The Kinkdom of Kiya

First, I must, must, must give a shout out to Muslim Bushido, and her latest blog entry about Feeling Flawless. I've always given a bit of a side-eye to how the concept of being 'That Girl' has been portrayed when I've seen it - it always seemed to have more of a focus on being 'stylish' and 'fashionable' more so than being gorgeous and authentic - two things that often require independence from 'fashion' in order to truly achieve.
Anyway, reading the above blog - and the very insightful comments linked to it - clarified for me just what I want/need to do in order to feel flawless, and the fact that I am close - I have a personal style, without a doubt. I just need to improve the quality of the items that I own that represent that style. *sigh* And I really need some better/new shoes - I know exactly what style I want, it's just a matter of finding them.

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Okay, now on to the hair.

I did find the list that had all of my ingredients on it, but I never compared it to what I listed here - I do believe that it is pretty darn close, though.

This weekend I did a half&half caramel & conditioner treatment - 2 hours under the steamer and my hair was so happy it almost didn't know what to do with itself.

DC'd overnight last night with EQP IFC, EQPCR and TJR watered down, and my hair was so soft and fluffy today - and several of my twists came out as well. My hair is so moist it's seriously just off the hook!

I did notice this morning - or re-notice, I should say, just how not thick my hair really is. I have body, not thickness. If I take a two strand twist, and pull it so that it's 'stretched', it's about 1/4 inch wide. If I let it go, it's more like 3/4 of an inch wide. My hair is SOOOO not thick - it just traps a lot of empty air. *laughs* So, I'm still hardcore on my goal to thicken, thicken, thicken my hair.

There's a new meme on LHCF talking about using caffeine to increase the growing phase (anagen?) of the hair by 37%, and stimulate the follicles to encourage faster growth. I'm so all over that, but oddly enough, I haven't been in a mad scientist mood lately (which is why the ceramide post still isn't up - though I might be inspired to work on it, since one of the sisters actually found a source for pure ceramide.) so it might be a while before I put up some detail about that. I do know, though, that I will be trying it out - a lil caffeine powder in the MT, and all sorts of perking up will insue!

I need to take new pictures of my hairline - it's improving, but by the gods, its' improving so. slowly! I have a large assortment of baby hairs, though, and that's always a good sign.

I haven't decided what I'm doing this weekend, yet.