her hair with Suave Almond and Shea Butter conditioner and detangled with a wide tooth comb. When Des got out we bloated her hair with a T-shirt and I sectioned her hair and finger detangled her hair again with Knot Today. While it was still sectioned, I put Curling Custard in from root to tip using a raking motion with my fingers, in the same way that you finger detangle. Once I did a section, I would pick up the tip and lift it up a little and kind of shake it so that it would allow the curl to reform. I did the shaking motion as opposed to scrunching her hair to keep her natural curl pattern intact. We literally ran out of the door once her whole head was done. It only took about 25 minutes from the time she got out of the shower to the time we were out of the door with a headband in her hair. Her hair air dried while we were at Church, that night to preserve her curls we put her hair up in a pineapple with a satin bonnet for her to sleep. 

After Church. 

The next morning we took her hair out of the bonnet and pineapple. I took my fingers with a little water on them to work with a couple of curly areas and she was set to go. She wore her hair like this for three days and had no frizz. We just put her hair in a  pineapple at night. 

Day 2

Day3

So for me I can say that Kinky Curly products do what they say they will. They were easy for me to use. I think I still need to work on how much product I use at a time to get it exactly how I would like for Des' hair but like with any hair product it is trial and error. I think for both girls and it being the first time I used it on both hair types the results were amazingly good. I hope that this post is helpful in some way to you. 

Until the next time...Stay Blessed.