Caramel, cont....

It was starting to get drippy, etc, etc, so I went and rinsed it out. The Caramel Treatment is looking like a keeper! My hair is a bit oilier than I would like - we'll see what happens with that over the next day or two. Very little hair came out as I detangled - and I opted to go without my usual final step of Elasta. It's still Sat. night though, so if I wake up tomorrow with crunchy hair, I have time to remedy that. Or, if my hair starts breaking more when I'm doing my scalp massages - that'll be a sign that it's a little too much oil.

*touches hair gingerly* It's also MUCH straighter. Wow. I can tell when something has really moisturized my hair, as it'll give it a wavy feeling.... it's amazing.

For the first time, as I was braiding my hair into it's airdrying braids, I could 'feel' the ropes that my hair will end up being - heavy and soft and amazingly strong. It's going to be AMAZING my hair is. I have this one fat plait sticking up right from the crown of my head. I think, that when that plait reaches my shoulders - that'll be when I flatiron my hair, to see how long it is straight. I think it will be BSL, by then. *giggle* I can so see myself with BSL hair - it will be so beautiful! *grin* and it'll act like it's SL, I bet. *sigh*


Later that day:

Oh. My. Gods. My hair is GORGEOUS. Incredibly soft, unBELIEVEABLY shiny, and so thick and smooth feeling!! I've SO found my DC, long term, real term. Nothing BUT. This - this is amazing, seriously. I don't think I've had something that made my hair feel this fabulous since citric acid - heck, maybe since HENNA! *strokes hair* My only concern is that I don't think my SCALP approves - it feels a little 'coated' and itchy. I think I nice dose of SAF tea on Wednesday will settle that out though. If it doesn't - *sigh* I don't know. I'll have to see how much it sucks. I REALLY like this stuff. If it's REALLY that irritating to my scalp - *sigh* I'll definitely save it in my 'must-use for longer hair' catergory - once it gets long enough that I can actually 'avoid' my scalp when I use products.

I made up a big batch of Kiya pudding - whipped pudding, shealoe butter, the leftover butters from the caramel treatment, Elasta QP IFC, glycerin, and a tiny bit of amla oil. It's amazingly rich and creamy, and I only need a tiny dab, and as it dries, it gets - lighter - somehow, so that my hair is VERY moist and almsot a little oily, but it's VERY light at the same time. It's very nice. *nod* I re-used one of the empty Carrot Oil containers - ugh, how nasty that was on my hair compared to this! It's amazing, how as time goes on, the things that I used to see as - just the holy GRAIL of products have fallen to the wayside in favor of more natural products (juices and berries, ya'll!) that make my hair feel better than I ever THOUGHT it could.

I was catching up on LHCF, and one of the ladies there is deciding to texeturize because she just can't stand her hair. And I want to comment - I want to say something, I want to say - Wait! I used to hate my hair too, until I realized it wasn't the hair, but it was what I was doing to it - but I don't think I would have been very receptive to that then (Ch! As if she has any idea what this - mess - on top of my head is like! I've tried everything - you're just WRONG!).....and, add to that the fact that I very well MAY be wrong, and I have had that 'good hurr' all along, and was just in denial :eyeroll: but ya know, anything is possible.

Anyhow - the juxposition of me suddenly falling head over heels with my hair (dare I say it's straighter?? It's certainly still nappy - but it's not - kinky, anymore. Interesting. And scary. I don't have coils though, I still have fuzz....) with someone utterly falling OUT of love with their hair (I really do see chemically changing your hair as a sort of divorce. It's an ultimatum to your hair that your hair will never be able to fulfill, without dire force).... it's - odd.

Anyhow. Let me go back to twisting my hair - I'm almost done with the front section.

I realized today, also (staying off the computer is good for the mind) that I'm perfectly comfortable in wearing nothing but twists for 12-18-24 months - just so that I can grow my hair to a length where I CAN comfortably wear it out. It's the long term view of hair growing....it's really how the impatient should best work (if they are being honest, and truly want long hair ASAP) - there more I keep it up NOW, the faster I will have hair to keep DOWN. ;) I can't wait.

Gah, and just writing that sounds/seems so vain somehow.....like I feel like I know it all. And I don't - I just think I have some damn GOOD ideas.

DH asked me yesterday, when I was making the SAF tea, whether I kept track of my recipes (he's a hard-core hustler, always looking for a way to sell) and I had to tell him yes - and that made me realize that I could really start something off - a line of products for the hair that talks to you.

I'm down on cones, I'm down on petro products, I'm down on non-natural stuff. I'm up on moisture, I'm up on herbs, I'm up on subtle smelling stuff. I'm down on hard hair, up on "oh my gods that's soft!" hair. I'm up on fairy tale ends, I'm down on razor cuts styles. I'm all about hair being hair, and your best possible hair being exactly what grows out of your scalp - no edits needed. I'm majorly up on curly hair. I think all hair should be curly....even straight hair.

It would have to be a mostly custom line - I wonder if I could rope people in with different hair types to experiement on. *sigh* Most likely not. Esp. since it's really more a regimen, than a certain collection of products. Not everyone lives the lifestyle where they can spend 2.5 hours on their hair on a weekend night. Hell, after a certain point in my life, I might not be able to do that.

I don't know.

I'm having a hard time seperating the belief that I can from the belief that anybody can.

(Sidenote - I just had DH touch my hair to confirm it - it's still crazy soft, but the oilness is gone - it's been about an hour, I'd say. This is amazing hair. AMAZING)