WASH DAY ROUTINE 2015.

Hi ,
I hope you are doing great and enjoying your hair journey thus far.
I often get asked about my natural hair care routine or regimen and how i wash my hair. This post is mainly about how i wash my hair or rather my wash day routine.

Firstly i should mention that i wash my hair once a week unless i am super busy then i wash once every 2 weeks. My routine may not work for you but i hope that it will help you come up with one that works for you.

On a particular wash day this is what i do:

1. Spray my hair with water lightly
2. separate hair into smaller sections.
3. add conditioner to each section, detangle and loosely twist. Do the same to the rest of the hair
4. after detangling i add my deep conditioner (DC).
5. put plastic cap on and a head sock and let it sit for an hour or so.
6. rinse the DC
7. remove excess water using an old t-shirt.
8. apply leave-in conditioner/coconut oil.
9. seal with shea butter.
10. braid/twist hair
11. air dry
12. style.

Well that is mainly all i do every wash day. Once a month i use shampoo or whenever i feel i have product build-up. 
The DC i use depends on how my hair is feeling or what my hair needs. On a normal wash day i use a moisturising DC (tresseme naturals + oils) and sometimes i use a protein conditioner (eg hair mayonnaise) depending on how my hair feels.

I hope that was helpful.Thanks for stopping by.  
  

xoxo

NaturallySammie.

MY 2ND HHJ NAPPYVERSARY.

Its been 2years since the start of my healthy hair journey (HHJ) Whoop whoop!!!! Time really does fly.

I started my journey in Feb 2013 and Feb 2015  marked 2years of my natural hair journey. I can assure you my hair has transformed. *sorry the post is a bit late*

The past two years have been eye-opening for me, i have learnt more about hair care than I have ever learnt in my  20-something years on earth.

I have enjoyed my hair journey and I don’t regret it at all. It’s the best thing that has happened to my hair and I have never been more confident to wear my own hair.

I have pictures for you to see the progress. I am happy with how much my has grown so far. I love it.

If you are starting out on your hair journey, do your research, be patient and be consistent with your hair care routine and I promise you your hair will grow.Oh Yes baby black hair can grow.

 Thanks for stopping by, all the best in your hair journey..

xoxo

NaturallySammie.

MY 2014 HAIR AFFAIR.

2014 was a great year for me, not in terms of retention or anything like that because i am yet to do a length check. I know my hair has grown but that is not what i want to talk about regarding 2014. 2014 was a great year for my hair journey because i had a chance to experiment with so many hair styles. I managed to capture some on camera,unfortunately it is not every single hair style that i captured.
I wore everything from twist-outs to braid-outs to bantu knot-outs, i wore updo's, RTP's, puffs, buns etc. I wore it all and i had so much fun with my hair.
2014 also happened to be my 2nd year without hair extensions and so from January to December i rocked my own hair and i liked it.
I made a few collages of the different hair styles:

TWISTS

UPDO's

OUT & DOWN

HEADWRAPS

xoxo,

NaturallySammie.

REVIEWING 2014 HAIR GOALS

Hello...

How is everyone doing in 2015? Are your 2015 hair resolutions already in place? I have not yet come up with mine but i will share them with you soon.
Before i go ahead and make resolutions for this year, i thought i should start by reviewing the goals i made in 2014.



2014 GOAL #1:Wash hair less, that is from once a week to once every two weeks. I can be very impatient sometimes, especially when it comes to detangling my hair. I noticed that I experience some breakage on wash days and so I just want to minimise on that.

Review: I failed to stick to this goal simply because my hair gets very dry, and waiting for 2 weeks between washes just was not working for me. I washed my hair once every week unless otherwise. To minimize breakage i worked on being gentle and patient during detangling sessions.

2014 GOAL #2 : Increase the number of times I do protein treatments. I did not do much of these in 2013.

Review: *sigh* this one was a 100% fail. I do not know what is wrong with me, i know i need to do this but i don't know why i don't do it.

2014 GOAL #3: ACV is a must now, to combat breakage from hard water.

Review: 100% fail. I don't even remember the last time i stocked apple-cider vinegar.

2014 GOAL#4: .  Wear more protective styles. Instead of keeping my twists in for a week only, I want to try keeping them in for 2 weeks.

Review: I realized that i am just not the 'long term protective styling' kind of girl. I cant wear twists for a long time, infact i did not wear twists for most of 2014. I wore my hair in braid outs, twist outs and roll-tuck-and-pin.(RTP). My hair was mostly out and i enjoyed it that way.

2014 GOAL #5:   Moisturise and seal my ends more often.

Review: This i did religiously. I am proud!!!! *happy face*.

Overall i did not stick to my 2014 resolutions and honestly i was not realistic about certain goals eg goal #4. I have never liked long term protective styles since i started my hair journey, i was just in denial really and i thought it was a must do in order to retain length. That is not entirely true.

This is my review. Have you reviewed your 2014 goals? Did you stick to your resolutions? Share your experience with me by commenting below. 

xoxo.
 

HAPPY 2015

HAPPY 2015 LADIES. I WISH YOU ALL THE VERY BEST THIS YEAR.

STAY BLESSED.

THE NEED FOR SELF LOVE

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Sometime in August, I came across a very powerful sermon by Myles Munroe (MHSRIP). The title of the sermon was “the myth of singleness”. It talks about how society tells us we are incomplete if we are not married and how God desires that we remain single (separate, unique and whole) and that it is possible to be single but not alone.

 Let me not start preaching because I can go on and on, simply because I loved the sermon so much and what I learnt I would love to share with every woman out there. But that is a story for another day.

So one thing that was emphasized in that sermon is the fact that the most important relationship in life is intrapersonal and not interpersonal and that is what I want to dwell on.

How much do you love yourself????? How much do you know yourself??

How much you love yourself reflects on the outside and affects how you carry yourself and sometimes even the choices and decisions you make.

Love is  a human basic need, I mean we all want to love and be loved but how much someone loves you is somehow dependent on how much you love yourself.

If you don’t love yourself why should someone love you? If you hate your body, hate your hair, hate your nose, hate your personality, why do you expect someone else to love it? If you can’t live with yourself why should someone live with you?

Love yourself, take care of yourself. You are beautiful and unique, there will never be another YOU. Celebrate your uniqueness and quit trying to be someone else. Acknowledge that you are the best of you that God has. Love yourself because God loves you. Your worth is beyond the clothes you wear, it’s beyond the number of likes you get on facebook. You are God’s treasure, you are valuable to him. Begin to see your value.

When you understand who you are, and how important you are, people will see it through you and will treat you as such. With the consciousness of the beauty within you, you will then be able to have meaningful interpersonal relationships because the more VALUE you add to yourself, the more value you will add to someone’s life.

You are God’s best. Believe it. Accept it and live that way.

Xoxo

NaturallySammie.

AFRICAN THREADING

 I recently watched a VIDEO of Nyla Helene on how to achieve a 'heat less blow out' on natural hair by using thread and i decided to try it out.

INSPIRATION ; Nyla Helene

I started out with an old braid out which i separated into small sections, i moisturized and combed each section and went on to thread it. I went to bed with threaded hair covered in a satin bonnet.
The next morning i removed the thread, combed my hair and i had my heat less blow out.

I really enjoyed having stretched hair without having to worry about heat damage and i think i will be doing alot of african threading.
Have you tried the african threading???????? How did you like it????

xoxo

NaturallySammie.