Review - Coconut & Shea Shampoo Bar



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A couple days ago I received the OBI Natural Hair Care line to my door. I heard of this company through someone I follow in the Natural Hair community. I've heard nothing but great things about them. They use natural ingredients and are pH balanced, woohoo! When I noticed those two things I instantly got excited to try these products. Y'all know my hair is the most kinky texture, 4C. It's hard to tame this beastly hair of mine lol. Today, I'll be reviewing one of the 4 products I received. The other 3 will be reviewed throughout the week one by one so make sure you check back for those reviews as well. These products are just...... let me stop. Read the review I have for you below :) I hope yall enjoy!

 

 

Coconut and Shea Shampoo Bar

 

 

Description: This rich moisturizing shampoo will leave your hair soft, conditioned, and hydrated. Shea butter deeply moisturizes and repairs damage to hair and scalp, while coconut oil protects hair from heat and chemical damage.

 

Price: $10 + shipping costs

 

Ingredients: Saponified Oils of Coconut, Palm, Castor bean, Safflower; Shea Butter, Vegetable Glycerin, Purified Water, Rosemary Essential Oil, Sorbitol, Soybean protein, Sorbitan Oleate, Fragrance

 

Fragrance: A mix of Rosemary and Shea Butter

 

Results: This bar is said to lather like almost all shampoo's. I found it did lather. Unlike most shampoo's, it left my hair very suttle and soft. It didn't feel stripped at all which I found to be great! I don't shampoo very often, for that reason.

 

My Thoughts: After using this shampoo bar, I find it to be a winner and now a staple of mine. Throughout my entire journey I've used either the Mane & Tail shampoo or raw Black Soap to shampoo my hair. I don't shampoo often because I hate the stripped feeling you get with shampooing and I also find that shampooing isn't always the best thing to do for moisturizing your hair. This bar does exactly what it says it does, moisturize. I can't stress enough how much you need moisture in your hair and if you're using the wrong shampoo that strips your hair, honey, you need to stop that right now! This is definitely a winner in my book!

 

**So, have you ever tried this shampoo bar? If so, what are you thoughts on it! Thanks for reading. Smooches! <3


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It's A Twist-Out Affair

Practice Makes Perfect

 

If you've followed me my entire journey, then you know I don't do much to my hair but wash n go's or protective styles. I've never attempted a twist out, braid out, bantu-knot out or anything of that nature. Last week I was feeling really, hmm, curious about this whole ....out thing so I decided to dive in and try it for myself. I had no idea what I was doing. I just did what I thought was right. I wasn't watching any videos of tutorials or anything like that nor was I trying to be a perfectionist at it the first go around. I used my normal moisturizing method after I did my weekly deep conditioning treatment.

I was amazed at how my hair looked afterwards. I was in my zone. Did these twists (that took forever), covered my hair, and hit the sac. I woke up the next morning like "Do I really want to take down my hair?!" I didn't have the time but decided, you know what I'm going to do this. I've made up my mind I want to see the end result! I started to take my hair down bit by bit and it started coming together. The end result I thought was nice. No, the definition isn't sick. Why, you ask?! Well, my hair still is pretty darn short. I'm not really into the definition. I'm more focused on moisturizing. I found that my hair was super moisturized for about a week without me having to put any product in my hair. I didn't even have to re-twist at night. Just wake up the next morning, sprits it with whatever spray I'd like, fluff, and go go go. I was amazed! Now, I know y'all are asking, did you record it? I want a tutorial on how you did it. Yes, I did actually. Is it up yet? No, I need to get around to putting that up but if you stay tuned and patient I'll have it up for you soon enough! :) I'll try this whole Twist-Out method again sometime again in the near future. That is, when my hands don't hurt from having to twist and twist and twist. I hope yall enjoy and be sure to check me out on YouTube. Make sure you subscribe if you haven't. Thanks for reading! Smooches! <3

Better than Good Hair - by Nikki Walton



When I first began my natural hair journey I had no idea how competitive it was within the community. It was almost like people were fighting for no apparent reason. I, myself, decided to go natural for a number of reasons. I'm not sure about you though. I didn't "jump" on the bandwagon of natural hair. I wasn't like the die-hard natural hair person that was just all about natural hair natural hair NATURAL HAIR. I let my hair do its' thing and be what it wanted to be. I've been natural 3 yrs now, although close to 2 yrs ago I did a 2nd big chop (watch the live footage). When I first went natural it was trial and error. I started googling like crazy, researching as much as possible about how to manage my hair. I mean, let's be honest, who knows right off the bat how to take care of their "natural hair texture" if you weren't already natural to begin with?!

I ran across Curly Nikki's website and started reading. Between her website/blog and Naturally Curly's website I began learning more and more about natural hair. Although, I didn't find anyone who had my hair texture or what products to use on my texture I decided to blog/vlog about it. Now, I'm not sure how many of my natural hair diva's know of the newest book on the market. Natural hair blogger Nikki Walton, aka Curly Nikki in the natural hair community, has officially released her book Better Than Good Hair. She has featured a hand-full of natural hair guru's whom, I'm sure, you follow. One of which is my fav. Chary Jay - 160Days2Lose2 on YouTube! This book has been labeled as the go-to bible for natural hair. If you don't know about her you are sleeping! You can check out her website here.

Her book sales for about $ and shipping varies on your location of delivery. I, myself, copped a book when it first released. I couldn't wait to read it. I'm not a big reader, but this book here MERCYYYYY I could read it over and over. She's very very well-known in the natural hair community and let's be real, she knows about some hair! Besides Chary Jay, she's one of my natural hair idols. I adore her and everything she brings to the table. I hope you run to Amazon and grab a copy of the book to read for yourself. You won't be sorry, Promise! Smooches y'all <3

Shea Moisture Fans

Hey everyone!! I just wanted to pop on for a second and let you know about this awesome deal going on right now! As you all know I'm a HUGEEEEEE fan of Shea Moisture products. While shopping yesterday I found that Target has their products on an awesome sale. Their line is going as a BOGO (buy 1 get 1 50% OFF). Now ya'll know as soon as I saw this I grabbed a basket full of products right?! Oh ok, good! Glad you know heheheeee. Now, I know your probably wondering... ooooooh, KiKi is it just the "Organic Coconut & Hibiscus" line? NO, it's all of the hair lines (excluding the baby line). That's why I went on a shopping spree LMBO! Make sure you head on over to grab your products. This is a steal of a deal and the products are awesome for those Type 4 Natural Hair diva's :) Please leave a comment below letting me know which products you grabbed as well as any questions you may have for me! Until next time......

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My Firsts

So, I'm a huge blog hopper as you all may know. I've been running across a handful of bloggers who started this thing called 'My Firsts'. Where there's a series of questions you are asked and you respond to them accordingly. It seemed like fun so I figure, hey I'll jump on this bandwagon lol! I hope you all enjoy the Q & A. Let's get to it shall we.......

 

1. First thing you do when you wake up in the morning

Wiggle out of bed and it's time for a potty break. Then it's downstairs to make hubs breakfast!

2. First thing you do when you get home from work

I work from home. When I do allow myself time away from the desk or adventure I'll cuddle on the couch with hubs for a while then fall asleep lol

3. First kiss

Believe it or not I can't even remember my first kiss LOL! I want to say my first kiss was in jr. high school but I'm not 100% sure. It could've been high school bwahhahaaa

 

4. First home

My first home was across town from where I grew up. Got my own apartment and everything was grand. From there I loved out of state.

5. First car

My first car was a Saturn heeheheee. I had a love/hate relationship with that car

6. First car accident/ traffic violation

Let's see... my first accident was in the snow. I was getting off the freeway heading home from work. Everyone knows not to stop going up a hill right?! Well, this dumb guy decides he's gonna try to stop at a light then take off..... uh no! So his car slid back into the front end of my car :( First traffic violation, I was caught doing 72 in a 45 on the freeway. I was late to practice LOL! No excuses right??!

7. First thing you wanted to be when you grew up

I think the first thing I said I wanted to be when I grow up was a singer. Everyone goes through that phase at some point. Yea, that was dream far fetched!

 

8. First choice beverage

Pop (Soda for you others hahhaaa, I'm country)

9. First choice dessert

Anything chocolateeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

10. First choice of restaurant

Olive Garden of course :)

11. First song that comes to mind

If I die young by The Band Perry LOL!

12. First major purchase

Washer/Dryer

13. First job

A pizza place in my hometown

14. First time you flew on a plane

Never been off the ground. I'm too chicken shyt LOL! #dontjudgeme

15. First real "big girl" job

Working at Verizon Wireless as a Technician

Happy New Year 2013

I know I know. I'm late. Better late than never right??! I've been so tied up with family stuff that I totally deserted my blog and YT channel lol! I did, however, happen to pop on YT for a second with a new tag video. So be sure to check it out. This year I plan to make lots of changes. I plan to blog alot more as well as vlog on YT. I'll try to make a point to do either or once a week. So tell me, what are some of the things you'd like me to discuss or go over with you on here & YT? This could be #naturalhair or #militaryspouse related! Can't wait to see your responses. Take care and I'll see you next time :)

Happy BDay........

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! :) So blessed to have made it another year. Thank God! Hope you all had a marvelous Thanksgiving and SAFE Black Friday shopping day. Now I'm off to do my BIRTHDAY festivities :) ehhhhhhhhhhhh