Monthly Review #22

Oh guys. I'm so late in getting this out. I'm sorry. My other blog is coming up on a big big post of gardening so I'm crazy with that.

But no excuses - let's talk hair. I'm consistently taken aback by how much I have now.

It is looking a little damaged at the ends - but I'm trying to keep it in check. In the shower I'm trying to protect the hair by either oiling the mid-ends before I get in or putting on conditioner on the ends before I rinse out the shampoo. Lots of hair is being lost. It's a damn tragedy. I am getting 5 days between hair washings even though I'm crossfitting 4x a week now (MTWTh). It looks great days 1-3 and good days 4 and 5.

My showers are after the gym and I now have a job so I've been showering after the gym and wearing 2 different turbie twists (one when I get out for a few minutes and then switch to the new dry one when the first has absorbed to its capacity) then when I leave for work I pull the hair up with my left hand and twist it into a weird twisty bun and then use a clip that looks like a figure 8 that has been bent horizontally and cut vertically. I can't find a picture on the interwebs so you may never know what it looks like. I go to work with it wet and then allow it to dry throughout the day - ending the day with it down. Over the next couple days I do what looks good (and I always have a clip and a hairband at my desk) - in the last couple days having the top or the whole thing up is necessary to camouflage the residual oil but it's fine. I brush it gently and thoroughly every night before bed.

I am still working on the coconut body wash from last post. Also...I think my laser place shut down after I paid for a year of treatment. Womp womp. Should I start getting my eyelashes curled or extended every month? Ah the anxiety of disposable income.

Enjoy these pictures! (I employed some great selfie techniques this month to balance out the carelessness of other months. Also long hair is more fun to selfie.)

   

Monthly Review #21

So - when does one officially move from "mid-length" to "long" hair. Because I've been canoodling with that line for a bit now.

My hair is long enough that when I reach around to it from the back I can grab it - and really grab it not just wrestle for the long tendril. The longest part has just passed the bottom of my shoulder blade - bend your elbow with your hand on your back and feel that on your body - the bottom of a shoulder blade is DOWN far. I'm calling it. 21 months (or shorter?) to LONG hair.

So let's play "How lazy is Alexandra?" - remember how last month I was complaining that I ran out of shampoo and was just using body wash (because it's like the same stuff - I compared the ingredients between the bodywash and shampoo - ginger vs coffee berry extract was the difference)? Well that happened about 2 weeks before that blog post.....now it's been 6 weeks since I ran out of shampoo.....I'm still using body wash. I know you're positively turned on by how well I take care of myself. But seriously - bodywash works. Here's what I'm using: Alaffia Everyday Coconut from WFM. (I'm secretly really excited to exhaust this bottle (that I bought December 2014 and am 2/3 the way through) so I can buy the new passion fruit one that smells SO FRACKING GREAT (yeah I'm the girl inhaling the body wash scents at WFM). I can't wait for that to pungently fill my shower - mmmmmmm! (but I guess I can wait since most people I know would just chuck their 1/3 of coconut in a bathroom cabinet and but the passion fruit one... try some self control ya wasteful ones!)

OMG CONDITIONER. That stuff makes it so much easier to maneuver through your hair in the shower! But I don't use it all that often. I am using it as shaving cream (I'm back to getting laser - it requires shaving before treatment - the new IPL lasers are freaking amazing and amazingly cheap, btw. There's no reason for you not to be getting this, other than that you like your hair). Yeah - I can make things multitask. Averaging 4 days between hair washings. The gym (MWF) is making it tricky to shower on that schedule - why would I wash my hair 12 hours before I go to the gym??

I did some curly, some blowout this month. One set shows how it air dries before (and after) I blow it straight (check the black shirt with yellow writing). I do try to let it air dry as much as possible so the heat is as quick as I can make it = less damage (knock on wood). Sometimes it went better than other times. Mainly pictures are the good times. My high ponytail is impressive right now BTW - maybe I'll picture it for next month. If you're lucky, of course.