PurpleBubba's Periodical Prose of Ponderings (2a/F-M/ii)

Warning: Bubba could break out into a pondering at any moment. Be prepared to be taken on a ride. Please keep your hands inside the car at all times and your safety belts fastened. We are not responsible for injury or loss of property while reading this entry.
Thank You,
Management of BubbaLand
(see this entry for more info on this disclaimer I started using 5/25/04 ;)
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?postid=155325#post155325

Original First Entry 3/20/04
Well here I am starting a journal. I'm not sure what will come of it but I'm willing to give it a try.

I'm not looking to gain much. I'd like to stop being so darn lazy when it comes to my hair. I don't want to be vain about it but I'd like to at least start taking my own advice.

I guess I'll start by putting my hair history. Maybe that will help me to know where I've been and where I want to go?

I'll post that in the next post. As soon as I gather everything. :wink:

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Edited on 4/18/04 to add: Well it's been almost a month and I see that quite a lot has come of this journal. This journal has made a big difference in my life. If you are reading this and you don't have a journal yet I highly recommend that you at least go post a first post, even if you have to go back and edit it later to add things. I also recommend you do as I did and make a to do list. So that being said, enjoy my journal and thanks for caring enough to read, I appreciate it. :)

My To Do List 3/20/04


Post Hair History and Photos
Get a Trim or do a S&D. Then do so on a more regular basis.
Resume trying salons in the area, this time looking for long hair friendly stylists
Get a digital camera for photographing myself and my demonstrations
If I get the camera then do the above and share it
Continue writing articles and making how tos
Change my routine or at least create one
Follow my own advice at least once in awhile
Think Positive thoughts and Keep looking forward
Keep writing in this journal

Old Pictures

http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/Age3.jpg http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/1994.jpg http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/July00.jpg

My Hair Type & Lack Of a Routine

For awhile I've been posting my hair type as 2a M ii but earlier today I was reading the typing system and looked at my hair and thought to myself, "I think my hair is a bit finer than medium." So I decided to change my type to 2a F-M ii. My hair was curly as a kid but now its just barely wavey. Wavey enough that I can't call it straight.

So I wanted to find out what other people with similar hair do and this is the thread I started.

"Looking for other 2a / F-M / ii people"
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9469

As of this moment I've had 2 very nice replies from Mariah & Teacherbear.

Its funny that I've never considered going to any health food store for anything but oddly enough I'm thinking I might actually go.
The closest I've ever come to anything like that was when I went to Bath & Body Works with a former GF and then another day went back on my own to buy some sparkly goop in a little spray bottle that smelled good. Can't remember if I bought the blue one or the purple?

Current Routine or Lack Of
I use Revlon Flexx shampoo for Dry to Normal hair and then sometimes I will use a little bit of whatever bottle of something else that my Mom has in the shower. I've been using Revlon Flexx since 1998 when I drove down to Georgia to visit some online friends and one of them gave me an extra bottle they had. I currently do not use conditioner or at least cannot remember the last time I did. I did get a deep conditioning treatment under a hood dryer in July of 2000 as part of some free services I got for signing up for school.
I am a very infrequent hair washer. I was hoping that going to school would have changed that but it didn't. I guess its hard to think clean after spending 5 years in an oil and dust cloud called metal manufacturing. I just wonder if those oils were helping my hair at all. I was getting my frequent trims then and always had compliments on my hair's condition.

I just replied to Mariah and Teacherbear asking if I can quote them or write what they suggested. Just making sure I ask this time ;)

Routines & Products Used By People With Similar Hair Types

Note: This used to be 4 seperate entries but I combined them into 1 entry instead.
I hope this organizes things better.

This is the first post of hopefully more posts of Routines & Products used by people who have similar hair. The quotes and other such info in the following has been asked to be used here prior to it being posted and permission was granted.
See forums.longhaircommunity.com//showthread.php?t=9469 for more info.


Mariah's Products & Routine

Nature's Gate Products
levlad.com/
levlad.com/branded/organics/ngo_haircare/ngo_haircare.html

Shi Kai Products
shikai.com/index.html
shikai.com/products/natural_hair_care.htm

I am a 2a-c (depending on the day and the humidity), M, ii...

My current routine is -- scalp wash every other day, length wash only once a week...

And right now, I'm using the sample shampoos and cream rinse from GM to see if I like them...but I do tend to really like the nature's gate shampoos and conditioners, and the shi kai line of shampoos and conditioners as well...you can find all of them at the health food store...

Typically, I only use shampoo and then just jojoba oil on the ends...

I gues my routine seems to be in flux alot!! kind of like my not-quite-straight-not-quite-curly hair!! ;)


LisaJaney's Products & Routine

White Rain
whiterain.com/index.asp?page=basebrands

Clairol HE
herbalessences.com/haircare/fruit.asp

Aussie
aussie.com/guide.asp

Robert,
I am a 2a/F/ii and CO-wash most of the time, but also do the occasional CWC (TBear spelled that out SO well) and also there are times when I shampoo the entire thing and then condition. I think that, as your hair gets longer, you're gonna really want to think about adding conditioner/detangler/de-static-er to your regimen; it's gonna help with the inevitable tangling as you gain length. Feel free to quote me on any of this stuff.

For my CO-wash: I love White Rain Originals, Extra Body (pale yellow bottle, blue cap, WalMart, 88-cents). Wet hair in the shower, apply 1/3 to 1/2 cup of conditioner to the scalp and the length. You will know you have enough conditioner (it takes a lot) when ALL the hair feels "slick". Prior to that point (having enough conditioner), there will be spots that seem to want to "grab" your fingers. Work it in well, then leave it on for awhile while you do your other "showerly duties" (Steph's wonderful phrase) like soaping up and rinsing, shaving your legs (ha, only joking), washing face, etc. When a few minutes have lapsed, it's time to RINSE your hair. And it's gonna take a LOT Of rinsing. I put my head under the shower for 2 seconds and then work that water into the conditioner, to THIN it and make it easier to rinse under the shower spray. Rinse and Rinse and Rinse. Then, rinse some more. And I do a final cold-water rinse to close the cuticle and help with shine, then use a Turbie Towel for a half-hour and I'm ready to go! This method really does work well for cleaning my hair and leaving it still moist. The ONLY times my hair does NOT feel clean after CO-washing is when I:
use too LITTLE conditioner (use nearly a half-cup of the stuff; it's cheap)
don't rinse it out well enough (when you THINK it's gone, go another minute)
use too HEAVY a conditioner. You want a LIGHT conditioner. The White Rain is PERFECT.

For CWC, I REALLY like the Clairol Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions. I use some of the cheaper White Rain to coat the length while I use the shampoo up-top, and then use the Fruit Fusions conditioner as the "real" conditioner. This stuff isn't very expensive and leaves my hair really tangle-free. It's like my hair WON'T tangle after I've used this Fruit Fusion stuff. Nice, nice, nice! I like the Moisturizing and the Color-safe or whatever they call it. They're all good. Cone-free, too, if that makes a difference (it's doesn't to me, but some people avoid cones, so it'd be a nice choice for the non-coners, too)

Another shampoo I like is Aussie stuff. Cone-city, but it works for me! Aussie Moist shampoo smells great and works well. Their Three Minute Miracle is great stuff for deep-treatments, and they have a final conditioner that you can use on a "daily" basis (whenever you wash) that's called "Slip". Good stuff, and it smells just DIVINE!

Hope this helps, Bubba!!!!
LJ

Charlyee's Products & Routine

Saniyyah Naturally
Naturally Lemongrass Leave-in Herbal Conditioner
store.yahoo.com/treasuredlocks/saleleheco.html

Nexxus Therappe with Ensure
nexxus.com/nexxus/index.phtml

Sukésha & All-Nutrient
sukesha.com/index.html
Colorsafe Shampoo & Conditioner
sukesha.com/config/all-nutrient/allnutrient_shampoo.htm
sukesha.com/config/all-nutrient/allnutrient_condition.htm

SheaMoisture
sheamoisture.com/
Shea Butter Leave-In Conditioner
sheamoisture.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/products/leaavein.html?L+scstore
store.yahoo.com/treasuredlocks/shemoisshebu1.html

Hi Robert,

I am a 2aFII, I shampoo upto my shoulders 3 days/week. I let the shampoo rinse out over the length of my hair. I put conditioner on the length of my hair and then rinse that out. I towel wrap my hair for about 10-15 mins. put leave in conditioner on the last 6 or so inches, finger separate and let it air dry.

I mist my hair liberally with a diluted mix of Lemongrass Herbal Conditioner - store.yahoo.com/treasuredlocks/saleleheco.html
and distilled water in a 50/50 ratio at right before going to bed, on the days I do not shampoo, and any other time it looks like it needs it.

Right now I am alternating each week between Nexxus Therappe with Ensure and
All-Nutrient color Safe shampoo and its conditioner
sukesha.com/config/all-nutrient/allnutrient_shampoo.htm

For the leave-in I use
Shea Butter Coinditioner - store.yahoo.com/treasuredlocks/shemoisshebu1.html

Hope this helps, plesae feel free to include any portion of this in your journal.

Nice to have you back.

Take care

Hi Robert,

Mine is 100% Jojoba Oil made by Dessert Essence. However, I don't use it on my hair, I use to remove my eye make up and sometimes as a moisturizer on my body.


Chocolatekiss's Products & Routine

Back to Basics
backtobasics.com/
Back to Basic's Green Tea Ultra Hydrating with Shea Butter
backtobasics.com/productline/cc_greenteaultra.htm

VO5's Kiwi Lime Clarifying conditioner
vo5.com/

Sauve Naturals
suave.com/home.asp
suave.com/whatsnew/haircare.asp


Hi Robert.

I'm 2a/F/ii. Thought I was 1c, but since I started a new routine, I've graduated to 2a. You can read all about my hair in my journal... but here's my basic routine:

Condition Only Wash -- 3 times a week, as needed.
Shampoo -- Every 2 weeks.
Deep Condition -- Every week and after shampoos.
Trims/Salon Visits -- None... I dust for split ends every 4 weeks or so.

For shampoos I do a Condition-Shampoo-Deep Condition method and only use the actual shampoo on my scalp.

For shampoo I like Back to Basic's Green Tea with Shea Butter. It is very gentle and not drying. For Condition Only washes I stay away from cones...they cause my hair to feel coated after a couple days I like VO5's Kiwi Lime Clarifying conditioner -- this stuff cleans as well as shampoo, but without stripping my natural oils. I love it. It is real cheap and real basic -- no cones, very few chemicals. I also like Sauve Naturals for the same reasons. For deep conditions, I like a rich homemade coconut milk/olive oil/honey mix.

I should probably note that my hair is color treated and heat processed, so my hair sucks up as much conditioner as I feed it. I need lots of moisture, so this is the routine that works for me. My hair is not oily at all -- in fact, I bet I could even stretch my shampoos out to once a month, or cut them out completely.

For styling products -- I don't really use any. For gel, I might use a little aloe vera. Other than that, I just use a little conditioner as leave in. I also like to use coconut oil on my wet hair.

P.S. Yes you can quote, if you like. :)


Lexy's Products & Routine

Giovanni Products
giovannicosmetics.com/index-2.html
giovannicosmetics.com/WLine/wlprodsa.php
giovannihaircare.co.nz/about.htm#WHITE%20HAIR%20CARE%20LINE

I am completely quotable :lol:

I use Albertson's brand baking soda, followed up by Bragg's Apple Cider Vinegar, and then a dose of jojoba oil with arabian sandal wood scent.

I wash my hair once a week.

If I feel like using "real" shampoo (about once a month or so) I use Giovanni Tea Tree shampoo and conditioner. I always condition first, then shampoo and then condition again.

I mix 2 Tbsp. of baking soda with about a half cup of hot water. That way I don't have the glob problem. I use the cheapest baking soda I can find. I have never read anything that makes me think that there is any difference among baking sodas.

I do buy the more expensive apple cider vinegars because I want to make sure that all the little living creatures are used in the preparation of my ACV. I figure if active cultures in yogurt are good for my insides, then active cultures in ACV might be good for my outsides. I don't know, but it seems logical to me.

Edited to add: I mix my ACV with about a half cup of cool water. I pour it right from the bottle into the cup, but I think I use about 2 Tbsp. of vinegar to a half cup water.

OK, I use Now brand 100% jojoba oil.
I bought the jojoba oil they sell at Whole Foods. I don' think there is a huge difference, except that some of the *much* cheaper brands don't use pure jojoba oil.


Whole Foods - Michigan Locations
wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/list_MI.html


TammySue's Products & Routine

Hi Robert! I'm a 2a/M/ii. Here's my routine (you can quote it, of course)!

Once a week I CWC - Condition-Wash-Condition. This method was originally developed by Martine.
I use a cheap conditioner (lots of it) (for example, Suave) and apply it to my entire length (not the scalp) while my hair is still dry. Then I wet my head and shampoo my scalp (currently using both Redken's So Long and NuHair). Then rinse everything out. After thoroughly rinsing, I again condition the length - especially the ends - with a better conditioner (for example, Redken's So Long). Rinse again. Apply a mixture of white vinegar and water over my scalp and rinse again.

Every morning I take a pea-sized amount of my own mixture of cocoa butter lotion (Palmer's - smells yummy) and jojoba oil, rub between my palms, and apply very lightly to my ends and even more lightly to the length.

Hope this helps you!

P.S. Thanks for the e-mail!

[ETA brand name of shampoos]


†River's Products & Routine

Giovanni Products
giovannicosmetics.com/index-2.html
giovannicosmetics.com/WLine/wlprodsa.php
giovannihaircare.co.nz/about.htm#WHITE%20HAIR%20CARE%20LINE

Jason Natural
jason-natural.com/
jason-natural.com/html/thin_to_thick.html
vitacost.com

Well, I bounce back and forth from 2a-2b so lets see
I have used Giovanii's stuff - Shampoo 50/50 and Conditioner Slick as Silk, and Direct Leave in.
Before I used to use Jason Thin to Thick.
Right now I use my Jason Thin to Thick Shampoo You can get it from vitacost.com at a good deal - on the scalp only, and Giovanni Slick as Silk condioner, and Direct Leave in.
I wash once a week or less.
Brushing with my Denman 4 is awsome get yourself one! Often after brushing I just don't need to wash as it distributes the scalp oils :).
I am starting to swim weekly so wash after I swim to get the clorine out,, hope it won't damage me too much.
For me I love the Jason Shampoo, and the Giovannit Direct Leave in, I am not sure about The Slick as Silk and will try hunting around for a different one.

One prob I did have with the Giovanni Slick as Silk is if I got it on my scalp I got bumps.

I'd love to see a current pic of your hair
Oh and feel free to save my info wherever you would like :)

Search & Destroy 3/23/04

Hey, I finally followed my own advice for a change. :thumbsup:

Yesterday while the computer was taking forever to defragment I decided I would attempt my first ever Search and Destroy session. I guess it helped that the defrag had a lot of space that was white, Teacherbear is right that white background really helps. I only did the section on the right side from the ear forward. I think that was the first time I ever actually attempted to section my hair for anything. I usually do not part my hair so even doing that was new to me unless I used to do it as a kid and don't recall.

I can see where being patient is really necessary for doing this. :coffee:
It can be hard get at them. Especially in my hair that hasn't been trimmed in almost 3 years. :shake: I guess it really doesn't matter if I mess up a bit because I never leave the house anymore without my hair in a ponytail. At least in a tail if the ends were uneven it wouldn't be as obvious. I need to go :arrow: to Feye's page. I'm thinking I should do one of her trims before I go any further.

My Hair History


For the first 15 years of my life I had short hair. Not by choice. I never liked getting my haircut or being forced to. I didn't like it when people at school would notice that I had a haircut. The worst was the elementary Gym teacher. I had him from 1st - 6th grade. Anytime anyone got a haircut he would bring it to everyone's attention by saying, "Did you get your ears lowered?" then he would wait for a response and say, "Happy Haircut." That's nice for people who didn't mind but I didn't want that attention and I wasn't happy with the haircut.

Growing up when we got haircuts we usually got them at one of two barber shops. One near here and one at the end of my grandma's block. Or sometimes Mom would cut it. Sometimes when I spent a day or a week over at grandma's I would go to that shop near her and get my hair cut. Then to make things worse when I got back to grandma's house she would always "fix it" meaning shorter. When I was 4 or 5, I grabbed some scissors and hacked up my own hair. I didn't care what I looked like from my own job but of course I then had to go to the barber shop.

I had the same teacher two years in a row for 4th and 5th grade. She was a very nice teacher but she used to pick on me in class because my hair wasn't combed. It got to the point where one day I just yelled back something like "Its my hair leave me alone." Didn't help much since I still got sent into the hall to comb it.
Then came 6th grade. At the beginning of the year I was asked if I wanted to push a 1st grader in a wheel chair to class each morning, spend time with him at lunch, then push him back to the bus. I did that the whole year. He had a few toes cut in a lawnmower accident. Anyway at the end of the year we were going to have a little party in the first grade room at lunch time and I was supposed to bring Kool aid or something. The day of the party I got to school and realized I forgot the kool aid stuff. I ran back home only to run into my mom and step dad at home who told me to just forget about it. Needless to say I was upset and I ran back to school. So I showed up late for class and I'm already crying because I don't like to not keep promises, etc. A few minutes later the 5th grade teacher pokes her nose in the room and starts complaining about my hair again. This was also the day of the commencement or whatever for the 6th graders going on to Jr. High. I also got complained to about the fact that I only had a T shirt on instead of something fancy. So later on after the assembly my 6th grade teacher, not the 5th is taking to my mom who of course came to the assembly. They basically decide that I'm getting my hair cut. So when I got home it turned into a war with me, mom, and step dad. They basically gave me an ultimatum that if I didn't go get my hair cut that I couldn't go on the field trip the next day. So I ended up giving in. Mom dropped me off at the barber shop and then I had to walk home almost a mile.

Things kind of settled down the next few years. Then in 9th grade I went shopping with mom and grandma to the mall. The whole day grandma was complaining about my hair. I also had an orthodontist appointment that day which was why I was with them in the first place. So after all the arguing once again I lose. So before my appointment they made me go into the salon that was in the same strip mall as the ortho. This is where things get a little better. Neither of them talked to my stylist, I did all the talking. My stylist also didn't speak English well. She basically held my hair up and pointed to a length and I said just a tiny bit shorter. Now I didn't get a buzz cut but it was a haircut. My hair was maybe 2-3 inches long afterward. The whole ride home was nothing but grandma complaining about how I didn't get enough cut and that it wasn't worth the $10. I think what happened next was mom said she would fix it at home but she never did. So even though that was another bad day at least I had some say. Ah small victories.

In 10th grade I started letting my hair grow for the first time. I don't remember how long it got but the whole year I got complained to by mom about it being long. After the last day of school I decided that I was going to cut my own hair again. Unfortunately the hair scissors were not in the house and I ended up using some bad ones. Anyway once again I didn't care what it looked like but it had to be fixed. I didn't care because I didn't have school until fall. This time mom fixed it herself.

The day before the last day of 11th grade mom decides she is going to "trim my hair" and once again it isn't a trim. So I had to go to school with a new haircut. Couldn't she have waited a day? That was the last time I had a haircut that was not by my choice.

I started growing my hair again and of course heard the complaints. I turned 18 March 31 and decided that since I was now an adult that I would go get my hair cut on my own. Just to see if that would shut them up. I had to go to the post office anyway to register for selective service or whatever its called. So without telling anyone I walked to the PO and then across the street to a salon. I think I measured my hair the day before and by taking one individual strand and pulling it out from the root I measured it and it was 8 inches long. So I decided that I would get it cut to around 3 -3 1/2 inches which would be shorter but not a buzz cut. I really didn't know what I was talking about but I asked her to feather it so it blended and wouldn't look like a haircut. Not that that would matter going from 8 - 3 inches but that's what I wanted. When I got home only my brother was home and I was wearing a hooded sweatshirt. I don't know if he noticed or not. I sat in the living room waiting for mom and step dad to get home. Then when they came in I waited for a few minutes and then took the hood off. Of course they were thrilled. I did have to go to school the next day with a new haircut but it wasn't as bad since it was my choice and I didn't mind talking about it. Then in third period ceramics the girl I sat next to also had gotten her hair cut so I wasn't the only one.

From April 94 until sometime in 96 I let my hair grow without a trim or anything. I started my job at a gear factory in September 95 and I just tucked my ponytail under a hat that I found that was big enough. In 96 I decided that I would go for one of my drives along the river and stop somewhere along the way and get a trim. I was only going to get an inch or so off because I didn't want anyone to notice when I got home but since it had been so long and it grew from basically a layered cut my ends were uneven. I don't know how much she cut but it had to be at least 3 inches. This is where things get a little weird and kind of funny. No one said anything to me about it home. I decided, "hmm wonder how much I have to cut off to get noticed?" For the next three weeks in a row I took a drive up the river and stopped somewhere and got just a 1/2 inch trim. It wasn't until after the 4th time that Mom asks, "so who's this girlfriend you're seeing that's cutting your hair?" I think I said, "no one".

Then after that I went for about a year or so straight getting 1/2 inch trims every 6-8 weeks and trying a new place every time. It really amazed me how many different techniques that were used to do the same 1/2 inch trim. Now I'm not really comfortable admitting this but I also went to those salons hoping to bump into a girl and maybe get the nerve to ask her out. I'm a very shy person. I did ask a few stylists but they were already seeing people. I also asked one of them what it took to go to school for hair and she said it was about a year. That was probably the first time I had ever said something like that to someone about being interested in hair or styling.

In January of 1998 I got online after step dad bought a computer for his hair brained get rich quick scheme of owning pay phones. After surfing for about a month I went to the Hearst Magazines to look at some articles and I saw they had a chat room. It was called HomeArts Chat. I was expecting it to be mostly women since Hearst has so many women's magazines but to my surprise it was about 50 / 50 or 60 / 40 and the people were very friendly. After making some friends a few of them sent me their pictures and some of them had really curly long hair and I finally broke out of my shell and started talking to them about my interest in hair care. I made quite a few friends and met many of them in person. Then at the end of 98 step dad decided to erase and reinstall the computer stuff and since I was tired of arguing with him I didn't push to get back online. It wasn't until May 21st of 99 that I got back online. This was the not only the day after mom threw him out of our lives but also the day after my car got totaled just sitting in front of the house at 2 am by a drunk.

In October 99 I started a Lighthouse club on Yahoo and then after a while of not being able to find a decent club on hair care I made my first hair care club called Long Hair Care in June of 2000. A few days after I got a some members they wanted me to help keep it safe so I made it unlisted. This meant that all new members had to be invited by email after that.

All that time I was still getting regular trims although it was more like every few months instead of 6-8 weeks. In August of 2000 I started cosmetology school after the success and support I was having with the club. Due to financial reasons and other reasons I stopped going in June of 2001 after completing about 800 of 1500 hours. At that time I was only 50/50 on wanting to be in school and I had missed so many days trying to get myself straightened out that they had to drop me.

My last trim was May of 2001 by a fellow student. That was the last time scissors touched my hair until last night, except for the occasional times I would snip a stray strand or two. As I stated, last night 3/22/04 I did a self split end trim on the right front portion of my hair.

That's basically it. Now I'm concentrating on trying to get some routines going and get my hair back into shape.

I Trimmed & My New Routine - 3/26/04

I was going to post about it last night but I couldn't get the site to load, I trimmed my hair last night using Feye's slight U instructions. I was going to take a picture with my regular camera but I was having trouble figuring out how to get the picture. Plus I just loaded a brand new 24 roll of film and I don't want to develop only 1 or 2 pictures from a whole roll.
I guess I'll bite the bullet and ask Mom to take one of me. Maybe my other camera has a roll of film that's already used a bit.

I trimmed about 1.5 - 2 inches or what seemed to be.
I think if I went to a salon the stylist would have trimmed more or would have wanted to. I don't mind if its not perfect because I still wear a ponytail in puplic. Its gotta look 100% better right now than it did.

I just got out of the shower a few minutes ago after washing with CO.

Here is what I did. I was going to do the CWC but I decided against using a shampoo this time to see if the V05 Kiwi Lime Squeeze Clarifying conditioner actually cleans.

I coated both my scalp and length with the V05 KLS C and lightly scrubbed / massaged it in. I then rinsed it out. I then reapplied the V05 KLS C as a normal conditioner and then rinsed that out. Then I used Aussie 3 Minute Miracle for more like 4 minutes. I rinsed that out. Oh and by now the hot water was cold so i had no choice but to rinse with cold. I then applied the Knot Forgotten (Slip) detangler conditioner and then I combed it through with my widest toothed comb. Then I decided to wait a few minutes for the water to warm up so I sat down for a few minutes. After probably around 8-10 minutes the water seemed a little warmer so I jumped up and rinsed off the Knot Forgotten. Then I lightly squeezed out my hair (not twisting like a towel) and then lightly touched it with a towel. Now I'm sitting here letting it air dry like I usually do. I very rarely use a blow dryer. I've used one maybe 10 times in the past 4 years.

I have to say that I like the results so far. I am really surprised that my hair feels as clean as it does considering I applied 4 conditioners and no shampoo. My hair was dirty and now it does feel like its clean. Its got that smooth, clean yet not too dry feel to it. I'm still smelling the Aussie too, its not bad at all :)

My hair also feels light and not weighed down. Its like its fluffy but not frizzy.

Now I did read some reviews on here that said after a few weeks the V05 KLS C might not work as well but if that happens you all have given me enough ideas so far that I won't have to worry too much. I'm thinking that if that happens I might try the Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions that LisaJaney suggested. Unless I go to another store that has the other stuff. We do have Whole Foods in my area, just a bit of a drive at the moment. I'll eventually get to it and see what they have. Or call first like Teacherbear said.

Worst case senario, I can buy a lot of these products through Amazon.com which is the only site I can buy anything from because I have gift certificates.

I will get a picture of me as soon as possible.

I just realized that this is the first time in a long time that I could have come out of the shower and put my hair in a tail right away without much fussing. My hair isn't frizzing all over the place like it normally would if I had to comb it.

Here is my routine once again.

V05 KLS Clarifying Conditioner - CO - First step
V05 KLS Clarifying Conditioner - CO - Second step
Aussie 3MM - Third step
Aussie Knot Forgotten - Fourth step

I think I'm going to only use the 3MM once in a while so some times Step 3 will get skipped. At least that's what I'm thinking at this moment. Too early to make any firm decisions.

I'm very happy so far :sun:
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8 Hours Later

Its been 8 hours since and yes my scalp has tingled a little bit but it doesn't bother me. I also wanted to say that My hair feels so light that I can't even tell I have hair. My hair is at least BS length if I wore one and the weight of it is not being felt at the moment.

I'm just hoping that this routine works out because I like how it is at the moment. Guess I'll have to see how it is the next day, etc. I don't wash very often. That's why I decided to try the clarifying conditioner.

I also want to add that I asked my brother when I was at his house today, and he said my hair looked even from the trim :thumbsup: Thanks again Feye you're an Angel :bowtome:

Anyway this is me :cloud9:

New Photos & Signature Photo - 3/26/04

I borrowed dad's digital camera :)

March 26th 2004
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These are after trimming using Feye's slight U and also doing the CO wash above, both within the past 18 hours. Oh and as you might be able to tell my hair isn't the only part of me that grew ;)
The back view is not uneven, the one part is just curled upward because my hair is so light and springy since the CO wash.


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Old Signature in case I change it

~ Wishing Everyone "No Tangles" ~

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My To Do List - Updated 3/27/04



My To Do List 3/20/04


Post Hair History and Photos
Get a Trim or do a S&D. Then do so on a more regular basis.
Resume trying salons in the area, this time looking for long hair friendly stylists
Get a digital camera for photographing myself and my demonstrations
If I get the camera then do the above and share it
Continue writing articles and making how tos
Change my routine or at least create one
Follow my own advice at least once in awhile
Think Positive thoughts and Keep looking forward
Keep writing in this journal





Well lets see now, 7 days later and what can we check off?



Post Hair History and Photos - Check :thumbsup:

Get a Trim or do a S&D. Then do so on a more regular basis. - Check on both. :thumbsup: I started to do S&D and then I trimmed using Feye's slight U.

Resume trying salons in the area, this time looking for long hair friendly stylists - This one might not be needed anymore but not out of the question.

Get a digital camera for photographing myself and my demonstrations - Check :thumbsup: Currently borrowing Dad's, hopefully that means a long time.

If I get the camera then do the above and share it. - Check :thumbsup: on the photos, demos to come.

Continue writing articles and making how tos - In progress as always.

Change my routine or at least create one - Check :thumbsup:

Follow my own advice at least once in awhile - - Check :thumbsup: RE: S&D trimming
Think Positive thoughts and Keep looking forward. - Check :thumbsup: I've been on :cloud9: for the past 24 hours. I love my trim results and so far I like my hair from the CO wash.

Keep writing in this journal - Check :thumbsup: well just by doing this post I can put a check here ;)

Pictures of My Routines - Old & New 3/27/04

Hope you didn't get your hopes up, but this isn't pictures of me doing anything ;)
These are pictures of my old products and tools and then my new products and tools. New doesn't necessarily mean brand new, just that its included in the new routine or at least allowed to be ;)


http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/Old_Tools.jpg Old Tools ~~~~~~~ Old Products http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/Old_Routine.jpg

http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/New_Tools.jpg New Tools ~~~~~~~ New Products http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/New_Routine.jpg

Phillips Classic 1 All Boar Cushion Brush - I paid $9
sallybeauty.com/shop/1740/896391

My old wide tooth comb in the pictures was thrown out because I messed it up trying to remove the big seams. I now have 2 of these Conair / Jilbere combs which I love even better and they barely had seams. They easily came off by lightly scraping with a sharp knife. I used an exacto.

Jilbere de Paris Mini Pastel Comb - I paid .99 cents each
sallybeauty.com/shop/1810/345647

My Old Cosmetology Journal and a New Entry for Today

This is my old journal that I used to post in my Yahoo Club / Group. At the very end I added a new entry for today since it belongs there. Enjoy :) Its a Journal within a Journal. Isn't that a Shakespeare thing?

Wednesday August 2, 2000 - My First / Second Day of School

I was supposed to start school yesterday but because of personal reasons I quit yesterday. Then I got home and the reasons for quitting wasn't there anymore. The things we do for love LOL. Well anyway today I went back to school and they let me back and I will never quit again. We spent the day trying to learn finger waving. The way that works is you have to start with a natural part and then try to make little C shaped curves above the eye so that they line up with the center of the eye. I was able to get it a few times but the hair kept being messy and there kept being a chunk hanging down. After you get one row of C's you make another row under it facing the opposite direction so it forms an S curve. I didn't want to go home but they close at 4:30 and they don't lock you in. My instructor Mrs. St. Clair is really nice. She is a ball of energy and we have 2 students in the class who are licensed cosmetologists and are studying to be instructors so they can also teach us. They also showed a few cutting videos but I was out of the room because I had to go to the office and fill out the paperwork I missed yesterday for orientation. I love this school. There is no pressure at all. If you are supposed to get there at 8:30 you get there between 8:30 and 8:35 or you wait until 9:00 - 9:05 to sign in. They don't make us sign out for breaks either. We can leave during all three of our breaks and go to restaurants. I was working 7 am - 3:30 pm with one 15 minute and one half hour break. Here I can have a 10 am 15 Min, a 12 pm Half hour and at 2:15 another 15 min. Also I can choose to stay till either 2:30 or till 4:30 or anywhere in between. The more I stay the more my hours get used up quicker. Well I am officially a cosmetology student now and thats not gonna change until next november when I get rid of the Student part and replace it with Pro.

Thursday August 3, 2000 - My Real Second Day of School

Today we studied Relaxers a bit. We looked at our books a bit and we started to watch a video before lunch. We also worked on our finger waving most of the day. I am still not able to do it all but I did get past the first step. The first step is to make a row of C's along the part going towards the back. Well all day yesterday i was trying to do them by combing from the front of the hair and I was supposed to comb it from the part instead. Finally I asked what I was doing wrong today and within an hour of doing it the right way I had my first good row of C's. It was so good that Mrs. St. Clair grabbed my mannequin head and started praising me really loud. She starts shouting look at this here is what happens when someone fine tunes their skills. The principal just happened to be in the room at the time and Mrs. St. Clair made it a point to show her and praise me some more. I still havent gotten the next step down but after that Mrs. St. Clair says I'm gonna let you be a little bit because you seem to be able to get it with practise. Thats always been the case with me though. If I do something I learn it, I can't learn from books only it has to be hands on. It takes alot of patience to learn these things but once I learned that part and what my mistakes were I didn't make them any more. The next step is to make a ridge and make an opposite direction curve below the first row to form an S shape.


Friday August 4, 2000 - My Third Day of School

Well today was another good day for me. Today we had a student volutneer to have her hair relaxer retouched. Her hair was straight in some areas and curly in others and it was really thick. The teacher was doing the Demo. After consulting with the student she began applying the relaxer. According to the student she hadn't had her relaxer done in at least two months and that the last stylist overlapped it. For those who don't know about relaxers the are meant to straighten hair by breaking down the bonds in the hair and once its done you aren't supposed to do the same spot again or the hair will break. Well the teacher starts examining the hair and sees that there is only 1/2 inch of new growth at the scalp so it can't have been more than a month or so since the last relaxing. She also doen't see any evidence of overlapping. So she goes about applying the relaxer and has one of the Instructor trainees who has worked in a salon help out so they can finish quicker. After the relaxer is removed and shampooed, neutralized and then contitioned the girl still has curly areas in her hair. It is now that she tells the teacher that she presses her hair herself. This girl has hair down to her bra strap but it is so damaged that the splits go all the way up above her neck. The teacher didn't want to cut that all off because she doesn't like to do students usually and you see why but she did give a trim of about 1.5 inches or so. It turns out that if the girl had given all the information the teacher could have just used a blow dryer and straightened it. The rest of the day was spent working on my finger waving. I now am able to form my first ridge all the way back to the crown but its still not very neat. While we were sitting watching the girl get her trim she looked at me and said she wanted hair like mine and the teacher got a bit upset. She gave a speach about how all of us have God given beauty and if we just take care of it we don't have to beat ourselves up. When she said that to me my words were " Yeah it looks good now but thats after finding out the hard way that if you don't trim your hair for two years it gets cut off." Thats all for today.

Saturday August 5, 2000 - My Fourth Day of School

Well today was a mix of highs and lows for me. We started out the day practising clicking and twirling an old fashioned stove heated curling iron and then we watched the demo video. Then we got up and practised doing the first curl with the iron still cold. This is when I was having difficulty because I wasn't twirling and pulling quick enough and the end of the hair wasn't getting wrapped into the curl. I sat through lunch kinda frustrated but after lunch Aneeba, one of the instructor trainees started helping me and within an hour I had my iron hot and had 2 good curls. By now I was having fun and didn't care if the ends were sticking out because I had the twirling going well and wasn't getting stuck anymore. I had to leave early today so I didn't get to finish the head but I got about 6 or 7 curls made going from the top to the back in the center. I didn't burn myself either. What a change 2 hours can make in your outlook. I wasn't really frustrated earlier I was just getting hot and tired because I was standing too close to the stove. I really enjoyed doing those curls and the ones that did come out sloppy I just finger tucked the ends back in because it was fun and it was looking good. You see I take pride in being kind to the mannequins even if they don't complain. When I rinse them off or their hair gets in their face I take my hand and caress it out of the way like it was a human. Its all about giving love to get love. Then again you all know me anyway and wouldn't expect any different would you? Thats all for today. :)

Tuesday August 8, 2000 - My Fifth Day of School

Today we studied Pin Curls & the chapter on wet hairstyling. We spent the first part of the day reading the chapter. The middle part of the day we were watching the teacher demonstrate Pin Curls & then we got to try it. I think I have it figured out but as always there is never enough time for me to get it right in school. I can't wait till friday when I get my mannequin so I can bring it home & practise. I only have 3-4 months to learn this stuff & everyday we are learning something different & I can't keep up. She expects us to be able to do the whole head the same day we try the first section and I just can't keep up. I can learn it & I can do it and I don't give up but I need to finish learning one thing before we start something new or at least have the knowledge that if I don't have it down right now I will be able to come back to it later after practising. Can you blame me? I have never touched another head of hair until a few weeks ago much less styled it. Tomorrow we have a quiz on Wet hairstyling & I don't know how I am gonna do but it is only a review quiz and not a test so afterwards we will go over the answers. Not having money is another thing driving me crazy because our school is poor & doesn't supply everything so I will end up having to buy extra stuff on top of the $400 I am already spending for the full kit. Thank God for Student discounts. I bought $2 worth of clips today for $1.50 with my discount. Well thats enough for now I have to study for the quiz.

Wednesday August 9, 2000 - My Sixth Day of School

What a difference a day makes. I had my best day yet at school today. As I said yesterday we had a quiz on Wet hairstyling today. I didn't really get a chance to study last night and I was really worried I would fail. Well I am worried no more because not only did I pass I was the only one who did pass and I got an 85 % and a green star on my paper and praise from Mrs. St. Clair and all that good stuff. Then if that wasn't enough I actually did the whole head of Pin Curls and I had a ball and at lunch time when I was only half done Mrs. St. Clair went and showed my mannequin to the principal again. The mannequin I was using had been cut into short layers in back so I wasn't able to do the whole back side but because I was able to make do with what I had to work with I still got credit for it. I had to make pin curls smaller than a dime LOL. Then while my mannequin was drying fo the last 45 minutes under the dryer I got to work on my Thermal Iron curling some more and I like doing those so I had a day filled with nothing but highs. I have been given new life and energy today because I finally finished something and I feel like I have got what it takes to do hair and do it well and all I needed was just to see it for myself. No more worrying for me. Once I get that mannequin I'm gonna practise till I can style a head in 2 minutes. Thats all for today but it was good :)

My Mission Statement for Myself As a Stylist

I dont want to be upscale. I don't want to charge a fortune. I'd rather have a big clientele that trusts me and comes in on a regular basis and just take care of them the way everyone should be. I want to make everyone feel good when they come to me and I want to help them learn how to keep their style and how to do it themselves and all the things a good stylist should do. I want someone to come in for a trim and leave wearing a fancy up do just because I took the extra 5 minutes to a half hour and did it for them for free. If any customers would complain about having to wait extra time to see me they would be greatful when they received the same treatment. I would take my time with the shampooing and I would always blow dry and style and if they didn't want to pay for it I wouldn't charge them. I have been to stylists who have done things without charging or they knock a few bucks off so it is possible. Besides in my opinion giving those extra touches would mean more tip for me and I could always pay for the service with my tips if the boss got mad.

Thursday August 10, 2000 - My Seventh Day of School

I had a decent day today. Even though I had some struggles today it didn't bother me because I no longer say "I can't do it". The day started off with me combing out my Pin Curls from yesterday & they came out great. I love the way it came out. I'm taking my camera to school tomorrow & I'm taking a picture of it to post here & to keep for myself. I loved the way that no matter what way I combed it, it had nice waves & the wave patterns connected really well in the back. I am proud of myself. I sat through all 3 of my breaks today just combing it out different ways to see what I could do with it. Today we tried making skip waves which are a combination of Finger Waves & Pin Curls. The way it works is you make a row of C shaped strands but when you make the second row of C's that form the S pattern you take that second row & Pin Curl it & then the next row is a finger wave & so on. I am still having difficulty making finger waves but I finally figured out how to make a ridge today. I am still a bit behind but I am supposed to get my mannequin tomorrow so I can start practising at home. I think once I start using my own tools & products I will start knocking things out. At 2 pm Mrs. St. Clair divided the class in two teams & she gave us a paper with 26 made up names on it with descriptions & what we had to do was pick 10 out of the 26 to go live on this new made up planet. Well I think thats all for today.


Friday August 11, 2000 - My Eighth Day of School

Today was a regular day for me. We started out with the teacher demonstrating Roller Curls. Then we went to work on the mannequins. We had to pit one of each of the 4 types of roller curls on the top of the head. For those who don't know they are On Base, 1/2 Base, Off Base, & Indentation. The base refers to the area of the section near the scalp between 2 partings. The difference between them is how the roller sits on or off that base. I was able to understand roller curls pretty easily. We were told to also put the skip waves on the sides of the head. These were explained yesterday. I finally have my ridges forming pretty well & I got the right side of the head done but then when I went to the left side I was having trouble again because you have to comb in a new direction. Just before it was time to go I finally had it figured out and was getting it so I had to leave it for tomorrow. I got my mannequin today. Its a pretty one too compared to some of the unhappy looking ones we have been using. The ones we have been using did not have hair longer than 6 inches but when you get them brand new they have at least shoulder length hair. I think they expect me to cut all this hair off so what I'm gonna do is buy another mannequin to leave the hair long because I want to be able to practise things on long hair too. For obvious reasons :) Well that was today.

Saturday August 12, 2000 - My Ninth Day of School

I had a pretty good day today, I finished up the skip wave and roller set & put that mannequin under the dryer. For the first half of the day we had Mrs. Harris teaching us while Mrs. St. Clair was on the clinic floor working. Mrs. harris showed us how to do French twists & then she helped me make French braids on my new mannequin. I made two frech braids on her right side and one on the left side & then I made a rope braid next to it because I already know that one. In the back it had a frnch twist. Then the second half of the day we worked on thermal curling with Mrs. St. Clair so I did spirals on top. I was the only one who stayed after 2:30 today. I didn't quite finish the curls because we closed early. They still credited me my hours though. On the way home I stopped & bought another Mannequin so now I have 2. I finished the spirals at home with my mom's curling iron. I finally can do finger waves now. The reason is because I have a mannequin at home, I washed her with my shampoo thats doesn't tangle, & I used my own gel. What I couldn't do in 3 days at school I was doing in 30 minutes at home. Now I'm taking my own stuff to school. We didn't have alot of gel at school so I couldn't use alot like I can now. I still have to learn how to make them with setting lotion but at least now I know how. I now have 2 days off to practise & I plan to use them. Thats all till Tuesday. :)

Some possible mottos or slogans
"I don't strive for making perfect styles, I strive for putting my love into them"
"I don't just create styles, I create smiles"

Tuesday August 15, 2000 - My Tenth Day of School

Well since I practised over the weekend I'll start with that & work towards today. On Sunday I sat for 3 hours making 6 French braids on one of my Mannequins. I put 3 braids on each side section. Then I took the top and back hair & I put it into a Dutch Braid (Indie-Out French Braid. I took my other mannequin and blow dried her so the finger waves would set. Then I combed her out and the waves were still there & they looked nice, I just wish I'd have done the back too. Today I took them to school. The finger wave mannequin has about 3 inches less hair than the other. I didn't want to take my braids out of the one so Ms. St. Clair said I could use the other today. We started the day by reading the chapter on Haircutting / Hairshaping & then we did the review questions. After Lunch we started to work on setting up our mannequins to do our first haircut. I spent the next few hours figuring out my sections. The hair kept tangling on me so I kept having to comb it & then I kept having to pull more hair out from other sections to even them out. I left off with my head all sectioned out and ready to start but I only had 1/2 hour left so I stopped working on it. I then spent the last 1/2 hour taking my braids out of the other one so I can work on it tonight. Thats all for today.

Wednesday August 16, 2000 - My Eleventh Day of School

I did my first ever haircut today. It was on a mannequin & we used a razor instead of shears. It was only a trim. I did pretty well with it & I got credit for it. My left front side was a tiny bit long so I had to clean that up but I knew it from when I checked it. Mrs. Pennamon the principal was supervising us when Ms. St. Clair left early so she checked my work. I told her that I had uneven sides so she checked it & showed me that I had about one finger length of hair on the left side that needed a slight cleaning up so I did that & she checked again & it was good. The cut took me a long time because I'm still getting used to parting the hair & I probably wasn't dropping enough hair each time to go faster but I would rather be careful & slow than fast & sloppy. Especially when it comes out the right way. That took most of the day so I don't have much else to write for now.


Thursday August 17, 2000 - My 12th Day of School

Ms. St. Clair was not in today so Mrs. Hamilton taught us today. We spent the first half of the day studying the Haircutting Chapter and going over a handout. The second half of the day we had a choice of what we worked on so I tried to do some thermal curling. I had a bit of difficulty this time because I was using an iron that was heavier because the barrel wasn't hollow. I got a bit frustrated because last week I was doing so well with it & now I was having trouble again mostly because I was told not to pre-section the hair. After the 2:30 break I calmed down a bit & I went back to doing things my way & I started making good curls again. Thats it for today.

Friday August 18, 2000 - My 13th Day of School

Today was a pretty good day because all we did was Theory work today. Theory work is the textbook work. Practical is the name for doing the work on someone or something. I was supposed to have a haircutting test today but I didn't have to take it. The reason is because we all have review books for the state board test & Tuesday when we got done reading the chapter I decided to try the review quiz in the book. I told the teacher I was taking it like a quiz & that I wanted her to check it for me. I sat through break on tuesday & did the quiz & gave the book to her to check. She didn't have time to check it until today & it turns out that the quiz I took from the book is the same quiz she was gonna give us. I got a 93% on the quiz & I didn't have to retake it today. The rest of the day we all studied our textbooks on Permanent Waving. So thats it for today.

Saturday August 19, 2000 - My 14th Day of School

We started doing the practical work for perms today. We aren't using chemicals yet just water. I had a mixed day today. I was kinda tired this morning & I got stuck in a few tangles & they started to make me mad. I was trying to comb the hair straight back. Luckily my frustrations came right at break time so I had a few minutes to rest & cool off. After break I had some better luck with sectioning & by the end of the day I was wrapping the sections. I can't believe how much I have learned in just 3 weeks. The thing is after next week the new students come in so I won't be in the new group anymore. I won't be a rookie anymore LOL. Its the weekend now so I'm gonna do some practising on my own.

Tuesday August 22, 2000 - My 15th Day of School

Today was a decent day of school. I spent the day doing different types of sectioning for perms. First I did the basic wrap sections & then I worked on the diagonal wrap sections. Tomorrow we have to do the same thing only faster. So I guess I'll have to get a move on & get in gear. So till tomorrow "No Tangles."

Wednesday Aug 23, 2000 My 16th Day & Thursday Aug 24, 2000 My 17th Day of School

I forgot to post yesterday so lets start with what happened then. We had our timed sectioning for perms yesterday & even though I didn't get it done on time I did do way better than I had done. We spent the rest of the day watching a video and working on the Piggyback perm wrap which is a type of perm for long hair. the way it works is you wrap one hair strand around 2 seperate rods so they stack up on each other or Piggyback. Today was a day for us to do practical work for our White books. We had to do a side part fingerwave, then do a roller set skip wave pin curl combo, then do a whole head thermal curled. I spent the first half of the day trying to get the fingerwave done and struggled with it. Finally at 1:00 I figured out what I was doing wrong & within a half hour had a whole head done. Mrs. St. Clair asked me to do it again since I had figured it out so I walked balk & combed it out & then I slapped another whole head of fingerwaves on it in 20 minutes and I got a grade for it this time. She gave me 85%. She told me to try it again so I went back & this time I got it done in 15 minutes & got another grade of 95%. Now it was 2:30 so I started my skip wave & pin curls. I not only got it done but I got 97% on it. It was still wet though so tomorrow I have to put it under the dryer & then comb it out & I get another grade for that. If I average my current grades which are 85, 95, 97, & 90 percents I am averaging 91.75%. "No Tangles"

Friday Aug 25, 2000 My 18th Day & Saturday Aug 26, 2000 My 19th Day of School

Once again I'm late with my journal entries but better late than never. On Friday we took our writtien test on Permanent Waving & I got an 85%. Then I spent the rest of the day doing thermal curling. I combed out my skipwave pincurls & I got 95% on that. Thats pretty much it for friday. Today we had Mrs. Harris teaching us to do a hat weave. You make 2 five inch rectangular sections on top of the head & you make little strands hang down from them & then you weave them to make them look like she is wearing a hat with a brim. Its not that hard to do it just takes a bit of time. I'm gonna take a picture of Sequoia wearing them. By the way I got 100% on my weave. I bought a portable hood dryer today so I can practise wet sets at home. I can also give conditioning treatments to my clients. Anyway thats all for now. "No Tangles"

"How would you like me to care for your hair today?"

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday days 20-22, 8/29 - 8/31/00


Tuesday: We started the day with a timed basic perm wrap. Last week we had 35 min to do sections only & I didn't finish that. This time we had 45 min to get sections done & start wrapping. This time I got my sections done in only 25 min & I got about 7 rods in by the 45 min time so I am improving. The second half of the day Tuesday we started learning Facials with the teacher doing a demo. We then watched a video on haircolor.

Wednesday: We had a sub teacher, Ms. Brown today while Ms. St. Clair is moving. We spent the first part of the day doing our fingerwaves. It was supposed to be a 30 min time limit but Ms. Brown didn't want to offset what Ms. St. clair has going so she just let us practise them. Needles to say i was ready & I did two whole heads of fingerwaves in 45 min. I decided to time myself :) We spent the rest of day doing theory work on manicures.

Thursday: We spent today doing more manicuring theory & doing more haicolor theory. We had Ms. Brown again. I spent the day doing the review questions from the text book. I did like ten chapters worth today so thats gonna help my grade. It was one of those do your own thing days anyway so I made the best of it. I only have about 6 chapters out of 26 left to do. Well thats it for now, "No Tangles".

Friday Day 23 9/1/00

Its a sad day in the life of my school career yet it is still happy. My teacher Ms. St. Clair is no longer my teacher. She has moved on to better things so I am happy for her but she will be missed by all of us. This women has given me a firm foundation of learning & has taught me to not give in to frustration. I thought I was patient before I met her but she taught me even more patience. Well this now leaves a bit of a cloud on the future because I have no idea who will be my teacher now. I don't think our principal, Mrs. Pennamon would hire a bad teacher so I do not worry as much as the other students. This was a shock to us because she didn't know until yesterday herself. Anyway, today with Ms. brown we studied facials & some of the students did demos of it but one of the students got a little hoggish with doing too many people & didn't leave me a partner so I didn't get to do one. We got a few of the new students today & they are really nice. I feel like an older brother because I can tell them about school & that its not hard. Today was also Mrs. Brown's graduation day as an Instructor Trainee & she won't be teaching at my school so we lose her too. Today was such a blown off day as far as work because of all the events. I mostly spent the day talking to the new students & helping them get situated with what kind of book work we do. I won't say it was a bad day though. When Ms. St. Clair came in to tell us I was the first one to get up & give her a hug. I feel like I am grown & leaving the nest. It is a sad day but I feel like I can fly now because she prepared me. So for now "No Tangles or Torn Feathers"

Saturday Day 24 9/2/00

We had Mrs. Harris teaching us today. I like when she teaches us. I spent the day doing a trim on Sequoia. I had one of the new students watching me so I was teaching her how to do it. I got 100% on my cut in my white grade book. Which was a surprise because I thought I messed it up. I thought the left side was shorter than the right but she showed me a different way to measure it & it wasn't as off as I thought. I guess not if she gave me 100%. I spent the rest of the time sectioning for a perm but because of the holiday weekend we were let out early so I didn't get to work on that much. I am getting quicker with my sectioning. I got them done in about 15 minutes this time. Last time it was 25. The first time it was about 45. Now I just have to get my parts a bit straighter. The sections are the right size I just have to get my lines going straighter. Oh yesterday I gave Mrs. Pennamon a copy of that hair info I posted here & she says she is gonna show it to a lady in the corporate office because its so good. That was all today, No Tangles.

Tuesday Day 25 9/5/00

We don't have our new teacher yet so today Ms. Hamilton was our teacher. Most of the new students showed up today so she went over orientation with them while my group worked on practical. I decided to do a roller wet set because I haven't done a whole head yet. So I worked on that & got it done but it wasn't dry enough when I left so I'll have to comb it out tomorrow. I used a combination of different sized rollers. I used bigger rollers on top & smaller at the bottom. I used 4 different sizes. I am thinking that by doing that it will give her more volume. The smaller tighter curls at the nape & ears will hold up the larger longer curls. So I will just wait till tomorrow to see how it turns out. "No Tangles"

Wednesday Day 26 9/6/00

We had Ms. Hamilton again today. I combed out my roller set later in the day today & I got 100% on it. I averaged out my practical grades & so far with 11 things done I am averaging 95% on my practical. For those who are new, Practical work is doing hair & Theory work is Book learning. Today we did manicures & I got to do one. The new student Aleta, who I was helping out last week was my manicuring partner. She has some tiny fingers. Her Thumb nail was only a tiny bit larger than my Pinky nail. I did a good job on the filing & such but I am not good at painting so I kinda slopped up the polish. Then again like I said she has small nails. I got 85% on my manicure which I felt I didn't really deserve but I'll take it. I have never been good at painting with small brushes. I've done tons of Plastic models & I always paint outside the lines. Guess I'll just have to get better. Thats all for now, "No Tangles."

Thursday Day 27 9/7/00

Well today was a good day but I didn't get much done. We spent the first half of the day talking over Public Acts (State laws) & some other theory stuff. The second half of the day we had our choice of what we worked on & I decided to work on my basic perm. Well the new students were learning finger waving & I couldn't help but try to teach them. So I ended up not doing my perm & not much of anything. Oh well you all wouldn't be here if I wasn't like that so I'm not gonna complain. I just have it in my blood to teach people to make things easier than it was for me. So until tomorrow, "No Tangles."

Friday Day 28 9/8/00

Well there is something significant about today's date. Today would have been 5 years of working in that Gear factory. Instead I am 28 days into Cosmetology School & not looking back. So on with today's events. Nothing much happened today. I worked on trying a new fingerwave pattern & Ms. Hamilton was helping me learn some new techniques so at least I got some learning today. Once again the majority of the teaching was for the new students. Tomorrow is Saturday so things should be better. Don't get me wrong, I am not frustrated, I just need to get some better use out of my hours. At least the new students are learning quickly so they can catch up easier. I'm supposed to do a manicure & get one tomorrow so if my partner shows up I'll get some credit. So till then, "No Tangles."

Saturday Day 29 9/9/00

I did not do the manicure today. I worked on a roller set instead. Ms. Pennamon was keeping an eye on us today. Ms. Harris & Ms. Hamilton do not work on saturdays when the school year starts so we won't be having them on saturdays for a long time. Today was a do your own thing day for everyone. So I did my own thing. Thats all for now, "No Tangles."

Tuesday Day 30 9/12/00

We had a guest speaker & demonstrator today. His name is Kevin Carter, & he does fantasy hair shows. Thats where they make elaborate headpieces out of Human hair & then put them on someone's head & then blend the persons own hair into it. He does his to look like plants. He put on of his big leafy pieces on a student & dressed her in one of his gowns he uses on his models. He did a great job. He won a hair show in Atlanta which is a big one. That took up the whole day. Till tomorrow "No Tangles"

Wednesday Day 31 9/13/00

Today we did the practical of a 7 Part Chemical. We had to divide the head into 7 sections & then do different application techniques for each section. Section 1 is a Virgin Tint going Darker, Section 2 is Virgin Lightener (Bleach), Section 3 is Virgin Tint going Lighter, Section 4 is Virgin Relaxer, Section 5 is Relaxer Retouch (aka touch-up), section 6 is Tint retouch, & section 7 was Lightener (Bleach) retouch. This is how we do these at the state board exam. The whole point is to show that we know the proper application techniques. I got an 85 % on my first try. When we do these in school we don't use the real chemical, we use cholesterol cream conditioner in an applicator bottle & pretend its the real thing. Tomorrow we are supposed to work on permanent waving. "No Tangles"

Thursday - Saturday Days 32-34 9/14 - 9/16

Thursday we started working on perming but I couldn't get mine done because every 15 minutes Ms. Hamilton was calling everyone back to their seats to show something to everyone & not just the new students. I got half of the head done but it looked kinda sloppy. Friday I took my half done rods out & redid the whole head and for the first time actually finished a whole head. I got a 90% on it. I really liked it. Now I just have to work on speed. Saturday was a do what you want day so I experimented with another of my roller sets. I love coming up with new ways to put the rollers in. I made a horseshoe shape going from above the eyes going around the middle of the back of the head where its the widest. I then did a triangle of rollers on top of the head. I left the sideburn area out of the horseshoe pattern so I could do something different with it. The horseshoe rollers were placed vertical (llll) & the sideburn rollers where placed horizontal (---). I placed a few vertical rollers in the nape area below my horseshoe. I think I will draw it up before I forget how to do it. I will post it to the club if I do. "No Tangles."

Tuesday & Wednesday Days 35-36 9/19 & 9/20

Tuesday we spent the morning doing Theory on Skin & disorders of the skin. We spent about 2 hours on that. The we had a guest speaker from Hair Wars. He calls himself DeDerrick & when he does the shows he dresses like superman with HF on his chest for Super Hair Fighter. He spoke to us about how to be entertaining & how to promote yourself. After lunch I combed my Roller set out & after Ms. Hamilton gave me 100 % on it she suggested I try to make it into an up do so I started taking 2 inch square sections on top & twisted them into little bun like twists. I then pinned them in place. I tried a few different things with the sides but by the time I made up my mind which thing to do it was time to go home. I was fighting a cold all weekend & all day Tuesday & Today I called in sick to school so I did not go on Wednesday. Hopefully this Cold / Tangle will go away by the morning. Till then No More Tangles.

Tuesday - Friday Days 36-45 9/26 - 10/6

Last time I posted a journal entry I had not gone to school that day. I ended up being out that whole week with that cold. I finally went back this past tuesday. We finally got our new teacher on Tuesday. When Ms. St. Clair came in and told us she was leaving us on September 1 we had Ms. Brown as a substitute teacher that day & I looked at her & said "We have a job opening Ms. Brown." At the time I was joking with her because I knew she had wanted to get a job at a different school. That day was her graduation day from Instructor school. I had no idea that 3 weeks later she would actually be our permanent replacement teacher. I am glad it is her though. Not only is she a brand new teacher with new ideas but she really wants to make things better for us. She put a cup on her desk with a label that says lunch money on it so people can donate their spare change so anyone who needs some change for something can get some & she was rewarded for it because the cup sheused had a McDonalds game piece on it & it was a $20 instant winner. She has also set up Friday as donut day where if we want to bring donuts in the morning for the class we can. I also like her because she likes my creativity. I'm always experimenting with my roller sets & she likes to hear about it. She also likes to ask me about this club. I should ask her if she has a computer so I can invite her. As far as what we learned this past week we studied Manicuring, Facials, & Makeup. Next week we go back into haircutting so the new students from September can do their first cuts. We also get more new students this coming week. As far as me I have 260 hours in in just 41 days which means I'm averaging 6.3 hours per day still. I have just about caught up to a student who started in June. That means if We were still going by Ms. St. Clair's grouping system I would have moved from group 4 to group 3 just based on my attendance. I haven't been late yet & the days I missed won't count against me. I am averaging over 130 hours per month so I am well above the minimum. Well anyway things are going well in school so until later "No Tangles"

This week we studied haircutting again. Tuesday I was graded on another roller set. I spent most of the week trying to finish one haircut. We have spent most of the mornings doing theory work and yesterday we spent the morning watching haircutting videos that I brought in from my own collection. I bought another manikin head on wednesday. When I brought her home her hair kinda looked like a reddish copper color but it turns out that was because my bedroom light is yellow. Anyway I chose a name for her based on thinking she had red hair. I named her Sonya (after the movie Red Sonya). Her full name is Sonya Rose Sienna. I started to give her a trim today but I ran out of time before I could start the last section. I took about 5 written tests this week & got lots of things signed off in my white book for practical work so I really am catching up now. Tomorrow I will get credit for another haircut as soon as I finish Sonya's trim. Today was donut day so I brought donuts for the class. During one of my breaks I was drawing on the blackboard how to explain geometry & angles as they relate to a head so I could simplify it for people. Haircutting involves angles so people need to understand where those angles are in relation to a curved head. I'll probably do another cut tomorrow & then maybe another roller set or a perm. So till next time "No Tangles"

Saturday - Day 46 10/7/00

I finished up the trim on my new manikin Sonya and then because I had given her an undercut I blew her hair dry to style it. Undercutting causes the ends to curl inward by making the hair on top slightly longer than the hair closer to the head. I then did another wet set with rollers on Veronica. I used only rollers that are conical in shape. That means they are like cones with an angle to them. Once again I used my own design. I made a side part on the right side. I put smaller rollers on the right side & larger on the left & top. I'll comb it out on tuesday so I will know how it turns out then. If I can draw my pattern I will & then I'll post it. I'll also draw the horsehoe design I did a few weeks ago. Till tuesday, "No Tangles."


Tuesday - Saturday Days 47 - 51 10/10 - 10/14/2000

Once again I have put off posting my journal entries for a whole week. Tuesday we did theory on Properties of the Hair & Scalp. Ms. Brown was out with Pink Eye so Ms. Graves the student instructor and Ms. Pennamon were taking turns teaching. In the afternoon Ms. Pennamon showed us how to do proper roller sets & we worked on that. Wednesday we worked on our roller sets again & more theory on Hair & Scalp. Thirsday Ms. Brown came back. We did more theory on Hair & Scalp & I spent the rest of the day doing the last of my required roller sets for junior division. Friday we took the test on haircutting. I had already taken the test in august so taking it again doesn't count. I took it anyway & got 100% on it. The first time I took it I got 93%. They were not the same test. I also took 4 other tests and passed them all so I only have 4 left to take. Saturday I did my second permanent wave. I got a 98% on it. I started another one before time ran out. As of right now I am up to 334 hours out of 1500. 350 hours is the division between junior & senior division. That means only a week or two until I will be working on real people. I hope I will start writing these more often again. I left out alot of good details because I forgot them this time. So hopefully I will write again on Tuesday. Till then "No Tangles."

Tuesday ~ Day 52 ~ 10/17/2000

Today we spent the first part of the morning doing haircolor theory. Around 9:00 am we had a speaker return for about an hour to finish up some business with some students who were interested in his programs. After that we continued theory on haircolor and then we started doing the practical with cholesterol. I finished mine and got credit and then I worked on my perm for the last hour. I still have to finish it. Tomorrow we are supposed to continue haircolor theory and practical. Till then "No Tangles."

Wednesday - Friday ~ Days 53 - 55 ~ 10/18 - 10/20

Wednesday & Thursday we studied Haircolor theory & did practical. For those who haven't read my previous entries, theory is book work & practical is doing the work on manikins or people. On Thursday at 10:45 am I reached 350 hours. That means even though I still have to catch up on my work I am now a senior student. My official monthly average of hours is 134 per month. At that rate I only have 9 months left. Today the class took the test on the properties of the hair & scalp but I took that last friday so I didn't have to take it. The rest of the day we worked on practical for haircolor. We are not actually using haircolor. Instead we use cholesterol cream. Thats all for now, "No Tangles."

Saturday ~ Day 56 ~ 10/21

Saturday we kinda did what we wanted as usual. I worked on some fingerwaves & then worked on some perms. I finished the one I had been working on & then I started one with blue & yellow rods. For those who don't know those are the really tiny rods for really short hair. They are skinnier than a pencil. Then Ms. Pennamon looked over my supplies & said that whatever I didn't have she would get them for me so I won't have to spend $200 on the school's kit. So that's what happened. Till tuesday, "No Tangles."

Tuesday - Saturday Days 57 - 61 10/24 - 10/28/2000

Tuesday we had a competition which I did not win. I was not trying to win either I was just experimenting with one of my invented styles. We also did theory on Shampooing. Wednesday we retook tests & did theory on the Artistry of hair. Thats where you judge face shapes & such to figure out the best styles. I worked on finishing one of my perms after that. Thursday Ms. Pennamon subbed for Ms. Brown & we did roller sets & perms. Friday I used a hot pressing comb to comb out 2 of my perms & then I used a thermal iron to curl one of them. Saturday I gave 2 facials. It was a pretty good week. I got some new things accomplished so now I can work on those. Ms. pennamon will be testing me in 2 weeks for my entry to the clinic floor. She is waiting for a few other students to get 350 hours first. In the meantime I have to finish my white book of practical work. I still have alot of things to do in that book. So thats probably what will happen next week. Till then "No Tangles."

Tuesday - Friday Days 62 - 65 10/31 - 11/3/2000

Tuesday - We did timed haircuts. Ms. Brown was absent so we were doing what the student instructor Ms. Graves told us to do. Wednesday Ms. Brown came back & we spent the morning doing haircolor theory. In the afternoon we used some temporary rinse to practise application of color. We were pretending it was real tint & not just the temporary rinse. Thursday we finished haircolor theory & then those who wanted to took some retakes of tests. I took my Hair pressing test because it was the last one I had to take & I got 90% on it which was 9 out of 10 questions right. In the afternoon we did fingerwaves. I got a few more of them done. Today we worked on Permanent waves all day. Tomorrow we are having a Pot Luck lunch. It is also our free day so I hope I can get some stuff done. That's all for now, "No Tangles."

679th Hour of Cosmetology School

I haven't done a journal entry post since post 843. That was November 3. So maybe I should do some updating. On the day after Thanksgiving I took my practical test and I did well enough to go to the clinic floor. That was the test to get me out of the classroom so I could go to the floor and work on real clients. I went to school for the next 2 weeks and then I took a 60 day Leave. I returned to school Feb 20th. I'm starting to get used to being on the floor and dealing with clients. I've done some of the harder things like perms and tints so I'm not as scared as I was. I can do the stuff just fine its just sometimes the little procedures get in the way like when I have to call the instructor to analyze and such. They have their system and I have to get used to it. But as far as the actual work I can do that. Anyway the real reason for this entry is I got my second Progress Report today. I was supposed to get it in November but Ms. Pennamon forgot. This lady is superwoman. She has so many things to be responsible for its not funny. So anyway, I received my first report at 264 hours and that was 9/30/00. Now at that time I was only required to have gone 153 hours and I was at 264. My attendance was 132 %. The second report which I got today was for 11/8/00 and that was when I reached 450 hours. On that day I was only required to have had 246 hours so my attendance had risen to 138 %. Therefore as of that day I could go to school only 20 hours a week and still graduate on time. I am at 679 hours as of today and the next progress report is at 750 hours. So lets close with my motto. "No Tangles"

New Entry 3/29/04

This journal had no more entries. I stopped going to school at approx 800 hours. I haven't ever said this publically so here goes. One day I was doing a press and curl on a young girl. For those who are not familiar with this it involves putting a brass or metal comb into a small oven and heating it up untill its hot but not hot enough to scortch paper. You then comb through the hair and flip the comb as you pull through so that the round part of the comb is smoothing the hair out. Same as using a curling iron but with teeth. Anyway, I was not experienced with doing this and had only done this one time on a manikin prior to this. I got through doing it and the mom asked if I could go closer to the scalp. I tried my best not to touch the scalp but just one or two of those teeth touched her skin for a split second. As you probably guessed this was followed by a yell and some tears. I was devastated. I wasn't put on this Earth to hurt people, especially not kids. It may have been an accident but this could have been prevented had I been given better training. I think the principal ended up finishing it for me. I thought I got over it and I did continue to go for a few more weeks off and on. Then came the last straw. I was behind in my first of 3 white books. These are books of 10 of this and 5 of that, and you have to do them on a manikin or if you do one on a client on a saturday you got credit. I fell behind and should have been done before I even made it out on the floor. Well when I got around 800 hours the principal decided that she would just sign me off on the first book and let me start the second. I was happy and I loved her for it but at the same time I just felt cheated. I needed to do those things, not just get passed along to the next mishap waiting to happen. I started not going again and then after 21 days they had to drop me. That's the most you can miss in a row. A few days later I went and picked up my stuff and when she asked me I said that I was just too 50/50 about wanting to stay. She said that my 800 hours would be good for 7 years. So here I am 3 years later and today I went to 11 salons and emailed another that was closed to ask if they have an apprenticeship program. One said they do have the program and that they would call me with more details tomorrow. Another said he might know someone who has the program and that he or they would call me tomorrow. The emailed one is open tomorrow so I'm going to call or go there because since its so hard to find the program I don't want to leave it to an email to decide. Especially if they didn't get it. So that is where I am at on this now going on 4 year journey. I hope this doesn't end here. I'm wanting so much for this to work. I even got my manikins out this weekend and detangled and trimmed them. Part of that was because I borrowed my dad's digital camera and I'm hoping to take pictures of braids and such that I do on them. Also I might make instructions using them. So that's how things are 2 days before my 28th birthday.

Who I Really Am

I love LHC. They've really helped me to remember who I am and want to be. I'm not the bum who sat on his butt for 3 years. I'm the one who drove his car to 23 states in 3 years and flew to 1 other and was driven to another on that trip. I'm the one who is enjoying his life and freedom and not sitting doing nothing. I'm the one who is trying to do what I was meant to do. Help the world find some peace. I have always believed that I was put on this Earth for a reason and it would involve making a difference. Helping people with hair care might not seem like solving the world's problems but if it makes people happy then the rest will happen on its own.

Changing My Goal Length 3/30/04

I've decided that in order for me to keep my mind on having nice hair and not just aiming for maximum growth I'm gonna set a short term goal of 36 inches. I don't know where that will be on me but 36 is my favorite number. I'm at 29.5 now so this would be a good way to test if I get more than 6 inches in one year.

My ultimate goal is at least waist length and if I can stand it being at sitting on length I'll grow longer.

Ok this is funny, I just got up and measured and my waist is about 36-37 inches from my forehead. I guess 36 is a good number after all.

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Changing My Goal Length 4/18/04
I replied earlier to BigChiefHoho in the thread I had started about me changing my goal length back on March 30th. This is part of my reply.

I don't know if my hair has reached 30" again like some of it was before my trim so I think my "short short" term goal will be to try to get all my hair to at least 30 inches. I'm not sure yet if I'll change my goal in my signature but I do want to get my hair a little more even so that if I do use the slight U again it will look more like it. Besides I do still have some splits further up from my ends so I should try some S&D soon. At the moment they aren't popping out at me because this CO (V05 Kiwi Lime Cond) routine seems to keep my hair calm. I wish it did that for everyone :)

I think I'm gonna hold off on measuring my hair for now because I'm not afraid to grab scissors when it comes to my hair and I don't want to be giving myself any permission to trim earlier than I need to by rationalizing it. Meaning if I measured my hair right now and it said over 30" I might be tempted to trim it to 30 even. I think if I'm going to do something like that I'll wait until after a month has gone by since March 26th.

Anyway I might not change my signature so this is just a "Pondering" for now LOL

Note: I'm trying to keep my journal in chronilogical order so this is a bit out of sequence. I'm not sure if I will reorganize my journal someday or not. It just feels weird to me posting this where I have. But hey that's what you get when you're dealing with a ponderer. :ponder:

Edited to Add: On October 13th I decided to do some consolidating & organizing. Thus many multiple posts became one. Including this one ;)

My Contact Info - Reposted Here

For those of you who had or have my old ID's and Emails I have new ones. If you are Members who post or Lurkers who have valid hair care related questions please feel free to contact me. You can PM me on the Board too I don't mind. Or use the Buddy list on the board.

Old Yahoo - These still work but I won't be turning them on
b_bubba
purplebubba

New Yahoo - (you only need one, both on same account)
b_bubba3636
purplebubba3636

New Email -
b_bubba3636
@sbcglobal.net

Old Email - (still works but not checked as often)
b_bubba
@yahoo.com

Old MSN -
purplebubba
@hotmail.com (account is deleted)

New MSN -
purplebubbatoo
@hotmail.com

AOL AIM - (Same one as before)
purplebubba2

ICQ # - (email me if you add me because I haven't used it in a while)
8891136

Routine Continued - Second CO Wash

I washed my hair again friday morning with just the V05 this time.

So far my hair is still feeling and looking good. The V05 does make
your scalp tingle.

This time I applied a bunch of it all over and then sat down for about
10 minutes (no cap or bag) since I wasn't going to use the 3MM this time. Then I rinsed
it and reapplied and then rinsed again without waiting. I think it
cleaned my hair pretty well again. My hair felt like it was clean yet it
felt smooth. I did rinse with cool water as a last step.

I don't know if not using the Aussie products made a difference or not.
Next time I'll see if I had to deal with more tangles and then decide
if I need the other stuff.

Its now 17 hours later and it still feels good.
I'll probably continue to use just the V05 unless something changes.

This is the Ingredients of V05 KLS Clarifying Conditioner.

Water, cetyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol, stearalkonium chloride, rosemary leaf extract, cymbopogon schoenanthus extract, actinidia chinensis (kiwi) extract, citrus aurantifola (lime), hydrolyzed collagen, ergocalciferol (Vitamin D), steareth-21, glyceryl stearate, benzophenone-4, corn oil, propylene glycol, disodium edta, dmdm hydantioin, fragrance, blue 1, yellow 5

My To Do List - Updated 3/27/04
Well lets see now, 7 days later and what can we check off?

Post Hair History and Photos - Check :thumbsup:
Get a Trim or do a S&D. Then do so on a more regular basis. - Check :thumbsup:
Resume trying salons in the area, this time looking for long hair friendly stylists -
Get a digital camera for photographing myself and my demonstrations - Check :thumbsup:
If I get the camera then do the above and share it. - Check :thumbsup: on the photos
Continue writing articles and making how tos - In progress as always.
Change my routine or at least create one - Check :thumbsup:
Follow my own advice at least once in awhile - Check :thumbsup:
Think Positive thoughts and Keep looking forward. - Check :thumbsup:
Keep writing in this journal - Check :thumbsup:


My To Do List - Updated 4/05/04

Its now 9 days later and it's time to make a new list.
I have now done everything on this list at least once except trying salons. However I did go to 11 salons in my search for apprenticeships. Since I now trim my own hair, trying salons may not apply.

So here is my new list as of today 4/05/04
These are not in any particular order unless specified.


Get my car fixed.
After the car is fixed, resume visiting and calling salons about apprenticeship.
Get new hair toys for my manikin demos.
When the book "5 Minute Trendy Updos" gets here do some styles from the book like I planned to.
Continue Updating articles page. Including something about my hair history and picture time line.
Continue asking for link exchanges to show my support for all the wonderful people with great pages.
Do my best to let everyone know that I consider them family and that I do love them all. Without making them uncomfortable.
Keep coming up with ideas for using household items for hairstyles just like the Braided Bangs with String.
Continue using CO Washing even if it requires a product change. Yes my hair is a bit oily right now but I like it.
Continue wearing hair secured for sleeping. "Robert, if you start sleeping with your hair loose again I'm gonna have to hurt you, Bubba." ;)
Continue using my Boar Bristle Brush. I'm enjoying it and I don't want to get lazy and let it collect dust.
Get more hair toys, this time when you have money to buy them from your online family.
If for any reason the camera is returned to dad, get one.

You All Are My Family, Sisters and Brothers

I wanted to clear this up before anyone starts asking me.

I don't have any real sisters. I do have 2 older brothers.

If you see me call someone sister or brother it means that they are someone that I really care about. I would like to call everyone here sister or brother. This is a family to me.

So if I call anyone Sister or Brother please understand I'm not trying to make them or you uncomfortable. In my 6 years of calling people sister or brother I have had only one person ever tell me personally that they did not feel comfortable, that I can recall. If it was more than one it was not many more.

All I ask is that if it bothers you please let me know. And please don't tell me that other people felt the same way. Instead tell them to tell me. I would rather hear the truth from the horse's mouth than just speculation. My contact information is available to everyone as well as PMing me on the board.

My Old and New Hair Toys

I posted about my hair toys in my thread on the Article's and How tos board
"PurpleBubba's Updo & Demo Family - Reposted Here"
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9799

I put them there because that's where you'll see them in use most often anyway

To Brush or Not to Brush, that is the question

I just don't know. I've gone from a routine that involved torturing and ripping my hair to one that I thought was good for it. But dummy me had to go being nosey and I stumbled across a poll about brushing. It seems like half the people don't brush at all. I of all people know that nothing is one size fits all with hair care. I just felt the need to vent a little cuz it came as quite a shock to see that. I guess what really makes me mad is I'm still upset over Mom not actually wanting the brush I got for her. She asked me if I had a BBB and I didn't so when I got mine I got one for her too and then she didn't really want it. Now there's a chance that BBBing could damage my hair?

Maybe I should go back to using the plastic vent brush with the balls worn down. Not!!!

Ok enough about that. For the time being I'm not changing my routine. Its only been 2 weeks and I haven't even tried any oils yet.

Maybe what I need is to find out if people with my hair type use BBB. That would be better than assuming it isn't good for me without having a better idea. So I'm gonna post this entry and then start a thread to ask my hair twins if they brush. Then I'll come back here and edit in the thread link.

My Sleep Tail Picture - 4/09/04

On March 26th I started wearing my hair to bed this way. This was right after I trimmed my own hair using Feye's Slight U. Before this I wore my hair loose for almost 28 years, although my hair has only been long for about 9.

I use my covered elastics. I put one on at the nape and then carefully slide it down to the bottom position about 2/3 of the way down. Then I put another at the nape and slide it down to the top position 1/3 of the way down. I have not had any tangles from sleeping since I started doing this.

Here is a picture of my

"Sleep Tail"
http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/SleepTail.jpg

Routine & CO Wash Update

I have decided that for the time being Friday mornings are going to be my wash day. I washed my hair for the third week / time using CO.

I used the V05 and Aussie products the first week but the second and third week I only used my V05 Kiwi Lime Squeeze Clarifying Conditioner. Just like last week I applied it all over, lightly massaged / scrubbed. I then sat down in the water for about ten minutes or so. Almost fell asleep too. Good thing I'm too big to fall over into the water.

So after that I rinsed it and reapplied it and rinsed right away. Its been about 40 hours since and my hair is about 1/2 and 1/2 clean and oily. As I said before in a post, oily and dirty hair never bothered me before when I was lazy so its not making me want to stop. I am going to continue using the V05 CO until it does something to really make me stop. I want to see if I can get my scalp to adjust and I like the way this product cleans and softens my hair.

I chose friday mornings because I like to wash my hair right before I go to the LHC chat. It wakes me up and helps me have something nice to talk about. Lately I've probably sounded like I'm bragging and I hope no one thinks that I am on purpose. I'm still really scared that this won't work out because I really do like this product. I don't have much to base it on other than it being better than me washing with just shampoo for 6 years. I'm very thankful that if this doesn't work that I have that wonderful list of other products above that these great people have suggested. Its nice to have those ideas in reserve just in case.

Storage Area
This is a storage area for miscellaneous or random thoughts that I may have that I want to remember. AKA My "Ponderings"

4/11/04
From the "Hairdressers" thread -
forums.longhaircommunity.com//showthread.php?t=9932
I think I better clarify myself before I give too much of a negative view of stylists myself. I have never personally been to a stylist who did anything wrong, that I am aware of. I have been to many many salons. From late 97 to late 00 I must have went to at least 20-25 different salons just to see what they were like. And some other reasons that you might find if you read my journal. I'm not going to go into details about salons from childhood because those haircuts weren't my choice anyway. My first haircut by choice was in april of 1994. I had just turned 18 and I thought I would try a new approach to get my parents to shut up about my long hair. At that time my hair was around 8 inches long (Measured a strand not the LHC way). It had been growing out since the previous June. I had to walk to the Post Office anyway to sign up for selective service or whatever its called so I decided to get my haircut at the same time. My thinking was that,

1. I will get a haircut of My choice.
2. Perhaps if I get a haircut on my own they'll expect it later on when I grow out again and won't complain so much.
3. I wanted to do something to show that I was in fact an adult now.

So I went to the salon on my own and got my hair cut to 3-3 1/2 inches long. I asked the stylist to feather the back to make it blend and not look blunt. I don't like my hair looking freshly cut. Although going from 8 to 3 inches wasn't going to be hidden. I enjoyed the experience. The stylist, named Tina was very nice. She didn't tease me or anything like that. I think my haircut did work the way I wanted it too. Even though my Mom still makes comments once in awhile she knows she doesn't have the power over me anymore. Ok here's where I need to go back and edit my journal and some other places. I've been saying that I grew my hair out from April of 1994 until sometime in 96 but actually recently I remembered that I did not get that first trim until after August of 97 because it was after a trip I took to visit lighthouses in Michigan. I was going to get that first trim on the trip but I decided not too. A few weeks or months later I went for a drive up to the river about an hour north of Detroit. I planned to stop along the way and get my trim. My plan all along was to go to a small town salon instead of something in the city. I don't know exactly why I wanted to do that but I did. Unfortunately due to those 3 years of growing out those feathered ends without a trim, My ends were very uneven lengths. I had only wanted 1/2 inch off but the stylist pointed out that my hair was really uneven. I had never noticed that because I just wanted long hair, I didn't pay attention to what the ends looked like. So I agreed to let her even up my hair and I lost anywhere from 3-6 inches. I really didn't mind because it wasn't like she did it without asking me. My mom never mentioned my haircut that week. The following week I went to another place and got a 1/2 inch trim. Still no comment from Mom. I went 2 more weeks and 2 more trims before finally she made a comment, "who's the girlfriend you've been seeing who's cutting your hair?" So I dropped back to every 6-8 weeks getting 1/2 inch trims at a different salon each time. I don't think any of them ever took more than 1/2 or 3/4 off. I wasn't picky so I didn't watch like a hawk. But it felt like they were doing it right. What amazed me is how different stylists would use different techniques to do the same 1/2 inch trim. Some would let my hair hang down and trim it all at once without sectioning and others would pin up a few sections and others would pin up more. My hair is fine - medium and my ponytail is 2.5 - 3 inches so I'm kinda average. I wish I would have kept a record of the stylists' names that I visited because they were all friendly. Yes I did get some comments like, "are you gonna cut it off" but I think those were from other people or stylists in the salon. I would love to be able to recommend those stylists here at LHC and online but since its been at least 4 years I can't say for sure if they work at those same salons even if I did have their names. I also want to add that I went to small town, big city, chains, and everything in between. The only kind I didn't try were barber shops and of course I didn't try any GM salons because they aren't near Detroit. The furthest salon from my home that I visited was a Great Clips in Duluth, MN on my lighthouse trip in 1999. I was going to meet an online Sister & her family in a day or so after that so I wanted to freshen up. My point is that there are some really great stylists out there who deserve a chance to meet you and give you what you really want. Its just a shame that many of us have those bad experiences before we are lucky enough to meet those good stylists. Or some of us have good stylists who move away. The best way to find a good Stylist, and not just a salon, is to do consultations with individual stylists and do like Teacherbear says, tell them what you want and what you don't want and what you will not stand for. Bring notes with you. Sometimes you can't think when you get there so having your thoughts written out will help you. I know I've always been nervous when I'm sitting in a stylist's chair and she asks me what I want and I'm staring at the scissors, and other stuff as well as all the sights and sounds of other people getting haircuts. Some of that comes from growing up and being asked by the stylist yet I couldn't answer because I didn't have a say. I had to wait for my parents to tell them. This is why my salon will have a seperate consultation area that will feel more like a living room than a salon.
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From the "Conditioner Only Washes" thread - forums.longhaircommunity.com//showthread.php?t=9367
I've been reading a lot of old posts and journals and it almost seems to me like people who have tried Suave products for their CO washes have either not liked them right away or complained about greasy hair after a few tries. I am wondering if this really is the case and perhaps a poll could clear this up?
I'd love some opinions on this (especially from the Suave users) before I go making a really big issue out of something that may not be true. In other words I could be wrong.
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Ponderings About Wavy Hair Types

I posted this as part of a reply earlier so I thought I'd put it here to remember.
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"I was talking this over with a sister earlier who was wondering about her hair type and we both got confused by what our wavy hair is really.


I think we came to the conclusion that with wavy hair it's hard to pick a certain type because everyday our hair can be a different amount of wavy depending on the humidity or the temperature as well as whether or not you slept with your hair in such a way that it got stuck in a certain way and was curled or waved because of it.

So we decided that we are going to use 2b or just plain wavy hair and then depending on the day and situation it can be 2a or 2c or somthing else.

Does that make sense? I'm still listing myself as 2a because my hair is usually just enough wavey to be called wavy and not straight but I might change to 2b."
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Or maybe we'll come up with something better. I love Fia's system and its very close to perfect. It's just that sometimes I see people post that their hair has waves yet they are posting in the 1's and I get confused as to whether I'm supposed to be in the ones. Wanna know what kind of waves I have? I don't have tight S waves but I do have these ~

My Buns

Wanna see my buns? Or at least my attempts at buns ;)
I said I was going to try some styles on my own hair
and here I am keeping my promise. :)

http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/Bun_Attempt_4_15_04_1.jpg http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/Bun_Attempt_4_15_04_2.jpg

I was trying to use a combination of the instructions in the Hairstyle of the week thread for Buns and what was in the Anne Akers Johnson braiding book. I did this on dry hair, although I have noticed that a few of my hair twins have more luck with damp hair so I'll try that when I can. I also need to get a wall mirror. ;)

How I Chose My Screen Names

Posted Here as well as on the thread
"How did you choose your screen name?" by J12
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9130

Several people have asked me this question recently. There was a similar thread on the old Shawnee LHC boards so I :google:ed and finally found what I had written back then. I have made several additions to this today. This will be more like an online history than just an ID explanation. But you are my family and since I was asked here is the info.

First lets start with Bubba.
My first and middle name are Robert Joseph so my family used to call me Bobby Joe or Bubba Joe.

I never went by Bubba outside of home until I got my first job in 1995 age 19. When the foreman called to tell me I was hired my mom answered the phone and called out "Hey Bubba, Phone for you". Well the foreman started calling me Bubba one day and I didn't know it was because of my mom. My brother was working at the same place and so I thought it was him that told the boss I was Bubba. I found out a while later that it was because of the phone call. Since two of my bosses and one other person at work also were named Robert I stuck with being called Bubba. It was a refreshing change from being the Robert that no one knew in High School except for the bullies and jerks. (Oddly enough even though I hated school I am the creator / moderator of the only Yahoo Group for my High School, "Go Shamrocks, Go Green & White" ;) :p
It's not easy being Green :frog: but it helps to have a Purple :heartbeat )

When I first got online in 98 I used b_bubba for my ID on Yahoo and still do. In Feb / March 98 I started going to Homearts chat that was run by Hearst Magazines. I was thinking that since they have so many womens magazines that it would be more women but it turned out to be 60 / 40 or even closer to 50 / 50 M - F. I met a lady named Cheryl aka Clouddancer (Not the same Clouddancer from Net54's LHC) at that chat and we became kinda like online brother / sister. My favorite color was Green and hers was Purple. She called me her Purple Brother and I called her my Green sister. During that time period I signed up for a few different email accounts and I used different ID's for each one. I used GreenBubba, PurpleBubba, and since everyone in chat kept telling me how sweet I was I even used SweetRBubba which is Sweeter Bubba but also since my name is Robert it was using my first initial. After a few months the chat crashed and when it came back I couldn't just use Bubba like I had been so I started using AngelBubba in chat. I really miss using that ID as I haven't used that since 98. I was offline from Jan 99 - May 99 due to a step dad who claimed to be my dictator and since I didn't feel like arguing with him I just stayed away from His computer for awhile to shut him up. My Mom threw him out in May 99 so I used his computer for a few days before he took it. Then in June I bought my own computer which I'm still using. When I got back online not only was the chat gone but a lady I had met from online in real life who lived just across the river in Windsor, Ontario (I'm just north of Detroit, MI) had passed away from pneumonia / heart attack. I was not happy about that. Peacherose was her name and she was so helpful to me in breaking out of my shyness. When we would chat we would say "Bubba goes to the window and waves ~~~~~~~~ to Peacherose" since its only like 5 miles. I made a page about her but its been deleted by Angelfire so I have to remake it.

Since the chat room was gone I had to find something else to do so I made a Lighthouse Club on Yahoo in Oct 99. For the next few months I was running the club with the help of some co-moderators. During this time I started looking into hair care sites and clubs but I was very shy about it so when I did join a club or site I used PurpleBubba as an alias of b_bubba my main Yahoo. I did that because I didn't feel comfortable with people knowing I was into hair care at the time. In June of 2000 I made my own Yahoo Club called Long Hair Care and invited some people from other hair care clubs that weren't answering their questions. Soon after I asked the ladies if there was anything I could do to make them feel more comfortable posting and such and after the discussion I made the club unlisted. When Yahoo acquired Egroups they annouced that they would merge clubs into the new groups format so prior to them making the change I made a new Yahoo Group called Long_Hair_Care_Too. This time I made one that has new members on pending until they read the rules and post on a seperate group that they have read and agreed to them. Yes that is a bit extreme but I made a promise to those ladies to do my best to keep them safe and I'm not gonna break it. But the new group means that people can find it and decide for themselves if they want to belong. Before that I had to invite people to the unlisted club and of the 300+ members 90% were invited by me. I ran out of places to invite from. Its a shame the old club had to be unlisted because it was just as nice and active as LHC is but no one could find it without an invite. The new group is active but no where near the old level because people have had a hard time adjusting to the new Groups format. That combined with me being offline for 11 months. I was saving the old unlisted club for archives but yahoo deleted that while I was away.

Anyway, I have been using those two ID's regularly ever since. Although now since I had to use a new account I have added 3636 to the ends of them b_bubba3636 & PurpleBubba3636 since 36 is my favorite number.

In case you were wondering, Homearts chat / Hearst magazines became Women.com soon afterward and they have been since acquired by Ivillage.

I feel I need to include some more information about why I continue to use PurpleBubba. Its no longer just a matter of using it because of someone else's favorite color. To me it represents me. The Purple Heart is the medal given to soldiers who have been wounded inbattle but who survived those wounds. My own granfather received this medal for WWII. I never got to ask him about it since he died when I was 13. So since this is the medal for being wounded I got to thinking about how I'm so shy and have been picked on my whole childhood life so I started to think that maybe Purple Hearts were real. I mean the heart is a muscle and if wounded it may get a scar but like other muscles when it heals it heals stronger. This is similar to the old "Sticks and Stones" motto. So to me Purple became more than just a color. I am a Purple Person. But I'm not the only one. So my mission in life is to find the other Purple Hearts and Purple People so I can let them know they are not alone. We are the majority but since we usually have been wounded so many times we are usually the quiet ones. But you don't have to be wounded to be a purple person. Good Hearts also qualify ;) I was going to write some more but its time for bed :( I'll finish this here in my journal when I get a chance. I did change my Avatar just now though. Hope you like it.

Edited to add: I've since changed my avatar again so this is what this entry referred to
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/Avatars/PurpleHeart.gif

Routine & CO Wash Update - 4th Wash / Week -April 21st

It's now been about 5 days since my 4th CO in 4 weeks. I meant to post about this earlier but for some reason I just keep putting it off. But that's ok because since I did wait so long I can tell about how my hair feels today.

To start off let me say that this week's weather has been really up and down.

Saturday it was warm enough for my head to sweat for the first time since before winter (aside from any sweating that may have happened while sleeping)

Sunday it was even warmer, in the 80's.

Monday nature decided to laugh at us. You can't go that warm in Michigan without something else coming to even things out. So all day Monday it was windy.

Yesterday was just a blah day and today its rainy and damp out.

Now keep in mind that I've only been outside a few times in that period.

Ok now that we got that out of the way, I like the way my hair feels today. I don't really have any complaints. Not that I have before. When I run my fingers over my hair it feels smooth but not greasy. Maybe this is because I've distributed sebum to the length a bit more. I haven't been BBB as often as I was. I was only doing it before bed but a few times lately I've just used my red detangling comb. Then I put my hair in the usual "sleep tail"
I'm still loving what that tail is doing for my lack of tangles.

Overall I'm happy with my routine. My scalp is no longer tingling after using the V05 Kiwi Lime Conditioner. I'm wondering if maybe my scalp is adjusting to it or something. Hopefully its not because it killed nerves LOL

I'm still not sure if I'll use the Aussie products again. I do like the way the Knot Forgotten worked on the manikin hair. I can't believe how soft and easy to comb it made their hair. I'm not against using them on my hair, I'm just waiting to see how well the V05 works after a longer period of time. I mean I did go through a period of 5-6 years of no conditioner so its hard for me to tell if my hair is in bad shape now with only using conditioners. As I said I like my hair so unless that changes I don't see the need to overcondition.

I never really looked at my hair before. When my hair changed from that yellow color to this light - medium brown color I wasn't really paying much attention. I think what helps me notice now is that I can hold my hair in front of me and really look at it. I can hold my tail in front of me and see all the different colors that are there. I can see my waves. I really like my waves. They aren't too curly or wavy but they aren't straight neither.

I like the colors. While most of my hair is the lighter brown color I do see some strands of really dark hair that might even be black. I like how the light brown strands have just a hint of golden shine on them.

I really liked how my hair looked in that 2000 picture. I'm not sure if that's how the real picture looked because that was scanned by my flatbed but I do like that red color. I don't think I'd ever dye my hair that color though because I'd rather have my hair this color naturally and have it give off that tone naturally like that. I guess I'm just not wanting to dye my hair at all. Back in school I seriously considered having a few green or purple streaks but that was just something to add to conversation when people would ask me about it. Not that I wouldn't do that someday. But right now I'm really enjoying my hair the way it is so I'm not ready for a change.

I just wanted to say to those of you who have been reading this that I really do appreciate it. Please feel free to subscribe to my journal if you wish. I hope you don't mind my random thoughts though ;) Also please feel free to PM me about anything you see or read here. My journal is as much for you as it is for me. Enjoy and have youself a nice day and remember to smile everday :)

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Routine & CO Wash Update - 5th Wash / Week - April 24th

I have now done my 5th CO wash for the 5th friday in a row.

I'm happy to report that everything seems good and normal as it has been.

I'm beggining to think that I'm actually leaving the condioner on a lot longer than 10 minutes.

I think that for the past 3 washes I've been a lot closer to 20 minutes or more.

In week 2 I just sat in the water for what seemed like 10 minutes.

Week 3 I sat for what seemed like 10 minutes but I was also very sleepy so I may have slept a few minutes too.

Last week I took a cup of coffee in with me and I had my radio on in my bedroom. I think I had the conditioner on for around 15 minutes because I was using the songs as a timer. I just figure each song is about 3 minutes. But there were some commercials and news stuff in that time so it threw my timing off.

This week was just like last week only this time I brought a small radio into the bathroom. The conditioner was on my hair for about 5 songs and the ad / news break so it was close to 20 minutes or more.

I think next week I'm gonna finally try using a bag or some plastic wrap.
In week one I did the 3MM for 4 minutes with just a tail piled on my head.

Weeks 2 & 3 I piled the tail again but last week (4) and this week (5) I used a claw clip to hold the clip the tail to the top of my head.

But I tried something today that made me want to try the bag or plastic. I put my hands on my head for a few seconds and I liked the way the warmth of my hands felt on my hair. I also liked my hair being pressed down to my scalp a little better. I think it needs more warmth. Ok that sounds a little weird and I'm not trying to sound weird there. I just think the warmth is better so I want to try it.

I have had a deep conditioner under a hood dryer before so I know what it's like.

I do have a portable hood dryer so I may add some under hood DCon's to my routine eventually.

I guess I've just decided that I'm dead serious about taking care of my hair now and even though I may make a few mistakes now and then I'm gonna at least make the effort. I look back at my first entry and all I see is the me I don't want to be. So I'm not gonna be him no more :thumbsup:

I also did an experiment after my wash. I timed how long it took for my hair to air dry. I got out of the shower at about 4:50 pm and my hair was dry by 6:20 pm so it looks like my estimate of about 2.5 hours was right. My hair was down the whole time and most of the time I had it all behind my back.

A few hours ago I began trying to file down the seams on my pink wide tooth comb. I ended up taking out my exacto knife set and attempted to scrap / cut the seams off. It works a lot better than filing but I just hope I didn't cause more problems than I fixed by leaving unknown gauges in the teeth. Oh well I guess if it is messed up it will give me a reason to get a new one :)

Double Bubba Braids

Posted on H.O.T.W. Thread - Two braids.

http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/DoubleBraid.jpg

Also, I shrunk the picture so it's hard to see but in the first picture the camera made my eyes look purple, it was cool :thumbsup:. In another one that I didn't use I had one purple eye and one golden eye ;)

I parted my hair down the middle, actually I still can't believe how well that part came out since I only took one pass with the comb. I've been struggling with those center parts for the past few weeks.

I then braided the usual way and I passed the outside sections over the center section instead of under. I also did these on dry hair.

My Hair's Color

I was going to take the picture outside but I couldn't get it because
of the darn sun so this is as close to natural color as I can get.
http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/MyColor.jpg

One Of Those Days I Guess

I really need to start writing in here more often.

I'm not gonna go into too much detail.

This is my day yesterday.
:cloud9: then :bluesmile then :hollie: then :brickwall then :heartbeat then :brickwall :brickwall and now :shake:

Oh well could be worse, I could have pulled my hair out? :undecided :yawn:

Routine & CO Wash Update - 6th Wash / Week

I have now done my 6th CO wash for the 6th friday in a row.

Unlike the last few weeks I'm writing this entry right after I got out of the shower so my hair is still wet as I type. (Ok I was when I started but I am now actually finishing it 11 hours later, but what else is new? :uhh:)

I added something to today's wash that I have never done before. I used a Vinegar Rinse, but it was White Vinegar. I was just finishing my second rinse of V05 when I just decided to ask Mom to get me some vinegar. I told her to get me 1/3 cup and then I added about a cup of water to it.

I really liked how my hair felt as I was pouring it on. It's like you can feel your hair getting softer even though it's soaking wet. It feels like your hair is taking a drink after being thirsty. It's been about an hour now and my hair is half dry and so far it feels great. I said in chat that it feels light and fluffy but not the frizzy fluffy. I think meant it was soft though. I think I'm going to continue ACV or WV rinses. Maybe not every week but probably every two weeks.

I think next week I'm gonna finally try using a bag or some plastic wrap......But I tried something today that made me want to try the bag or plastic. I put my hands on my head for a few seconds and I liked the way the warmth of my hands felt on my hair. I also liked my hair being pressed down to my scalp a little better. I think it needs more warmth. Ok that sounds a little weird and I'm not trying to sound weird there. I just think the warmth is better so I want to try it.
This week I also used a plastic bag as a cap with my first application of V05 today. I got it on as tight as I could, without hurting of course and then I twisted the excess bag and used my claw clip on that instead of on my hair. It took me about 5 tries to get the cap just right but I did get it where I liked it and then I sat for my usual 15-20 minutes. I think I've learned how to tell when I have sat long enough. I usually use at least 3-4 large globs of conditioner for my first step and you can tell the hair is coated and "slimey" when you do that. But after I let it sit for 15-20 minutes you won't see the conditioner anymore, you just see wet hair. I think that's a good clue as to if it's ready. It might even take less time for that but I've just been going for 15-20. I just feel better when I give it that long. For all I know I could get the same results with just an application and rinse right away but what's the fun in that? ;)

I wish more people were having as much luck as I am with the V05.
Part of me wonders if I'm really getting the good results that I think I am? :ponder: I love the results I get. I don't know if they are really good for me and my hair but I like them. I wonder if maybe the V05 Kiwi Lime isn't meant to be mixed with other stuff? I don't use any other stuff so I don't know what it's like to use it on jojoba'd hair or how it works?

I'm happy (about the only thing I'm happy about at the moment) to report (11 hours later) that everything seems good and normal as it has been. Wish the rest of my day could have been as nice. Oh well such is my life, I can't have good without bad. I'm like a roller coaster of ups and downs and twists and turns. Maybe I'm hanging now?


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Wide Tooth Comb

A few hours ago I began trying to file down the seams on my pink wide tooth comb. I ended up taking out my exacto knife set and attempted to scrap / cut the seams off. It works a lot better than filing but I just hope I didn't cause more problems than I fixed by leaving unknown gauges in the teeth. Oh well I guess if it is messed up it will give me a reason to get a new one :)
I posted this the other day on
"Looking for a handled detangling comb"
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=10355

In reply to Rain's post about Jilbere / Conair combs

I went to Sally today and I bought 2 of these Jilbere combs. One for me and one for the manikins. I was actually surprised because they were only 99 cents each US $.

While I was in the store I compared the tooth spacing to the combs like the one I had and they are fairly equal. There might be this much " difference altogether.

I was very happy that they appeared to not have any seams. Although when I did get them home I noticed there are tiny seams on them (you really have to look close and with good light). But they are nothing compared to the larger uneven hard plastic seams that were on the other comb I had.

You can easily remove these seams with any sharp knife. Unlike my other comb where I was having to literally carve them off, you can just lightly scrape these off. As long as the knife you use is sharp they will just scrape off and you won't gauge the teeth. As easy as peeling a carrot or easier.

I am very happy with these combs and I'm really glad that Rain mentioned them. For 99 cents each I got some combs that look like they are better quality than some that would be $5 or more. That's great considering just about every other comb I touched at Sally had rough seams that you could feel. I also like that they are a bit more flexible than my old comb but they don't feel like they will snap in half.

My only concern would be to keep an eye on the little ball tips to make sure they don't wear off. But for 99 cents you can easily replace your comb if they did wear off.

The ones I bought do say Jilbere de Paris on them but I don't think that makes a difference since it's still Conair according to the Sally page above. I bought one pale green and one dark blue / almost purple comb. Guess which one is for me? ;)

Thanks again Rain. These are awesome.

By the way, when I was checking out, the lady said that the little deep conditioner pouches on the counter were 99 cents. You think she was trying to say my hair was damaged or just saying that cuz she tells everyone? Not that it mattered to me because I told her I had some at home already. Which isn't completely true but I do have Aussie 3 Minute Miracle. Just thought I'd share that. I'm not concerned because even if my hair did look damaged to her it looks great and feels great to me and that's what matters right? Maybe she's not used to seeing Good hair and because of that she assumed it must be damaged hair? LOL

To which Rain replied and said that maybe she was offering the DC because I looked like someone who had used it and had good hair because of it.

To which I replied,

That's such a great way of looking at it. That would be smart on her part to recommend products to people who look like they use them as well as those who did look like they needed them.

I suppose I could fit both of those categories. My hair does look and feel great to me, but on the other hand there are some splits and breaks down near the ends. Not sure if it's noticeable though to someone who isn't holding it up to their eyes. I was wearing a ponytail as well so that might have made it harder. Essentially I have layered hair that was never cut in layers LOL but I actually like it. Those shorter pieces just help the ends curl so I don't mind. Besides it gives me something else to have a goal for if I did want them to get evened up with the rest. I consider that part of the fun and makes things a bit less boring than just growing my hair.

I hope I don't sound too braggy. I mean my hair is broken and split but it's just not bothering me. Mostly because that was from past habits and I've broken them.


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White Rain Extra Body Conditioner

I posted this the other day on
"For our White Rain CO washers..."
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=2209

The other day when I was at Save A Lot with mom I saw that they had the White Rain E.B.C. for 99 cents.

I wanted to grab some so bad but She caught me picking up the bottle and just had to open her mouth. She say's "That's a good shampoo"

I wasn't even grabbing the shampoo, it was the conditioner, and frankly just the thought of her being involved in any way with my routine turns me off. :puke: :sick:

So I left it alone. This is the same person who told me on sunday that I could have the $3 change from going and getting dinner but I wasn't to buy anything Beauty Shoppy with it. :cry: Gosh I hope I used my $3 and not hers to buy my Wide Tooth combs at Sally yesterday.

But the White Rain is always cheap somewhere. That will be the next conditioner that I try when my V05 Kiwi Lime runs out.

But when I buy it, it will be because LisaJaney and other people have recommended it and not because Mom likes it. If she liked it so much why didn't she grab a bottle? With all the talk she's had about her shampoos lately.

I will porobably change my routine to washing first with the V05 and leaving that on as the deep conditioner and then do my second application with W.R.

But that could change too. I reall do want to try it and my V05 is about one or two washes from empty.

I'm still not having any problems that I know of with the V05 but I wouldn't mind trying something else just to see if I'm actually getting the results that I think I am.


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Dusting

The other day I was laying in bed with my hair in my Sleep Tail. I had the tail in front of me and I was looking at it. I then twisted the very bottom portion below the second elastic, about 3-4 inches and saw how the little splits popped up. So I decided that sooner or later I would try that again with just that portion and then nip those splits.
So I believe it was thursday day time that I decided to give it a try. First I twisted the whole tail end one way and snipped splits then I decided to split the tail end into 3 sections. I then did each section twisting them in both directions and snipping. Then I took the whole end and twisted it the opposite direction from earlier and nipped a few more.

It wasn't an all over dusting but it was better than what I had before. :thumbsup:

Product Ingredients

These are the ingredients for products I have and for those I plan to try next.

Alberto V05 - Kiwi & Lime Squeeze, Herbal Conditioner, Clarifying for extra body with rosemary & lemongrass extracts

Used once a week by me

Ingredients:
Water, cetyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol, stearalkonium chloride, rosemary leaf extract, cymbopogon schoenanthus extract, actinidia chinensis (kiwi) extract, citrus aurantifola (lime), hydrolyzed collagen, ergocalciferol (Vitamin D), steareth-21, glyceryl stearate, benzophenone-4, corn oil, propylene glycol, disodium edta, dmdm hydantioin, fragrance, blue 1, yellow 5

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Aussie 3 Minute Miracle, Original

used one time so far

Ingredients:
Water, Cetyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate, PEG-12 Distearate, Cetrimonium Chloride, Fennel Extract (foeniculum vulgare), Hops Extract (humulus lupulus), Balm Mint Extract (melissa officinalis), Yarrow Extract (achillea millefolium), Hydrolyzed Casein, Oat Flour (avena sativa), Jojoba Oil (buxus chinensis), Matricaria Extract (chamomilla recutita), Yeast Extract, Sunflower Seed Oil (helianthus annuus), Simethicone, Stearyl Alcohol, Lecithin, Sorbitol, Glycerin, Glycol Stearate, Acetamide MEA, Cetrimonium Bromide, Sodium Lauriminodipropionate, Fragrance, Dicetyldimonium Chloride, Stearalkonium Chloride, Phosphoric Acid, Propylene Glycol, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Tetrasodium EDTA, DMDM Hydantoin, FD&C Yellow #6

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Aussie Knot Forgotten Detangler (Used to be called Slip)

used one time so far

Ingredients:
Water, Cetearyl Alcohol, Dicetyldimonium Chloride, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Cucumber Extract (cucumis sativus), Calendula Officinalis Extract, Simethicone, Citric Acid, Fragrance, Propylene Glycol, DMDM Hydantoin, Methylparaben, Propylparaben

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I would like to try

White Rain Extra Body Conditioner

Ingredients:
Water, Cetyl Alcohol, Dicetyldimonium Chloride, Phenoxyethanol, Stearyl Alcohol, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Ceteareth-20, Behenyl Alcohol, Fragrance, Citric Acid

Routine - I Went Shopping - I Got 99% More For Free

I had to go grocery shopping yesterday. I have been wanting to get some White Rain Extra Body conditioner for a while now. I'm actually glad I didn't get it when I was with my Mom at Save-A-Lot a while ago. I saved money by waiting.

First I was in the grocery store and I looked to see if they had the WR but they didn't. However My V05 Kiwi Lime is down to about 1-2 inches left in the bottle and I saw that they had a 33% more free bottle 20 oz. for $1.29 which isn't a complete bargain but considering it was a local chain of only 4 stores it wasn't a bad price. Besides the 33% more and bigger bottle just grabbed me so I grabbed it back. :thumbsup:

I still wanted the WR EB so after I dropped off Grandma's groceries I drove up to Wal Mart. They not only had it like they usually do but they had it in 33% more free bottles also 19.5 oz for 78 cents each. :rockerdud I grabbed 2 bottles because even if I don't like it I could swap it or just give it away. So that's where the part about not getting it last time comes into play. It was regular sized bottles for 99 cents at Save-A-Lot. Guess it's a good thing mom opened her mouth after all and stopped me from buying it then. LOL

So as I was about to title my post I thought hey, I got 99% free. :coolblue: 8)


Now I just have to figure out what to do with them.

I think I would rather try using them seperately because I don't think you can give products a fair test by using them in combination with other products. Therefore I think I will alternate somehow or maybe since it's warming up I'll do 2 CO per week and use them on different days. I want to try the WR asap so I'll do that with my next CO which no longer has to be fridays. So perhaps tomorrow or in a few hours since it's 5:30 am right now LOL.

I guess I just like nightime better. I've always been a quiet person so being up at night lets me do things without lots of noise and distraction.

Anyway, I've had a crummy week so at least something went right.

My Life As A Roller Coaster

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A few years ago I realized that in my life when things seem to go really bad sooner or later some really good stuff happens too. The opposite is also true.

Kinda like a roller coaster. Ups :karma: with the downs :karma2: and even some twists, turns, tunnels, :sick: and sometimes the train just comes to a halt :brickwall and makes you wait for the next ride. :sad:
Sometimes you're on :cloud9:, others you're :scared: and then others you just gotta :puke:

What you hope for is a balance :neutral:
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I've spent the past week in a deep down. Maybe even a tunnel. I seriously considered switching to another track. But thanks to a good friend who pointed out a positive to me I finished that ride. I am now beginning a new ride and I'm currently on a very big Up and the chain is pulling the train up that hill very determined and I'm not looking back.

Will there be another down? You bet ya. Will I survive? You bet ya. Because even in those tunnels there are lights at the end of them. I'm not getting off this track. I found the right one and the only way I will get off is if the track breaks around me. Will that be my fault? Nope.

I am the person that I want to be, and who I am supposed to be. It's not up to anyone else to tell me who I am or who I can be.

Things I am not.

I am not "Normal." Why? Because normal doesn't exist. Normal just happens to be another way of saying popular. I will never be popular and I will never go out of my way to be in that crowd. Normal is just whatever the in thing is at the time.

I am not "Fake." Yeah it's hard to believe that someone would devote himself this much to helping people to the point that it appears to be obsession. "Hi, I'm Robert and I'm addicted to helping people."

I am not an "Expert." Here's a disclaimer I added to my web sites a few weeks ago. "I am a former cosmetology student who has completed 800 of my state's 1500 hours. The information on this site is meant to be taken in a casual sense and is not intended to be absolute fact nor professional advice. My opinions and articles are based on my learning in school as well as my participation in several hair care forums over the past 4 years. Please do not do anything dangerous like take vitamins or use chemicals solely based on what I have written. For things like that you should seek a professional or a doctor. I am Not an expert. I will never claim to be even if I do learn everything there is to know about hair. Please Be Careful."

There's no such thing as an expert when it comes to hair. Hair Care is an everchanging science. It's theory. That means that what people think is true is what is believed at a given time. It's up to the individual to do the experiments and prove or disprove the theory for themselves. Why is it everchanging? Because the planet changes, the environment changes, and because hair is as unique as DNA or fingerprints. If something works for 1 billion people there is still a possibility of it not working for at least one person. It doesn't take an expert to know that. One size doesn't fit all.

I am not "Someone else." I am Me.
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So who am I?
If you don't know that by now then you might want to go back and read my whole journal. Then if you have questions still you can search for my posts and threads. If you still don't know who I am after you read all of that then there really isn't much to tell you. I'd say ask questions but I've already shared everything.

I am Me. You can see me as you wish. It doesn't make me any different in reality.

~ No Tangles ~ :)

Routine & CO Wash Update - 7th Wash / Week

As usual I'm posting this way late. 6 days later to be precise. I figured I had better post this before tomorrow since tomorrow is a wash day and I really should give an update on the last one before I do another.

Here goes. Last Friday I did my CO wash as I normally have been except that for the first time I did not use V05 Kiwi Lime. I instead used White Rain Extra Body for the first time. I have to say that I did like the results. I was expecting good results because I hadn't seen anyone give the White Rain a bad review. So :thumbsup:

I was planning to start doing 2 CO's per week and alternating conditioners but those plans didn't work out this week. That means that once again I'll have gone a whole week and do my usual Friday wash tomorrow. Since I did plan to alternate I will probably use the V05 tomorrow.

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Today I went out and bought another spray bottle. In response to someone asking about Leave-In conditioners I decided to give the White Rain EB a try as a Leave-In since it's so thin and cone free (as far as I'm aware of?)

I filled the bottle almost to the top with water and then filled it the rest of the way with the White Rain. I then sprayed my hair with it. I don't really have experience with this so I don't know if this is good or bad? I like how my hair feels and I figured since tomorrow is wash day it won't hurt to try it.

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I will start using Jojoba Oil as soon as it arrives. I ordered some from Amazon / Vitamin Shoppe. I decided to order it since even though I paid shipping, I would have spent those extra few dollars on gas anyway because the stores that have the good stuff are 20 mile round trips. Or searching for closer ones would have cost the same in gas. Anyway when it gets here I'll start using it. I'll probably use it similar to the way Charlyee uses hers because she has a similar hair type and she has been helping me chose the oil anyway :)
Thanks Sister.

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I really hope that this routine continues to work. With all the garbage I've had to deal with lately it's nice to have something that's going right even if it's not perfect.

On Tuesday I went out for another ride up the river with my dad. I had my hair in my usual ponytail. While we were riding along with the windows open I noticed that shorter hairs were blowing in my face and I assumed that they were broken pieces from my ponytails. So when I got home I put my hair in a ponytail again and then shook my head and tried to get those hairs to hang forward again. I did this because I was going to snip the splits if they were broken. But surprisingly most of them were not broken hairs at all but were new hairs. Not too surprising because I do know that it happens. I also saw a few hairs that are the really coarse type. Yeah it's not a big thing but I kind of like having them. As I said before any hair that isn't the same length as my longest hairs just gives me something else to do and have fun with. I'm looking forward to checking these hairs for splits and keeping them in shape.

I still have not done an official measuring since my March 26th measurement. I tried a few times but I wasn't satisfied with the numbers I was getting. I need to get a measuring tape that isn't metal.

I also need to do some S&D soon. Maybe I'll do that in a few minutes when I finish this entry. I'm not ready to do another Feye trim yet. I think my longest ends are still in good shape so a Feye trim would only make my hair shorter for no reason.

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Thank you for reading. I appreciate it. :)

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Routine & CO Wash Update - 8th Wash / Week - May 15th

Well unlike last week when I waited 6 days to post, this week I'm posting my update less than 24 hours later.

At about noon yesterday I did my CO with V05 Kiwi Lime.

This was a good test for the V05 because the night before I had sprayed my hair with the White Rain & water mist and I do think it was a bit too thick. Not that I can really tell yet. The rookie that I am LOL.

Anyway, I am happy with my results as usual. I didn't do anything different this time. Just my usual wet down, apply and bag / cap for 20 minutes and then rinse and re-apply and then rinse and then cold water rinse.

Gosh I can't believe it's been 8 weeks already. I did not do an S&D last night. So that is still on the agenda for soon.

I'm hoping that I'll actually do the 2 CO washes this coming week. Of course my Jojoba oil will be here in a few days so I'll be adding that.

Other than that not much to report. I still love my hair despite it's splits and breaks and such. :)

For My Friends Who Enjoy My Journal

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Here is a kitchen I made for you to get some refreshments.

If you have a request for something that you would like for me to keep stocked in the refreshment area please let me know.
Please note that I won't be stocking alcoholic beverages. Sorry :)
Also, there is a Microwave too.

I already have the following items available, some by request.

Counter:
Coffee - Regular & Decaf
Hot Water for tea or cocoa.
Mocha
Mocha Special (by request) - chocolate, sugar, non dairy creamer, and sometimes a touch of orange extract.

In the Fridge:
Root Beer (by request)
Fettucini Alfredo with Chicken and Broccoli (by request)

In the Freezer:
Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream (by request)

In the Basket:
Spicy Limon Cheetos (by request) & some regular ones too
M&Ms - More than one kind (by request)
Peanut Butter Fudge (by request)
Miracle Happy Hair Pills / Chocolate Chip Cookies (My Specialty Prescription see below)

PS: if anyone is wondering, yes I did draw that from scratch using "Paint". Which isn't a big deal but I'm shocked I did that.

As soon as I get some decent looking chairs I'll add some.

Thanks again for reading.
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Miracle Happy Hair Pills

~ When used properly will give you a warm happy feeling that is essential to promote healthy happy hair ~

Instructions: Take one of these big pills and take small bites off of it and chew them each slowly so that you get the full effect. These probably work best when you take only one per day but in extreme cases a stronger dose may be required. Warming pills before consumption is optional. May be taken with drink such as Milk.

One batch usually consists of 6 pills.
:cookie: :cookie: :cookie: :cookie: :cookie: :cookie:

If you need more you know where to find me.
Free Refills for LHC Family Members

The PurpleBubba Man can 'cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good

I got my Mojo, I mean Jojo

The Jojoba Oil I ordered from Amazon / Vitamin Shoppe came today. :rockerdud

It's a 4 oz bottle of Vitamin Shoppe brand 100% pure J. O.
amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00012NDDI

About 5 minutes ago I put about a drop on my fingertip and then just put that on my ends.

I'm in the process of asking people how they use theirs and so far I've gotten some pretty interesting and good answers. I haven't asked here at LHC yet though. I'll do that soon. In the meantime if you are reading this and wish to PM me with how you use your Jojoba on your hair and if you use it on damp or dry hair feel free.

So lets see now,

My product line has gone from a bottle of Revlon Flexx Shampoo to now having

V05 Kiwi Lime conditioner
White Rain Extra Body Conditioner
Jojoba Oil

and I still have both of the Aussies

Not quite a product junkie but I feel good. I think I've got just the right amount. Hopefully this will get me through the summer without having to change anything. I like being shampoo free. I enjoy the way CO is done.

I'd like to come up with a way to do it so that people who do other things because they don't have time for CO can do a CO in a hurry.

My mom is always telling me about how my Grandpa used to wash his hair with Ivory brand dish soap.

I'm trying to find the ingredients but all I've found so far is this at Walgreens.com

Ingredients
Biodegradable Anionic Surfactants , Biodegradable Nonionic Surfactants

and then it says No Phosphates.

ok now I found this on a gov site

Lauramide diethanolamine (DEA)
Sodium laureth sulfate
Citric acid
Tetrasodium EDTA
Sodium chloride
Fragrance/perfume(s)
Sodium lauryl sulfate
Cocamidopropyl betaine
DMDM Hydantoin
Water
Sodium sulfate

I guess that's not exactly a good shampoo LOL. That has 3 sulfates and DEA which was on the News the other day saying it can cause brain damage in mice. Glad he isn't using that no more. Although it sure would be nice if he was cuz then that would mean he'd be alive. Funny the song on the radio just mentioned someone going to see their grandpa LOL. The radio does that to me a lot. I think I'll save that for another entry. Already too many people thinking I'm creepy. Don't want them knowing about my psychic abilities too.......or do I?

Ah what the heck. Like it would make a difference? Who am I to change how they think LOL.

I guess this would be sort of the appropriate entry for this since I mentioned Mojo. Kinda like Mumbo Jumbo.

Ok I'll start this off by saying that psychic type powers do run in the family on my Mom's side. I don't know what kind but there have been family members with weird abilities.

Anyway. I have a psychic power but I can't control it and it really doesn't help anyone.

Before I go further I will say that this has happened at least 100 times since I started noticing it like 5 years ago. I was going to keep a journal of when it happened but didn't. Maybe now that I actually have a journal I'll use it.

I can think of a tv show or movie that hasn't been on in a long time and within the next few days it will be on tv. 100+ times is a lot for that to happen. But here's the problem. It's a casual thing. I can't just think of the show and make it come on. It has to be just something I think about or maybe I mention it in a conversation and not even thinking that it might be on tv because I thought of it.

I'll give the most recent example. Tuesday I was out with my dad and we were at an intersection waiting for the light. He saw a sign at the gas station that said Diesel here or something and said Vin is there or something like that and I said maybe he's making a movie and the gas station was called Marathon so I said maybe he's doing a remake of Marathon Man. I have never seen that movie. It was just me and my dad doing our usual weird humor bits.

The next day or maybe 2 days later I'm flipping through channels and guess what's on. That's right Marathon Man. No I didn't watch it :(

When I was in school in 00 / 01 I was talking to a fellow student and we were talking about the name Virginia because the school has that in the name. I don't remember if it was her or me but one of us mentioned Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Within the next two days it was on. Again another movie I'd never seen.

There was one time I was talking to my mom or someone about movies and somehow Dragnet with Dan Akroyd & Tom Hanks was mentioned or thought of. At the time it hadn't been on in a long time. It was on within the next few days.

There have also been times when I would think of a certain episode of a tv show and then later in the day or next day that episode would be on.
I just remembered one. I was thinking of the Full House wedding episode and it was on that day or the next. I'm pretty sure it was the same day.

I wish I could control it and choose what was gonna be on. But nope I can't just think "I want Ghostbusters to be on tomorrow" and have it happen. It's gotta be some sort of casual thought or conversation. Oh well I'll live with that. It's a nice surprise when it happens.

I don't know how or why this started happening.
All I know is that it happened enough times for me to start noticing it and since then it just keeps happening and we are talking less than a week ago it happened again so it's not going away.

Does that make me creepy? Or weird? It is harmless.
I suppose it would be pretty bad if I could think of things like plane crashes and they happened every time.
I think the TV thing is ok.

Ok now that I said all that, let's add in the radio thing. There have been several times that I have been Instant Messaging with my girlfriend and as the conversation progresses the song on the radio will reflect what I am feeling at the given moment. Not a big thing like the tv was but when you add that with the tv it kinda makes me think I must be in tune or something.

I think that calls for some Peacherose waves
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I suppose I should say this too while I'm saying the really weird stuff.
Speaking of waves, I am an avid great lakes ship lover and have been since about 1983 when we started vacationing along the river. I even thought of being a sailor on a ship when I was old enough. Just one problem. All my life when I've gotten around big lakes or bodies of water that you can't see across I've had queasy feelings. Especially when it's a gray day. It's like a phobia. Now I have been pretty much cured by the fact that I went on some boat rides on the bigger water with my dad and had enough to get me over that. However recently I began to wonder if maybe I was in a shipwreck in a past life? The Edmund Fitzgerald (Gordon Lightfoot song) sunk in November of 1975 and that was 4.5 months before I was born. I'll admit that's kinda weird to think about. But hey anything is possible. I could have been in a shipwreck on some ship 300 years ago for that matter. As I'm typing this the song by Uncle Kracker and Kenny Chesney is playing and it's talking about the sun going down over the water.........do do do do, do do do do.......you have entered the Bubba Zone.

Does that creep you out? I think maybe I should just be the actual creepy me and then people won't have to be creeped out by the things that I don't do that only exist in their minds.

Seriously folks, I'm harmless. I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs. Unless you count 28 years of second hand smoke and 4.5 years of breathing in dust and smoke and things at the gear making shop I worked at from 95 - 00.

I'm not on this Earth to be better than someone else. I'm here to be the best Me and the Me I'm supposed to be.

and like I said, the coaster train is on the up hill. I'm not looking back.

Post # :evil: 666 :evil: For Me

Earlier I noticed that I was getting close to 666 posts so I decided that I would try to remember to post #666 in my journal just to be safe ;).

So let's see what I have to say in it. LOL

Well for starters, I want to say how much happier life is by having this journal.

There are things that I have done since starting this journal that I probably would not have done by now otherwise. I mean as far as routines.

I bought new products and oil. I bought a BBB and a new wide tooth comb and made sure the seams were gone. I sleep with my hair secured yet still loose enough that it doesn't pull my hair. I've done 3 kinds of trimming (S&D, Feye's U, Twisting Dust)

I've also made a lot of new friends with this journal. Lots of nice people have read my journal and sent me nice comments or advice and it's really awesome. Just reading my journal is great of them but going that extra step is a real heart tugger. :)

Not much to report as far as hair today. My hair is down and not combed but that's ok. It's not all tangled. Nothing my fingers can't handle.

Eventually I want to get back into my writing or illustrating. Wonderlywroughte's drawings have inspired me to try drawing myself. I have done one drawing on paper since then but I'm having trouble getting it scanned properly.

Here's a gift for all the nice people who are reading this.
These are coloring pictures that I made a few years back for my Lighthouse Group on Yahoo. These should be big enough to print out well. I traced these from some calendars I had. You can color them yourself or give them to kids.

Buffalo, NY
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Kenosha, WI
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Marquette, MI
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Split Rock, MN
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Sturgeon Point, MI
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Ludington, MI
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Marblehead, OH
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This is the Buffalo one altered to make a Thanksgiving logo for the main group logo for a few days back then. This is not the real Plymouth, MA
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Enjoy. :)

I Have To Share This Link

A very nice sister just shared this link with me and I felt I should share it here.
theinterviewwithgod.com/windowmovie.html

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I'm not a member of any religion. I simply believe in the God who created nature and life and happiness and after that I have an open mind to other possibilities.

I believe in God and I believe in myself. After that I just try to be kind and helpful. If there is a judgement day I believe I'll pass and if I don't I'll be ok with it. I would rather live my life trying to help people and doing so and not get into "heaven" on some technicallity than to just live life not caring and hurting people. Any heaven that had standards that high is not a heaven I want to go to anyway. As I said before I'm not into doing the popular thing, I'm into doing my own thing. Let me be judged on what I have done and not on what I have not done.

Books I Own

This is the first book I bought on hair care, it's out of print though :(

Complete Guide to Hairstyling and Haircare
by Jacki Wadeson
amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0754805611
I give the this book ++
This book has lots of Updos and Braiding ideas with great pictures and step by step instructions. It also has alot of useful information on caring for hair and choosing styles. Mostly general stuff. This is a good book for beginners. This book focuses on Women's hairstyles and the styles look like they are for ages 16 and up. Alot of the models look like they are college age. I highley recommend this book if you haven't found another. That being said, I haven't tried many hair care books. Most are style books.


Hair: A Book of Braiding and Styles
Anne Akers Johnson - Klutz Books
amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570540187
I give the Klutz book ++
I was a complete beginner when I bought my copy. Now granted I do most of the styles on my mannikin heads, but it is a good book and it even comes with stuff. Even the nice cardboard box comes in handy for my little tools.
Also if you go to a store to get this it might be in the kids section because 95% of Klutz books are for kids. My copy was in the kids section at Barnes & Noble. Also, the book has a spiral binding like a notebook. This means it lays flat while you are working on your hair. Even if you don't need this book I recommend buying it just to have on hand if company comes over or something. This book of styles could inspire someone to grow their hair longer and there are some shorter haired styles as well.

Klutz also has one called,
Braids and Bows
Anne Akers Johnson
amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/187825717X
I don't have this but I flipped through it at the store. This one is more for little girl styles but some could be worn by adults minus the kiddie accessories unless you like kiddie accessories :) .

Great Braids: The New Way to Exciting Hair Styles
Thomas Hardy
amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0806986174
I give it +
Its got the same basic styles as the klutz but doesn't lay flat or come with stuff. It also uses a system of explaining that might be difficult to understand. It has illustrations of a hand and then different colored string like drawings to act as hair sections. Then it shows them moved around to different between finger slots. This book could also be used to inspire people.

388 Great Hairstyles
amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0806994010
This is basically a photograph book with lots of different haircut styles. Its kinda like one of those big thick salon books with the photos but this one is a softcover / regular book and the pages each have like 10 - 20 pictures of different styles. Its a nice book to look at but not for learning. So I'll give it Half of a + because I like it but its not good for much except choosing a new haircut. I don't want to say Eh about it. I like it more than that. There are a few long hair pictures and a couple of updos but they aren't the best instructions. This might be a good book for someone who has short hair now and might need some medium length haircuts to try while growing out.

Cutting Your Family's Hair
Gloria Handel
amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0806958510
I'll give this one ++ because it has lots of pictures. But it might have needed a little more of both pictures and instructions. But at least it wasn't all illustrations or nothing but instructions. Considering the fact that most videos will only give you 3-6 styles tops, I think she did a good job on this and put a lot into it. Its worth buying if you want to cut hair and don't know how.
One plus, it shows instructions for a lady with at least mid back length hair getting a trim so maybe that could help you or someone you know.

My Links, Sites & Other


Long Hair Care Articles ~~ Hair Care Articles & Features ~~ Written By Me, Robert / PurpleBubba ~~
angelfire.com/mi/bbubba/LHC/Articles.html

Here's a list of what I have

~~ Braided Bangs With String ~~ A Great Way To Hold Back Growing Out Bangs ~~ (Updated 1/31/03)

~~ General Hair Information 1 ~~ Acids, Alkalies, and Porosity ~~ (Updated 1/29/03)

~~ General Hair Information 2 ~~ Health and Hair ~~ (Updated 1/29/03)

~~ General Hair Information 3 ~~ Products ~~ (Updated 4/10/04)

~~ Growing Out Damage ~~ Gracefully instead of chopping ~~ (Updated 1/31/03)

~~ Hair Structure & Shedding ~~ Diagrams & Definitions ~~ (Created 9/16/04)

~~ How To Put Hairsticks In ~~ (Updated 3/03/04)

~~ How Often To Trim & Self Split End Trimming ~~ For Maintaining Your Hair Ends Yourself ~~ (Updated 3/17/04)

~~ Scissor Information ~~ How To Choose A Good Pair ~~ (Updated 1/29/03)

~~ Updos ~~ Demonstrated On Manikins ~~ Some With Instructions and Some Without ~~ (Coming Soon as of 4/05/04)
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Purplebubba's Hair & Beauty Salon Directory
angelfire.com/mi/bbubba/salons/main.html
(Created 12/22/01)

I love my salon directory and I'm very proud of it but there's just one problem. I can't recommend the salons to anyone because I've never been to them. I made my directory because I was tired of going to other online directories and seeing their claims of being good directories only to see they had less than 100 listings and in order for a salon to list anything more than name address and phone they had to pay $90 a month or something like that. So I took some space on my angelfire home page and turned it into a free salon directory where Salons can basically give their life story if they wanted and never a charge.
It really does kill me that I can't just recommend the salons. All I can say is for people to check out the ones that offer things like free consultations or free bang trims because they would probably be nicer salons. Personally I think that any salon that doesn't have free consultations should not be visited. A consultation should be free and then if the client wishes they can leave a tip for the stylist for their time.

Here is my disclaimer: Use These Salons At Your Own Risk
The information provided for individual listings was provided by those who have listings.
The Directory does not guarantee the quality of these salons nor the accuracy of the information provided by them.
In other words Don't Assume A Salon Is Good Just Because It Is On This Directory.

If anyone has questions let me know.
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Lighthouse Related

My Lighthouse & Ships Pages ~~ Page 1 ~~
"This is for people who like, collect, or visit ANY lighthouses or ships Not just Michigan. It is also for people who just want to find some new friends."
angelfire.com/mi/bbubba/index.html

Michigan Lighthouses And Ships - Yahoo Group
"This is for people who like, collect, or visit ANY lighthouses or ships Not just Michigan. It is also for people who just want to find some new friends."
groups.yahoo.com/group/michiganlighthousesandships/
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Threads I've started on LHC that may be of interest.

PurpleBubba's Photos
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9618

I need to Say some Thank Yous - by PurpleBubba
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=10346

Looking for other 2a / F-M / ii people
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9469

I've decided to become a Hairstylist after all.
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9687

Attention: Those with Article / How To pages
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9407

PurpleBubba's Updo & Demo Family - Reposted Here
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9799

Ingredient Glossaries - Let's Make a List
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=10366

How To Introduce Yourself
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=10004

Re-Introduce Yourself Here Please
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=10003

POLL: Some General Questions
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9389

Searching For Hair Types & Seeing Them In Posts
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=10032

Project: Frequently Asked Questions
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9448

[Group Activity] ~ The Good Magazine Rack ~
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=10216

Pros & Cons lists - Long vs Short
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9440

Poll: How many have used Feye's Trimming?
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9603

Swimmers, Well Water, & Hard Water, questions for you
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9796

Old West Female Hairstyles? Know any?
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9704

[Poll] What is your "Our Song" or Songs?
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=10365

Lucy Maud (L.M.) Montgomery Books & Shows
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9315

Southern Michigan / N. OH / N. IN / S. Ontario?
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9537
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About Me And Kids / Spanking Issue

I'm reposting what I posted on the "Who Doesn't Spank" thread here because I want to get all the info about me that I've shared easier to find and this is the place for it. Some of this may be posted above as part of my hair history also.
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To start off I'll say that I don't have kids, yet I have always wanted them even if I had to adopt.

I don't want to take one side or the other. I think instead I'll explain why I hope that I never spank or hit a child or anyone else.

I am the youngest of 3 boys. From the time I was very little I made a promise to myself that I would be a good person and always try to do the right thing. I never told anyone I did that but did it nonetheless except maybe online people when I was older, like I'm doing now. This had nothing to do with anything I was taught, it was just who I was and am. My oldest brother was a bully. He would always start trouble either with the middle brother or with me or with both. He couldn't keep his hands to himself. Everytime he started trouble it seemed like we all got spanked. Sometimes I got spanked and I wasn't even involved. Always by Mom. Dad was either not home or sleeping because he worked midnights. My mom did use the corner thing too but it was rare. I don't care that it was only a few swats, I should not have been spanked. There were also foods like Rice a Roni that I hated and was not allowed to leave the table unless I ate it and there were no microwaves in the house then to make it warm an hour later. Most of the time I waited it out without having to eat it or all of it. I later in life found out that My mom was also forced to clean her plate as a kid.

Here's one that's even related to LHC. Back around 1984 I think I would have been 8 or 9, we had a new chain salon open up in the area called BoRics. I had never been in anything but a barber shop for my own haircuts. I had been to salons when mom got hers done. Don't remember too much of that though. Anyway, one day Mom says we are all going to this new place the next day and it turned into an arguement about me not wanting my hair cut. I don't remember the arguement or how long it was but later that day it continued when I was told to take a bath to wash my hair. When I got out of the bathroom I got spanked and I don't remember having another one after that. The next day we all went and got the haircuts. I personally didn't mind this haircut because it was the first time someone cut my hair without using clippers of any kind other than for those neck hairs that I brought up in the other thread. I of course didn't mention that to anyone back then.

So I do not want to spank or hit my child. Not because of right or wrong but because I have seen what it has done to my relationship with my mother. When my parents got divorced in 85 they asked us who we wanted to live with and I said my dad. I really loved my mother as a kid and liked sitting on her lap and taking naps and all that good stuff but the spanking for stupid reasons and forcing me to eat just took its toll. Not to mention when I was in 9th or tenth grade and she gave our cats away. In 1990 we had 2 cats. A grey female and a white male. One day I told the male, Max that he was my best friend. the two of them had a litter of 2 kittens and we kept one white male. my brother named them after Simpsons characters and the one we kept was Homer. So now we had Th grey female and 2 white males. A few weeks later Max ran away. So a few months go by and now Homer is a grown cat and I tell him that he is my best friend. Before Max left he left a present in the form of another litter of 4 kittens. This time we kept a beige Male and this time they were named after Married with Children characters by my brother. We kept Al. Although later on I started calling him anything but including Fluffy, or just Kitty. So now we have 3 cats still but with Al instead of Max. A few more months go by and Homer decides he wants to be like daddy and have a family. Of course that required you know what with his momma. 3 more kittens. Now once again we have a bunch of cats in the house. Only this time instead of getting rid of just kittens Mom and Step dad decide that they are gonna get rid of them all. I come home from school one day and the dog is still there and Al is still there but the kittens and the other two are nowhere to be seen or found. My mother gave away my best friend. She claims that she gave them to a senior center but I can't say that she did or didn't. I told her I hated her and I don't think I will ever forgive her for that. Unless maybe she takes it upon herself to apologize someday. We had Al until he died in 01 but he wasn't the cat I wanted. Yes they did keep a cat and it wasn't as bad as it could have been but still it happened.

I can't talk to her about things. When I told her I was interested in hair I had to work myself up and then walk in and in a demanding statement I showed her one of my braiding books and said, "See This! I'm Gonna be doing this. OK!" and walked away.

Now to the other issue, I never witnessed him do it but my mother says that my Dad abused her physically. I did see him put his hands around my brother's throat 2 different times when he was like 16 or older. His father was violent. Now my dad has changed over the years and is more about lectures than anything else. Something else that I hope I can quit doing to people. A lecture is one thing but when you have to hear the same one 200 times and its not the only one being repeated it gets tiring. So if you ever think I'm lecturing that's where I'm getting it from.

So I want kids because I want to see if I can raise a kid or kids to be as kind, and as loving as I am, and if I ever hit a child its gonna make everything I just said meaningless. I know I have a temper and I know it runs in the family and I need to do everything that I can to break that cycle. I never heard "I'm sorry" so maybe it would have helped. But that doesn't mean I want to be the sorry one.

If you have read my cosmetology journal (you can find it in my other journal, link below) you may have read what happened with the little girl and how it affected me. I will not forgive myself for doing that. Accident or not. I was not put on this Earth to hurt anyone.

I want to say once again that I'm not taking one side or the other. I'm stating that I do not ever want to hit my kids or my wife or girlfriend. I don't drink and I don't like alcohol. I've only had less than 20 drinks in my life and I haven't had a drink since June of 2000 when a coworker bought a round because he was quitting. I never had more than 2 of anything at any time that I was drinking. I always ate with it. Most of the time if it was Cherry Pucker I would pour the shot into my diet cola just because I didn't like drinking it straight. I never really enjoyed it either. The first sip was ok but after that it was pointless to me. So now that I have quit drinking I don't want to drink ever again. If I ever hit someone I don't want alcohol being blamed because its supposed to be My fault not the drink.

I'm sorry if this seemed off the topic but to me this was all in one.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. I do appreciate it.

Please by all means continue to love your own children in your own way. :)

I just remembered that I also used to be over my best friend Shelly's house when her mom would spank her and I think that may have hurt me more than my own. It's hard to watch someone you love go through that and not be able to stop it. She was a good girl too and didn't do anything that really required the spankings she got. What made me really mad and hurt was when her mom would spank her more for continuing to cry.

Just Some Prose

The last entry was a bit of a downer so I thought I'd post a good positive entry.

First my hair, I still am not fitting the 2 times a week into my CO routine. Oh well Maybe next week. My hair is not suffering because of it.

I did use some oil the other day. I did like someone suggested on the Loom and after i put my hair in my sleep tail I took a cotton ball with some Jojoba oil on it and just dabbed my tassle with it. Then I took what was left on the cotton ball and put it on the rest of my hair. I must say I liked how my hair looked when it was still "wet" with oil. It wasn't actually wet but it looked that way. I liked how my tassle kinda sperated into chunky strands as if I had just come out of the shower. Lets see that was May 15th that I got the oil and I tried it the next day so that would have been Sunday morning that I applied it and I have not done much to my hair since. My hair isn't exactly combed at the moment. But that's ok. Everytime I look my hair's doing something unexpected and cool. Like yesterday I was typing a post and I glanced at the hair that happened to be in front of my left shoulder and it was about 1-2 inch section and it was like twisted like a corkscrew loosely. It was like my hair was playing or something. It's kinda like the wavy hair said "Hey straight hair move over it's our turn to play." Anyway I like my oil. I didn't use my BBB with it yet because I want to get a another one first. I want to use one for natural oil and another for Jojoba. Don't know if that's really necessary but I feel like being picky for a change LOL. Thanks again to anyone who has helped me with Jojoba Oil related stuff. You know who you are :)

Now to the real reason I wanted to write. If anyone's been reading lately or knows me, I've not exactly had a great past few weeks. But making my decision to just remain focused and positive has helped me a lot. I went from a deep down to probably one of the best weeks I've ever had.

What really is amazing me is the number of people who are reaching out to me and letting me know they support me or appreciate what I've done. There are people I didn't even know I helped or comforted or maybe entertained LOL. Many have PM'd me or other contact to offer their thanks and to those who have, thank you very much. I hope you know how much that meant to me. I really did need you.
(New Kids On The Block's "Hanging Tough" just started playing on TV, told ya ;) :rockerdud next is Wang Chung's "Let's Go" Let's go cuz we can't hold back no more........)

One special person sent me a message out of the blue yesterday and really surprised me. It's not often you find people that are like looking in a mirror but this was one of those times. Of course I wouldn't mind looking in the mirror and seeing her hair on me LOL, very pretty. Then again I don't think I'd ever say hair wasn't pretty. Heck it could be full of mud and I would be able to see some beauty in that. Where's Louis Armstrong when you need him?

I will say that most people I have gotten to know are great people. Heck even the ones that might not like me have their good points and beauty. It's ok that they might not like me. I can still like them. It's just the way I am. My high school 10 year reunion is coming up soon and even though I hated school because of the jerks, I still plan to attend the reunion. Why? Because there's one special person who means a lot to me because I meant a lot to her.

Too bad it took a long time to find that out.

Here's the situation. In 9th grade I sat next to PJ in computer class. We didn't really know each other but back then The Flash was on TV and I used to like that show so I would change my screen's colors to red and yellow and she asked about it and I told her. We also helped each other with the classwork. We weren't friends but we got along. It was someone to talk to.

Fast forward to Senior Year near the end. I used to spend my lunch hours in the ceramics room since I had ceramics all year and the teachers let people come in to work on projects if they wanted to at lunch. I also did my other homework in there. Anyway the day we got our yearbooks we got them right before lunch and PJ just happened to be in the ceramics room that day. I looked through the yearbook and couldn't find my picture. PJ was on the yearbook committee or whatever it's called and she was upset. She felt bad about it. I didn't know just how bad.

So now we fast forward to September 3 2001. I was at that time and still am moderator of the only yahoo group for my high school. I was also listed on classmates.com. PJ joins the group and also sends me an email and says that she saw what i had written at Classmates about not really liking school etc and she starts out the letter by saying she felt the same. She says that she was talking to her hubby before they got married and he asked her what was the first thing that popped into her head about HS. She told him that it was me and how I wasn't in the year book and how she felt so helpless that she couldn't help me on that... She says she cried the whole way home that day.

Her freshman year at college she was asked to write an essay about something the had changed her life. She said she wrote about that day.

I was melting when I read that. You just never know? Here's the unfortunate part. It was my fault all along. No one told me that I had to have a special senior picture and that they wouldn't just use my ID picture like they did all the other years. Well more bad news, I replied to her email and the email came back to me as failed. At the time she was using one of those @home.com emails and they weren't working when I sent to them. I kept her email and then I came across it again more than a year later and when I checked my group she has changed her email address so I sent her my email again and this time she got it.

Recently, being the person she is, she began looking into our reunion to see what was happening and she posted the details to the group. I emailed her and said I wasn't sure if I was going and she said she would feel bad if I wasn't there so now I would like to go and hopefully my girlfriend can make it in from 2 hours away so they can meet each other too.

When someone tells you that you've changed their life that's reason enough to forget about all the other negatives. (Ronnie Milsap's "I wouldn't have missed it for the world" is playing)

So that's why I'm sticking around and I'm gonna keep on keepin on. How could I leave? Why would I? I love LHC and I love people. They don't have to love me back.

"On Todays Episode Of The 700 Club"

Bubba reaches 700 Posts. :rockerdud

It's kinda funny because I've probably posted hundreds of times elsewhere but it's not often you get to see how many right in front of you all the time. I used to go through my clubs and groups each month to total up how many posts there were and then I would see how many I had done. I always hoped that I was less than the rest LOL. I used to be quite a number cruncher. I guess that doesn't really matter much. Posting 700 times doesn't make me feel any different than before I did. Doesn't make me feel better than someone else either.

I guess what it means more than anything is that I still have the drive in me to help people. I hope I never lose it.

I really would like to write more right now but I'm gonna get to bed because it's wash day and I don't want to miss my bath by being too tired.

I did spray my hair with my new recipe if you can call it that. I used my mostly water with a tiny bit of White Rain EB in it to spray my hair when I got home from the store yesterday. For now I'm only going to do that before a wash day just in case it's doing more harm than good.

So hopefully I'll be reporting back soon instead of a week from now.

Until then have a great day. :)

Routine & CO Wash Update - 9th Wash / Week

I thought I'd try something a bit different this week for how I post this. I'll put what I did last week and then if something's different I'll say so.

Well unlike last week when I waited 6 days to post, this week I'm posting my update less than 24 hours later.
This week it's currently 4:25 am (as I start to write) and I washed just after 11 am Friday morning so that's less than 24 hours again.

At about noon yesterday I did my CO with V05 Kiwi Lime.
I used White Rain EB this week since I'm alternating.

This was a good test for the V05 because the night before I had sprayed my hair with the White Rain & water mist and I do think it was a bit too thick. Not that I can really tell yet. The rookie that I am LOL.
I misted my hair again on Thursday as I said in the previous entry. The difference this week was that I still had Jojoba Oil on my hair from Sunday morning. So that was on my hair along with the WR Mist. So I washed the WR with WR basically.

Anyway, I am happy with my results as usual. I didn't do anything different this time. Just my usual wet down, apply and bag / cap for 20 minutes and then rinse and re-apply and then rinse and then cold water rinse.
Same here, except for using the WR instead of V05. I will say this, my hair feels cleaner after this WR CO than it did after the first WR try 2 weeks ago.

Gosh I can't believe it's been 8 weeks already. I did not do an S&D last night. So that is still on the agenda for soon.
It's now 9 weeks and I still did not do the S & D

I'm hoping that I'll actually do the 2 CO washes this coming week. Of course my Jojoba oil will be here in a few days so I'll be adding that.
Nope it was Friday only again LOL. I did use my oil on Sunday as I said.

Other than that not much to report. I still love my hair despite it's splits and breaks and such. :)
Ditto. Whenever I walk through stores now I put my tail over my right shoulder so it's front of me. I like it there. I figure that's better than letting it Swing and Rub on my shirt while I walk.

~ Some Ponderings ~
It's weird. I said my hair feels clean. When I say my hair is clean that means it feels dry and uncoated. My hair feels that way. But at the same time if I look at it it looks fine / ok. It's not frizzy or rough looking. and if i run my finger down a few pieces it feels smooth.

I often worry about feel and when hair feels dry. What I mean is when other people say their hair is dry, is it really dry or is it just clean? I'm not saying that hair isn't dry sometimes. I just mean it could be clean and not dry maybe 1 out of 10 times. It's easy to be fooled. Especially if you mix a lot of products up and don't have a set routine.

By the way, for those of you who might be looking for V05 at Wal Mart be sure to check more than just the shampoo aisle. Sometimes they have it a few aisles over on some half shelves. They're the kind with 4 sides and aren't as tall. I was looking in the shampoo aisle again today just to see if something was new and I saw that the shampoo aisle was out of V05 Kiwi Lime C but the spot 3 aisles over had all of the V05's and tons of them. There's so many of them that they have to do that actaully. Hopefully those who couldn't find it will find it there.

I had to go pay my insurance today so I also decided I'd go get some magazines too since it's the time where they start changing to the next month's issues.

So anyway we had storms rolling through at the time. When I got to the insurance place the nearest tornado siren was going off. The sky was dark all around but I didn't see anything else. After I paid the insurance I stopped at the gas station at the same intersection and when I got done there the siren stopped. Then I started to head towards Walmart but as I started to head west towards it the rain started to come down too fast so I had to pull into a grocery store parking lot for about ten minutes. Then when I got to Walmart and started walking towards the door I walked through a puddle that turned out to be a lake. My feet and shoes were soaked by the time I got to the door, but ya know what? I didn't really care. It wasn't the first time I've had wet socks and shoes and it probably won't be the last. At least I was alive considering what might have been.

So anyway I didn't see any covers that really grabbed my attention but I bought
Jane - May
Glamour - June
Marie Claire - June

I love going to WM for magazines because they're always discounted.

Jane's cover has Alicia Silverstone on it. Her hair looks to be almost BSL if it isn't. I like how it's just a nice picture of her and not a model in some sex pose or barely any clothes.

So that's pretty much it for now. Thanks For reading :)

~ The Beauty Of The World ~
~ Words or Names that mean beauty, pretty, etc ~

I was using an online translator earlier today and I got an idea to translate the words pretty, beauty, and beautiful into other languages and make a list.

Here is what I have so far.

BEAUTY
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Schoonheid - Dutch
Beauté - French
Schönheit - German
Ομορφιά - Greek
Bellezza - Italian
Beleza - Portuguese
Красотка - Russian
Belleza - Spanish

BEAUTIFUL
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Mooi - Dutch
Beau - French
Schön - German
Όμορφος - Greek
Bello - Italian
Bonito - Portuguese
Красивейше - Russian
Hermoso - Spanish

PRETTY
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Vrij - Dutch
Assez - French
Recht - German
Αρκετά - Greek
Abbastanza - Italian
Consideravelmente - Portuguese
Довольно - Russian
Bastante - Spanish

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Here's some that a sister gave to me while I was talking with her.

sundar = beautiful (hindi/urdu)

shundor = beautiful (bangla)

sundari = beautiful girl (hindi/urdu)

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Some Names I Found

Abinoam
Biblical
Father of beauty

Adoram
Biblical
Their beauty

Ahinoam
Biblical
Beauty of the brother

Corinth
Biblical
Beauty

Hadadezer
Biblical
Beauty of assistance

Hadoram
Biblical
Their beauty

Joppa
Biblical
Beauty

Keren-happuch
Biblical
The horn or child of beauty

Nain
Biblical
Beauty

Paran
Biblical
Beauty

Zipporah
Biblical
Beauty

Zuzims
Biblical
Beauty

Keren
English
The horn or child of beauty

Tziporah
Jewish
Beauty

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~ The Beauty Of The World ~ Continued
~ Words or Names that mean beauty, pretty, etc ~

I just received these from Vampberry. Thank you very much I do appreciate these. If anyone else knows of any words or names that mean Beautiful, etc please feel free to let me know.

Finnish:
BEAUTY = Kauneus

BEAUTIFUL = Kaunis

PRETTY = Nätti

Swedish:

BEAUTY = Skönhet

BEAUTIFUL = Skön

PRETTY = Vacker

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~ The Beauty Of The World ~ Continued
~ Words or Names that mean beauty, pretty, etc ~

I just received these from J12. Thank you very much I do appreciate these. If anyone else knows of any words or names that mean Beautiful, etc please feel free to let me know.

bella - Italian
schoen - German
beau - French
bonito - Portuguese
hermosa - spanish

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~ The Beauty Of The World ~ Continued
~ Words or Names that mean beauty, pretty, etc ~

I just received these from J12. Thank you very much I do appreciate these. If anyone else knows of any words or names that mean Beautiful, etc please feel free to let me know.

bella - Italian
schoen - German
beau - French
bonito - Portuguese
hermosa - spanish

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~ The Beauty Of The World ~ Continued
~ Words or Names that mean beauty, pretty, etc ~

Thanks to Poetryofacherry for this one :)

beautiful in arabic is jameel

Keep Shining :sun:
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A Prose By Any Other Name Would Read As Well

Some updates, some ponderings, some positives.
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Positives,

I think I'll start off by saying that despite my DSL not working for almost 24 hours last night and today, I'm still having a great week or two. All my positive thinking over the past few weeks has really rewarded me in ways I didn't think were possible. LHC really has quite a few angels here and not the short pieces of hair ones. I mean the ones who look out for each other kind. I hope you all get to experience the friendships and yes even love that I have been given by people here. They've really been reaching out to me and have given of themselves. I've had everything from "Hello I appreciate what you say" to "Hello I'm giving you all this stuff no strings attached"

Stephanie if you're reading this, I hope you know how much I appreciate everything you've done. I know I've told you already but I wanted to thank you somewhat publically. Everyone else, you know who you are. If any of you have ever taken any time out of your life to say even one nice word to me Thank You. Speaking of which, I wrote this thread a while back but if you haven't seen it here it is,

I Need To Say Some Thank Yous - by PurpleBubba
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=10346

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Ponderings,

Search and Destroy.

I have come to a decision on this. I'm not calling them that anymore myself.
From now on I will be calling them Search and Snip instead because I've had enough of destroying my hair LOL. Been there done that. Besides split ends used to be good hair too. At some point that hair was not split and it made your hair look nice. You might have even liked it a lot when it was freshly trimmed. A snip is more like a goodbye handshake with someone who's moving away. I'm sure this change will be very confusing to people so I'll probably end up using either S&D or both terms for awhile. Hey, who am I to decide to change the word for everyone? I think if I use both terms like this S&D / S&S or Search and Destroy / Search and Snip it will be easier for people to choose what they want to call it.

Speaking of Search and Snip, I did try to start doing one earlier while I was chatting with a Non-LHC sister and some other sisters. I only got as far as the section that would be the left half of my bangs if I had bangs that were cut. I really only snipped about 3 or 4 off. I think a majority of my splits will be on the hair in back since it's the hardest to reach and would have had the worst tears and rips from my old vent brushing while wet torturing I did.

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Updates,

I was going to wear my hair in a braid today when I went to the store. But I need more practise at it. I can only get it about halfway done before I lose control. I need to try bringing it over my shoulder or something. That's ok. I think that when I do make my braided public debut I would like tobe able to have a picture of that first braid. Had I done it today I would have had to use my regular camera. Maybe that's fate telling me to wait. ;) (The song "Wishing (If I had a photograph of you)" by Flock of Seagulls just started :rockerdud )

The other thing I wanted to say is that when I was making my braid I gave my homemade leave-in another try but I did it a bit different this time. Ok maybe it's not really a recipe but it's just a few drops of White Rain Extra Body Conditioner in a spray bottle full of water. This time instead of spraying my hair I sprayed my hands and then applied it to my hair that way. I'm trying to get it so that it doesn't feel like it's on my hair. Not that it really matters to me but there are people who would try this and not like it if it made their hair feel this way. I think I used too much WR when I did the mix. It was actually more like a squeeze than a few drops. Hopefully as the bottle gets less liquid in it and I replace it with just water it will dilute it better or thin it out.

Today, since it's already 5:30 am I'm hoping to do a CO but there is a possibility of that not happening. I should have done it yesterday but I just wasn't thinking that it was Monday. I'm just too stubborn about this. If i'm going to do 2 CO a week the first has to be Friday and the second has to be either Monday or Tuesday. I don't want to do them on other days. So far I've kept my Friday commitments. The latest in the day that I did a CO on a Friday was probably around 5-6 PM and that's because we went grocery shopping.

I hope I can kick myself in the butt the same way with Mon / Tues. I mean heck I'm giving myself a choice. Maybe I need to not have that choice. I think I should just make myself do them on Tuesdays. Preferably in the morning. I don't know about the rest of you but Tuesday has never been a good day of the week for me. It seems that over the years lots of bad things have happened on Tuesdays. Heck we all know what happened on that one Tuesday. But for the most part it's been the most blah day of the week. It's not the beginning of the week but it's not anywhere near the end of it. I suppose that could have went under Ponderings. Or maybe I could put a disclaimer at the top of every entry,
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Did you get a chuckle or a smile? I hope so because that was my intent. :)
Keep Shining :sun:

Routine & CO Wash Update - 9.5 Wash / Week

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I suppose that could have went under Ponderings. Or maybe I could put a disclaimer at the top of every entry,
Told you I could do that and I meant it so I did it. LOL

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Today, since it's already 5:30 am I'm hoping to do a CO but there is a possibility of that not happening. I should have done it yesterday but I just wasn't thinking that it was Monday. I'm just too stubborn about this. If i'm going to do 2 CO a week the first has to be Friday and the second has to be either Monday or Tuesday. I don't want to do them on other days. So far I've kept my Friday commitments. The latest in the day that I did a CO on a Friday was probably around 5-6 PM and that's because we went grocery shopping. I hope I can kick myself in the butt the same way with Mon / Tues. I mean heck I'm giving myself a choice. Maybe I need to not have that choice. I think I should just make myself do them on Tuesdays. Preferably in the morning. I don't know about the rest of you but Tuesday has never been a good day of the week for me. It seems that over the years lots of bad things have happened on Tuesdays. Heck we all know what happened on that one Tuesday. But for the most part it's been the most blah day of the week. It's not the beginning of the week but it's not anywhere near the end of it.
:rockerdud I finally washed my hair on a day other than Friday. Yesterday (Tues May 25th) I fell asleep in my chair and then I woke up around 11 am, which is my favorite CO wash time, so I CO'd with V05 Kiwi Lime since I'm alternating and WR EB was on Friday.

I am really happy that I finally did a CO on a Tuesday. I really do like V05 Kiwi Lime for my hair. It really does a nice job of cleaning and I love how light my hair feels afterward. I literally have to touch my hair to feel like I have any. Hopefully that's a good thing.

I finally finished off my first 15 oz bottle of V05 Kiwi Lime. That means if I used it 6 times for a whole CO and 1 time just as a Shampoo type application my first week that I'm using about 2 oz per use. That's no where near the amounts that some people use for CO but when I use it my hair is slimey with it and it rinses clean and the hair is clean afterward. Keeping in mind that other than me now oiling that I have not used any other gels or sprays or anything else that would need removing. I'm also using similar amounts of White Rain. Perhaps by me sitting with it on my hair for at least 20 minutes it's having a chance to get at the hair that it might not have gotten? In any case I'm satisfied with my results and I like my routine. I'm not having any problems with the water getting cold too quickly which is good. I don't mind finishing with cold water rinses but there are parts of my routine that I prefer the warmer water. I only had that cold water problem the first week because I was using 3 products.

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I did use some oil the other day. I did like someone suggested on the Loom and after I put my hair in my sleep tail I took a cotton ball with some Jojoba oil on it and just dabbed my tassle with it. Then I took what was left on the cotton ball and put it on the rest of my hair. I must say I liked how my hair looked when it was still "wet" with oil. It wasn't actually wet but it looked that way. I liked how my tassle kinda sperated into chunky strands as if I had just come out of the shower. Lets see that was May 15th that I got the oil and I tried it the next day so that would have been Sunday morning that I applied it and I have not done much to my hair since.

I've tried my oil three more times since then. I oiled my ends yesterday before my CO. I then oiled again last night late at night. I'm concentrating on just the last 6 inches or so for now. Today before I left to go grocery shopping I took a drop and put that on my ends to refresh it.

I like Jojoba Oil so far. I haven't tried any other oils but this one feels nice and light. When I do put it on with my fingers I have to actually look closely to see if I got any out of the bottle and onto them because it's so light. I've used the cotton ball 2 times and my fingers 2 times so far. I love how when I put it on my hair it makes my hair seem to want to curl a bit more. Or maybe I'm just noticing it then and not the other times? I like it, :wink: that's what matters. I hope I don't have any problems with it. Just something about putting oil on my hair that makes me feel like I'm really caring for it. I suppose it's kinda like people who enjoy feeding or watering their plants. I remember watering my tomato plants and hoping I hadn't waited too long or used too much. I knew that there was no way for me to really tell how it would turn out until they grew or didn't. I know oiling won't make the hair grow but it is similar care wise. You just never know right away.

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I added something to today's wash that I have never done before. I used a Vinegar Rinse, but it was White Vinegar. I was just finishing my second rinse of V05 when I just decided to ask Mom to get me some vinegar. I told her to get me 1/3 cup and then I added about a cup of water to it.

While I was at Save-A-Lot grocery store today I grabbed a 32 oz bottle of Apple Cider Vinegar. I haven't used it yet but I couldn't resist. I don't remember the price but since I got it there it was cheaper. Still not sure when I'll use it. Maybe I'll save my vinegar rinses for the wash that is after I use my Aussie products. This Friday will be my 10th week of washing and since 10 weeks used to be report card time in school I think That might be a good time to start my routine back from the beginning again and use my 3 Minute Miracle. I think once every 10 weeks is a good amount of time between cones.

I think for Friday I'll do White Rain EB for the first step but use it like a shampoo, where I apply, lather up, and rinse. Then I'll use the 3 MM as a second step. I'm not sure if I'll use it for only 3-4 minutes like last time or if I'll go longer. I'll be using a plastic bag cap this time.

Then next Tuesday I'll do a normal CO with V05 Kiwi Lime since it's clarifying and then finish with the vinegar rinse then.

I don't know yet if I'll use the Knot Forgotten or not. Maybe I'll leave that up to whether or not the water stays warm enough to start to rinse it with warm water. I think it needs warm water to rinse it out. Then finish with cold water on the rinsed out hair.

Anyway, 10 weeks feels like a nice milestone. I think it's perfect timing for a report card / progress report.

Thanks for reading.

Keep Shining & Smiling :sun:

Routine & CO Wash Update - 10th Wash / Week

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I think for Friday I'll do White Rain EB for the first step but use it like a shampoo, where I apply, lather up, and rinse. Then I'll use the 3 MM as a second step. I'm not sure if I'll use it for only 3-4 minutes like last time or if I'll go longer. I'll be using a plastic bag cap this time.

I don't know yet if I'll use the Knot Forgotten or not. Maybe I'll leave that up to whether or not the water stays warm enough to start to rinse it with warm water. I think it needs warm water to rinse it out. Then finish with cold water on the rinsed out hair.

I did my CO during the Noon hour today. I started off by using just a tiny bit of White Rain extra body conditioner as if I were using shampoo. I applied it then rinsed it out. I then applied the 3 Minute Miracle and used the plastic bag / cap. I sat for 20 minutes and then rinsed that out. As I said the other day, this was the point to decide on whether to use the Knot Forgotten or "Knot"
I decided that since the water was still plenty warm that I would use it. I applied it and then combed it through a bit. Then I rinsed.

Just a quick note: I have been using my wide tooth Jilbere / Conair comb in the shower for the past few weeks. I may have forgotten to mention that.

It's now going on 12 hours later and I'm happy with the results so far. I can't really tell that I used cones. There is a smoothness to my hair but it's too early to say whether it's different than the smoothness from a regular CO without cones.

That's ok I've made the decision that my hair get's cones every 10th week. That could change but for now that's my plan.

My To Do List - Updated 4/05/04

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On 4/05/04 I posted my newer To Do List. Here is the list again and the updates.


Get my car fixed.
This hasn't happened yet but will be soon.

After the car is fixed, resume visiting and calling salons about apprenticeship.
Same answer

Get new hair toys for my manikin demos.
:thumbsup:

When the book "5 Minute Trendy Updos" gets here do some styles from the book like I planned to.
The Book never came, I have to get a refund :brickwall

Continue Updating articles page. Including something about my hair history and picture time line.
:thumbsup: Nothing added yet but are being worked on.

Continue asking for link exchanges to show my support for all the wonderful people with great pages.
:thumbsup: I just looked and there were some exchanges after the 5th of April.

Do my best to let everyone know that I consider them family and that I do love them all. Without making them uncomfortable.
:thumbsup: and thumbsdown Oh well can't win them all, but I have met a lot of very nice people.

Keep coming up with ideas for using household items for hairstyles just like the Braided Bangs with String.
:thumbsup: I did. I used a slinky and pipe cleaners. I'd say those count.

Continue using CO Washing even if it requires a product change. Yes my hair is a bit oily right now but I like it.
:thumbsup: I just posted that above.

Continue wearing hair secured for sleeping. "Robert, if you start sleeping with your hair loose again I'm gonna have to hurt you, Bubba."
:thumbsup: I have not done it everyday but I haven't stopped it.

Continue using my Boar Bristle Brush. I'm enjoying it and I don't want to get lazy and let it collect dust.
:thumbsup:

Get more hair toys, this time when you have money to buy them from your online family.
I am in the process of doing so.

If for any reason the camera is returned to dad, get one.
:thumbsup: This one was a miracle. My brother took the camera back for his garden. But Yesterday a box arrived with a camera, "given" to me by an LHC sister. Thank you Sister. You really are an angel.


Ok so that concludes the To Do List Update. I was shocked to see how many I actually did or started.
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Now for the Report Card Grades.

Sticking to Routine: A-
Not only did I not skip a week or wash but I added one this past tuesday. If it weren't for the fact that it took me three tries to get that tuesday wash added I would probably be giving myself A+. Yeah I realize it seems like I'm being generous but you just don't know how bad I was at not doing these things regularly.

Trying New Things: A
Not only was the routine itself a new thing but all the products were new. I tried 4 new conditioners, Jojoba Oil, White Vinegar Rinse, Using a plastic bag as a cap. Then we have my Sleep tail, attempting buns & braids.

Trimming & Split Ends: C-
I started out with a good start and trim but I have not done more than a few snips of splits so I can't give a high grade here. I want this to improve.

Handling of Hair: B
I've used my sleep tail many times but not every time. I have slept in bed with loose hair a couple times. My combing and brushing techniques are improving but not good enough yet. Getting a comb that had small removeable seams was a +. I have not used a vent brush since starting the new routine. I have not used a blow dryer either. I don't know if Oiling goes here or not but I have done it.

Attitude: B+
This should be a higher grade and would have been if not for a one week period of not feeling so well. I have since come out of that low on a very high note and if you were to grade me based on Just the past 2 weeks I'd be at least an A. I love my hair and I love having a routine and I'm feeling awesome.

Journal Writing: A-
50+ entries in 10 weeks, 5 per week. The score would be higher but some of the entries were not necessarily Routine related. But overall I'm satisfied. If you'd asked me 10 weeks ago if I thought I'd have 50+ entries total I'd have died laughing. The fact that I made it to a 10th week to post something at all amazes me. This Journal has been a blessing.

Overall: B+
I've done great but I can do better. I want to do better. I will do better.

Report Card 2 coming in 10 weeks.

Moon O Moon

I'm not much of a poetry writer but recently I've read some and have been chatting with people who do write it so I thought I'd give it a try since I was inspired.

My Original Poem.

Moon, oh beautiful moon. How you shine so brightly yet have your shadows and imperfections.
Moon, our child the moon. Without you we would be lost. Doomed to tumble forever.
Moon, our friend the moon. Let us dance together among the heavens for eternity.

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Original Translated To Dutch

Maan, oh mooie maan. Hoe u zo helder nog glanst hebben uw schaduwen en onvolmaaktheden.
Maan, ons kind de maan. Zonder u wij worden verloren. Veroordeeld om voor altijd te tuimelen.
Maan, onze vriend de maan. Dans samen onder de hemel voor eeuwigheid.

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Translated Back To English

Maan, oh beautiful maan. How you gleam this way clear still have your shadow and imperfections.
Maan, our child the maan. Without you we are lost. Condemned to tumble for always.
Maan, our friend the maan. Dancing together under the sky for perpetuity.

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Original Translated To French

Lune, belle lune de l'OH. Comment vous brillez tellement brillamment pourtant ayez vos ombres et imperfections.
Lune, notre enfant la lune. Sans vous nous serions perdus. A condamné pour dégringoler pour toujours.
Lune, notre ami la lune. Dansons ensemble parmi les cieux pour l'éternité.

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Translated Back To English

The moon, the beautiful moon of l'OH. How you shine so much brillamment however have your shades and imperfections.
The moon, our child the moon. Without you we would be lost. With condemned for dégringoler for always.
The moon, our friend the moon. Let us dance together among the skies for l eternity.

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Original Translated To German

Mond, OH- schöner Mond. Wie Sie so **** (H word) dennoch glänzen, haben Sie Ihre Schatten und Unvollkommenheiten.
Mond, unser Kind der Mond. Ohne Sie würden wir verloren. Verurteilte, für immer zu stolpern.
Mond, unser Freund der Mond. Lassen Sie uns unter den Himmeln für Ewigkeit zusammen tanzen.

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Translated Back To English

Moon, OH- beautiful moon. As you shine so brightly nevertheless, have your shade and incompleteness.
Moon, our child the moon. Without you we were lost. Condemned, always too stolpern.
Moon, our friend the moon. Let us under the skies for eternity together dance.

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Original Translated To Italian

Luna, luna bella dell'OH. Come lucidate così brillantemente tuttavia abbia le vostre ombre ed imperfezioni.
Luna, il nostro bambino la luna. Senza voi saremmo persi. Ha condannato cadere per sempre.
Luna, il nostro amico la luna. Balliamo insieme fra il cielo per eternity.

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Translated Back To English

Moon, beautiful moon dell'OH. As polished therefore shiningly however has your shadows and imperfections.
Moon, our child the moon. Without you we would be lost. It has condemned to always fall in order.
Moon, our friend the moon. We dance with between the sky for eternity.

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Original Translated To Spanish

Luna, luna hermosa del oh. Cómo usted brilla tan brillantemente con todo tenga sus sombras e imperfecciones.
Luna, nuestro niño la luna. Sin usted nos perderían. Condenó caer por siempre.
Luna, nuestro amigo la luna. Bailemos junto entre los cielos para la eternidad.

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Translated Back To English

Moon, beautiful moon of oh. How you shine so shiningly yet has your shades and imperfections.
Moon, our boy the moon. Without you they would lose to us. It condemned to fall by always.
Moon, our friend the moon. Let us dance together between skies for the eternity.

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Routine & CO Wash Update - 10.5 Wash / Week

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First, back by popular demand & need
~ Miracle Happy Hair Pills ~
I edited them into my entry above titled
"For My Friends Who Enjoy My Journal"
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?p=151560#post151560

Now on to the updates

While I was at Save-A-Lot grocery store today I grabbed a 32 oz bottle of Apple Cider Vinegar. I haven't used it yet but I couldn't resist. I don't remember the price but since I got it there it was cheaper. Still not sure when I'll use it. Maybe I'll save my vinegar rinses for the wash that is after I use my Aussie products. This Friday will be my 10th week of washing and since 10 weeks used to be report card time in school I think That might be a good time to start my routine back from the beginning again and use my 3 Minute Miracle. I think once every 10 weeks is a good amount of time between cones.
I think for Friday I'll do White Rain EB for the first step but use it like a shampoo, where I apply, lather up, and rinse. Then I'll use the 3 MM as a second step. I'm not sure if I'll use it for only 3-4 minutes like last time or if I'll go longer. I'll be using a plastic bag cap this time.
Then next Tuesday I'll do a normal CO with V05 Kiwi Lime since it's clarifying and then finish with the vinegar rinse then.

Everything went according to plan. I did my Tuesday CO today at about 6:30 PM which is later than I like it but I didn't mind since I was happy to be sticking with my routine. I did my normal CO application of 2 steps with V05 Kiwi Lime and then I finished with an ACV rinse and then a Cold water rinse. I mean as in I turned the hot water off. I've been doing that anyway lately, just wanted to say so.

I'm happy with the results so far. It was my first ACV rinse and my second Vinegar. I have to get used to the vinegar getting in my mouth. Reminds me of eating salt & vinegar chips. Which I have done. They aren't my favorite but I have eaten them before when they were in the house.

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Broken Hairs / Trophies

I'm a bit mad at myself, just a tiny bit. I went downstairs to bring mom's laundry up and when I went to grab the basket handles and then lift up I accidently grabbed a few hairs with my hand and pinched them against the basket and then when I picked my head up I heard snap. It felt like about 3 hairs or so got yanked. No big loss. They'll just blend in with the rest of my broken hairs :)

Besides as I said before they wouldn't have gotten broken if I hadn't grown my hair that long.

I originally posted this in response to Ava's Hair Breaking Thread in regards to her shorter, possibly broken hairs.

"You know I'm thinking about how to turn this into a positive and it just popped into my head that maybe it's good for us to all have some shorter hairs whether they are broken or just new. I know they can be a pain but I think it gives us another reason to love & care for our hair a little more. It also helps give us more goals which might help to take some of the focus off of just trying to reach a certain length.

I posted in my Changing My Goal thread and in my journal earlier about wanting to get my hair to be kinda even at 30 inches as I'm going towards my current goal of 36" / waist. I know I have a lot of splits that are up higher than my current 29.5 inches of hair. So hopefully I can get those to 30" and trimmed before I get the rest of my hair to 36". Does that make sense?

Here's a big hug :grouphug: for you sister and I hope you find a better routine to help turn the tide. Don't let those broken hairs get you too down. Consider them like trophies. You wouldn't have gotten those if you didn't let them get long first. That means you can get them long again.

Here's some waves for you ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ we'll get you through this."

So with that being said, I'm happy to earn a few more trophies. At least these were earned and not created by my vent brushing on wet hair.

~ My Routine ~
~ The Routine Itself, Not An Update ~

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I decided to post this just in case someone new is reading this who hasn't been reading my whole journal. As of today 6/13/04 this is my routine.

Purplebubba's Routine - 2a / F - M / I I
Slight Wavy / Fine - Med / 2.5" thick

My 2 times a week Conditioner Only Wash involves,

Applying either VO5 Kiwi Lime Squeeze Conditioner (Tuesdays)
or
White Rain Extra Body Conditioner (Fridays),

generously to my hair after wetting first. I make sure I use enough to make my hair feel slimey and coated.

Then I pile my ponytail on top of my head, cover with a plastic bag and place a claw clip over the bag to hold it in place. You don't want it loose, it should be like a shower cap. You can also try plastic wrap.

I then sit down for 10-20 minutes and just do other stuff or relax. Ladies do their shaving and such. I like to just listen to the radio.

When that time is up I remove the bag. By now the conditioner will not look slimey and will probably look like its gone. It does for me. I then rinse it out.

Then I re-apply the conditioner as if I were just going to put some on and rinse right away like the bottle says. I then rinse.

As I get closer to the point when all the conditioner is rinsed I gradually make the water cooler until its as cold as I can stand. This helps close the cuticle and smooth the hair better.

Note: Once in awhile I use my wide tooth comb and comb the conditioner through my hair. I don't have a certain step that I do this at. Sometimes it's during step one and sometimes it's during step two.

I also have Aussie 3 Minute Miracle and Knot Forgotten but as of right now I've decided to use them only once every ten weeks.

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Products & Ingredients

Alberto V05 - Kiwi & Lime Squeeze, Herbal Conditioner, Clarifying for extra body with rosemary & lemongrass extracts

Ingredients:
Water, cetyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol, stearalkonium chloride, rosemary leaf extract, cymbopogon schoenanthus extract, actinidia chinensis (kiwi) extract, citrus aurantifola (lime), hydrolyzed collagen, ergocalciferol (Vitamin D), steareth-21, glyceryl stearate, benzophenone-4, corn oil, propylene glycol, disodium edta, dmdm hydantioin, fragrance, blue 1, yellow 5

White Rain Extra Body Conditioner

Ingredients:
Water, Cetyl Alcohol, Dicetyldimonium Chloride, Phenoxyethanol, Stearyl Alcohol, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Ceteareth-20, Behenyl Alcohol, Fragrance, Citric Acid

Aussie 3 Minute Miracle, Original

Ingredients:
Water, Cetyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate, PEG-12 Distearate, Cetrimonium Chloride, Fennel Extract (foeniculum vulgare), Hops Extract (humulus lupulus), Balm Mint Extract (melissa officinalis), Yarrow Extract (achillea millefolium), Hydrolyzed Casein, Oat Flour (avena sativa), Jojoba Oil (buxus chinensis), Matricaria Extract (chamomilla recutita), Yeast Extract, Sunflower Seed Oil (helianthus annuus), Simethicone, Stearyl Alcohol, Lecithin, Sorbitol, Glycerin, Glycol Stearate, Acetamide MEA, Cetrimonium Bromide, Sodium Lauriminodipropionate, Fragrance, Dicetyldimonium Chloride, Stearalkonium Chloride, Phosphoric Acid, Propylene Glycol, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Tetrasodium EDTA, DMDM Hydantoin, FD&C Yellow #6

Aussie Knot Forgotten Detangler (Used to be called Slip)

Ingredients:
Water, Cetearyl Alcohol, Dicetyldimonium Chloride, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Cucumber Extract (cucumis sativus), Calendula Officinalis Extract, Simethicone, Citric Acid, Fragrance, Propylene Glycol, DMDM Hydantoin, Methylparaben, Propylparaben

Vitamin Shoppe Brand - 100% Pure Jojoba Oil

Ingredients:
Yep you guessed it
100% Pure Jojoba Oil

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Leave-Ins & Other

For leave-in, I currently am using my own conditioner and water mix. I use about a drop or two of the White Rain and the rest of the bottle is water.

So far I've only used my Jojoba Oil on dry hair. Mostly applied on the lower half of my hair. My application technique varies. Sometimes I use some in my palms and apply or I put some on my fingertips and apply. Sometimes I use a cotton ball. It depends on how much I feel like using. I really like Jojoba Oil. It's the only oil I've tried so far but I like how it oils the hair yet doesn't feel too greasy or wet.

The rest of my routine involves wearing a ponytail in public and then for bed I wear my hair like this

My Sleep Tail

On March 26th I started wearing my hair to bed this way. This was right after I trimmed my own hair using Feye's Slight U. Before this I wore my hair loose for almost 28 years, although my hair has only been long for about 9.

I use my covered elastics. I put one on at the nape and then carefully slide it down to the bottom position about 2/3 of the way down. Then I put another at the nape and slide it down to the top position 1/3 of the way down. I have not had any tangles from sleeping since I started doing this.

Here is a picture of my

"Sleep Tail 4/09/04"
http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/SleepTail.jpg

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~ Mijn Nieuwe Rut / My New Routine - 6/15/04 ~

Deze dagboekingang zal in het Nederlands worden geschreven ter ere van wat u op het punt staat te lezen.

Waarschuwing: Bubba kon in op elk ogenblik het nadenken uitbreken. Voorbereidingen getroffen om op een rit worden genomen. Gelieve te houden uw handen op elk moment binnen de auto en uw vastgemaakte veiligheidsriemen. Wij zijn niet verantwoordelijk voor verwonding of het verlies van bezit terwijl het lezen van deze ingang
dankt u, Beheer van BubbaLand

Ik heb een nieuw product zodat moet ik nu mijn routine bijwerken om het te omvatten. Vanaf een paar dagen geleden voltooide ik een ruilmiddel van haarproducten en andere goodies met mijn goede vriend en zuster, "Luna Bella".

Zij naar verzond me een fles van "Schwartzkopf Perzik Crèmespoeling" van Nederland.

Dit betekent dat ik dit product in mijn routine zal werken. Ik zal het later vandaag gebruiken.

Hier is wat de rug van de fles zegt,

"Perzik Crèmespoeling
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Voor ieder haartype
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Deze Crèmespoeling met natuurlijke perzikolie maakt het haar makkelijk doorkambaar, zonder het te verzwaren.
Uw haar is zachter en valt soepel en glanzed in model. Werkt anti-statisch.
Gebruiksaanwijzing: na het wassen in het vochtige haar verdelen, laten inwerken, en uitspoelen."

Dankuwel zuster. U hebt me sommige prachtige goodies verzonden en ik houd van hen. Dit zijn de eerste punten die ik van een ander land heb ontvangen.
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Now translated back to English,

This day book entrance will be written in Dutch read for the ere of what you stand on the point.

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thanks you, management of BubbaLand

I have a new product so that I must update rut now my to include it. As from a couple days suffered I completed a ruilmiddel of its products and other goodies with my good friend and sister, "Luna Bella".

She to sent me a bottle of "Schwartzkopf perzik Crèmespoeling" of the Netherlands.

This means that I this product in my rut will work. I will use it later today.

Here is what the back of the bottle says,

"Perzik crèmespoeling
For every its type of
this crèmespoeling with natural perzikolie makes it its easily doorkambaar, without aggravating it. Your hair is and falls more gently smooth and glanzed in model. Works anti-static.
Instructions for use: after washing in wet its divides, lets act on, and uitspoelen."

Dankuwel sister. You me has sent some splendid goodies and I love them. These are the first points which I land of another one have received.

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Here is what I really said,

This journal entry will be written in Dutch in honor of what you are about to read.

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I have a new product so I now must update my routine to include it.
As of a few days ago I completed a swap of hair products and other goodies with my good friend and sister, "Luna Bella".

She sent to me a bottle of "Schwartzkopf Peach Conditioner" from Holland.

This means that I will be working this product into my routine. I will use it later today.

Here is what the back of the bottle says,

(I left out the Bottle stuff cuz I didn't say it ;) )

Thank you so much sister. You have sent me some wonderful goodies and I love them. These are the first items I have received from another country.

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Purple Person's Profile

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This image is large so I only put the link to it.
photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/Stuff/purpleperson.gif
and the answer is No I did not write that. I don't know who did but it was on a cardboard plaque that I got in NYC at a store that sold only purple stuff. They also had coffee mugs and other stuff that had that on it.

Routine & CO Wash Update - 12.5 Wash / Week

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She sent to me a bottle of "Schwartzkopf Peach Conditioner" from Holland.

This means that I will be working this product into my routine. I will use it later today.

On Tuesday I used this product for the first time as I said I would. The one thing about swapping products is that you hope that they will work for the people you swap with. I am very happy to say that I do love my results with using this for my CO wash.

I did the same CO wash I always do except I used the Peach Conditioner instead of My White Rain or My V05 Kiwi Lime.

The bottle says that it's got Vitamins in it. It says B5 and B3.

Here are the ingredients.
Aqua / Water, Cetearyl Alcohol, Quarternium-87, Propylene Glycol, Isopropyl Myristate, Distearoylethyl Hydroxyethylmonium Methosulfate, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Panthenol, Niacinamide, Prunus Persica (Peach), Ceteareth-20, Glyceryl Stearate, Citric Acid, Parfum, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Methylparaben, CI 15985 (aka Yellow 6)

I felt a difference the moment this product touched my hair. My hair felt thicker. It's now 2 days later and my dry ponytail still feels thicker. So this is definitely staying in the routine. :cloud9:

Last night I started doing some search and snips on my hair. I have my hair in a low tail and I've just been doing various techniques of either sectioning the tassle or twisting sections or just doing the ones I could see. I feel pretty good about it. I am still finding splits but hey, what's the fun of a search and snip without getting to snip a few? No I'm not scissor happy. I'm hair happy. My hair is happy and I like it. I really like the way those different lengths of hair make my hair look. They make nice waves.

I want to thank Luna Bella once again. I was starting to get a bit bored with my routine. Things were going well so I wasn't having anything to really write about. I probably could have just copied and pasted a previous update and called it a new one. Now I have new life. :heartbeat

Changing My Signature & Current Length

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I measured my hair with my metal tape measure and with the measurements I did I was getting at least 31 inches so that's up from my 29.5" after my trim. So I had to update my profile and signature. :)

My Old Signature

~ Robert / PurpleBubba ~
~ Wishing Everyone "No Tangles" ~
~ 2a F-M ii ~ 3"/ 29.5"/ 36" ~
http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/00_04.jpg
~ Former Cosmetology Student, Seeking Apprenticeship ~
~ My Journal ~ "PurpleBubba's Periodical Prose of Ponderings" ~ (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9422)
~ My Hair Care Articles ~ (http://angelfire.com/mi/bbubba/LHC/Articles.html)
~ My Links List ~ (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?p=152662)

My New Signature

~ Robert / PurpleBubba ~
~ Wishing Everyone "No Tangles" ~
~ 2a F-M ii ~ 3"/ 31"/ 36" ~
http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/00_04.jpg
~ Former Cosmetology Student, Seeking Apprenticeship ~
~ My Journal ~ "PurpleBubba's Periodical Prose of Ponderings" ~ (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9422)
~ My Hair Care Articles ~ (http://angelfire.com/mi/bbubba/LHC/Articles.html)
~ My Links List ~ (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?p=152662)


This is currently either the longest my hair has been or tied for it. However this time my hair is all close to one length and not just a few strands reaching mid back. I have also recently done a few more search and snips on my splits so that's getting better too. :thumbsup:

Keep Shining :sun:

:) Smile Everyday, It Works Miracles :)

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:) I wrote this back in December 2001 and I saved it. I don't remember who I was responding to but this was my reply.

Well that's better than looking in the mirror everyday to see if you have a new wrinkle. While most women are looking to see if they have aged any you are looking to see if you have gotten more beautiful. I offer you this advice and if you don't forget it you will reach your goal. Everytime you look in that mirror smile at yourself. Remind yourself that you like who you are. A smile has that power. When you smile at yourself you see past all the things you don't like and you can see straight into your own heart. So remember to smile cuz we are all smiling with you. :)


Keep Shining :sun:

Getting Over Hurdles - June 22nd

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I wrote this as I was talking to Alicia after I had responded to her thread.
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=11935
I also posted this there as well.

I know how you feel. I was the fat kid who wasn't good at sports in gym.
There was one day where we had to jump over hurdles and I just couldn't get over it and they were laughing at me.
I even started crying but then I got mad and I got so mad that I jumped over that hurdle. But I still caught it with my shoe and knocked it over. But I could do it now. The only problem was there were 2 hurdles so because I was spending so much focus on the first hurdle I would get over it and then I wouldn't be running to get over #2. But I didn't care because I knew that if I really really wanted to and had to I could do it but what would that prove?
My jumping over that second hurdle wouldn't stop them from teasing me about something else but when my back was to the wall I got over that first hurdle. The only hurdles that matter are the ones you want to jump.

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Getting Over Hurdles - Continued - June 24th

I just had to post this as an update. :cloud9:
Let's give it up for our very own Purple Bubba!!! - by Golden Mermaid (formerly known as Alicia)
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=11995

Keep Shining :sun:

More Ponderings On Search & Snip

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Ponderings,

Search and Destroy.

I have come to a decision on this. I'm not calling them that anymore myself.
From now on I will be calling them Search and Snip instead because I've had enough of destroying my hair LOL. Been there done that. Besides split ends used to be good hair too. At some point that hair was not split and it made your hair look nice. You might have even liked it a lot when it was freshly trimmed. A snip is more like a goodbye handshake with someone who's moving away. I'm sure this change will be very confusing to people so I'll probably end up using either S&D or both terms for awhile. Hey, who am I to decide to change the word for everyone? I think if I use both terms like this S&D / S&S or Search and Destroy / Search and Snip it will be easier for people to choose what they want to call it.

Speaking of Search and Snip, I did try to start doing one earlier while I was chatting with a Non-LHC sister and some other sisters. I only got as far as the section that would be the left half of my bangs if I had bangs that were cut. I really only snipped about 3 or 4 off. I think a majority of my splits will be on the hair in back since it's the hardest to reach and would have had the worst tears and rips from my old vent brushing while wet torturing I did.


I said that on May 25th but it was after I had a conversation with someone and these are the things I was saying.

......the thing is, even if you end up with some bad ends, you still put your heart into it so it wouldn't be a bad thing
remember, even though those ends may be bad at that time, there was a time when they weren't and they showed their love to you
it's like flowers or trees
just think about how everyone loves the leaves changing color
those leave lived a full life and had their days in the sun
and when they fall off that doesn't mean the tree will die, it just means it's another leaf's turn to shine
that's why I'm not calling it search and destroy anymore
you don't say goodbye to an old friend by destroying him......


Keep Shining :sun:

:gift: God's Gifts :gift:

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I was just responding to a PM from a sister stating that she couldn't understand how anyone could be mean to me.

I think the problem with those that don't like me is that they either read my words in the wrong tone or they just don't believe I am who I say I am.
One of them told me that she doesn't like how I act like I'm God's gift to LHC.
Well I'm not that at all. I'm God's gift to the Earth or World. :)
As we all are. We just need to realize it and open ourselves up to be enjoyed.

After I wrote that I knew I had to put it here to be shared.

Keep Shining :sun:

July 5th Hair Pictures & the Old Ones

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Also posted here
PurpleBubba's Photos
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9618

March 26th 2004

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July 5th, 2004
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The hair isn't too much longer but it is starting to even up a bit more or not be as bad at the ends. I'm happy.

Keep Shining :sun:

Post #900 & My Bubba Hugs

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This is My 900th Post. :)

So I figured I'd do something nice with it.

These are Bubba Hugs. I have been making these since 1998 and sending them to my Sisters so they could have a piece of me to keep with them.

It's simple. I ask them what their 2 or 3 favorite colors are and then I make a pattern with the chosen colors. I then send the necklace to the person. Free. Nothing is asked for in return.

This first one is the one I made for me.
http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/Stuff/purgreennecklace.gif

These are two extras that I just made to have on hand.

http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/Stuff/yellownecklace.gif http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/Stuff/purplenecklace.gif

This is not one of my hugs necklaces but it is something that I made in my senior year ceramics class using Fimo Clay / Dough.

http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/Stuff/FimoNecklace.gif

Keep Shining :sun:

Routine & CO Wash Update - 16.0 Week - July 11th

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It's been a while since I've written about washing. So here's an update.
The last time I posted about a wash it was Week 12.5 and I had just used my new Peach Conditioner.
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?postid=165311#post165311

Since then I've only been washing once a week. Not for any special reason, it's just the way things happened.
If I remember correctly it went something like this.

12.5 (Tuesday) was that Peach Conditioner. Then I didn't wash until the following Friday which was week 14.0, and on that day I did a quick wash with the V05 Kiwi Lime. That means that I did 2 applications of the conditioner and rinsed them both right away as if I had washed with a shampoo and then a conditioner. It worked pretty well.
Then I washed last week Friday 15.0 with White Rain doing my normal application.

Yesterday / Friday week 16.0 I tried something new. My mom had V05 Free Me Freesia conditioner ever since I started my routine but she never used it. So I tried it yesterday.

Alberto VO5 - Free Me Freesia Moisturizing Herbal Conditioner

Ingredients
Water , Cetyl Alcohol , Stearyl Alcohol , Aloe Barbadensis Gel , Jasmine Extract Jasminum Officinale , Freesia Refracta Extract , Ergocalciferol Vitamin D , Hydrolyzed Keratin , Glycerin , Stearalkonium Chloride , Steareth-21 , Glyceryl Stearate , Benzophenone-4 , Corn Oil , Propylene Glycol , Disodium EDTA , Dmdm Hydantoin , Fragrance , Ext. D&C Violet No. 2

It's now been more than 24 hours since and my hair still feels nice and clean.
I don't feel any oiliness. I'm satisfied so far.

So that means since she's not going to use it I will add it to my 4 product rotation.

Here are my 4 products once again

Alberto V05 - Kiwi & Lime Squeeze, Herbal Conditioner, Clarifying for extra body with rosemary & lemongrass extracts

White Rain Extra Body Conditioner

Schwartzkopf Perzik Crèmespoeling / Schwartzkopf Peach Conditioner from Holland

Alberto VO5 - Free Me Freesia Moisturizing Herbal Conditioner

The order in which I use them might vary but they will all be used. I'm still not ready to start using more than one on the same day. The only days that I use more than one product are my every 10 weeks Aussie washes.

The only other part to update is that the weather has gotten warmer which means more sweating. So far it hasn't been a problem. I'm still having fun. I've used my Jojoba Oil a few times in the past 4 weeks. Not a bunch, maybe 2-3 applications. My tail is feeling longer. When I put my hair in my sleep tail it feels thicker and longer than it was at first. Sleeping with a tail is still new to me but I do enjoy it.

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I want to say a very special thank you to some people. Some I've already thanked and some I've been meaning to.

First, a thank you to Scorpeo. The photos that I posted of myself in the last entry would not be possible without her. She sent me her older digital camera and some hair toys, no strings attached. You are a miracle sister. If I never receive another gift in my life I will be fine because I received yours. :grouphug:

Having said that, well it happened again. Juli sent me the hair clips that she posted about on the swap board.

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Thank you again Juli, I will put these to good use. :grouphug:

I'd like to also thank Luna Bella again for swapping with me. :grouphug:

Thank you once again to anyone who has ever taken time out of their day to send me a PM or Email or anything like that just to say something nice to me or tell me something that I didn't know that made my day. :grouphug:

And thank you for reading my Journal. :grouphug:

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Routine & CO Wash Update - 17.0 Week - July 22nd

I had meant to post this as my 1000th post but I posted 1000 on another thread. Oh well LOL.

Just a quick update, I used this for the second time last Friday and I still like my results from it.

Schwartzkopf Perzik Crèmespoeling / Schwartzkopf Peach Conditioner from Holland

:)

Nothing much else to report. Other than sending 7 of my "Hugs" (see the July 5th post) the other day. I haven't sent that many at one time since I sent a bunch in 98. It felt nice to be back to doing that. I wonder if I've gone over 100 yet? I know I'm well past 50. Oh well I used to keep better track, it's been 6 years. Thanks to those who requested them. I hope you realize how much I love sending them. Just makes things seem right with the world.

Keep Shining :sun:

Captain's Log - Entry 9.3.04

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I've returned from my extended shore leave. Which consisted mainly of me turning my chair around and pointing it at the TV for a month.

I left with the intention of playing some video games for a few days and it turned out to be a few weeks. Then the Olympics came and it was another excuse to just watch TV. Plus I needed to try to get my sleep schedule back on a more acceptable track. That sleeping from 7 am till 7 pm stuff had to go. 7 am till noon or 1 pm I don't mind but more than that is a bit much. Besides, it was starting to screw up my routine. It's kinda hard to take my shower / bath in the morning if I'm in bed. I'm glad in a few hours it will be Friday morning. I haven't stuck to my routine as much as I would have liked. You just don't realize how much you miss your journal until you go without it. So tomorrow I hope I will not have to go to the store or anything like that because I want to get my routine back on track.

I had planned to write some more for this entry but I think it would be better if I went to bed.

But here is my collection of mini License Plates I have from my 2000 trip to Tennessee and then to New England.

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and here's some spaceship / jet drawings I did for a story I was working on.

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Keep Shining :sun:

Just felt I had to make a note of this

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Just felt I had to make a note of this. I don't remember the last time I did this but it has to have been a few years. I went to the store and another place and I left my hair down and loose. No ponytail. I was hoping someone at the store would say something since I always go there but nope. But maybe they're already used to my hair being long in the tail so it didn't really look much longer down. But anyway it felt good. Besides I think my hair and scalp needed the fresh air it doesn't get when in a tail. :)

Keep Shining :sun:

Ponder-osa

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I'm sitting here and it's after 6 am. Has anyone else ever had the urge to write in their journal and just had nothing much to write? Today is supposed to be a CO wash day. I'd like to use my Peach Conditioner today. I think my hair could use some.

PBS was showing "The Concert For George" wednesday night. With all my cd's it still amazes me how many musicians die before I can get their cd. I think George Harrison should be next on the music agenda.

Here's a note to self.
I want these two.
Best Of George Harrison
Best of Dark Horse

Then they can be played along with the others I didn't get until after.
Roy Orbison, Waylon Jennings, John Denver.
My only successes were Ray Charles & Johnny Cash. I bought them a few years ago.

I've been meaning to post this since I came back.
These are the hairsticks that Anne / Long Hair Jewels custom made for me.
She worked her butt off trying to get those sticks to be purple. The scan doesn't do them justice, they are very purple. Anne, these sticks are more beautiful than I imagined they would be. I'll treasure these forever.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/Manikins/sticks1.gif

I may hand them down as Heirlooms. If I ever have kids to do so. I plan to get at least one pair from all my friends ASAP. That could be months or years.

It's now 7 am. Let's see what else I can pile on.

Seems like a lot of people I really love and care about are going through some rough and tough times. I wish I could be there for them. Some I can but others I can't. I'd have to have a shoulder as big as the moon for that. I'm working on it.

Can't think of anything else. I think I'm gonna go to bed and try not to sleep past noon. Clock says 7:29 am

Keep Shining :sun:

Updates - Trim, Pics, Wash, Signature.

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Today is the first major update since I started my journal in March.

I trimmed about an hour ago using some of Feye's methods. I measured before the trim and was getting 33 1/2 inches. I am now getting 33 inches. I'm satisfied.
Here are the before and after pics

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/Sep04b2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/Sep04a2.jpg

As you can see there isn't much difference but I definitely took at least 1/2 an inch. I also think it's a bit more even now. I'm not striving for perfection. My hair is usually in a tail in public anyway so if it was uneven no one would know plus as you can see it's fairly wavy at times so that hides it too.

Here you can see a side by side March and September.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/04back6.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/Sep04a3.jpg

As you may notice it's well past the elbows now although I am standing at a bit of an angle. On my new signature below I'm using smaller versions of the same two pictures above with a line to the elbows.

New Signature Picture
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/SigSept04.jpg

Here is my old signature once more.

Old Signature

~ Robert / PurpleBubba ~
~ Wishing Everyone "No Tangles" ~
~ 2a F-M ii ~ 3"/ 31"/ 36" ~
http://img52.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/00_04.jpg
~ Former Cosmetology Student, Seeking Apprenticeship ~
~ My Journal ~ "PurpleBubba's Periodical Prose of Ponderings" ~ (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9422)
~ My Hair Care Articles ~ (http://angelfire.com/mi/bbubba/LHC/Articles.html)
~ My Links List ~ (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?p=152662)

And this will be the new signature with the new picture and updated length info.

Complete New Signature

~ Robert / PurpleBubba ~
~ Wishing Everyone "No Tangles" ~
~ 2a F-M ii ~ 3"/ 33"/ 36" ~
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/SigSept04.jpg
~ Former Cosmetology Student, Seeking Apprenticeship ~
~ My Journal ~ "PurpleBubba's Periodical Prose of Ponderings" ~ (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9422)
~ My Hair Care Articles ~ (http://angelfire.com/mi/bbubba/LHC/Articles.html)
~ My Links List ~ (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?p=152662)

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I did do my CO wash around 4 pm friday using the Schwartzkopf Peach Conditioner that Luna Bella sent. I'm glad I used it. I really like it. It's a really thick conditioner in the sense that it's almost like a paste. It feels as if they took peaches and pureed them. Sometimes I think it smells a bit more like mangos but so what if it does. As long as no one comes up to me and tries to take a bite of my fruit head I'll be ok ;)

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It is the day. Today is September 11th. I'm not going to say much except that rather than use a picture or logo from someone else's site I'll use the one I made back then.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/Stuff/purpleheartusa.gif

Purple Hearts may tear but they will heal and heal stronger. May the Earth never stand still again.

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This is from a reply I did at the Loom.

I was kinda shocked actually after I took the pictures.

During my month off I was getting into one of my lazy modes. I was starting to get into my old bad habits and that wasn't good. So to come back and take those pictures and see that it has grown helped a lot.

It's nice to not see quite so many horror stories as we used to see. Before Feye came up with her method most of the posts on the boards were about everyone trying to find a long hair salon. I don't see those as often anymore. You almost have to read a journal to hear if someone trimmed because they do it themselves and it's not a huge event that going to a new salon would be.

Keep Shining :sun:

Ponder-osa II

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I posted this first part on the October Measure In thread.

I trimmed on 9/10/04 and on that day I was getting 33" after. My measurements are not always accurate since I'm still measuring my own hair and using a regular tape measure and not a cloth one.

I'm still getting about 33" which I don't mind because my goal is to get to 36" / Waist by the end of March which would give me about 6" in one year.

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At some point I would like to cut at least an inch off at one time. It's either that or I need to do a Search & Snip. My ends are not laying as flat as they were a few months ago. I still have not done a complete S&S since March. I think I could use one since I got a bit lazy during that month away from here. A few too many yanks and knots during that time. I'm not looking for perfection but I know I liked it when my tail had smoother ends and didn't look as bushy.

My CO washings have gotten back on a decent track. It's still only once a week most of the time. I've skipped quite a few Tuesdays but I've been forcing myself to do the Fridays.

I think part of my problems over the past two months have been that the manikins were not out like I had them earlier this year. I put them away when the DSL guy came to run the new wire and I didn't take them out until just now. That was back in July. Maybe I'll be inspired to come up with some new style or maybe I'll do a style with some of the new stuf I've received over the past few months.

I've spent the past few weeks working on my websites. I spun off my salon directory into a new site called Breezy's Boutique. It's basically a links section that's set up like a virtual mall. It's turned into a bit of an obsession. Joining programs, then putting their banners on the site after approval. I wouldn't mind having a real store someday but for now I'll settle for linking to other stores.

Can't think of anything else at the moment. Just felt the need to write something since I hadn't made an entry since the 11th. I was missing my journal again. I gotta post here more often even if it is just gabbing.

Keep Shining :sun:

Trim Progress Chart

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This is a chart that I made to see when I have done trims since I started my journal.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/TrimChart.gif

If you would like a blank chart to use for whatever you can find one here.
angelfire.com/mi/bbubba/LHC/Chart1.html

Keep Shining :sun:

Week 20 - Report Card Time

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I was supposed to do this back at week 20. It's now week 28.
Week 20 would have been August 7th so I think I'm going to give grades based on what I remember happening up till then. Then I can do another in 2 weeks.

Report Card Grades for Weeks 11 - 20 (May30th - Aug 7th).

Sticking to Routine: Week 10 A- / Week 20 B
Since I was following my routine up until August fairly regularly I can still give a decent grade. Next card will have a lower grade.

Trying New Things: Week 10 A / Week 20 B+
V05 Free Me Freesia used once
ACV used once
I almost had to give myself an "F" or an "I" but I looked back and according to my journal those were tried after May 29th. I haven't tried anything new since so that give me 2 weeks. But hey if it aint broke don't fix it. That's why I'll allow an "I" for incomplete for this one.

Trimming & Split Ends: Week 10 C- / Week 20 C-
I just got done making my trim chart and it appears as though I've done about the same amount of trimming. I plan to get some splits snipped sometime soon. Please let it be within the next two weeks.

Handling of Hair: Week 10 B / Week 20 B-
As before I was still sticking to my routine but it started to go downhill. The grade two weeks from now will be lower.

Attitude: Week 10 B+ / Week 20 B
I was on track for 9 of the ten weeks and then august came and my laziness crept in. Once again will be lower in two weeks.

Journal Writing: Week 10 A- / Week 20 B+
I had 15 Journal entries in that period. I had less entries but the ratio of Routine related to Other was decent.

Overall: Week 10 B+ / Week 20 B
I didn't do as well as I'd have liked but considering that it only includes one week of august it was a good term. The next card will be lower because it will have 3 weeks of laziness to consider.

Did I mention that August was a bad hair month?

PS: to those of you who are trying to keep up with my journal I apologize for posting so much today in seperate posts. Hope you don't mind. Thanks for reading.

Keep Shining :sun:

Routine & CO Wash Update - Week 28 - Oct. 2nd

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Today I used the Schwartzkopf Perzik Crèmespoeling / Schwartzkopf Peach Conditioner from Holland.

I'm still liking it. :)

I can't believe I have not used shampoo of any kind on my hair since before the end of March (28 weeks). I think I'm adjusted to it.

I put jojoba on my hair yesterday before I went to the store and such. I like the way my hair feels afterward. I might have used a bit more than usual.
My hair feels long now. It touches my back below the middle. Just feels a bit different than it did when it was closer to the shoulder blades.

I think I'm going to take the VO5 Free Me Freesia out of my rotation for now. I did only use it once but I didn't like my hair the next few days. I can't say for sure if it was the FMF or not and I usually tell people to try something more than once, however in this case I like my other 3 products better and I'd like to use them more often. Perhaps I'll leave slot #4 open for now so I'll have an excuse to try something new. I will eventually give it another try just so I take my own advice.

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I just emailed a song request so hopefully the station will play it.
It's the weekend "Over Easy" on the local classic rock station. I asked for Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind"
Hopefully I'll be able to respond later and say it got played :karma:


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Routine & CO Wash Update - Week 28.5 - Oct. 7th

I've been trying to revive my routine as I've been saying. I've been getting a bit bored with my routine. After all it was well.... routine. Since I'm running low on one of my conditioners I decided it was a good time to get something new to try, since I can't get that one again for awhile.
On Monday after looking at sale papers and coupons I went shopping for new hair products. Several stores were having a sale on Herbal Essences and Aussie products. I also had coupons for both.
I wanted to get the Herbal Essences with Kiwi in it since I like the V05 Kiwi Lime. The sales at the stores said you had to buy 2 to get the price plus the coupons said the same thing. The other one I wanted to try was the H.E. with Pomegranate / Lychee / Persimmon. Well I went to Rite Aid first and their selection was not very good. So I then went to Walgreens and their selection was a bit better. They didn't have the Kiwi but I bought

Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Conditioner
Revitalizing - Pomegranate / Lychee / Persimmon
drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=77046

And also

Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Conditioner
Hydrating - Blackberry / Avocado / Mango
walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?id=prod373547

I also bought 2 bottles of Aussie Hair Insurance leave-in for a friend.

But I still wanted to get the
Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Conditioner
Purifying - Kiwi / Kumquat / Fig
drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=77045

So I went to another Rite Aid and again nothing decent. Then I went to another Walgreens. They didn't have the Kiwi either but I grabbed these two. You have to buy 2 remember.

Herbal Essences Rainforest Flowers Conditioner
Refreshing - Passion Flower / Patchouli / Vetiver
cvs.com/CVSApp/cvs/gateway/detail?prodid=268861

Herbal Essences Rainforest Flowers Conditioner
Uplifting - Hibiscus / Ylang Ylang / Vanilla Flower
cvs.com/CVSApp/cvs/gateway/detail?prodid=268869

Ok great, I have 4 new products to try. :)

Wrong :(

I got home and was all excited about having new products to try. I was feeling like a nut job for buying 4 bottles. I even started to write a journal entry titled "Help I'm a Product Junkie" but then it happened. I looked at the back of one of the bottles and saw a cone in the ingredients. What the heck :confused:
So then I notice that 3 of my 4 bottles say Hawafena on a little yellow ribbon. Some also say new. I looked at the backs of each hawafena bottle and they all had obvious cones meaning words with cone. They also had other cones too. But the bottle without Hawafena had no cones. So I went to the drugstore websites to compare ingredients and sure enough there was a difference between the hawafena ones and the old bottles. Thankfully the one without cones was one of the two I originally planned to buy, the
Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Conditioner
Revitalizing - Pomegranate / Lychee / Persimmon
(Side note, the reason I wanted this is because I'm wanting a replacement for my running out peach conditioner. I looked up the definitions of those fruits and their all reddish color like a peach so goofy me decided that was cool)

Here is an example of old vs new bottles

New Bottle
Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Refreshing Conditioner with Hawafena
Pomegranate / Lychee / Persimmon
walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?id=prod373549

Ingredients
Water , Stearyl Alcohol , Cyclomethicone, Cetyl Alcohol , Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine , Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein , Hydrolyzed Wheat Starch , Punica Granatum Extract , Litchi Chinensis Fruit Extract , Diospyros Kaki Fruit Extract , Fragrance , Dimethicone , Glutamic Acid , Benzyl Alcohol , EDTA , Propylene Glycol , Methylchloroisothiazolinone , Methylisothiazolinone , Potassium Sorbate , Phenonip , Orange 4 , Red 33 , Red 4

Old Bottle that I have
Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Revitalizing Conditioner
Pomegranate / Lychee / Persimmon
drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=77046

Ingredients
Water, Cetearyl Alcohol, Behentrimonium Chloride, Cetyl Esters, Punica Granatum Extract, Diospyros Kaki Fruit Extract, Litchi Chinensis Fruit Extract, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Fragrance, Dihydroxypropyl Peg 5 Linoleammonium Chloride, Citric Acid, Propylene Glycol, Methylparaben, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone, Orange 4, Red 33, Red 4

If you look at the top one you see the yellow banner in the middle that says Hawafena
As you can see those ingredients are different.
To my knowledge the old one doesn't have a cone, perhaps someone else knows more. But the new ones clearly have cones.

So I bought 3 conditioners that I don't want. I have nothing against cones personally but I was trying not to buy them. But I have someone to give them to so no big loss.

Now to the good stuff.
For the first time in a few weeks I washed on a Tuesday. The past few have been Fridays only. I tried out the new
Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Revitalizing Conditioner
Pomegranate / Lychee / Persimmon

So far I am happy. I just had a large mass of knots in my hair but I was able to easily get them out. I'm hoping that this older formula doesn't have a cone I'm not aware of. This conditioner left my hair in a smooth appearance as if I had oil on my hair, but it's not coated or greasy. Just smooth. Why did they have to change it? Now I'm gonna have to go get a few more bottles before I can't find the old one no more. Hopefully I'll find some Kiwi too. Target also has them on sale this week but I didn't go there because it's a bit farther. I was dead tired that day.

Here are new pictures of my current 4 product rotation. They are in order of which one I got first.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/NR3.gif http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/NR4.gif

Alberto V05 - Kiwi & Lime Squeeze, Herbal Conditioner, Clarifying for extra body with rosemary & lemongrass extracts

White Rain Extra Body Conditioner

Schwartzkopf Perzik Crèmespoeling / Schwartzkopf Peach Conditioner from Holland

Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Revitalizing Conditioner
Pomegranate / Lychee / Persimmon

Tuesday night I started doing a Search & Snip. For those who missed it I don't call it destroy. I worked only on the left side sections. I did various techniques. Some twisting and some just snipping the loose ones on untwisted sections. I did a fairly decent amount of them, but I know there's more. I'm very thankful that no stylist gets to see my hair. They would definitely want me to lose like a foot to get rid of my splits. But only some are that high up.
I'll update my trim chart after I do the right side or more left. I still have over a week to "git er dun"

Thanks for reading, I appreciate it.

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Routine & CO Wash Update - Week 29 - Oct. 9th

I had to go pay the cable bill today so while I was out I went looking for the H.E. Kiwi conditioner while it's still on sale. First stop was a Walgreens but they didn't have it. Second stop was Rite Aid but this time it was one of the older Rite Aids that wasn't built from scratch so it was a bigger one with a big hair care aisle. So I'm walking through the doors and I notice that it's dark in the store. Not a very noticable thing because I've been to a few Rite Aids that aren't very bright inside. But then I hear the cashier say "the power is out, cash only" Not a problem because having bought two bottles I knew how much it would be and had exact change. So I checked out the hair aisle and I did find the Kiwi. My plan was to buy 1 Kiwi and then another of the Pomegranate that I liked the other day. They didn't have the old bottles of the Pomegranate but they did have at least 2 old bottles of Kiwi so even though I had not tried it before I grabbed 2. I did not want to take a chance on not finding the old one again and there always swaps if needed. So I now have 2 bottles of this

Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Conditioner
Purifying - Kiwi / Kumquat / Fig
drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=77045
Ingredients:
Water, Cetearyl Alcohol, Cetyl Esters, Behentrimonium Chloride, Citrus Japonica Fruit Extract, Ficus Carica (Fig) Extract, Actinidia Chinensis (Kiwi) Fruit Extract, Fragrance, Dihydroxypropyl Peg 5 Linoleammonium Chloride, Propylene Glycol, Citric Acid, Methylparaben, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone, Disodium EDTA-Copper, Yellow 5, Yellow 6

Today was a wash day so it was a good day for buying it. I tried it and so far I am happy. My hair must like Kiwi as much as I do

Here are pictures of my current now 5 product rotation. They are in order of which one I got first.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/NR3.gif http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB1/NR5.gif

Alberto V05 - Kiwi & Lime Squeeze, Herbal Conditioner, Clarifying for extra body with rosemary & lemongrass extracts

White Rain Extra Body Conditioner

Schwartzkopf Perzik Crèmespoeling / Schwartzkopf Peach Conditioner from Holland

Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Revitalizing Conditioner
Pomegranate / Lychee / Persimmon

Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Conditioner
Purifying - Kiwi / Kumquat / Fig

5 is a good number since I've been judging things based on 10 week periods. That means everything will get used 2-4 times in 10 weeks if I do 1-2 washes per week. I'm happy.

I think I'm going to get at least 1 more of the Pomegranate. I wish I had 2 of both right now so I could have the same amount of each. Stupid sale makes you buy 2 and I don't want an odd number LOL. Sure would be nice if it was as cheap as White Rain & V05. I could have like 12 bottles at least, if they had that many of the old ones. I like how those bottles look when you put them next to each other like that. Of course they meant to do that so that you'll buy them. I think that if I do run out of ways to get the old ones I'm going to start trying the other V05 Fruit conditioners. I don't think I'm ready to try any Suaves though. I think if I try the V05's and then am still wanting more things to try I'll go get something from Whole Foods. It was part of my original plan anyway to gradually go for the harder to get or more $ stuff.

Keep Shining :sun:

Post #1400 & Ponderings

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This is my 1400th Post and I try to do something in my journal with the milestones. I'll start with an update from a previous entry.
I just emailed a song request so hopefully the station will play it.
It's the weekend "Over Easy" on the local classic rock station. I asked for Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind"
Hopefully I'll be able to respond later and say it got played :karma: Well it never got played that day on that station but a few days later the other station played it without my request so that's cool.
Speaking of Gordon Lightfoot, November is almost here. Almost 29 years since 29 men lost their lives when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in Lake Superior. This happened 5 months before I was born.
angelfire.com/mi2/greenbubba/index.html
Beware, music may start playing. I need to fix it.

For the longest time I've thought that perhaps I could have been one of them or perhaps I was on another shipwreck in the past. I've always wanted to sail on one of the Great Lakes Freighters but large bodies of water scare me when I cannot see the other side. I had it really bad as a kid. I slowly was cured after taking boat trips with my dad out on the lake and then with all my drives along the Great Lakes and Atlantic ocean. It's a really weird feeling. You feel like you're looking at the edge of the world or something. Especially on the grey & fog days when the sky and water blend.
Standing on that beach looking out onto that water I can't help but think about how fast that happened. The ship was there one minute and gone the next. It's not like the Titanic where the people had time to get off. I've seen the lifeboats that were recovered. One has a huge split through the front end and the other is half of a boat. You have to respect nature. The whole two weeks before that day I stood there Superior was blue, sunny, and calm. But the day I go to that spot it was stirred up and rainy. Fitting. Years ago when I was about 10 my Dad took my brothers, my grandpa (not the one I mention on my homepage), and me up to the U.P. and being foolish kids we demanded that we get to swim in the lake. So he went and asked at some store or something where a beach was. The lady looked at him funny but he explained it was us that were crazy enough to do it.
It was August but trust me, summer doesn't mean anything when you're in the water. We went in for about 10 minutes. Just to say we did. Because we had been in the other lakes except for Erie and Ontario. I went in Erie a few years later but have yet to even be near Lake Ontario.

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I feel like I've really been getting back on track lately. Not so much with my routine but I've had a lot of ideas come to me with many posibilities. I'm still very unsure of whether I want to be a salon owner or a store owner. Both would be nice too. Whatever it is that I do end up doing, I want to do it in a new way that no one else is doing. But I want it to be customer friendly. I don't want to gauge people. If I can't run my store or salon and have success based on building clientele rather than charging outrageous prices then I don't want it.

The stories I've been working on for the past few years have involved small town life but I get hung up real easy. Because I never lived in one. I'd love to live in one some day and have my store be there.

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Hair related -
I posted this before I went to bed yesterday / saturday night in regards to me and my sleep tail. I am feeling a lot better now and I will be doing what I said in my reply further down.
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?postid=217238#post217238
It's getting to that time of night again so I better get going. I almost had a crash a minute ago. Thankfully I had saved what I had written so far in a text file.

Keep Shining :sun:

Routine & CO Wash Update - Week 29.5 - Oct. 13th

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1. Did a CO with V05 Kiwi Lime. Finished with an ACV.
2. The other day I left my room in the morning with my sleep tail still banded.
3. Did more Dusting and Split Snips.

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CO Wash & ACV
I posted this on the V05 thread earlier
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=15283
It's now 7 hours later and my hair feels nice. I'm not the greatest judge of hair feel but I like how it feels. It seems soft and not dry.

(same way as I've been doing so if you already know you can skip this.)
I did mine this way.

Apply V05 all over. Take tail and place on top of head. I make a "U" shape with it so that the curve is near my forehead and the ends go back to my crown. I then take a plastic shopping bag and put that on my head and smush it down. I grab the handles near my forehead along with the bag slack and twist. Then I use a claw clip to clip it to my head, usually grabbing the tail underneath the bag. Carefully that is. I then sit down for 20 minutes. I do use a watch, when it works. Otherwise I just count the songs on the radio and guess. I then rinse out the conditioner. I then re-apply the same conditioner as if I were using it like the bottle says. I rinse out right away. Then I use my ACV rinse as a last step. Some people like to do that in between or first but I like it at the end. For all my other washes it's the same way except I use another conditioner and no ACV rinse.

I don't know who else does anything similar. I based mine on how LisaJaney instructed me and then modified it a bit. I also just air dry. I do sometimes comb through the conditioner with a wide tooth but not always.

Next wash will be White Rain. That will be Week 30 & report card time.

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Sleep Tail
In the previous thread about my 1400th Post I wrote about not wearing my sleep tail in front of my mom because I didn't know how she would react.
I don't know if mom saw or not but the other morning I walked all the way to the back door and back in daylight. She didn't say anything. But I always wear a ponytail outside the house using one of the same bands so maybe it wasn't different enough to be noticeable or worth giving a darn about. I'll just have to keep doing it until she says something or doesn't. Nothing to lose.

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Dusting and Split Snips

While watching NYPD Blue tonight I did some split snips on the right half of my hair. I did the left last week. I know I'm probably not more than 60% done with it but 60% in 2 weeks is better than 0% and still having them all.
I'll have to update my chart soon.

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I do think I'm back on track. :)

Keep Shining :sun:

Important Notice To All Readers & a Survey Oct. 13th

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I want to re-organize my journal. I have already started by taking some posts and combining them into one.

What I would like to know is when I do the re-organize which of these ways do you think I should do? You can PM me your choice.



Choice 1
March Entries
......................Any Entry for March
......................Any Entry for March
......................Any Entry for March

Repeat for April

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Choice 2
March Entries
......................Routine
.....................................Routine Update Week #
.....................................Routine Update Week #
......................Pictures
.....................................Pictures 0/00/00
.....................................Pictures 0/00/00
......................Other
.....................................Ponderings
.....................................Ponderings


Repeat for April

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Choice 3
Routine Entries
........................March
....................................Routine Update Week #
........................April
....................................Routine Update Week #

Picture Entries
........................March
....................................Pictures 3/00/00
........................April
....................................Pictures 4/00/00

Other Entries
......................March
..................................Ponderings
......................April
..................................Ponderings

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Which of those do you think would be best or easiest for you to read? Keep in mind that I use Hybrid mode to view pages. You might be seeing them differently. Do you want one of those choices or do you like it the way it is and no change? I personally would like to do something different. But making it easier to read for everyone else is important to me. So Please if you have a choice let me know. Thanks :) If any of that is confusing let me know and I'll try to explain. The dots are just used as spacers because spaces don't work to move them over.

Also note, I used Routines, Pictures, and Other as example categories. There might be other categories instead of or along with.

Keep Shining :sun:

Just Me Yapping Again

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First, an update on the last post. So far I've only received one vote and it was for choice 2. It would probably help if I wasn't posting my entries at 3-5 in the morning.

Second, I got a catalog in the mail today from Vitamin Shoppe. Apparently they are opening or now have open a location not only in Michigan but within 5 miles. This is the store and brand of the Jojoba Oil that I bought. I ordered it through Amazon. I'm not currently anywhere near running out of oil but this does make it possible for me to buy more later or get some to send to friends. Plus I may start taking some sort of vitamin or supplement such as Biotin so they might be a good place to get it since they have a store brand. Or maybe even their own brand of a brand name multi such as Centrum.

I think I'll look up some ingredients of the different store brand multi and also the name brands and put them in here. ................................
Ok I was just doing that. I'd like to get one that has both Biotin and MSM in it but one that doesn't have a bunch of warnings after it for Iron and such.

See the thing is, I have no idea what I am doing. I have no idea how much of these things I want. I'm not looking for super growth here. I just want to take a normal, casual amount of this stuff just so that I'm getting some but not over doing it.

According to Vitamin Shoppe 30–70 mcg per day of Biotin & 250–500 mg per day of MSM are normal amounts.

I don't think I want more than that. Now I clicked on a link to Biotin on their site and it says
Biotin __________ 300 Mcg __________ 100% Daily value
Sounds good to me. Now that will give me something to price shop with.

I do like that the instructions for the biotin say just 1 per day. I don't want anything more than that. If it says 100 count I want it to last 100 days. And 300 means it will last almost a year.
I was looking at something else and it said 120 count but you have to take 2 per day. Gee big help having 120 is.

I'll probably end up just going with Biotin and not MSM because they haven't done enough tests to find out the daily value of MSM and I don't want to mess with stuff that hasn't been tested enough yet.

I did warn you about this ride called Bubba's Ponderings.........right?


Keep Shining :sun:

I've Got The World On A String....

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Except for last night I have been gone for the past two weeks due to my monitor burning out.

During that time I watched some tv and I kept seeing the commercial with the song "I've got the world on a string...."
So I thought it would be funny if I drew a picture of an Oops. You can see that here.
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=15897

Kinda sums up my last two weeks.

A few years ago at work I was packing up some parts to send to customers and part of that job is sometimes you have to climb up on top of the small office to get boxes. It's one of those add on trailer looking offices. Anyway I adjusted the ladder because I never really trusted it. I climbed up and just as I was about to step off and onto the office roof the ladder slid out from underneath me.
Under the ladder was a garbage can. On the right side was a shelf with large drill bits sticking straight up. On the left was a mill machine. I had always worried about falling and landing on either those drills or the machine. So the ladder slid from under me and I went straight down. I caught the roof with my hands very briefly, enough to slow my fall. My left foot went into the empty can below, while my right foot kicked through the office's window. My lower back just barely caught the handle on the end of the mill machine. The guy over at the other machine comes over to me and the first thing I said when I could speak was "I'm alive?"
So then the boss had me come in the office to sit and rest and he was bringing me water and such.
I lucked out. I only hurt my hand a little from breaking my fall and my lower back had a bruise. It was a miracle.
What's odd is just a few minutes earlier the song "Today My World Slipped Away" by George Strait had played so I got a bit of a chuckle out of that when I was able to kid around again. My boss let me go home and since my brother also worked there he had my brother follow behind me in his car just in case. I was shook up more than I was in any pain. I can look back on it and kinda laugh but my life could have ended that day. My aunt died from falling down some stairs so I know it's not really a joke.

I wish that would have taught me to live for the moment a bit more but it doesn't always work. I tried that with school but I let my heart get past my head and in the end my heart wasn't ready. I have done a lot of traveling. Way more than I ever thought I would.
I like to think that I don't have many regrets. There may be some things that might have worked out better. I do live a lot more for other people than I do for myself. I haven't always said enough thank yous. I regret that. All I know is that my second life has been much better than the first. I am thankful for the gifts I have been given. I am thankful to have gotten out and seen some of the world. I'm thankful to have been able to touch lives. That very same instant that could have taken my life is the same amount of time that it takes to touch someone's life. It's what keeps me going.

Keep Shining :sun:

Real Life Friends?

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This was in response to a PM regarding not having real life friends. I felt I should share what I wrote with a few edits of course ;).

You are welcome, and please feel free to share your feelings. Believe me I know how you feel. I grew up with friends on my block that were all 3-5 years younger than me. I didn't have friends from school. A few months after I started High School a big envelope came in the mail from the Special Ed department. My mom and step dad went off on a tear about how the school must think I'm in need of special ed because I kept to myself and didn't have friends.

Turns out it was the Speech Pathology program sending me a reminder to come like once a week. The office for it just happened to be in that area of the school so it shared the address. I had been in Speech therapy since I was a kid because of my cleft lip and palette. I wasn't saying Th's correctly. I was really mad when I found out it was just that. To be yelled at like that by them over something that wasn't the case. It's not my fault that the other kids at school were jerks. Or that the others were shy just like me because of the jerks.

That's why going to work and being able to be myself there a bit, with being called Bubba, and also finally getting online helped me so much. All of my friends have been made online. 95% of them live at least a day's drive or more away from me. That means that I have to see them online. Ok so that's not how the rest of the world makes their friends, but it's working for me and I'm not changing it or telling my friends that I can't see them just because it's on a computer.

It's like cutting my arm off to scratch someone else's back.
Without the computer I wouldn't be here typing this. I wouldn't be having my life touched everyday by people.
Without it I wouldn't have seen posts in clearly written words because if you're like me it's so much harder to speak what you're thinking. You might have just said "Hi" in real life.

(Edited in) I'm so shy in real life that you may only get a Hi from me unless you start the conversation.

What's funny is, to me this is the Real world. The way it should be. LHC isn't perfect, but it can be fixed when needed.

(Edited in) So are the rest of the places I visit long term online.

Keep Shining :sun:

Routine & CO Wash Updates - Week 30.0 to Week 33.0 - Aka Oct 14th to Nov 6th

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I haven't given any routine updates in a few weeks. The title gives that away.

As of the last update I was due to give a report card for 30 weeks on October 16th or soon after. That didn't happen because of my monitor breaking.

Still debating whether or not to do that report card.

In the meantime I do have a few routine updates.

The last CO wash I wrote of was a V05 Kiwi Lime. That was a Tuesday.

In the past few weeks since then I have done a total of 3 washes.

I'm a bit uncertain as to which days I did the first two but the last one was this past Tuesday.

In keeping with my product rotation that means that after the V05 Kiwi Lime I did White Rain EB next. Then I did one with the Schwartzkopf Peach. This past Tuesday I used Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Conditioner
Revitalizing - Pomegranate / Lychee / Persimmon.

I usually try not to miss my Friday washes but I didn't do one yesterday. The next time I wash I'll be using the Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Conditioner
Purifying - Kiwi / Kumquat / Fig

That will then make 2 times each so far for the newer Herbal Essences.

I'm running low on White Rain and Schwartzkopf so who knows what I'll do when they run out.
Not sure if I'll get more WREB or try something else.

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/smilies/music.gif Sundown ya better take care If I find you been creepin' 'round my back stairs http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/smilies/music.gif

On another note,

I am now officially taking Biotin.

I wanted to start taking 300 - 600 mcg daily but I couldn't find any bottles of it in the stores I went to. So I caved and went with Sundown's 1000 mcg in the 60 tablet bottle. It has exactly the same ingredients as Nature's Bounty's 1000 mcg but I got 2 bottles of Sundown for the price of one NB. What that means is I got 20 more for the same price. NB is 100 tablets per bottle. 2 Sundown is 120.

I bought them Thursday and have now had 2 doses / 2 tablets. 1 per day.

I wish I could have foundthe NB at CVS because they had a buy one get one free sale going. That would have given me 200 for the price of 100.

Next time (2 months from now) I'll try some other places. It's really hard to find Biotin in the regular stores. I went to 2 Kmarts, 2 CVS. I finally found it at Walgreens even though it was the 1000 mcg.
The others either didn't have a spot for it or were out. Next time I'm going to an actual Vitamin place or I'll shop the new Vitamin Shoppe that is now open. (Assuming it is since the web site said October)

1000 Mcg might not be anywhere near the doses that others take but I wasn't comfortable taking the others. The ones I saw with higher doses all had a bunch of other stuff in them. I'm worried about taking 333% daily allowance as it is. I think if I did want to take a higher dose I'd just take 2 of these / 2000 mcg daily or break them in halves and take 1.5 per day / 1500 mcg. I just wonder if maybe that other stuff is in the higher doses because it won't work without it?

I'm scared, can you tell?
Whatever I do, I'm going to keep it simple. Otherwise I'm not going to stick to the routine. 1- 2 Pills a day with dinner is simple enough. Anything more and I'm gonna have trouble.

I know how to keep a pill routine going when I have to take it. I had to take steroid pills (Prednisone?) twice before. In 93 and again in 98 with my eye problems. Both times it took 6 months to ween off. But this isn't a medical cure. Guess I'll just have to pretend it is.

Enough about that for now. Let's see what happens after a week.

Keep Shining :sun:

Regarding Recent Conversations, Politics etc

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There are some threads that are getting very heated. I have not read them but they have to do with politics and other controversial topics.

As I said, I have not read them and I have no plans to do so. Please do not point me to them nor anything related elsewhere.

My official position on these topics from here on out until I give further notice is "No Comment"

It's just too hard to discuss these topics and try to remember which of my friends said what. Better safe than sorry.

I'd rather be sorry for what I didn't say.

Keep Shining :sun:

Ok So I Was Bored

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I was bored and I missed my journal so since I didn't have anything much to report I figured I'd try some more drawings.
If you've read previous entries then you should have no trouble figuring this out. Bet you didn't think there was gonna be a quiz :wink:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/Stuff/kls.gif http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/Stuff/wreb.gif

Keep Shining :sun:

1600 PurpleBubba Avenue

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This is my 1600th post. I hope I've got at least 100 quality posts by now. :wink:
According to my profile I'm around 6.4 posts per day since March 12th. That seems like a lot but when I think of how fast replies add up it doesn't seem like much. Just means that I averaged that many replies per day. That's not many compared to the number of threads started each day. I've started 114 threads. Counting this entry I have 80 posts in my journal. I have quite a few replies to intros. Something that I need to start doing again. Currently my most succesful thread with the most replies is
"Re-Introduce Yourself Here Please" - 103
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=10003
Although unless that gets moved from the friendship board to the new Intro board I doubt it will see anymore. But it served its purpose at the time. It was nice to have all those intros in one place. Especially since some of the older (veteran) members posted intros. Sometimes when you've been around so long you forget that the new people didn't see your intro at some other site.
Heck they might not have seen it here unless they went searching for last year's posts.

So I'm not surprised that I have 1600. I've always been that active elsewhere when it was a place that would respond. I mean if you post once and get at least two responses then you're doing pretty well. That definitely happens here. :)

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I'm not very happy about what I saw on tv tonight. Just when things are starting to go right a few bad apples have to ruin things. I'm speaking of the NBA basketball game tonight between Indiana & Detroit in Detroit (actually 20 miles north of it)
There was a brawl at the end involving both players and fans. What is worse is that ESPN was showing this game so people around the country were able to see this happen live. Just when things were starting to turn around for Detroit now we're gonna have to hear about "The Fans" in Detroit causing trouble. It took 20 years to erase the "celebration" after the 84 Tigers. Once your town gets labeled it's hard to remove it. Your town can do 100 good things and they'll still talk about that 1 bad thing. Oh well. I was not there. I wasn't the one throwing beers or punches. I can't undo that. Why can't people grow up?

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I wish I had something better to say. I'm a bit tired. I got up earlier than usual today so now I'm tired earlier. Heck this is around 1:30 am for a change instead of around 5 am. :rolleyes:
I'll do the routine update tomorrow I hope.
Thanks for reading. I appreciate it.

Keep Shining :sun:

Today, December 7th 2004, A Date Which Will Live In Infamy

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Today, December 7th 2004, A Date Which Will Live In Infamy...........
I used a Poo for the first time since March 2004.
(Not intended to make fun of the real events of 1941 but rather make note of the date.)

Today while I was in the shower I decided that since I was really bored with my routine I would try something so I would have something to write for a change. So I grabbed the bottle of V05 Normal shampoo and used a little bit of it. I didn't scrub a bunch. It was more of a slap on and rinse.

I then applied White Rain Extra Body conditioner and did my usual sit down for 20 minutes with the plastic bag cap.

I figured that using a shampoo only once in almost a year isn't going to be harsh. While it does have both Sodium L. Sulfates it didn't have cones.

I don't know when I will do that again but probably not until perhaps February or March when I trim next.

(Again, I mean no offense. My Grandfather fought in the war and I just got done spending two weeks watching Band of Brothers. Those who know me know I wouldn't mean to be offensive. If you are offended I apologize.)

Keep Shining :sun:

January 2005 New Year, New Plan

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It is now officially the New Year in Michigan. Until yesterday I really didn't have a plan or resolutions. But after seeing so many people who have gone ahead and made changes for the better I've decided to make some changes towards healthy hair.

I have really been struggling the past 6 months with my routine. I have started to fall back into my rut of tangles and breaking during combing. Who am I kidding? I didn't start falling I fell in. In the past few months I have worn my sleep tail maybe 3 times. That sleep tail is my routine. Without that I might as well forget the rest. I cannot sleep with loose hair. It does not work for me. Maybe a satin pillowcase would help? Duh, it will.

My goal was set at 36" which is about waist on me. In September I did a trim and measured about 33". I have not measured since then. Here's the thing. I'm probably at least 34"-35" right now. I don't want to be getting to waist length yet. I have not earned that right. And I have not Learned that length. So as of now my goal is still 36" but I am not allowed to get there until the end of this year. Yeah, how do I not grow my hair? For starters I don't care what my hair measures right now. It could be 37 inches. I am cutting my hair back to 33 inches. That's step 1. I don't care if that's 1/2 inch or 4 inches. I have way too many broken ends, shorter pieces, and "undesigned layers" to keep growing without getting them under control.
That means that my goals for the year are

Start at 33"
Do Search and Snips on splits and breaks. Often.
Keep hair growing towards 36" but do not pass it early. Hitting 36" early means a required immediate trim of 1 inch minimum. No exceptions to this rule. I don't care if some miracle happens and splits go away. The waist is off limits before 2006.
Do trims regularly to maintain hem ends. Work out trim frequency to take 1/2 inch at least every trim to maintain good hem.
Learn how to do something other than a gosh darn ponytail. What the heck do I have this long hair for? I better be doing braids by summer. At least to try sleeping in them.
Denman Brush - Must Have Now!!!


Keep Shining :sun:

January 2005 New Year, New Plan - Continued

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Maybe a satin pillowcase would help? Duh, it will.

Here's the thing. I'm probably at least 34"-35" right now.
I'm going to be buying some Pillowcases from LisaJaney. I figured, why the heck should I buy something at a store when I can get something I know was made with care from a friend and sister like her. Most of last year's routine was based on her recommendations anyway so I think keeping her somehow included is best for me. I tend to like the stuff she does. She has a way of recommending things that make you say, "Hey why the heck shouldn't I try that?"

I measured and even though my measuring is still not as accurate as I'd like I ended up with my fingers on 34" most of the time. So that is my Official End length for 04. That means that if my measurements were accurate I would have gone from 29.5" - 34" from April to Jan. Not bad considering I was stuck in the upper 20's for over a year maybe even two. I now know that my hair does still get longer.


That means that my goals for the year are

Start at 33"
Denman Brush - Must Have Now!!!


I've decided that since I'm only at 34" and I'm looking for a fresh start type thing, I'm going to trim back to either 32 or 31 instead of the 33 mentioned. But not shorter than that. If I were to do that, it's 5 inches to 36 and that means I can do two trims of 1/2 inch each this year after this first large trim. The important thing is that it's ok if I don't get to 36 this year. I've got breaks and splits that are at least a foot from my hem and everywhere in between.

I'm itching to do this trim, but I've decided to get a Denman brush first so that I can detangle with that prior to the trim.
You can read more about Denmans in this thread where I also posted links to other threads.
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=17941

Keep Shining :sun:

Denman Brushes

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Denman Brush - Must Have Now!!!


I went to Sally Beauty Supply yesterday. I bought 3 Denman Brushes. I also signed up for the discount card.

This is a post I did earlier

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I recommend that anyone who can get the card do so. It costs $5 for a one year card but if you buy stuff there you will get that money back.

Here are the prices of my brushes before the discount.

Denman D5 - $12.99
Denman D3 - $8.99
Denman D31 - $4.99 (was reduced from $9.99 already)

By signing up for the card at the same time today's purchases were also discounted by the card.

So I instead paid

$11.99 ($1 less)
$7.49 ($1.50 less)
$4.99 (I guess reduced items don't get more discount)

So that means I've already saved $2.50, and that means I actually only spent $2.50 for the card. That means I only have to save $2.50 more between now and January of 06.

I'll also point out once again how you can tell what the discount price is compared to the regular.

On my D5 the price tage has the following

A really long number - 124024510001199
Then another shorter number - 103502
Then the price - $12.99

Look at the end of that long number on the right side of those 000's. See it says 1199 or $11.99


I know some people have had trouble getting the cards from their local Sally. That really stinks. I made sure I asked mine if I had to be a pro or a student and she was trying to stop me before I even finished asking because the answer was no.
I live in Michigan in the Detroit area just for reference sake.

Oh and I bought 3 brushes because I figure if I don't like one or two I can swap them.
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D31
ballbeauty.com/denfree.htm

D3
sallybeauty.com/shop/1730/103200
ballbeauty.com/dentrad.htm

D5
sallybeauty.com/shop/1730/103502
ballbeauty.com/dentrad.htm

I think these brushes are exactly what I needed. I love them already. :inlove:
They are like a hot knife through butter, but not ripping through.

The D13 brush has wider spaced teeth more like a vent brush so that would be a good one for detangling first. Then you can move up to the more multi toothed ones.

The D3 is a regular sized brush while the D5 is wider and has more of a hump to it.

I gave my hair a few strokes with each one and I love them all.

As far as scratching the head, the least scratchy was the D3 was the least. D5 is more cuz of the hump.

Keep Shining :sun:

Kitchen Update - For My Friends Who Enjoy My Journal

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As of yesterday I have new and improved Miracle Happy Hair Pills
Now being offered by the dozen or in single packs.

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http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/smilies/MiracleHappyPill.gif

I mean, how can you not smile when you're staring at a smile?

Also I'm currently taking requests at this thread
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=18165

So far we have a request for a large tea assortment and not just some regular name brand stuff.

There's been a request for Coca Cola. I'll just say that as of now all brands of cola are stocked including Bubba Cola & Diet Bubba Cola which is an actual pop sold in "Save A Lot" stores.


Oh and here's the chairs I promised a long time ago. I forgot to put them in here because I was handing them out in intros and such instead. http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/smilies/chairSM.gif

I'd like to also point out that the reason I don't allow the alcoholic beverages is because I want you all to read my journal with a clear mind. I'd like you to know the real me, not the one you see through the fog ;)

If you promise to read first and then take a drink with you then I'll stock some. But not if you're driving.

Here's the original entry.

For My Friends Who Enjoy My Journal

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Here is a kitchen I made for you to get some refreshments.

If you have a request for something that you would like for me to keep stocked in the refreshment area please let me know.
Please note that I won't be stocking alcoholic beverages. Sorry .
Also, there is a Microwave too.

I already have the following items available, some by request.

Counter:
Coffee - Regular & Decaf
Hot Water for tea or cocoa.
Mocha
Mocha Special (by request) - chocolate, sugar, non dairy creamer, and sometimes a touch of orange extract.

In the Fridge:
Root Beer (by request)
Fettucini Alfredo with Chicken and Broccoli (by request)

In the Freezer:
Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream (by request)

In the Basket:
Spicy Limon Cheetos (by request) & some regular ones too
M&Ms - More than one kind (by request)
Peanut Butter Fudge (by request)
Miracle Happy Hair Pills / Chocolate Chip Cookies (My Specialty Prescription see below)

PS: if anyone is wondering, yes I did draw that from scratch using "Paint". Which isn't a big deal but I'm shocked I did that.

As soon as I get some decent looking chairs I'll add some.

Thanks again for reading.
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Miracle Happy Hair Pills

~ When used properly will give you a warm happy feeling that is essential to promote healthy happy hair ~

Instructions: Take one of these big pills and take small bites off of it and chew them each slowly so that you get the full effect. These probably work best when you take only one per day but in extreme cases a stronger dose may be required. Warming pills before consumption is optional. May be taken with drink such as Milk.

One batch usually consists of 6 pills.
:cookie:

If you need more you know where to find me.
Free Refills for LHC Family Members

The PurpleBubba Man can 'cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good

Kitchen Update 2 - For My Friends Who Enjoy My Journal

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I'd like to also point out that the reason I don't allow the alcoholic beverages is because I want you all to read my journal with a clear mind. I'd like you to know the real me, not the one you see through the fog ;)

If you promise to read first and then take a drink with you then I'll stock some. But not if you're driving.

After some thinking I've decided that alcoholic beverages will be stocked. It's really simple folks. See that disclaimer I've been using for the past few months? It applies to everything in this journal whether it is on an entry or not. That means the Management of BubbaLand is also not responsible for any negative opinions or thoughts you may have resulting from a combination of Bubba's words & alcohol. Management is also not responsible for anything that happens as the result of you drinking our alcohol. As long as you understand that you are free to help yourself. That means if you take a drink here and then go start a flame war on the friendship board, it aint Management's fault.

Now for the new requests.

burnt cookies (and any other cookie in addition to the Miracle Pills.)
vanilla cappichino

Santa has Elves. Wonka has Oompa Loompas. I have Lilacs.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/Avatars/Lilac.gif

The Lilacs have special ovens and baking sheets to bake things exactly the same way each time. That way if you are making 3 trays you don't have the first batch light brown the second darker and the third burnt.

So I'll have them set it to burnt yet not rock hard.

3 Inch Trim From 34" Back To 31"

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Before at 34" (Also a fresh washed, unmessed with picture to show me as 2a)
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/Jan05b434.jpg

It's at least 3"
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/Jan07dur.jpg

After with my now 31" hair. I did smooth it down a tiny bit for this picture by applying some diluted White Rain EB. So don't judge my type using this.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/Jan07after31.jpg

Here's the same side by side
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/Jan07b434s.jpg http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/Jan07after31s.jpg

I am satisfied so far. My Mom hasn't seen it yet so I'll have to wait and see if she'll notice. I hope it's even enough that she won't notice that. But since I wear my hair in a ponytail in public most of the time it won't matter if it's a tiny bit uneven otherwise.

I think & feel that I made the right decision. Already it's a bit easier to get the brush and comb through the ends. First thing I noticed after the large snip was how thick those ends felt. It sorta felt that way in March when I trimmed but now it feels twice as thick. I still have a ton of splits everywhere to search for. But now that I got this out of the way that won't be a problem. This is the first trim of over 2 inches I've had since the one in late 97. That one took at least 3 inches off because of my 3 year grow out of the 3.5" long cut with no trims. The one in March 04 took between 1/2" and 2" because of the V tip. That was the second time I went 3 years without.

For those who missed my previous entries, I did this because I'm getting too close to waist length before I'm ready for it. I just purposely set myself back from that length by about a year. I still need to learn how to have long hair before I have longer hair. So I didn't need 2 weeks to think about it. I'm Happy.

For the wash yesterday I used V05 Kiwi Lime Squeeze CO

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Here's my old signature Used 9/10/04 - 1/7/05
~ Robert / PurpleBubba ~
~ Wishing Everyone No Tangles & Keep Shining :sun: ~
~ Have some fun, love your hair, & smile at least once a day :) ~
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New Signature Picture As Of Today 1/7/05 (the rest stayed the same)
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/SigJan05.jpg

:Star: * ~ 2000 Posts ~ * :Star:

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As of this post I have 2000 total. I'm averaging 6.6 per day

I Joined this version of LHC on March 12, 04 (I was offline most of 03 but was previous member of Network 54 LHC's)
I'm averaging 6.6 posts per day

I have started 138 Threads.
48 threads on Mane Board
46 threads on Friendship Board
18 threads on Polls Board
112 on those so that leaves 26 divided up amongst the rest.

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~~~~~~ Growing Out Gracefully Club ~~~~~~

A few people who saw my trim pictures have commented about their own decisions which I'm glad of. I don't expect anyone to look at my pics and then go chop a whole fingerlength off. But it's good that they realize that it's ok to think about slowing down or maintaining a length before going into more advanced territory.

I think sometimes that gets lost when people are in such a hurry to reach goals that they miss out on the chances to learn how to do things better, earlier. Having long hair needs to be fun and stay being fun. If you can't wear your hair down ever and that's something you enjoy, maybe it's time to rethink strategy? Perhaps deciding that you will allow yourself to wear it down and then toss in an extra trim during the year? If you need it.

So I've decided to form a "Growing Out Gracefully Club"
I mentioned it both here and at the Loom.

Growing out gracefully can mean several things. It could mean doing like my article says and maintain your hair at a certain length over a period of time and trim any hair that passes it until damage is gone.

It can mean doing like I did and realizing you aren't ready for a longer goal yet or perhaps you want to go back and try some things you missed out on. So any kind of going back or starting over can be included as long as you do it with the intention of not rushing to get back somewhere. Stop and enjoy a dance along the way.

Basically I'm saying get rid of the stress. Don't beat yourself up over your hair. Think of your hair as a child or a friend. Show it some love. I didn't chop my hair, I gave it some love. If your child came to you with a cut you'd take care of it right? It's not going to heal overnight but you still put the bandage on it and gave a hug.

I'm going to make up some card images or something.
Then anyone who wants to be in the "Growing Out Gracefully Club" can put one in their signature or journal or wherever?

Here's a few I put together really quick because I want to finish this entry.

~~~~~~ http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/gogc/GOGCp.gif~~~~~~ http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/gogc/GOGCw.gif~~~~~~ http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/gogc/GOGCb.gif ~~~~~~

Keep Shining :sun:

January 10th, Updates & Such

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I'm still thinking about the new year. I want to do things not necessarily different with my routine this year but better. Last year everything was new. I liked trying the new stuff. I might have enjoyed shopping for the stuff more than I did using it. I enjoyed picking up the bottles and looking at the backs. I also enjoyed it when I was looking through the Herbal Essences at the store and I actually was smelling them to see which ones I liked.

This year I'd like to not make so many rules with myself. I don't want to be CO only or No cones or cones only every 10th week. I have products that I like using. From now on I don't care which one I use or what order I go. I don't want my routine to be so routine. When it gets repetative like that it just puts me back into a lazy funk. Then comes the knots. I don't mind tangles but the problem comes when I'm sitting around with them and suddenly I have to go out which means I have to get through them quickly. I'm glad these new Denman brushes work.

It seems like it's been more than 2.5 days since my trim. No regrets. I find myself paying attention to my hair again like I was last March. My hair feels really smooth and has been since. I don't know whether it was the V05 Kiwi lime CO, or if it was the diluted White Rain Extra Body I rubbed on? Maybe both? I do know that one part of my product line that I don't want to stop using is the Kiwi Lime. I don't think there's been a time that I used it that I didn't like it.

So what's next?


Search & Snip Splits
Practise Braiding, tried some last night.
Write In my Journal, even just to say I'm doing ok. Stop making entries into projects and just write something.
Remember to take Biotin, update in 3 days
Write Some Articles, Finish The Started Ones
Keep Having Fun & Loving My Hair, even with it's flaws.


Keep Shining :sun:

January 15th, Updates & Such

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It seems like it's been more than 2.5 days since my trim. No regrets. I find myself paying attention to my hair again like I was last March. My hair feels really smooth and has been since. I don't know whether it was the V05 Kiwi lime CO, or if it was the diluted White Rain Extra Body I rubbed on? Maybe both? I do know that one part of my product line that I don't want to stop using is the Kiwi Lime. I don't think there's been a time that I used it that I didn't like it.

So what's next?


Remember to take Biotin, update in 3 days


It's now been 8 days since the trim and I'm still very happy. No regrets. I still need to search for splits but otherwise things are ok. I'm having fun again. I'm no longer sticking to certain days (Tues & Fri). Thursday for the second wash in a row I used V05 Kiwi lime CO. I wanted to see if I got the same results since I liked my hair a lot the past few days. I really liked my hair last year when I first started my CO routine. The product I was using most often was the Kiwi Lime. Thursday I liked my hair after the wash but it wasn't quite as smooth as my hair was the few days before so once again I put some diluted White Rain Extra Body on. It smoothed it out nice. I like using it. I hope it keeps working. I might actually like using WR EB better as a leave in than I do washing with it. But we'll see.

I'm really glad things are working again. For the first time in a long time I can say "I don't remember the last time I slept with loose hair" as opposed to what I was saying "I don't remember the last time I slept with my sleep tail." I just feel better wearing it in the tail. I tried it with loose hair and I know it just doesn't work for me. But we'll see what happens. The story doesn't end there yet.

Now for the Biotin update. As of Thursday I have finished my first 60 count bottle of Sundown Biotin, taking 1 tablet (1000 mcg) per day. According to my Nov 6th entry I bought them on Nov 4th. So let's do the math.
27 days in Nov
31 days in Dec
13 days in Jan
71 days to use up 60 pills.

11 misses seems like a bit more than I thought. I was thinking I missed more like 5 or 6 days. Oh well if that's what the calendar says then it must be. Guess I'll have to work on that more than I thought. That figures out to about one missed day per week. I don't think I went more than two days so I at least caught myself missing when I did miss. I was right to not go to higher doses yet. If I was taking a high dose or mixing with others I would not be happy missing 11 times. But for now I'll live with that.


Keep Shining :sun:

Jan 16th - Biotin Dosage Up to 1500 mcg

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I went shopping today.
I had a coupon for Walgreens to get up to 4 V05 products for 79 cents each. It was for the 50% more free bottles which are the really big ones. I've also seen regular / 15 oz and 33% more / 20 oz bottles.

I bought 2 bottles. I got Strawberries & Cream conditioner and I got Peaches & Cream conditioner. The only other big bottle they had was the Extra Body and I decided against it.

They were also having a Buy 1 get 1 sale on all Sundown vitamins. The regular price is $4.49 per bottle for 60 tablets. I had a $1 off coupon also so i got 2 bottles for $3.49.

Altogether I spent $5.16 for 120 Biotin and 2 large conditioners.

I've decided that since I now have at least a 6 month supply of Biotin that I will up my dosage from 1000 mcg per day (1 tablet) to 1500 mcg (1.5). That turns my 60 day bottles into 45 day bottles. I didn't want to up the dosage too far yet but I wanted to do some so I decided to just take a second half tablet each day. I think that for as much as I was keeping up I can do an extra half per day.

I practised a little bit of braiding this morning.

I also snipped some splits a few hours ago. Just a few.
I'm thinking of maybe getting some better scissors.

Keep Shining :sun:

Jan 17th - CO Wash & Updates

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I got up early today after actually going to bed before the sun came up. So I decided to do a CO wash today. I wanted to try one of the two new V05's I bought yesterday. I posted a thread on the Mane board asking should I try Peaches & Cream or Strawberries & Cream. In the end Peaches won so I used it.
I'm now just over 2 hours since the wash. My hair is still damp. I'm also trying to time my drying again. So far I like the results. Kinda hard to know what the dry hair will be like but so far I'm happy.

Alberto VO5
Conditioner Creamy Fresh Peaches - Revitalizing
walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?id=prod374979

Alberto VO5
Conditioner Strawberries & Cream - Smoothing
walgreens.com/store/product.jhtml?id=prod374981

By the way, the bottles I have both say Moisture Milks on them. Also I am noticing that the ingredients are slightly different than what is shown on the Walgreens site. So they must have changed the formulas. What else is new?
One difference is that the ones I have contain biotin. Not sure if that does anything when putting it on the hair?

Speaking of Biotin, I'm rethinking my new plan of upping the dosage. I think that since It took me 71 days to finish the 60 day supply, I'm going to try to catch myself back up to where I should be. What I mean is I missed 11 days. That means that in order to catch myself back up I would have to take an extra 500 mcg or 1500 total for 22 days. That's the minimum number of days. I might try doing that every other day or something. If I'm just going to be catching up my 1000 mcg dose I don't want to take 1500 everyday. If I do every other day that means taking 1250 per day average. Anyway I'd like to catch myself up. How long it takes me doesn't matter as long as I don't take more than 1500 mcg in one day.

So let's do some math.

120 tablets - 71 = 49.
That means I need to use up my current bottle in 49 days to even out.
49 - 22 = 27.
So in those 49 days, 22 of them I take 1500 mcg and 27 I take 1000 mcg.
I just seperated off 21 half pills from the main bottle. Since I took a half yesterday.
Should be simple enough now. Both bottles need to empty at the same time or about. Hopefully without missing any days.

Don't y'all just love watching me think out loud?

Keep Shining :sun:

Jan 18th - First Single Braid

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Here is my first official single braid. I finally got one of these where I didn't stop halfway and the sections felt somewhat equal.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/1stBraid11805.jpg

Instructions, I grabbed my hair.
Split it into 3 sections and braided most of the way with my hands behind my head.
Then at about 2/3 done I pulled the braid over my left shoulder and finished it in front.

Keep Shining :sun:

Jan 22 Wet - Dry Pics

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I CO washed today with V05 Strawberries & Cream.
Note: The one I used says Moisture Milks on the bottle and is a different formula than the ones that don't say Moisture Milks. Same with the Creamy Peaches one. If you tried them before and didn't like them they might be worth another try. Also if you liked the old one and suddenly it seems different this might be why. Also an update on the last wash. I liked my results from the Creamy Peaches and did not use anything else on my hair from then till today when I washed. So that one is a keeper so far.

Anyway, I decided to do a progression type thing with pictures from wet to dry so here goes.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/Jan22wet.jpg http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/Jan22damp.jpg http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/Jan22dry.jpg

Wow, lots of waves ~~~~~~~~ this time. :)
Here's today compared to my before trim picture which was also dried and left alone. I think the difference is that I didn't squeeze my hair at all this time. It took longer to dry but it's less messed with.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/Jan22dry.jpg http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/Jan05b434.jpg

I'm also amazed at how I know I took at least 3 inches off yet it hardly looks like it. Even with the extra waves pulling up.

Keep Shining :sun:

Jan 23 - First Rope Braid

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I was just gonna go to bed and not do anything but I decided instead to try something. So here is my honest first ever self rope braid.

First the actual first results followed by my attempt at redoing the bottom half to get rid of that loose clump.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/rope1.jpg http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/rope2.jpg

Now I'm going to go sleep with it. :)

Keep Shining :sun:

Jan 31 - Updates

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It's review time.
At the beginning of the month I made this list



Start at 33"
Do Search and Snips on splits and breaks. Often.
Keep hair growing towards 36" but do not pass it early. Hitting 36" early means a required immediate trim of 1 inch minimum. No exceptions to this rule. I don't care if some miracle happens and splits go away. The waist is off limits before 2006.
Do trims regularly to maintain hem ends. Work out trim frequency to take 1/2 inch at least every trim to maintain good hem.
Learn how to do something other than a gosh darn ponytail. What the heck do I have this long hair for? I better be doing braids by summer. At least to try sleeping in them.
Denman Brush - Must Have Now!!!


Now let's see,

#1 - On January 7th I did a 3 inch trim. I went from 34" back to 31"

#2 - I did some searches for splits but not as many as I'd like.

#3 & 4 - are a more long term thing so I can't say I've done those yet.

#5 - I did both a regular and a rope braid and wore them in front of my Mom. Something I'd been dreading for a long time. But luckily nothing negative was said by her.

#6 - I now own 3 Denman Brushes. D3, D31, D5. I use and love them all.

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Now for some more updates.


I've started a project recently involving taking pictures of my hair after each different conditioner is used. I've done this 3 times so far and the pictures will be coming soon. Just not in this entry. I'll do that as a seperate section of entries.

I got my satin pillowcases from LisaJaney and so far I love them. I've slept with my hair loose and I'm not having tangle issues.

I also got a hairscroo from her and gave it a little try. I think I made a bun but I was just kinda fooling around. Whatever the style was that one scroo seemed to hold it. Next time I try it I will get pictures. I was scared when I went to remove the scroo thinking it would get stuck and tangled but I just calmly unscroo'd it and it came out. Thanks again LJ. :flower:

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Updates On My Pill Regimen

In November I started taking these
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/biotin.gif
Sundown - 1000 mcg Biotin
On Jan 15th I upped the dosage to 1500 mcg

As of Jan 28th I am now taking these
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/pills.gif

Sundown brand
Biotin - 1000 mcg tablets

Sundown brand
MSM - 500 mg capsules

Vitamin Shoppe brand
Silica aka Horsetail - 500 mg tablets

Natrol brand
Skin Hair Nails / - (SHN) capsules
This pill contains each of the above plus other stuff.

As of right now my regimen is

1 - Biotin pill of 1000 mcg
1 - MSM pill of 500 mg
1 - Silica pill of 500 mg (500mg Horsetail / 35 mg Silica)
2 - S.H.N pills which contains 500 mcg of Biotin, 250 mg of MSM, and Silica (amount not shown)

That's
Biotin - 1500 mcg (1.5 mg) per day
MSM - 750 mg per day
Silica - 500 mg + what's in the SHN per day.

Now that seems like a lot to jump to but, on the MSM bottle it says to take 1 pill - 4 to 6 times per day. On the Silica bottle it says to take 1 to 2 per day.

I'm taking 1.5 MSM not 4 to 6
I'm taking 1 Silica plus whatever is in the SHN.
I sent Natrol an email asking how much silica it has because it lists silica in the ingredients and not on the values chart.

I did not up my Biotin dosage. I now take one Sundown and get the rest in the SHN.

Edited to add:
(I emailed Natrol and they said each S.H.N. capsule contains 41.8 mg of silica so 2 would be 83.6 mg)

Keep Shining :sun:

Project - CO Review & Hair Type Changes Due To Different Products

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As of Janurary 22nd I started taking pictures of my hair as it dried without messing with it.

So with Fia's help I'm going to go through all of my products and wash with them. I will then show her the pictures and get her opinions on the type in each one.

I'm also combining this project with another one I wanted to do. I wanted to post all the products I've tried so far, how many times I've tried them, and give them each a review. So I'm going to post each product as an individual post. Unless I change my mind.

In the meantime I'm posting this as a header type thing. I use the Hybrid View so when I look at my journal these will be in a certain order.

These are my current products. Meaning I have tried these since March of 2004 at least once or will be. They are in order of first tried to last. As of right now the only one I haven't tried is the last one.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/All.jpg

Keep Shining :sun:

February 1st 2005

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It's February 1st which means it was time to measure.
On January 7th I trimmed back from 34" to 31" (or so I thought)
24 days later when I measure I have between 31.25 and 31.5
That's my measurements which aren't really accurate.
And just so we can prove how inaccurate I am I got brave.
I had the last person in the world I would want touching my hair, measure my hair for me. My mom.
I walked in and said "I need you to do me a favor. But only if you don't make comments"
She measured and said it's 30.5"
Which is fine with me because I wanted it longer than 30" so I'm happy with that. It just means that I probably had 33" before the trim and trimmed back to 30"
So 30.5" is now my official measurement for February. Next month when she measures again I'll be able to see for real how much I got in a month.

So that means time to update the signature.

~~~ Old Signature ~~~
~ Robert / PurpleBubba ~
~ Wishing Everyone No Tangles & Keep Shining :sun: ~
~ Have some fun, love your hair, & smile at least once a day :) ~
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/SigJan05.jpg
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~~~ New Signature (Picture from Jan 30th) ~~~
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/Sig.gif
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~~~ Product Update ~~~

I now have these conditioners
Alberto V05 - Blueberries & Cream (Moisture Milks)
Alberto V05 - Tangerine Tickle

Thanks to a swap with PeloBueno.
She also gave me more of the Kiwi Lime Squeeze

Thank you sister. I really appreciate the swap.

Keep Shining :sun:

February 3rd - CO Update & Stuff

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~~~ CO Update ~~~

On Wed Feb 2nd I washed with
Alberto V05 - Blueberries & Cream (Moisture Milks) that PeloBueno sent me. :)

It's now almost 12 hours since I got done and it feels like it did a good job.

I guess I should explain something. I don't mind it when my hair feels like it has something on it. I like these moisture milks conditioners so far. I've only used them each once but I like how my hair feels afterward. I like my hair to be finger-combable and these do that. Another that does that is WR EB.

I just got done looking at just about every entry I've done and with the exception of those few times I wasn't sticking to my routine I seem to like my results most of the time. I saw numerous times where I said I like or love my hair despite it's flaws. I saw a post from September 30th where I said that eventually I would trim at least an inch off. That happened Jan 7th.

I'm still doing well with LJ's satin pillowcases and loose hair.
At the moment my vitamin regimen is on track. I haven't missed a day since I got the new stuff.

I've got at least half saved up for the sewing machine I want.
I want to get this one that Butters recommended.
walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?cat=4064&dept=4044&product_id=2519826

That's all for now.



Keep Shining :sun:

February 14th Update

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On Friday after waiting all week I finally got around to doing a CO. I used Alberto V05 - Tangerine Tickle for the first time thanks to a swap with PeloBueno. It's now about 2.5 days later and so far my hair feels ok. I wish it wouldn't have been so bad for PB. But some things just don't work for everyone. I'm glad she's found a few others she does like.

I'm now halfway through my CO project. I still can't decide how I'm going to put it here but I'm pretty sure I'm going to do seperate entries for each product. Along with them I will put the wet to dry pics. I'll also be looking back to see what I've said about them in previous entries. If I'm going to do that many entries I might as well put stuff in them.

I bought a 7 day plastic pill holder. It's a green one by Ezy Dose.

For this year I started marking off certain things on a regular calendar.

So far it has the following.

Jan 6 - CO wash with V05 Kiwi Lime
Jan 7 - 3 inch trim from 33" back to 30" (not 34" back to 31" as I thought)
Jan 13 - CO wash with V05 Kiwi Lime / First bottle of Biotin finished.
Jan 17 - CO wash with V05 Creamy Peaches
Jan 22 - CO wash with V05 Strawberries & Cream
Jan 23 - First Rope Braid
Jan 26 - CO wash wth European Mystique - Vanilla Floral
Jan 28 - Vitamin Regimen added to. Biotin kept. Added MSM, Silica, & Natrol - Skin Hair Nails
Jan 30 - CO White Rain Extra Body
Feb 1 - Official accurate measurement - 30.5"
Feb 2 - CO wash with V05 Blueberries & Cream
Feb 12 - CO wash with V05 Tangerine Tickle

I posted to an older scissor thread on the review board that I'm looking for new scissors. I want to get a pair that doesn't have as much gap between the blades as mine.

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How I Do My Conditioner Only Washes

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Before I move on I'm posting how I do my CO routine. For the CO Project I am using Method #1.

I have used a shampoo only one time since last March.

I enjoy my CO routine. I have a bunch of different products that I've tried and like but I 90% of the time use only one product per wash.

CO Method #1 - Most of the time

I use warm to slightly hot water to wet hair.
I apply conditioner, usually 3-4 globs is enough to cover my hair.

Since my hair is already kinda long I then grab my hair in a tail and kinda put it on top of my head like a horsehoe or upside down U shape.
I put a plastic bag / cap on. I then scrunch the bag down to make it close to my head. I then put a claw clip on the outside to hold it down. The reason for the cap is it lets your body heat stay inside and acts like a heat cap a bit.

I then sit for about 20 minutes, with a radio on and drinking my coffee.

I then rinse off conditioner using warm to slightly hot water.

I then apply the same conditioner and then rinse right away using warm water.
Sometimes I will turn the last rinse water from warm to cool to finish.

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CO Method #2, Using Vinegar rinse - Some of the time

This is all the same as above except for the (stuff in here)

I use warm to slightly hot water to wet hair.
I apply conditioner, usually 3-4 globs is enough to cover my hair.

Since my hair is already kinda long I then grab my hair in a tail and kinda put it on top of my head like a horsehoe or upside down U shape.
I put a plastic bag / cap on. I then scrunch the bag down to make it close to my head. I then put a claw clip on the outside to hold it down. The reason for the cap is it lets your body heat stay inside and acts like a heat cap a bit.

I then sit for about 20 minutes, with a radio on and drinking my coffee.

I then rinse off conditioner using warm to slightly hot water.

(apply vinegar and water, I've tried both white V and apple cider v)

I then apply the same conditioner and then rinse right away using warm water.
Sometimes I will turn the last rinse water from warm to cool to finish.

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CO Method #3, Quick Wash - Some of the time

I do this like as if I were using Shampoo followed by Conditioner.

I use warm to slightly hot water to wet hair.
I apply a regular amount of conditioner and rub it in. Then No sitting with a cap. Just rinse out using warm to slightly hot water. This is the shampoo step.

Then I take the same conditioner and once again with a regular sized amount do the same apply and rinse using warm to slightly hot water. Just like the bottle says.
Sometimes I will turn the last rinse water from warm to cool to finish.

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CO Project - Product #1 - Alberto V05 - Kiwi & Lime Squeeze, Herbal Conditioner

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Alberto V05 - Kiwi & Lime Squeeze, Herbal Conditioner, Clarifying for extra body with rosemary & lemongrass extracts
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/1VKLS.jpg
Ingredients:
Water; Cetyl Alcohol; Stearyl Alcohol; Stearalkonium Chloride; Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract; Cymbopogon Schoenanthus Extract; Actinidia Chinensis (Kiwi) Fruit Extract; Citrus Aurantifolia (Lime) Fruit Extract; Hydrolyzed Collagen; Ergocalciferol (Vitamin D); Steareth-21; Glyceryl Stearate; Benzophenone-4; Corn Oil; Propylene Glycol; Disodium EDTA; DMDM Hydantoin; Fragrance; Blue 1; Yellow 5

Used - Mar 26, Apr 3, Apr 10, Apr 17, Apr 24, May 1, May 14, May 26, (finished first bottle)
Jun 1, Jun 25, Oct 12, Jan 6, Jan 13
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CO Project - Product #2 - Aussie 3 Minute Miracle, Original

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Aussie 3 Minute Miracle, Original
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/2Au3MM.jpg

Ingredients:
Water, Cetyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate, PEG-12 Distearate, Cetrimonium Chloride, Fennel Extract (foeniculum vulgare), Hops Extract (humulus lupulus), Balm Mint Extract (melissa officinalis), Yarrow Extract (achillea millefolium), Hydrolyzed Casein, Oat Flour (avena sativa), Jojoba Oil (buxus chinensis), Matricaria Extract (chamomilla recutita), Yeast Extract, Sunflower Seed Oil (helianthus annuus), Simethicone, Stearyl Alcohol, Lecithin, Sorbitol, Glycerin, Glycol Stearate, Acetamide MEA, Cetrimonium Bromide, Sodium Lauriminodipropionate, Fragrance, Dicetyldimonium Chloride, Stearalkonium Chloride, Phosphoric Acid, Propylene Glycol, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Tetrasodium EDTA, DMDM Hydantoin, FD&C Yellow #6

Used - Mar 26, May 28,
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CO Project - Product #3 - Aussie Knot Forgotten Detangler

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Aussie Knot Forgotten Detangler (Used to be called Slip)
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/3AuKF.jpg

Ingredients:
Water, Cetearyl Alcohol, Dicetyldimonium Chloride, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Cucumber Extract (cucumis sativus), Calendula Officinalis Extract, Simethicone, Citric Acid, Fragrance, Propylene Glycol, DMDM Hydantoin, Methylparaben, Propylparaben

Used - Mar 26, May 28,
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CO Project - Product #4 - White Rain - Extra Body Conditioner

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White Rain - Extra Body Conditioner
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/4WREB.jpg

Ingredients:
Water, Cetyl Alcohol, Dicetyldimonium Chloride, Phenoxyethanol, Stearyl Alcohol, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Ceteareth-20, Behenyl Alcohol, Fragrance, Citric Acid

Used - May 7, May 21, May 28, Jul 2, Oct ?, Dec 7,

Results picture 1-30-05
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/WREB.jpg
Picture looks to be your normal 2a waves with some instances of 2b closer to the ends - especially in the middle of the head.

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CO Project - Product #5 - Schwartzkopf Perzik Crèmespoeling / Schwartzkopf Peach Conditioner

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Schwartzkopf Perzik Crèmespoeling / Schwartzkopf Peach Conditioner - from Netherlands via swap.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/5SPeach.jpg

Ingredients:
Aqua / Water, Cetearyl Alcohol, Quarternium-87, Propylene Glycol, Isopropyl Myristate, Distearoylethyl Hydroxyethylmonium Methosulfate, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Panthenol, Niacinamide, Prunus Persica (Peach), Ceteareth-20, Glyceryl Stearate, Citric Acid, Parfum, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Methylparaben, CI 15985 (aka Yellow 6)

Results picture 2-24-05
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/SPeach.jpg

Used - Jun 15, Jul 16, Sep 10, Oct 1, Oct ?,
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CO Project - Product #6 - Alberto VO5 - Free Me Freesia Moisturizing Herbal Conditioner

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Alberto VO5 - Free Me Freesia Moisturizing Herbal Conditioner

http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/6VFree.jpg

Ingredients:
Water; Cetyl Alcohol; Stearyl Alcohol; Aloe Barbadensis Gel; Jasmine (Jasminum Officinale) Extract; Freesia Refracta Extract; Ergocalciferol (Vitamin D); Hydrolyzed Keratin; Glycerin; Stearalkonium Chloride; Steareth-21; Glyceryl Stearate; Benzophenone-4; Corn Oil; Propylene Glycol; Disodium EDTA; DMDM Hydantoin; Fragrance; Ext. D&C Violet No. 2

Used - Jul 9
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CO Project - Product #7 - Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Conditioner
Revitalizing - Pomegranate / Lychee / Persimmon


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Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Conditioner
Revitalizing - Pomegranate / Lychee / Persimmon

http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/7HEP.jpg

Ingredients:
Water, Cetearyl Alcohol, Behentrimonium Chloride, Cetyl Esters, Punica Granatum Extract, Diospyros Kaki Fruit Extract, Litchi Chinensis Fruit Extract, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Fragrance, Dihydroxypropyl Peg 5 Linoleammonium Chloride, Citric Acid, Propylene Glycol, Methylparaben, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone, Orange 4, Red 33, Red 4

Results picture 2-18-05
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/HEPoLyPer.jpg

Used - Oct 5, Nov 2, Feb 18,
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CO Project - Product #8 - Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Conditioner
Purifying - Kiwi / Kumquat / Fig

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Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Conditioner
Purifying - Kiwi / Kumquat / Fig

http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/8HEK.jpg

Ingredients:
Water, Cetearyl Alcohol, Cetyl Esters, Behentrimonium Chloride, Citrus Japonica Fruit Extract, Ficus Carica (Fig) Extract, Actinidia Chinensis (Kiwi) Fruit Extract, Fragrance, Dihydroxypropyl Peg 5 Linoleammonium Chloride, Propylene Glycol, Citric Acid, Methylparaben, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone, Disodium EDTA-Copper, Yellow 5, Yellow 6

Results picture 2-15-05
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/HEKiwi.jpg

Used - Oct 8, Nov ?, Feb 15
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CO Project - Product #9 - Alberto VO5 - Normal Shampoo

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Alberto VO5 - Normal Shampoo
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/9VNormP.jpg

This product will not be used for the photo portion of the project but is here as part of the review

Used - Dec 7
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CO Project - Product #10 - Alberto VO5 - Creamy Fresh Peaches, Moisture Milks Conditioner

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Alberto VO5 - Creamy Fresh Peaches, Moisture Milks Conditioner
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/10VPeach.jpg

Used - Jan 17
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CO Project - Product #11 - Alberto V05 - Strawberries & Cream, Moisture Milks

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Alberto V05 - Strawberries & Cream, Moisture Milks
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/11VStraw.jpg

Results picture 1-22-05
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/V05Straw.jpg
2b on the lower half. 2a waves on the upper half.

Used - Jan 22
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CO Project - Product #12 - European Mystique - Vanilla Floral Conditioner

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European Mystique - Vanilla Floral Conditioner
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/12EMVanilla.jpg

Results picture 1-26-05
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/EMVanilla.jpg
Lower half of today's pic is definitely in 2c territory with the spiral curls that developed - almost verging on 3a. 2a waves on the upper half.

Used - Jan 26
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CO Project - Product #13 - Alberto V05 - Blueberries & Cream, Moisture Milks Conditioner

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Alberto V05 - Blueberries & Cream, Moisture Milks Conditioner
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/13VBlue.jpg

Results picture - 2-2-05
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/V05BlueB.jpg
The lower part of the hair is looking more and more like it's converting to 2b waves.

Used - Feb 2
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CO Project - Product #14 - Alberto V05 - Tangerine Tickle Conditioner

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Alberto V05 - Tangerine Tickle Conditioner
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/14VTang.jpg

Results picture - 2-12-05
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/V05TangT.jpg

Used - Feb 12
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Feb 21st - Trim, Scissors, Pills, Other Updates

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I had a nice long entry typed out a few hours ago and had a crash. Hopefully I'll remember to include everything from then.
In this entry I hope to include updates on, Scissors, Trims, Pills, Washes, some Friends related, and hopefully everything else I've been meaning to say for the past week since my last regular entry.

Scissors and Trims
On Wednesday I was looking through the Morocco Method 05 calendar for good trim dates. I posted reminders to all the sites and while I was doing so I thought to myself, maybe I should use those dates? I found out after the Jan 7th trim that it was a retarding growth day. Which was ok considering my reasons for doing it. Now we're going to continue that theme of slowing down. I've decided to start trimming up to 1/2 inch every month on at least one of the good MM dates. They are all spaced about a month apart. The main rule for this is that anything past 30" is fair game but I'm not going above 30" anymore. I don't have to trim every month but I'd like to.

Earlier I was having a conversation with Poetryofacherry and I said this.

~~~I'm not ready for a longer length. I didn't get to enjoy my hair before because I had it 20 going to 30 and didn't pay attention. I want to love my hair not just grow long hair. So I'm slowing down. Besides, I want to set a better example, that it's not as important to rush growing if you're not keeping up with the health. I don't want to go 20 inches past my butt and then say Wow I better cut those 10 inches of damage off. I feel bad for the people who aren't this far along. I want to show them that its not a race. It's better to have hair that is "pretty", long hair not pretty "long" ~~~

I just thought of something. I want a yard of hair for my next goal. But it just popped into my head that I should clean up my yard first. ;)

So anyway, I did mention trims.
On Saturday it was the 19th and an MM day for strengthening. I measured before the trim and got 30.5 to 30.7"
I had some trouble measuring afterward but my shortest measurements came out to about 30.25" so I took up to .5 in some spots and less in others. If it was that uneven that is. I think I did a better job on this trim than the last one. A lot less snipping. So I'm not touching the measured ends with scissors again until next month's date which would be 18th or 19th.

While I'm at it here's the Red dates on the MM calendar

January ___ 22 - 23 ___ Root work
February ___ 19 ___ Strengthen
March ___ 18 - 19 ___ Lengthen - Spring Equinox
April ___ 22 - 23 ___ Beautify

May ___ 21 ___ Thicken
June ___ 22 - 23 ___ Strengthen - Summer Solstice
July ___ 21 ___ Root work
August ___ 20 ___ Thicken

September ___ 16 - 17 ___ Strengthen - Fall Equinox
October ___ 18 - 19 ___ Lengthen
November ___ 15 ___ Root work
December ___ 17 ___ Thicken - Winter Solstice

My new scissors worked just fine.
I posted about buying them on the reviews board Friday. I wrote
"I went to Sally today and I bought a $25 pair for $18 with the card and the $5 off coupon.

The package says Shear Technologies but it was on the same shelf as these
sallybeauty.com/shop/1920/255800
which say Belson Expertiz Shears
The item number is the same and so is the company, Belson so they must have just changed the name. Of the ones I could hold up to the light these looked like the least amount of light / gap between them. Their shears range from under $10 to around $45 unless you go into the glass case and get the really expensive ones."

That was for you CurlyBrunette, just in case you needed it

I'm not going to use those dates for S&D trims. What I mean is, I might do some on those days but I will do them on any day. Now that I have scissors I am more confident about I hope to use them.
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Washes
The other day I finally got around to posting the entries for my CO Review & Typing Project. I haven't finished filling in those posts yet but I put them up since there were 14 of them. For those who were trying to read my journal then I apologize for not having something better at the time. Thanks for reading then and now (since you'd have to be reading this now to see me say this :wink: ).

I've currently got a thread on the main board asking people to choose the product I use for each wash. I had some Herbal Essences on there at first but I've since used both of them and I edited in other choices rather than make a new thread. Hopefully I'll get a few more people chiming in without me having to bump it up. I'm hoping the next wash will be tomorrow. Today would be day 3 but I have to go out today so I'll plan on it for tomorrow.

Vitamins & Pills
I'm happy to say that I made it through my first week of using my new 7 day pill holder without missing a day. Actually I haven't mised a day of pills since I added to my Just Biotin routine on Jan 28. At the end of this week I will have used up my first bottle of Natrol Skin Hair Nails. Since I'm taking 2 per day 60 only lasts a month. I edited an earlier entry to say
"I emailed Natrol and they said each S.H.N. capsule contains 41.8 mg of silica so 2 would be 83.6 mg"
The first email I got was from a customer service lady who said she would ask the lab and get back with me. Then a few days later she did. So I'm glad I picked a company that will answer my emails. That was nice of her.

Magazines
Speaking of which, a few years back I emailed Family Circle magazine and asked if they ever had hair related articles and the lady who got my email xeroxed a few and mailed them to me. That was very nice of her. They were just the usual articles you see in any magazine but it didn't matter. I've since tried emailing other magazines about other things and haven't heard anything.

I'm bringing up magazines because perhaps some haven't seen me say it before but, I do like to glance through magazines. Most of the time I'm looking for hair articles but I like when I see a nice dress or something nice. I'm not into reading the gossip stuff though.

I've recently met a few people who don't mind discussing magazines with me and I'd like to say thank you to them.
One isn't a member here so I won't mention her name but if you read this thank you. The other recent person is Georgy. Wow. What a nice lady. I've only known her a few days and it's as if we've known each other forever. I feel very blessed to have met her. And to think I might not have known her had I not had the guts to post the Made Your Day thread. Or perhaps not this soon. She did point out a few articles in recent issues of Glamour that I had not read but was able to since I still had them since I have a current sub. They weren't hair related but it was nice discussing something. It's neat to be able to go grab your copy and read the same thing. I saw in Requiemofrose's journal earlier that she read a nice article on products in March's Allure. They didn't have the March issue the other day but I'll get that one soon too.
I'd like to give a thanks to KristinMH, MichaelW, and LongRed for posting to the thread I posted about Feruary's Allure. By the same token I just went back and looked at the thread I did for January's Redbook and I'd like to thank Spiffy and Saracuda for posting there. I'd like to thank SagittarianTiger for posting about a magazine article elsewhere. She's been helpful with that too among other things.

To Be Continued
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Keep Shining :sun:

Feb 23 - Continuing From The 21st

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To Be Continued - Being Continued
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Well let's start off with why I had to say that. I wanted to go to the post office on monday and send out some packages for swaps. My dad ended up calling and wanted me to go do some shopping for him which was ok since I was going to go out anyway. He even had some stuff he wanted mailed. I didn;t tell him that I was going to the post office but I thought to myself, well at least I won't have to make 2 trips. I get off the phone and then come back and sit down and Mom says, "the post office is closed today." I was already upset with myself for not having mailed the stuff on Saturday so this was not what I wanted to hear. I still ended up going there to put his stuff in the box outside. But it worked out. I was swapping some stuff with Eilla and she's been such a pleasure to deal with. She was very understanding. I also was trying to add things to the box since, why pay to ship bubblewrap when I could add more goodies? I had 2 empty pill bottles so I asked her if she wanted some samples of some of the conditioners I had more than enough of. And she said yes. So it worked out nicely. I hope they at the very least do no harm. I do recommend swapping with her. I mean the swap hasn't officially finished yet but she's so nice. I'm glad I was able to find something of hers I wanted to try.

Scissors
CurlyBrunette, you're welcome. Glad I could help and I hope they work :)

Magazines
I'm bringing up magazines because perhaps some haven't seen me say it before but, I do like to glance through magazines. Most of the time I'm looking for hair articles but I like when I see a nice dress or something nice. I'm not into reading the gossip stuff though.
I've recently met a few people who don't mind discussing magazines with me and I'd like to say thank you to them.
One isn't a member here so I won't mention her name but if you read this thank you. The other recent person is Georgy. Wow. What a nice lady.
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I saw in Requiemofrose's journal earlier that she read a nice article on products in March's Allure. They didn't have the March issue the other day but I'll get that one soon too.
Georgy I hope you know how much I love you sister. That PM you sent me at My site was so nice. I still can't believe I found someone who's "asking Me" when we're going to read the magazines together. Thanks sister. I don't know when but I hope it's not the last time.

I did find the March issue of Allure today. I don't want to read it yet but I did glance real quick to see if that artcile Requiemofroses had anything I use but it didn't. But that's ok. I'm glad she found hers in there :)

This month's InStyle looks like a nice big issue but they only had one copy and it was one that looked like 20 people had already flipped through it. So I'll leave that for when I go to CVS.

I got my first copy of the new All You magazine that's only at Walmart. Georgy told me she got one and really liked what she saw in it so I went and grabbed one. I didn't read that yet either. I thought it was funny that it's a magazine only at Walmart and has $1.47 on the front as the cover price but because WM has all magazines discounted off the cover price on the receipt it says $1.32. They even discounted their own price.

Speaking of magazines, the other day I got up to let the dog out and noticed that I had a Glamour magazine on the shelf that I still not taken out of the plastic since I sub. It had a decent makeover in it that I would have posted about but since it was the November issue there wouldn't have been much point to it. I suppose if anyone wants to see it I could scan and PM it but otherwise oh well. The girl in the before has hair that comes down to about I'd say 20 inches. Looks like she has 1c/2a hair. It says the stylist snipped long layers and added bangs. In the after picture her hair is a bit wavier, and now has wispy bangs that come down to the top of her eyes. But it doesn't look like she lost any length otherwise. It does snow him using shears and not a razor. Overall I'd give this makeover an 8 out of 10. Maybe more. Her cut does look really nice and she has a nice happy smile in the after. I know layers aren't always good but hers look ok. And she likes her results. So yes there was a chop involved but only on the bangs. If anyone wants to see it just let me know.

More Shopping Related
I checked the hair aisle at WM to see if they had new stuff. They had the new V05 Tea Therapy stuff but they only had shampoo. What was weird is I was seeing 2 similar looking green bottles and was trying to figure out why they both said shampoo and no conditioner? The answer is if you look closely one says Volumizing and the other Smoothing. So I posted about that to the New V05 thread on the review board. I also saw a new one in the Moisture Milks variety. It's a Blue Green bottle that says Honeydew Melon or something like that with Honeydew. I also noticed that they are revamping the label designs. I hope this does not mean they are changing ingredients in anything. It's too hard for people to find routines with products changing. It's bad enough that they've already changed at least 3 of the cream ones to say Moisture Milks with new ingredients. What really stinks is lets say 5 out of 10 people said they did not like Strawberries & Cream. Which one of the two did they use? If they used the old one and people read that then someone might pass up trying V05 Strawberries & Cream based on that when it's possible that the newer Moisture Milks formula might have worked?


Other
I want to wash my hair later today but that probably won't happen. Unless something has changed since the other day I'm supposed to take my dad to the doctor today. I'm pretty sure he said 9:30 again so that's only 3 1/2 hours till.

Once again thank you to everyone who has either posted to my Made Your Day thread, my washing product Vote threads, and those who are reading this right now. I was trying to come up with a word earlier about how it makes me feel when you read my journal. The one that I chose was Cherished. I really really appreciate you taking time out of your day to check in and see how I am. :flowers:
Thank you

Edited to add: Thanks Sunderella for helping me think of that word. :)

Keep Shining :sun:

~ The Beauty Of The World ~
~ Words or Names that mean beauty, pretty, etc ~
~ Continued 2/24/04 ~

~ The Beauty Of The World ~
~ Words or Names that mean beauty, pretty, etc ~

I was using an online translator earlier today and I got an idea to translate the words pretty, beauty, and beautiful into other languages and make a list.

I'm updating this thanks to the help of ~ LauraJean ~
She posted to a thread I did on the friendship board and offered these suggestions. Thanks (((((LauraJean))))). I really appreciate you helping and reading my journal :)

PurpleBubba~I was reading your journal and found your list of 'Beautiful' words , I noticed that you didn't have any japanese in there so I asked a coworker...

Beautiful ~ Kirei ~ Japanese
Beautiful ~ Mai Li ~ Mandarin (Chinese)

Cute ~ Kawaii ~ Japanese.

Keep Shining :sun:

Feb 25th - CO Wash

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Thursday night I did a CO wash with
Schwartzkopf Perzik Crèmespoeling / Schwartzkopf Peach Conditioner
(from Netherlands via swap with Luna Bella last summer)

It had the most votes of the remaining products on the "You Get To Vote" thread I have on the mane board.

Here is the picture of the after, as well as the first picture since saturday's trim of about 1/2"

http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Feb24drybig.jpg

I really like how that one looks. All the waves are meeting at about the same curve or point. I don't see any spots that look like it's really uneven. I'm happy. I'm still getting about 4 hours for my hair to completely dry when I don't squeeze or towel my hair.

I still like my plan to trim every month. I know I said no rules for New Years but I'm not going to think of these as rules. The Rule is not to go above 30 inches. I can do that. Everything else is easy. If after a few months I'm doing much better I'll let my hair grow a bit before the next trim. But as I said before, this is also about practising trims. I'm not afraid of scissors. And I don't mind uneven ends. But I'd like to make sure they are at least nice and freshly cut. The waves will hide the uneven lengths if they are there. Then again, I'd have to wear my hair down for someone outside the house to see that. You can't tell 1/4" differences in lengths when the hair is in a tail. If you can, you better get back cuz you're breathing on me LOL.

I just realized after checking my email, that today marks one year that I've been back online since the 11 months without in 03/04. I joined this version of LHC on March 12th. So Hopefully when that date gets here I'll post something about it here. The same goes for March 20th when I started this journal.

I have got to get a split search going. So I'm hoping that pretty soon I'll be able to quote this and then say I did it.

Ok before I go,

Have you smiled yet today?
Has anyone told you you are beautiful yet today?
Have you had a hug yet today?

If you answered no to those, let me be the first.
If you answered yes, let me be the next.

Have a great day and thank you for being you.
Smile, Bubba Loves You :smile:

Keep Shining :sun:

Feb 26th - Saturday Morning With My Journal

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I slept from about 7pm till about 4am this morning, combo of sleeping in the chair and then bed.
So I got up and logged on. Not much happening right now. It's a saturday morning and here we get the sunday sale papers in the saturday paper so I'm going to look through those right now. Just thought I'd do that while writing. I see that some people like to write down what song they have on and such so here's my contribution.
I currently have the movie Rudy on behind me. The one with Sean Astin going to Notre Dame to play football. It's one of the movies I will have on when nothing else is on. I also own the cd of the theme music by Jerry Goldsmith. I have lots of cds like that. My favorite movie composer is Danny Elfman, who also was a singer in Oingo Boingo. He did themes for Batman and other Tim Burton movies.

Let's see,
Meijer has
Tresseme 2 for $5
Natrol products are buy one get one free (I need some Skin.Hair.Nails)
Garnier Fructis - $2.77

Kmart
Pert, Aussie, Herbal Essences - 3 for $7
Nature Made products buy one get one free

CVS
Garnier Fructis - $3.33 w/card

Rite Aid
V05 Oasis - Buy one get one free
Pert, Aussie - $2.99
Infusium $3.99
Nature Made products buy one get one free

Walgreens
Nature Made products buy one get one free
Aussie - 3 for $10
Garnier Fructis - $3
White Rain - $1 (33% more size 19.95 oz)

Coupons
The sale papers said there's supposed to be a Fructis coupon this week so will I find it .................
answer is yes
Garnier Fructis - 2 coupons, one is $1 off styling products the other is $1 off poo or con.

Family Circle Magazine - 12 issues for $9.97

Ok so the verdict is, the only thing up there in my routine at the moment is the Natrol at Meijer. I already have some Aussie stuff and don't need to buy more. I was hoping CVS would have had the Natrol on sale because I've got a coupon from using their card that will give me $2 back if I spend $10. But I have to use that by March 4th which means it would have to be this week's specials. Maybe there will be one of those little booklet ones in the mail?
It's either that or go today and buy V05's which I'm trying not to do because of swaps.

It's now 8:30 am
Rudy went off and Tin Cup came on.
I just realized that it's Speedbump who I've been noticing posting the music. :)

It's now 8:50 am
As I've been writing I've been surfing. Checked a few store sites and the boards. I started this entry sometime between 7 and 8 am.

Sweet People & Other Stuff
Eilla got her box from our swap and so far she seems to be enjoying her new products.

RedNCurly and I are working on a swap.

Wannabecurly sent me her pink aquis towel. I can't use it yet because I'm still doing my CO project for a few more washes and can't use a towel but it feels nice.

I'm glad that I was able to apologize to Carolyn without any problems. She is a nice & beautiful person. I really respect her.
As I said there, she did help out with me picking Natrol Skin Hair Nails. Curlybrunette was the other person who helped. Not only in the thread I started but in another one before that I think she posted about how they didn't have a bad taste or smell or something.

It's now 9:30
I was answering a poll that Irishred just did on oils.
Another very nice lady I've had the fortune to meet and talk to.

I had another very nice conversation with Georgy yesterday.

Just want to say I haven't forgotten about the people in the Made Your Day thread. I'm still kicking around some ideas of how I want to post about that here. But I'm still thinking of all of you.

Time for a refill...........
Coffee, I drink my coffee with milk and Coffee Mate's French Vanilla, preferrably the liquid.

Ok it's now 9:53 am and I'm stopping for now. More later I hope.

Keep Shining :sun:

Feb 26th - Saturday Night With My Journal

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I'm actually doing 2 entries today. My last was this morning in case you missed it.

This entry will involve my shopping today. As well as other things.

First let's start off with some important stuff. I meant to write earlier about this.

CurlyBrunette - Please don't feel compelled to choose purple, I like pink too ;)

Eilla - I got the box from Eilla today.
It had full size bottles of conditioners
V05 Kiwi Lime Squeeze
V05 Sunkissed Raspberry
V05 Strawberries & Cream (older non moisture milks)
White Rain - Lavender & Vanilla (New)
plus lots of other goodies like a shower cap that I will try next wash.
As far as her, so far she likes the Jason's Jojoba S&C. I hope it stays nice for her.
I already said so in the ratings but I highly recommend you swap with her. It's kinda funny how 1 bottle of V05 can turn into 2 boxes of goodies :wink:
Thanks (((((Eilla)))))

Wonderlywroughte - ya know if you like those pictures you could always draw them on characters.

SnowyMoon - I hope your bump gets better.

"Bartender a round of hugs on me"

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Ok so I started the day with getting some new stuff.
I had a coupon for V05, 50 cents off of 2 15 oz bottles. I decided to go to Walmart first just in case they had something there that I wasn't finding at other stores. We have 2 Walmarts about the same distance from here but in oppositte directions so today I went to the one I didn't go to the other day. Since Eilla had sent me a new White Rain with lavender I wanted to also see if they had new ones at WM. Plus I was running low on WR Extra Body. I also wanted to check out their pills since I kept forgetting to check what they had. So it went like this.

First I looked at the V05's
They had at least one of the new Tea ones but I didn't want that one yet so I left it. I saw the new Kiwi Lime bottle and then I saw they had some older ones still so I grabbed one of each to compare the ingredients. They both matched so it was just a label change for Kiwi Lime.

I then looked at the White Rain stuff and saw at least one new one besides the lavender. It's Energizing Citrus, eriched with orange fruit extracts & B5. I grabbed that and also grabbed WR Extra Body. This time in the new white bottle. Was I done? Nope. I bought those and then decided that since that coupon was going to expire in 2 days I might as well just go to the grocery store and use it since they double coupons.

In the store they had,

Punchy Pomegranate
Cucumber Melon Crunch
Luv Me Lavender
Pear Mango Passion
Jasmine Tease
Creamy Peaches - Old non Moisture Milks formula
Honeydew Smoothie - Moisture Milks formula

Some of those they only had the big bottles and the coupon was only for 15 oz so I ended up settling for
Creamy Peaches - Old non Moisture Milks formula
Honeydew Smoothie - Moisture Milks formula

I figured I'd get the Peaches since that would give me both the new and old formulas of both the Peaches and Strawberries.

So I bought 4 bottles.
The WR's were 74 cents each
The V05's were $1.09 each but with the coupon being doubled they ended up being 64 cents each.

So I got 4 bottles for $2.85
Not bad considering some of the stuff on sale is $3 for one bottle. As of right now my plan is to get at all of the V05 conditioners that do not have cones. I have more than half of them now, might as well complete the collection.

I don't know why I'm doing this? But I am. Maybe a part of me doesn't want this CO project to end? I do know that it's helping me think. One way or another it's going to go to my head. 8)

Well it was Saturday night when I started the entry. Good Morning :flower:

Keep Shining :sun:

Feb 28th - February Review, CO & Updates

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Ok first today's updates
I celebrated taking my pills a bit soon and jinxed myself. I went to take my pills today and realized that I didn't take them yesterday because the 7 day pill holder was still empty. So I missed on Sunday.

Earlier today I had to go out and had a bit of trouble with tangles so afterward I used some jojoba oil for the first time in a long time.

I decided to do a CO wash since I was getting home early enough so I decided to try the new White Rain - Lavender & Vanilla that Eilla sent me. I'm currently about 1:45 into my 4 hour drying time so it's too soon to know the results. I also decided to use the shower cap she gave me. But I decided to put the plastic bag on first and then use the cap over it as extra help or something. I figured that will help hold the heat in better. I'm glad it's a nice big shower cap and not the rubber kind like we had in swimming class when I was in 10th grade. Those things hurt back then and I didn't have hair that was below shoulders. Ok, had to take a timeout. It's now 9:17 pm and I had to take the damp picture for the 2 hour mark. Guess that means 2 hours to go till dry.

That's pretty much all for today's update.

End of February Updates

I'm going to do this a simple way. I'm just going to list what I marked off on the calendar.

Feb 1 - Official Measurment - 30.5"
Feb 2 - CO wash with V05 Blueberries & Cream, Moisture Milks formula - from swap with PeloBueno
Feb 12 - CO wash with V05 Tangerine Tickle - from swap with PeloBueno
Feb 15 - CO wash with Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions, Purifying - Kiwi / Kumquat / Fig (Old Non Cone formula)
Feb 18 - CO wash with Herbal Essences - Fruit Fusions, Revitalizing - Pomegranate / Lychee / Persimmon (Old Non Cone formula)
Feb 19 - First Trim on MM date. Trimmed from 30.5" - 30.7" back to 30.25"
Feb 24 - CO wash with Schwartzkopf Perzik Crèmespoeling / Schwartzkopf Peach Conditioner - from swap with Luna Bella
Feb 26 - Finished first month of new pill regimen.
Feb 27 - Forgot to take pills for first time since new regimen started.
Feb 28 - Used Jojoba Oil. Later in day did CO wash with White Rain - Lavender & Vanilla - from swap with Eilla

Keep Shining :sun:

March 1st 2005

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Official self measurement because I'm not asking for help this time. Last month when Mom measured I had 30.5"
On the 19th I did a small trim and with self measurements was getting no less than 30.25" afterward. Today I'm getting no less than 30.5" These are not the most accurate measurements but since I'm going to be maintaining at around 30" for a long time it doesn't matter. As long as I'm minimum 30" I will be measuring again before and after the trim on the 18th or 19th.

I've updated my signature image from
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/Sig.gif

to
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/SigM.gif

No I did not color my hair. It's just a picture that has not been brightened.


Keep Shining :sun:

Mar 4th - Nails & Stuff

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I made a note on my calendar but I wanted to make a note here too. Since it seemed like maybe my nails were growing fast I decided to jot down a start date. So about 2 am March, 4th, today I trimmed my thumbnails as short as they go. In other words all of the overhang is gone.
Aka the "free edge"
Free Edge - The end portion of the nail plate that reaches over the tip of the finger or toe.

Anyway, I'm going to try to remember to keep an eye on it and see how fast it grows. According to my cosmetology textbook nails grow an average of about 1/8" or .3125 cm per month.
I doubt I've ever had a nail grow past 1/2"
So we'll see how it goes.

As far as other stuff, I plan to do a CO wash later today. For the next wash I will be using White Rain - Energizing Citrus conditioner. I gave RedNCurly the choices and she chose that one for me. Thanks sister :)
She's such a nice person. I'm very glad I met her.

Here's a shout out to everyone I've been talking to lately. Thank you all.


Keep Shining :sun:

Mar 5th - CO Update & Saturday Afternoon With My Journal

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Starting time: 1:47 pm

CO Update
I did a CO wash last night using the White Rain, Energizing Citrus. So far my next day hair seems fine like it usually does. I think for me day 3 and later is when problems happen. I think it's more a case of what I do with my hair over the next few days.
Did I sleep with my hair loose?
Did I wear a shirt with rough spots?

So anyway, good results so far. :)

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Currently 2:00 pm
Timeout to help someone ;)
Back at 7:50 pm

Other Stuff

Today is Saturday so I had to refill my 7 day pill holder. As of Thursday I'll be finishing my second bottle of 1000 mcg biotin. That will mean that I'll have used 55 days to use up the second bottle. According to my Jan 15th entry it took me 71 days to finish the first bottle of 60. I then upped the dosage to 1.5 pills aka 1500 mcg per day on Jan 16th in an effort to catch up because I had skipped taking it 11 days during those 71. On Jan 28th I started taking all the other pills and Natrol - Skin Hair Nails had 500 mcg of biotin in it so I cut back the other pill to just 1 per day but kept the 1500 mcg total. That may sound confusing but here's what it boils down to.

71 days to finish bottle 1
55 days to finish bottle 2
126 days total to finish a 120 day supply. Almost back on track.

I'm listening to Classic Country Saturday Night on the radio, 99.5 Detroit. I'm going to email a song request. It's now 9:15 and I emailed a request for "The Bluest Eyes In Texas by Restless Heart" :)
The show goes until midnight.

The other day I put these tickers into my signature


http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;10716;6/st/20050312/e/1+Year+Back+At+LHC+%3A%29/k/40aa/event.png (http://www.TickerFactory.com/)

http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;10704;105/st/20050320/e/1+Year+Of+Hair+Journal/dt/-1/k/f5e3/event.png (http://www.TickerFactory.com/)

The first one is March 12th and the second is March 20th.

Time to look through Ads and Coupons
I think I'm going to try to do this more often. I liked posting about this last week so I wanted to try again. So here goes,

Kmart
Dove - $2.99

Target
Garnier Fructis - Special packs with mini radio $2.89

Walgreens
V05 - Coupon for up to 4, 15 oz bottles 79 cents each
Natrol supplements - Buy one get one for 1 cent
Dove - Combo packs of 25.4 oz Poo & 10 oz Con or 25.4 oz Con & 10 oz Poo for $5.99
Herbal Essences - 3 for $10

CVS - Little Booklet
V05 - 15 oz bottles 79 cents w/ card no limit
Garnier Fructis - $2.99 w/ card
Scunci Hair Accessories - Buy one get one half off w/ card

It's now 9:35 pm

Thanks for reading
((((((((Hugging You))))))))

Keep Shining :sun:

Saturday Night Continued

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I'm listening to Classic Country Saturday Night on the radio, 99.5 Detroit. I'm going to email a song request. It's now 9:15 and I emailed a request for "The Bluest Eyes In Texas by Restless Heart" :)
The show goes until midnight.

Just wanted to say that at about 11:40 my song was played :)

Keep Shining :sun:

Mar 7th - New Avatar

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I made a new avatar today.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/Avatars/HeartJump.gif
I was talking to Georgy and I said,

"Sometimes the best tool to fix a heart is another heart. You can either get a transplant or you can get a jump like a car battery. I prefer jumping."

Thanks ((((Georgy))))


Old Avatar
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/Avatars/HairCoach.gif

Two older avatars
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/Avatars/Lilac.gif http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/Avatars/PurpleHeart.gif

Keep Shining :sun:

Mar 8th - CO Wash

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I did a CO wash earlier. I used VO5 Sunkissed Raspberry for the first time. I'm now an hour into the dry hair and so far it's good.

I started threads about VO5 recently because I found out that on the new website a lot of them are missing. So I'm now on a quest to get bottles of the discontinued conditioners for both me and others who request them.

I did find some tonight at Big Lots.
I even found one that I didn't even know existed.

The Big Lot by me had the 33% more bottles for 96 cents and had the 50% more bottles for $1.22 each. Yeah that's not exactly sale priced but it's either that or pay up to $2 at a grocery store that I know has some. Which I will do if needed.

They also had some of the old formula of HE Kiwi that I use but I didn't get any since I need the money for stocking up on V05 and I already still have an extra HE. If they would have had the HE Pomegranate I'd have gotten that one since I only have less than a bottle.

Anyway, I would write more but I need to go to bed. I want to get up early so I can talk to some people I missed today.

Keep Shining :sun:

CO Project - Product #15 - White Rain - Lavender Vanilla Conditioner

This Entry is part of a project and will be edited later with more info.
To read about this project start with this entry
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White Rain - Lavender Vanilla Conditioner
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/WRLav.jpg

Results picture - 2-28-05
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/WRLavVan.jpg

Used - Feb 28
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Keep Shining

CO Project - Product #16 - White Rain - Energizing Citrus Conditioner

This Entry is part of a project and will be edited later with more info.
To read about this project start with this entry
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White Rain - Energizing Citrus Conditioner
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/WRCitrus.jpg

Results picture - 3-04-05
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/WRCitrus.jpg

Used - Mar 4 (05)
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Keep Shining

CO Project - Product #17 - Alberto VO5 - Sun Kissed Raspberry Conditioner

This Entry is part of a project and will be edited later with more info.
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Alberto VO5 - Sun Kissed Raspberry Conditioner
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/Rasp.jpg

Results picture - 3-08-05
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/V05SKR.jpg

Used - Mar 8 (05)
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Keep Shining

~ PurpleBubba's ~
@}->->- ~ ((((Hug Garden)))) ~ -<-<-{@
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Edited on September 15th 2005 to say I have started a thread on the friendship board. If you want a hug go there.
If the thread is locked, you can PM me and I'll either edit in the name or ask for it to be unlocked, bumped and also edit it in.
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=29820

Mar 16th - Updates From The Triple Guru

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3000 Posts
Ok so I forgot to post my 3000th post in my journal but I am now a Triple Guru or something.

Shopping - Big Lots & First Trip to Whole Foods

~ Big Lots ~
At Big Lots I found a ton of the discontinued VO5 products.
I'm still debating with myself as to whether I should post the ones I found or if I should go to the other Big Lots locations first. I did buy 2 bottles each of most of the ones I found. I still did Not find the Vanilla one. I know a few people like that one.

~ Whole Foods ~
I originally went to WF to look at California Baby's Shampoo but since most people didn't seem to like it I let that one alone.

For a few minutes I was holding a bottle of Pure Essence Shampoo but I put that back and I grabbed Avalon Organics - Lavender. I bought both the AO Lavender Shampoo & Conditioner.

Routine & Washing Related
I've been looking for a shampoo lately because I felt like trying something different. On March 20th this journal turns one year old. I want to start just doing my own thing and not following a certain type of routine. I want to just do whatever I feel like.

So yesterday I did my usual conditioner routine but I tweaked it to also use a shampoo.

So here is what I did, with the changed stuff in bold

I start with warm to hot water because I want my cuticles to open.
I first shook the bottle really well and then applied Avalon Organics Lavender shampoo. I then rinsed still using the warm to hot water.

I apply conditioner. For this wash I shook the bottle really well and then applied Avalon Organics Lavender conditioner.
For my hair I do about 3 globs. By then it's well coated.

I then grab my hair in a tail and kinda put it on top of my head like a horsehoe or upside down U shape.
I put a plastic bag / cap on. I then scrunch the bag down to make it close to my head. I then put a claw clip on the outside to hold it down. The reason for the cap is it lets your body heat stay inside and acts like a heat cap a bit.

I then sit for about 20 minutes, with a radio on and drinking my coffee.

I then rinse off conditioner with warm to hot.

I then apply the same conditioner
For this wash it was Avalon Organics Lavender conditioner again.
and then rinse right away kinda like the bottle says.

(The 3 times I used vinegar I used it here. I did not use any this time)

Sometimes I will turn the last rinse water from warm to cool to finish.

So I'm kinda thinking of starting a routine where I only use matched pairs of products. In other words if I use V05 Kiwi Lime Conditioner I'll use Kiwi Lime Shampoo for the same wash. These are just things I'm thinking of trying. My hair doesn't get washed often enough to worry about cones or sulfates etc.
I did get some VO5 Luv Me Lavender conditioner yesterday so I'm gonna go back and get the shampoo too. I've also been thinking lately about animal testing. I saw Legally Blonde 2 and I also clicked on a link in a post the other day. I'm glad that VO5 says they don't test. I think I might try only using Non tested stuff. I know I don't want to make rules but I might make that one. Or at least make more of an effort.

I was going to do a matched pair routine involving pairs of Lavender S&C but Suave might be one that animal tests.

I checked my bottles of White Rain and they say they were not tested on animals. I don't know if that means all of their products are cruelty free but at least it's some.

Anyway that's where I'm at right now.

Keep Shining :sun:

3/20/04 to 3/20/05 - A Whole Year Of PurpleBubba's Ponderings

My Journal is 1 Year Old as of right now

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135 Entries
20 S&C Products Used
1 Oil
4 Different Bottles of Pills.

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This Year's Motto - "No Rules"

Keep Shining :sun:

Mar 20th - Updates

New Year - No More Disclaimer
For those who missed it, I posted earlier today that my journal is now 1 year old. One thing I've decided to change is I am no longer going to use that disclaimer. I may or may not use something else in the future. But I no longer wish to use a disclaimer. Hopefully I won't feel the need to put one back.

I also said in the other post that my Motto this year is "No Rules"

So here is my current routine involving both Shampoo & Conditioner in matched pairs. Last night I washed this way using VO5 Luv Me Lavender shampoo & conditioner.

PurpleBubba's Everchanging "No Rules" Wash Routine
I start with warm to hot water because I want my cuticles to open.
I apply shampoo. I then rinsed still using the warm to hot water.

I apply conditioner.
For my hair I do about 3 globs. By then it's well coated.

I then grab my hair in a tail and kinda put it on top of my head like a horsehoe or upside down U shape.
I put a plastic bag / cap on. I then scrunch the bag down to make it close to my head. I then put a claw clip on the outside to hold it down. The reason for the cap is it lets your body heat stay inside and acts like a heat cap a bit.

I then sit for about 20 minutes, with a radio on and drinking my coffee.

I then rinse off conditioner with warm to hot water.

I then apply the same conditioner and then rinse right away kinda like the bottle says.

(The 3 times I used vinegar I used it here.)

Sometimes I will turn the last rinse water from warm to cool to finish.
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I'm going to keep washing this way using matched pairs for awhile. Or try to. The one exception is when I use something I got in a swap and don't have a match for. But hey, with no rules that means I can use whatever I feel like to go with it.

Trim Update

I did not trim this month on the MM dates (18th or 19th). I think I'm going to skip a month. :)


Keep Shining :sun:

Mar 22 - Pondering On My Goals

I just posted this over at the Loom so I thought I'd save my thoughts here too.

For me I'm kinda at a crossroads. I spent the past year actually gaining length after I thought perhaps I was at terminal. I found out that my previous bad habits were responsible for my lack of growth. The hair was growing but I was breaking off the ends.

So I grew about 4-5 inches since last March. I've also trimmed off that much. I'm at or past 30 inches which is a nice number for me. I'm going to be 29 at the end of the month. I'd like to be at the minimum 29 inches from April until my birthday next year. I doubt I'll go above the 30 I have now but there is an inch of extra slack if needed.

My long term goals are to be between 30 and 40 inches. I'd like to have at least 36 / a yard.

But I'm slowing down. I'm going to do several trims this year. I may stay at 29-30" all year or I may get a bit longer. I'm still trying to grow. But I want my hair to look nice too. As much as I like looking like a bum at times I'd also like to have the option of having "pretty" hair

I like how my hair has changed on me. Just when I think I'm starting to get good at caring for it I get a curve ball. Literally. My hair is now wavier than it was and more variety of waves. It's fun. I hate the tangles but darn it, I love it too.

I hope that those of you with shorter lengths realize how much I admire you. I didn't get to really experience your struggles because I ignored my hair during the time between 3 and 20 inches. I didn't do much better after that either.
I'm a hair newbie at 30 inches. I've been to school. I've been to tons of salons in the past 10 years. I've practised on both people and manikins. But when it comes down to it. I'm just as new at this as anyone who is new or starting over.

Just today I was noticing that perhaps my coat's collar is rubbing on my hair when it's in a tail. I've been wearing my hair in a tail with this coat for years but today is when I noticed it could be doing damage. No matter how much you learn, you just need to experience some things to really learn.

It's not "just hair". It's your hair. It just wants you to get to know it. It will forgive you. Long before you forgive yourself.

Have some fun. Love your hair. No Rules. No Tangles. Smile and Keep Shining :sun:

Mar 25th - PurpleBubba's Errand, Taxi, Locksmith, Ambulance, etc Service

The last few days have not been the best. Not quite the worst either but they came close.

Ok so Wednesday night my grandmother's neighbor called us to tell us that GM's mailbox was overflowing. But GM had turned on the garage light so she was at least moving around enough to do that. My grandmother lives alone and there's a family history of Alzheimers. Well over the past few months she's been getting worse. Anyway, Thursday morning the neighbor calls us to say that she knocked on the doors and windows and wasn't getting an answer. So me and my Mom went over there. We couldn't get the screendoor open so the neighbor called 911 for us. The police came. It took both of them using the same tire iron I had used but they got the door open. Well as expected GM was on the floor. But luckily if she did fall it doesn't seem to have hurt her. It's almost as if she just decided to lay on the floor as if it was her bed. So the ambulance came and took her to the Hospital. But since she didn't seem to be hurt they weren't in any hurry. They left her house about 3-5 minutes before us and we caught up to them right away. No lights or siren going. So she's basically in the hospital being observed and fed. There's some sort of minimum of 3 days that she has to be in there. She'll probably have to go into a home now.

Anyway on Thursday I left the hospital at 2 pm and came home. I went and picked up Mom at 8 pm.
5 minutes before midnight I get a call from my Dad. He's having pains in his side. My Dad has been in and out of the hospital since January with heart, kidney, and overweight issues. So he says he's gonna call his doctor and see if Dr. wants him to go to ER. He says he'll call back in 10 minutes. I'm so flustered that I push the button on the phone and put it down. 10 minutes comes and goes and still nothing. Then a knock on the door. My brother is at the door saying I didn't hang up the phone. So I assume that my Mom didn't hang hers up because she talked to him first. Then it hits me. I pushed the Talk button and not the End button. So Dad gets out of brother's car and gets in mine. Brother couldn't take him because he had to work in the morning. So for the second time in 12 hours I'm going to a hospital and not the same one. So he gets in the ER and has the usual tests they do. I'm beginning to memorize the routine. :ponder: As usual the test that takes the longest is the blood test. Waiting on the labs. So they draw the blood and a while later the nurse comes back and says she has to do it again because the first sample dried up or something. So we're stuck waiting another hour or so. This is just so we can find out whether or not he's being admitted or not. So it must have been about 3:45 am when a doctor came by and said he had some inflammation on the left side but otherwise he was ok. He got a shot of pain killer and a prescription and home we went.

Here's the really weird part about this. Earlier that day while at GM's hospital ER I was commenting to Mom about how at Dad's hospital ER they had these words next to the numbers on the signs for each bed area or bay and I couldn't remember it. I was thinking to myself, "well I hope I don't find out what the word was because that would mean I had to go to Dad's hospital again with him." So 12 hours later I was taking him back to that hospital and thinking, "well I guess I'm going to find out that word." Nope. :brickwall He gets put into a room with a different word on the sign. This time it's the Cast Room and it says Cast 1 or Cast 2. I decided not to ask anyone what the word was. I figured I'd just chalk that one up to fate or something. Frankly I don't want to know. I mean if someone did tell me without me going back there that would be one thing. But I don't want to put my eyes on that sign. So Dad's at home and GM is still in the Hospital. But it was really close to having 2 people in 2 seperate hospitals at the same time.

Oh I still have hair. It finally got washed tonight.

On my way to pick up Mom I stopped into Walgreens and used my White Rain coupon. I lucked out. They had both the Lavender & Vanilla shampoo and the Citrus Shampoo in the 33% more bottles for $1 each. My coupon was $1 off of 2 bottles so I got 2, 19.95 oz bottles for $1.

I washed tonight using the WR Lavender & Vanilla Shampoo and also the WR Lavender & Vanilla Conditioner that I already had via swap. So that means 3 straight washes using something with Lavender in the name.

So let's do a recap of this month's washes so far.

March 4th - Conditioner Only wash - White Rain, Energizing Citrus, conditioner.

March 8th - Conditioner Only wash - VO5, Sun Kissed Raspberry, conditioner.

March 15th - Shampoo & Conditioner wash - Avalon Organics, Nourishing Lavender Shampoo and Nourishing Lavender Conditioner. (Using my CO technique but adding a shampoo step first)

March 19th - Shampoo & Conditioner wash - VO5, Luv Me Lavender shampoo and Luv Me Lavender conditioner. (Using my CO technique but adding a shampoo step first)

March 26th - Shampoo & Conditioner wash - White Rain, Lavender & Vanilla shampoo and Lavender & Vanilla conditioner. (Using my CO technique but adding a shampoo step first)

I also went to CVS earlier today and grabbed a bottle of Natrol's Skin Hair Nails pills because I would have run out after Tuesday's dose. I also grabbed another EZ Dose 7 day pill holder. I did that so I can fill at least 2 of them at the same time and see at least a week in advance when I'm running out of something.

So that's about it for now. I just wanted to get on here and say what's been going on. I don't have time for much else at the moment.

Keep Shining :sun:

April 2005


Routine Update April 6th.

I did a Shampoo and Conditioner wash using VO5 Kiwi Lime S&C


Another Update April 7th.

As of today GM is now in a nursing home. I may be offline a bit more in the next few days or more. Between driving Mom to visit her and going to see lawyers and such who knows what will be going on.

Truth is sometimes I am home and could get online but getting online for me takes a bit of commitment. Especially when I know I'm behind. So please bear with me. If you see me online and I'm not on Instant Messengers please understand that I'm not trying to hide or ignore anyone. I might only be on for a minute or I might be on for a few hours but trying to catch up on emails and posts.

Or I could be working on some project. I recently started a new one involving making a page for my old pictures since I was able to gather them all together from both GM's and Mom's collections.

Thanks again to everyone who has been checking in and giving prayers, etc
:flowers:

April 22 - Update

I haven't been online much in the past few weeks.
So here I am at 4:23 am typing a small update.

I'm still doing the new routine. I think I've decided to call it the "S & CO" routine. It's not a CWC because I'm not applying to only the scalp. I'm instead doing my CO wash but added the step of using shampoo first.

For those who missed my bigger explanation here is the short version.

Apply Shampoo to entire hair then rinse.

Apply Conditioner to entire hair then cover with cap / bag. Wait 20 minutes. Then rinse.

Apply same Conditioner to entire hair then rinse right away.

So far I have only been using matched pairs of S&C.

Last Saturday I washed using White Rain - Energizing Citrus, S & C

So here are the pairs I've tried so far.

March 15th - Avalon Organics, Nourishing Lavender Shampoo and Nourishing Lavender Conditioner.

March 19th - VO5, Luv Me Lavender shampoo and Luv Me Lavender conditioner.

March 26th - White Rain, Lavender & Vanilla shampoo and Lavender & Vanilla conditioner.

April 6th - VO5, Kiwi Lime Squeeze shampoo and Kiwi Lime Squeeze conditioner.

April 16th - Shampoo & Conditioner wash - White Rain, Energizing Citrus shampoo and Energizing Citrus conditioner.


I don't know why I'm doing this routine. I don't know if it works or not. All I know is it's one of the few things I am doing.

Here's basically what I've been doing lately.

Going to the nursing home with Mom to visit GM.

Watching Sports. Baseball season just started and now it's basketball playoffs time. So that means I probably will continue to be absent from online a lot. Until at least after the basketball playoffs. I've also been playing some video games. I'm a good multitasker but unfortunately video games and doing online stuff just isn't something I can multitask. And with the exception of when baseball games are only on the radio I probably won't be using the computer during sports.

This past month has been quite different. Well actually since January. It all started when my Dad came home from the hospital the first time and I had to start running his errands.

For the past 3 years I've been playing chauffer and store runner for both Mom and Grandma.

My schedule for the past few years has been like this.

Once or twice per month go grocery shopping for GM.

1 - 3 times per week go to store for Mom.

No biggie.

Now January comes and I had to run errands for Dad. So add another 1 or 2 times per week. He's finally starting to drive around again.

Then GM goes into the hospital and then the nursing home. So I've been driving Mom to and from both places. I think I've put more miles on my car in the past month than I did in about 6 months before that.

So anyway. Dad still needs me to run errands for him because he's been pushing himself too much and had a few fainting spells. So basically everyday now is either a store run or a GM visit.

Hopefully I'll get some sort of schedule worked out so I can know which days I'll have to do what. So here I am at 5:00 am finishing a journal entry.

I guess I'll go sleep now. ;)

June 2005

June 16th
I haven't made an entry since April 22nd.

Lets see what page that is. It's currently on page 8, although I'm sure it would be further back if all the journals were still on the same board. I plan to keep my journal public. But I am glad there is a choice for those who feel more comfortable in the private section.

Why was I away?
I wrote yesterday on this thread
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=24892

For the past few weeks we've been redoing the house so that we could have my Grandmother come live here. The nursing home wasn't working out. She's been here for just over a week now so things are slowly getting back to some sort of normal.

I should be around more often now. I hope

In my last entry I wrote that I would probably be away watching sports. Well I am now in the basement bedroom which means I'm able to have my tv and computer along the same wall. When I was upstairs the tv was behind me while I was at the computer. This means that right now the NBA Finals are on and I can see the tv while I'm typing this. Another bonus is that I can now sit in my recliner with the foot stool up and be on here. I didn't have room for that before. I also couldn't see before. I had to finally get glasses at the end of March. I couldn't pass the eye test for renewing my license. I couldn't even read the first line. But thankfully it was fixable and not something worse.

As I said earlier the nursing home didn't work out.

1. Even with a lock on GM's closet door her clothes were being stolen because the laundry people just hung them on the outside. The lady in the room with my GM was a known thief but they let her get away with it because she only spoke German. We caught her more than once wearing my GM's clothes.

2. They would take GM to the Dining / Lounge room and leave her and others in there for hours. My Mom went to visit one day and she was in that room for like 2 hours and none of the employees came in to check on people. The patients were asking my Mom to help them with stuff.

3. Twice my GM was found on the floor. Once was in the Dining Room and the second was in her own room. Her room was directly across from the nurse station.

4. When Mom would call there and then get transfered to the second floor the phone would ring like 20 times and not get answered.

So if that's the kind of care she can get there we certainly can't do worse. At least here if she falls or needs something we can hear it.


Hair & Routine
I don't have much to report here.
No trims or changes.

At the moment I'm out of Natrol Skin Hair Nails and also Silica / Horsetail. So I've been just taking MSM and Biotin for the past week. I'm thinking of leaving out the Silica. If I do get more Natrol SHN pills I might start taking only 1 per day instead of 2 because there's only 60 in each bottle and 2 per day makes it a 30 day supply. My Biotin and MSM are 60 and 120 day supplies and a lot cheaper. But we'll see what happens. I need to get out and go do some stuff on my own on a day when I don't have to go to stores for Mom. I've still got things I am long overdue to mail.

That's all for now. Maybe I'll actually write again soon ;)

Keep Shining :sun:

June 18th - Signature Change - Meet PurpleStimpy

I was flipping channels earlier tonight and I saw that TV Land had a marathon of Ren & Stimpy on. It reminded me that back when the show came out I tried drawing Stimpy on my brother's old Atari computer and I made a decent one. So I decided to try again. So here's PurpleStimpy.

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My Journal (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9422) ~~~ My Hair Care Articles (http://angelfire.com/mi/bbubba/LHC/Articles.html) ~~~ My Links (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?p=152662)


Keep Shining :sun:

June 28th Updates

Hair
Last wednesday I finally washed my hair. I don't want to admit how long I actually went without doing that. I just did a quick wash using VO5 Tangerine Tickle Conditioner. Meaning I applied it all over and then rinsed out right away. I was going to use something else but I forgot to bring something up from my room so I just used what had left in the bathroom for mom to use.

For the past several months I've been having tangle issues. One because my hair wasn't being washed. Two because I was sleeping with it loose as well as having it get tangled while sitting in my chair. Even when I left it in a ponytail it was getting tangled. Well I think I've solved the problem. Yesterday after I detangled my ball I used some jojoba oil. I had not used that in months. Then I went out with a normal low ponytail. Here is how I fixed the problem. When I got home I put another band closer to my ends similar to what I do with my sleep tail.
Sleep Tail Picture
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Well I meant to take the band off when I went upstairs because I'm still not sure how mom will react to me wearing things in my hair. But there I was standing at the coffee pot and it hit me. I had just walked through the living room with both bands still on. Well I didn't know if she had seen it or not. I got my coffee and went back down to my room. Later on I just said the heck with it. I figured, she's always telling me to comb my hair when it gets bad so since she didn't say anything about the band then oh well. So I'm now wearing boths bands all the time now. She's had enough chances to say something. So chalk up another milestone. It's either this or two other options. One keep ripping through the tangles or two get rid of long hair. I would rather rip through my hair than get rid of it. I would also rather face the music of wearing things in my hair than face the music of wearing short hair around her. Maybe a lot of this stuff is just in my head and nothing will happen anymore. But there's just too much history there. For all I know she could wait a week and then say something. Oh well. With the way this year is going it's just one more thing to adjust to.

The difference between my slep tail and my "day tail" ;) is for the sleep tail I move the top band down away from my neck so it's not a lump behind my neck. For the day tail I'm leaving the top band in place at the nape just like for a regular low tail.

I missed the way my hair feels when I use the oil. It has the ability to make me go from thinking my hair sucks to putting me back on track. Nothing else I have does that. Best $7 I spent on my hair so far. And last time I checked it's now even less for the Vitamin Shoppe Jojoba Oil at Amazon.com
As of today it's down to $5.55. Now it will cost about $5 for shipping but if you don't have access to a closer store $11 is not a bad price for a bottle of oil. I now have a Vitamin Shoppe store within 6 miles so I don't have to order it anymore if I did run out. But before then I would have spent $5 in gas to get jojoba oil because it was a long drive to get some. Besides, a 4 oz bottle easily will last a year unless you are trying to look like a salad.
If you want to see it on Amazon,
amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00012NDDI
You'll see my review there also.

Other Stuff
I'm trying to get my sleep schedule back on track so that I can not only go to some stores and such for myself but also so I can get up and chat with people I haven't been chatting with lately. If Mom would stop saying she needs me to make a store run the day before for a few things and then complaining the next day that I didn't get up early enough to go all over town I might actually get somewhere. I stayed up all sunday, more than 24 hours so that I would go to bed early. Halfway through sunday after I already stayed up she tells me she wants a store run on monday. She only said the simple one. Well since I had been planning on doing my stuff yesterday that kinda ruined my plans. So then I ended up sleeping in again yesterday. I get up and get ready to go do this 20 minute store run and she says, had you gotten up earlier I was gonna have you go here and there. She never mentioned this the day before. Had she said the day before that she wanted me to go to those places I would have gotten up for them because I'm trying to get her stuff done. But no, now when i do go to do my stuff she's going to want her stuff done too. Which is what I'm trying to avoid in the first place. I don't want to do my stuff and hers at the same time. Can I have a day to myself please? A day where I don't have to say where I'm going. I hate going to leave the house and have to tell her where I'm going. Just because she might want something or something is on my way. I would rather make two trips and not deal with her stuff. The other day she wanted some pills for grandma. I spent some time online looking up the prices at drug stores. I then went and showed her where I was going. So when I finished getting ready I just left and went. I knew that she'd complain when I got back but oh well. It's not my fault that she didn't make out a list or mention that she wanted other stuff. She had time. But as I figured when I got back she complained that I just left and that she wanted other stuff. Oops. Whatever. That's what she gets for always springing things on me at the last minute. I'm seriously considering telling her that from now on I'm only doing her stuff on Sunday, Thursday, and if needed Monday. Thursday and Sunday are her newspaper days. Sunday for the coupons and thursday has the nascar stuff in the sports. Monday can be a makeup day because sometimes there aren't any coupons to bother with. We know ahead of time because she gets a different paper delivered and they give the comics etc on saturday even though they start sunday. It wasn't so much that my dad was calling and needing me to go to the store earlier this year. It was the fact that I was already doing 2-3 days a week for her and then adding his. Now he's doing things on his own again and it doesn't seem any better because she was the original problem. So there's the rant that I meant to do yesterday.

After answering a few threads yesterday I decided that I definitely need to do some more articles on my pages. I need to do some about the so called hair and fashion rules. So hopefully I'll do some. I was thinking yesterday that if a bunch of us went and did some homepages at like Geocities or other free sites we could all put some sort of articles about how people can do whatever they want with their hair no matter what age they are or whatever. But I figured I'd say it in my journal rather than post it for now. For one thing I don't want a bunch of replies about how Geocities sucks or some other site sucks. I just don't want the idea to get off track.

I just think that the only way the industry is going to change is if we become the industry. I was watching Logan's Run the other day and it got me thinking about how when people are made to think a certain way it's hard to change them. If it's been done for years you can't change it in seconds. You need to pump the brakes instead of slamming them.

Keep Shining :sun:

June 29th, "My friends, you bow to no one."

Conitinuing from yesterday
In yesterday's entry I was ranting about not going out and doing my own things. Well while I was writing that I was thinking of just going out after I finished the entry. When I finished and went back upstairs we started discussing grandma again. Ever since we brought her home Mom was resisting the idea of using some sort of baby monitor. She claimed that she would be able to hear grandma moving around. Well she can't. My room is directly beneath grandma's room so I'm the one who's hearing all the creaking noises everytime she moves. Yesterday morning I heard a lot of noise coming from up there and it sounded like grandma was up there walking around with her walker. I've been holding off on waking Mom up because she usually wakes up in time to see what she's doing. But this time she wasn't. So when the noise wouldn't stop I got up and as I got out my door and called for Mom she was finally getting up. Grandma was almost out of her room. She is not supposed to be walking at all unless someone is with her.

So anyway, last night after my entry we decided that we needed the monitor. And since I was secretly planning to go out anyway I just went out and got one.

While I was out I went and bought LOTR Trilogy, the extended versions. I wanted it for Christmas but I was hoping they would come out with Fullscreen. Well 6 months later I was getting a bit tired of waiting to see what I had been missing in the regular versions. We only have Encore and they aren't showing the extended versions. So I went and used up my gift card and bought the trilogy. Then from 9 pm till 9 am this morning I watched them. All 3.

A bit of advice, if you have not seen the extended versions you are seriously missing out. I haven't read the books so it's probably still not everything in the books. But it's a heck of a lot more than the regular versions.

So I added a quote to my signature.
"My friends, you bow to no one."
If you've seen it then you probably know what it is. If you haven't then you'll just have to find out. ;)

Keep Shining :sun:

July 2005

July 19th
It's been 3 weeks since my last entry.
I really need to start posting more often.
Nothing hair related to report except, I have for the time being decided to keep my pill regimen to just Biotin and MSM. I have at least 2 months worth so I probably won't make another decision on that until they run low.

I meant to write earlier tonight but as usual I had to reboot. So now it's about 2 hours later. Really makes me mad cuz I was in a really good mood at the time. I'm not in a bad mood now. I just think I would have done a better entry then.

Anyway, I was browsing around LHC and decided to do another self search. Meaning I searched to see if my name was mentioned in other posts. I hadn't tried searching for Purple Bubba (instead of PurpleBubba) in awhile so I tried that one and found a few new posts.

First we have someone mentioning in her journal that she tried a sleep tail. If you're reading I hope it keeps working. I didn't mention the name because it's on a private journal and mine is on public.

Second there's a thread on the Intros Board from Viktoria who mentioned knowing me from HB's boards. Unfortunately it's now locked so I can't reply. If you're reading this, welcome to LHC Viktoria. Nice to see you here.

I also found a few people mentioning my Hair Donation article. So I went to my main articles page and updated it so that the charities page is now listed on it. I'd been leaving it off because I hadn't finished it but I guess it's done enough to link. If they really need cutting instructions they can go to the donation sites.

So it was nice to see those earlier. It's also nice to go back and look at things I had seen. It's nice to go back and read all the nice things people have said. That's why I was in a good mood earlier. :)

Did I say nice yet?

Thank you for reading my journal. I really appreciate it.
Feel free to ask questions and such.
Keep Shining :sun:

July 22 Update

Search and Snips
I've been so off track for the past few months with my routine. I had meant to do those trims every month of at least 1/4 inch on each of the MM dates that I had listed in my Feb 21st entry. I was up past midnight (like I am now) and had no idea whether or not yesterday was an MM date or not but I decided to dig out my scissors. I had them put away ever since I moved downstairs. I had my hair in a tail and it had already been combed out earlier in the day. Since I didn't know if it was an MM date I decided to just snip some splits. So I did quite a few of them. I had meant to write in here earlier and mention this. I was about to log off just now and thought I'd go ahead and update before I forget. I just looked and according to the MM dates I wrote in February, July 21st is supposed to be the Root Work day. So I lucked out. :)
The next major date is August 20th. Hopefully I'll remember to do a trim then.

Keep Shining :sun:

July 22 Continued

Trim Related
The next major date is August 20th. Hopefully I'll remember to do a trim then.

I've added this ticker to my signature to help me remember.

http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;10300;5/st/20050820/e/August+20th+MM+Trim+Date/k/cf94/event.png
(http://www.TickerFactory.com/)

Other
I'm in the middle of trying to catch up on intros. Since I was someone who brought up the idea of an intros board months back I really hate when I'm behind on welcoming people. I'm kinda glad that the post count doesn't go up. I for one want people to think I'm welcoming them because I'm glad to see them here. I am one who gets excited when I reach a certain number of posts but it's not because of priveleges. I say that because I do have previous journal entries mentioning post count milestones. :wink:

I've been away so much the past few months that I started to feel like the new people might not have gotten to know me. I sometimes get worried that I'll sound like a know it all when posting responses to people that don't know me. I admit it. Even I who has written articles, been halfway through cosmetology school, and answered thousands of posts is worried about that. Just another case of holding myself back.

So I guess it all boils down to this. If I don't keep trying to offer advice I'm going to either shut down or go insane. If my advice isn't really helpful I can only hope it's not harmful.

I bet you all didn't know I worried about that. I guess what's kept me going is all the PM's and replies that told me I'm helping. So thanks again to those who have done that. I wish you knew just how much those matter.

Keep Shining :sun:

July 24th - Washed With Herbal Essences Kiwi / Kumquat / Fig

Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Purifying - Shampoo & Conditioner - Kiwi / Kumquat / Fig
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/HEKSnC.jpg

I hadn't done a wash in the past few months that wasn't a quick wash so today after I came in from yard work I decided it was a good time for a CO & Bath.

A few days before we moved my Grandma in I went out to do some shopping and one of my stops was Big Lots. I already had 2 bottles of the conditioner but I saw that they had the shampoo in the older non-cone formula so I bought two bottles.

For those who don't know, Herbal Essences (In the US) has gone through at least 3 different formula changes in the past few years. They started out cone free but then they changed to the newer with Hawafena formulas. Those had cones. Then a few months ago they changed again to the new with Palm formulas. But they have cones too. The ones you see in the picture above are the really old ones without cones.

The wash I did earlier was my S & CO wash where I shampoo first and then do my CO wash after that.

Here's my 3 different wash methods.

PurpleBubba's Everchanging "No Rules" Wash Routines

My Shampoo & Conditioner Only Wash. (An Oxymoron ;) )

I start with warm to hot water because I want my cuticles to open.

I apply shampoo. I then rinsed still using the warm to hot water.

I apply conditioner.
For my hair I do about 3 globs. By then it's well coated.

I then grab my hair in a tail and kinda put it on top of my head like a horsehoe or upside down U shape.
I put a plastic bag / cap on. I then scrunch the bag down to make it close to my head. I then put a claw clip on the outside to hold it down. The reason for the cap is it lets your body heat stay inside and acts like a heat cap a bit.

I then sit for about 20 minutes, with a radio on and drinking my coffee.

I then rinse off conditioner with warm to hot water.

I then apply the same conditioner and then rinse right away kinda like the bottle says.

Sometimes I will turn the last rinse water from warm to cool to finish.

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Conditioner Only #1

This is the same as above except the step with shampoo is removed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Conditioner Only #2
This is a quick version of CO #1 where I apply conditioner then rinse right away without using a cap or waiting. I then re-apply conditioner and rinse right away again. This is for when I'm not taking a bath but just a shower.

Keep Shining :sun:

July 26th

I've been away so much the past few months that I started to feel like the new people might not have gotten to know me. I sometimes get worried that I'll sound like a know it all when posting responses to people that don't know me. I admit it. Even I who has written articles, been halfway through cosmetology school, and answered thousands of posts is worried about that. Just another case of holding myself back.

So I guess it all boils down to this. If I don't keep trying to offer advice I'm going to either shut down or go insane. If my advice isn't really helpful I can only hope it's not harmful.

I bet you all didn't know I worried about that. I guess what's kept me going is all the PM's and replies that told me I'm helping. So thanks again to those who have done that. I wish you knew just how much those matter.

I just wanted to say that I'm feeling much better. The past few days I have been posting a lot. I've been posting here, The Loom, HairBoutique and at my site. I may not have gone full blown into writing articles but I did some posts that I am glad to see are helping out. That combined with my split snips and hair wash yesterday have me definitely back on track. The new people here and at the other sites have got me feeling very good. I like seeing how eager you are to learn. I'm really glad people liked my journaling ideas. I need to go back and apply a few of them to my own journal. I know there's been a few people worried lately that maybe newbies weren't as welcome as they thought. I want you all to know that I am grateful for you being here. When you join this site it's like I get to be new again too.

For those of you who have not seen my intro you can find it as the first post here
forums.longhaircommunity.com//showthread.php?t=10003

Thank you for reading my journal. I really appreciate it.
Keep Shining :sun:

July 26th - Continued - Morrocco Method Dates

I decided to add the rest of the MM dates so I can plan my split searches for those minor days.

So here's the rest of the MM dates for the year, Red dates being the major.

August _________ 1 - 2 ______ 12 _____ 20 _________ 24 _________ 30
September ______ 6 _________ 8 _____ 16 - 17 _____ 21 _________ 26
October ________ 4 _________ 11 _____ 14 _________ 18 - 19 _____ 22
November _______ 2 _________ 10 _____ 15 _________ 19 _________ 29
December _______ 3 _________ 8 ______ 13 _________ 17 _________ 27

So let's see,
that means I need to do my searches either next Monday or Tuesday or both. Then wait until Friday the 12th and do some more. Then on Saturday the 20th I'll do a regular trim.

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Keep Shining :sun:

July 27th - Just Gabbing

Hair
Nothing really to report. Still itching for one of those trim dates to come around. I wore my usual regular ponytail today because I went out.

Gabbing About My Day
Since today wasn't as hot I had set it up with my Dad to go over and do his lawns today. Plus he'd been wanting to use up some dinner vouchers for one of the downtown Detroit casinos. We usually go have the buffet but today we went to the sports bar. We weren't planning on gambling but as we were walking out he decided to use up one of his free play vouchers. I'm not a casino regular but he and my uncle used to go once in awhile. I only go with him about 2-3 times a year when he wants to use up the food voucher before it expires. Anyway he put the play voucher in a few different machines but he wasn't hitting. So we started heading towards the car and I thought he was done. He then put money into another machine so i decided to go ahead and play for a few minutes.
I wasn't planning to play because the last time I went I hit for a good amount on a Price Is Right, Plinko machine. But they don;t have that one anymore. I put $20 into this machine that had all kinds of wacky hunting related symbols like a plunger gun and duck whistle. On a nickel machine $20 is 400 credits. I got almost down to 300 then hit a few times and was back up over 400. Then back down to 300 which was the number I was using as a cut off. The machines pay in vouchers instead of coins so I cashed out. 300 is $15. He was still playing so I walked a few machines down and saw one called Sherwood Forest. I put the voucher in that one and on my second spin I hit on one of the bonus games. The first screen had a yellow background with red targets and I was told to pick 3. On the next screen it showed a castle and the spots I chose were shot out of the castle. One of the prizes said All awards. The next screen was a set of 3 doors and I was supposed to find the one Marian was behind. I picked the door with the rounded top and it turned out to be the highest one. It then told me to pick from 3 more doors and I picked the round one again. It turned out to be the highest one again but it wasn't the one that lets you continue so the bonus game was over. I ended up winning abot 600 credits which left me with about 850. I spuna few more times and stopped at 800 and cashed out. So I ended up doubling my $20 to $40. By then he was done. So I had a decent day.

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August 2005

August 1st - Measurement

I'm getting 33 Inches.
I'm going to trim up to an inch on the 20th if things go as planned. My last trim was Feb 19th. That's 4.5 months ago.

This means I am getting at least half an inch per month since I was at 30.5 in March.

Today and tomorrow are MM minor dates so I plan to snip some splits.

I'm now back to my longest ever length. I had this much back in January before the 3 inch trim.

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Keep Shining :sun:

August 8th - Updates

Updates
I did do some split end snips on both the 1st and 2nd. The next date for that is the 12th.

My New Leave In Spray.
The other day I got to thinking that if I wanted to make a new spray I should try a conditioner that said Smoothing on it. So I looked through my collection and found this.

Alberto V05 - Strawberries & Cream, Moisture Milks
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/11VStraw.jpg

I also have the older version that doesn't say Moisture Milks but I decided to try this one first.

I took my old suave spray bottle that says 10.5 oz on it and I put probably 9 oz of water in it. I then filled the rest with the conditioner and shook it up. I sprayed some on the other night and a few times since and it works pretty well so far. My hair won't lay flat because of the waves but it does seem smoother.

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Keep Shining :sun:

August 15th 2005

Today's entry is over on the friendship board. It's sad. Thanks to everyone who has posted so far. I'll post some thanks tomorrow. I need to get to bed. Got some long days ahead.
"PurpleBubba's had a Purple Night. Please Read."
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=28166


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August 15th 2005

Today's entry is over on the friendship board. It's sad. Thanks to everyone who has posted so far. I'll post some thanks tomorrow. I need to get to bed. Got some long days ahead.
"PurpleBubba's had a Purple Night. Please Read."
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=28166

Part 1 of today's entry is here in reply to yesterday's thread.
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?p=452905#post452905

Part 2 is I did a regular Shampoo & Conditioner quick wash using Tresseme Deep Cleansing Shampoo and VO5 Tangerine Tickle Conditioner. At the moment it's about 12 hours later and my hair feels good still.

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Keep Shining :sun:

August 20th & 21st - Trim & Some Milestones

Milestone
While I was taking pictures of my hair on Saturday I saw that I have reached and just passed the waistband of my shorts. And I made sure they were not pulled up. So that got me wondering if I had reached waistlength? I didn't know if it was or not so I posted this this thread.
"Question regarding where waistlength is?"
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=28410
Well apparently according to the replies I reached Waistlength sometime last year. I went back through here and saw that my July 5th picture was about the most accurate. My March 26th 04 picture is almost there. But if this is the case that means that I have been near or at waistlength hair since I started this journal. I never had a BSL milestone for I hope obvious reasons. I've never worn a bra. Never tried one on either. So I've been using Mid Back length to discribe my hair. So from what was said in the thread not only am I waist length and now well past it but I'm at least Hip Length and heading towards Tailbone. And I'm still up at 32" I thought my waist was at 36" Maybe I had the tape measure landing on my tailbone when I was measuring? I just went into the bathroom and um checked for real where my tailbone was compared to my hair and it's about 2 inches of space. Maybe 3. I do know that my next three goals are a Yard 36" and then a Meter 39.37" and then 40"

Anyway, I didn't get to celebrate back then. So here goes.

I reached Waistlength
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/smilies/dancingkls.gif (dancing Kiwi and Lime - VO5 Kiwi Lime Squeeze)

I reached Hip Length
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/smilies/dancingkls.gif

Trim
Saturday was the Red Morocco Method Lunar date that I was looking forward to. I said I was going to trim 1/2 inch but when I saw how far below the waistband my hair was I decided to make it a full inch. I thought I had a few more inches to go till I would reach my pants. But since I arrived early I splurged to give a bit more to the catch up cause. I can't even really tell a difference in length between before and after. Can you tell I lost an inch?
Note: This is my hair after not washing since Tuesday. Freshly washed makes it wavier. Also in the after the band had smoothed it out even more.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/8_20_1.jpg http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/8_20_4.jpg

Here's some during trim pictures. I was using Feye's method for a straight across trim.
members.fortunecity.com/feye/trim/
This is the first picture of my plain nape tail that I wear to leave the house. It just happens to be the same as a step in Feye's trimming. And then a picture after I slid the band down.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/8_20_2.jpg http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/8_20_3.jpg

Here's a closeup view from before.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/8_20_5.jpg
Now at one time most of those raised strands were splits and breaks. Now they are just shorter pieces that like to stick up because it's wavy hair. They are what I call my undesigned layers. They were made by me ripping at my wet hair prior to March 04.

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Keep Shining :sun:

August 22 - First Wash After Trim & Pictures

CO Wash
I was planning to do a wash sometime after the trim so I could get post trim pictures of my clean and air dried hair.

Yesterday on the mane board OriginalKat posted this thread asking what the abbreviation DUNMC was that GlebeGirl had in her journal.
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=28456
I went to the journal and after some searching I came across what I thought it was. I had started from the beginning looking for a product with a D word. I came across "Down Under Natural's Kiwi Conditioner" and in my haste I posted that that was the product. Then something sounded familiar about that and I remembered that I had that Kiwi conditioner. Grey Lady sent me some. So I posted again and said I had it. Then I realized that the product I found was not matching the last part of the abbreviation so I had to go through the journal some more. In the end it turned out to be "Down Under Naturals Moisture Care Conditioner with Papaya." GlebeGirl confirmed it.

So even though it was getting late I decided that I wanted to go do a wash to give it a try. So sometime after 11 PM last night I went and did my 20 Minute with a cap CO wash using just
Down Under Natural's Kiwi Fresh Care Conditioner
dunaturals.com/fresh2.html
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/DUKiwi.jpg

Ingredients:
Water/Aqua; Cetyl Alcohol; Stearyl Alcohol; Cetrimonium Chloride; Cetrimonium Bromide; Polysorbate 60; Glycerin;
Frulix® - "a cocktail of exotic fruits containing essential nutrients that nourish, strengthen and protect your hair and scalp. Silk Proteins and UV Protectors improve your hair's shine and protect against environmental pollutants and discolouration" (Actinidia Chinensis / Kiwi; Passiflora Incarnata / Passionfruit; Mangifera Indica / Mango; Carica Papaya / Papaya; Aleurites Moluccan / Kukui);
Hydrolyzed Silk; Ethylexyl Methoxycinnamate (sun protection); Benzophenone-4 (sun protection); Parfum; Citric Acid; DMDM Hydantoin

Unfortunately I wasn't able to stay awake long enough to let it airdry and get pictures. So I put my sleep tail on and went to bed. Here are the pictures I took today more than 12 hours later.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/8_22_1.jpg http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/8_22_2.jpg

Front
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/8_22_f1.jpg http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/8_22_f2.jpg

New Profile Picture
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/8_22_f1.gif

I'm very happy with my hair and results so far.
Thanks to Grey Lady for sending me this.

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Keep Shining :sun:

August 24th - Just Kinda Talking

Hair
I'm still really liking my results from the Down Under Naturals Kiwi conditioner that Grey Lady sent me. My hair feels really smooth and it's now 48 hours later. Most of the day I've been wearing my hair in a ponytail with my shirt off. My tail's been kinda massaging my back. I think I've gotten most of the splits gone. speaking of which now that it's the 24th it's another minor MM date which means I can do some split snips. So let's see............... I think I'm going to braid my hair while it feels so good. Then I'll just snip off the splits popping out. That will give me something to write later.

Magazines
I went shopping today to do my monthly magazine run. I got the following.

Allure - July & August. They have a rack with some back issues at the CVS I go to and I forgot to get Allure last month. I really like Allure so I was glad to see last month's still there.

Cosmopolitan - September

Marie Claire - September

I also have those from the past few months. Mom's still holding on to a few of the ones that came in the mail. I was getting Redbook but it recently ran out and Glamour is going to run out soon. I'll probably start buying those instead of a sub.
If anyone else has some of these and wants to discuss something feel free to contact me.

Sites
I recently got some checks in the mail that I wasn't expecting so I decided to do some donations. I had already given to LHC a few months back so I gave The Loom one amount and LHC another but as of right now I've given the same amount. Which I'm happy about. A while back I thought I'd never be able to donate but once I figured out how to get PayPal set up I was able to. LHC and The Loom have gotten me through some rough times and has given me a lot of strength and happiness. :cloud9:


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Keep Shining :sun:

August 25th - Heartlight

I was about to go to bed but I just had the urge to post something nice. This is the song that inspired my avatar.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/smilies/music.gif http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/smilies/Heartlight.gif Heartlight - by Neil Diamond (for the movie ET) http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/smilies/Heartlight.gif http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/smilies/music.gif

Come back again
I want you to stay next time
Cause sometimes the world ain't kind
When people get lost like you...and me

I just made a friend
A friend is someone you need
But now that he had to go away
I still feel the words that he might say

Turn on your heartlight
Let it shine wherever you go
Let it make a happy glow
For all the world to see
Turn on your heartlight
In the middle of a young boy's dream
Don't wake me up too soon
Gonna take a ride across the moon...you and me

He's lookin' for a home
Cause everyone needs a place
And home's the most excellent place of all
And I'll be right here if you...should...call...me

Turn on your heartlight
Let it shine wherever you go
Let it make a happy glow
For all the world to see
Turn on your heartlight
In the middle of a young boy's dream
Don't wake me up too soon
Gonna take a ride across the moon...you and me

And home's the most excellent place of all
And I'll be right here if you...should...call...me

Turn on your heartlight
Let it shine wherever you go
Let it make a happy glow
For all the world to see
Turn on your heartlight
In the middle of a young boy's dream
Don't wake me up too soon
Gonna take a ride across the moon...you and me

Turn on your heartlight now
Turn on your heartlight now http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/smilies/Heartlight.gif

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August 26th - Trim Thoughts & Trim Chart Update

Old Chart
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/TrimChart.gif

New Chart
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/TrimChart2.gif

Trim Thoughts
As my chart shows I've done a pretty good job of letting my hair catch up.
I'm now at Hip / Waistband length and I'm really happy about it. I didn't realize that being at 32-33" was at my pants. My older pictures had my shirt covering the waistband.

The plan for this year was to not go past 36" this year and I still haven't reached that. I was going to be trimming every month this year and as the chart shows I only did 3 so far. And actually the first one was done before that decision. But I think my hair is now thickened up enough and the shorter pieces are not a bunch of broken or split pieces like they were. I think that now that I've started using my day time "sleep tail" with the elastic bands on it that I am ready to grow longer without worrying that I'll ruin my hair again. I'm so close to tailbone and 36" / Yard right now that I want it. And I'm still on track to get there around the end of the year. I think that I'm going to only trim one more time before the end of the year. I don't want to skip them completely because it's easier to measure when the ends stay nearly one length. So for now I'll make some tickers. And eventually I'll pick one of these dates for a small trim.

September 16 & 17 - the Fall Equinox - Strengthen

http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;10300;5/st/20050916/e/Sept+MM+Red+Trim+Date/k/8643/event.png
(http://www.TickerFactory.com/)

October 18 & 19 - Lengthen

http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;10300;5/st/20051018/e/Oct+MM+Red+Trim+Date/k/9f58/event.png
(http://www.TickerFactory.com/)

November 15 - Root work

http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;10300;5/st/20051115/e/Nov+MM+Red+Trim+Date/k/7698/event.png
(http://www.TickerFactory.com/)

December 17 - the Winter Solstice - Thicken

http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;10300;5/st/20051217/e/Dec+MM+Red+Trim+Date/k/1f5b/event.png
(http://www.TickerFactory.com/)

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August 29th - Update 8 days after wash with Down Under Naturals Kiwi

CO Wash - August 22nd
I was planning to do a wash sometime after the trim so I could get post trim pictures of my clean and air dried hair.

So even though it was getting late I decided that I wanted to go do a wash to give it a try. So sometime after 11 PM last night I went and did my 20 Minute with a cap CO wash using just
Down Under Natural's Kiwi Fresh Care Conditioner
dunaturals.com/fresh2.html
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/DUKiwi.jpg

I'm very happy with my hair and results so far.
Thanks to Grey Lady for sending me this.

I just posted this also on the reviews board.
Down Under Naturals - Kiwi conditioner - Canadian product
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=28835

I have only used this one time so far but I have tried a lot of shampoos and conditioners in the past 17 months and this conditioner made my hair feel really nice for now going on the 8th day. I want to once again thank Grey Lady for doing the swap that sent me this. It makes my hair feel like it's got jojoba oil on it but with no oily feel and no cones that I can see. It might be the sunscreens they are putting in it. I really hope this continues to work.

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August 31st - Signature Change

I decided that the best way to add my link to my signature is if I add all the links I support and participate at. So here is my signature as of today.

"Strangers are just the family you have yet come to know"
"My Friends you bow to no one"
"The only hurdles in life that matter are the ones you want to jump"
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/SigA.gif
My Journal (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=9422) ~~ My Hair Care Articles (http://angelfire.com/mi/bbubba/LHC/Articles.html) ~~ My Links (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?p=152662)
~~ My Homes ~~
Long Hair Community - (You are here)
The Hair Care Family (http://s7.invisionfree.com/The_Hair_Care_Family)
The Loom (http://www.network54.com/Forum/235232)
Hair Boutique (http://talk.hairboutique.com/forum/default.asp)

http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;10300;5/st/20050820/e/August+20th+MM+Trim+Date/k/cf94/event.png
(http://www.TickerFactory.com/)

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September 2005

September 1st - Measurement
I measured about 4 times and I have at least 32.5" each time.
August 1st I was getting 33" and on August 20th I trimmed at least 1"

The only thing I'm sure of is that I did a whole inch with the trim.
So for now I'll call it 32.5"

My Virgin Hair
I posted this one the Virgin Hair poll on the Polls board

My 30+ inch hair is 100% virgin.

The only things I have used on this hair are.

Shampoos
Conditioners
Jojoba Oil
White Vinegar rinses
Apple Cider Vinegar rinses
Baking Soda mixed with Revlon Flexx Shampoo
Cholesterol Cream Conditioner under a hood dryer while attending Cosmetology School.
Water (and anything the city decided to throw in)
One wash using Ivory bar soap in hotel when out of town to remove Atlantic Ocean water. This was 7 years ago.

No colors or perms

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September 1st - Second Braid & Where Classic Is

Second Braid
It's been a long time since I last wore a braid and I was itching to try one again.

Here's what my braid looks like today after I slept on it.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/9_1_braid.jpg

I think that bulge is the spot where I stopped and brought the braid over my shoulder to to the front to continue it.

Here's the braid I did back in January
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB2/1stBraid11805.jpg


Where Classic Is
I meant to put this in the entry I did 16 hours ago.

I answered the Where is Classic on you poll on the polls board.

I'm 5'11" and I get about 46" when I measure to the top of leg / bottom of bottom (LOL)

I don't know if I will grow that far or not but it is a nice round number. I might go for 48" so that I'm on the 4 foot mark. But right now I'm aiming for the 3 foot mark. I'm finally at a point where I'm not only looking forward to growing longer but I'm ready for it too. I now have a majority of nice ends and plans set in place to keep them that way. My growth seems to be fairly constant. I wish my measurments were a bit more accurate. I had 33" August 1st and it might have grown .5" by August 20th. Then a 1" trim taking me back to 32.5"
I can see where it's possible for some of the hair to still be reaching 33"
I did have another 11 days to grow after the trim. I could have gotten as much as .25 in that time or more. Anyway, I'm glad that my measurments aren't dead accurate. Having some slack in the accuracy means if it does appear to not grow I'm ok with it. I might have just had a bad measurment the previous month. Or the current could be bad. In any case I am leaving my measurement as 33". I don't think I'm going to do a trim this month so we'll see how things go for next month's number.


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September 4th - Shampoo & CO Wash

Shampoo & CO Wash
I loved the silky hair results I got from the Aug 21 wash with Down Under Naturals Kiwi Conditioner so much that I wanted to try it two times in a row to see if it repeated.
But I also wanted to clarify a bit just in case something else was helping out last time.
So about 11 pm I jumped in the shower and did an S & CO wash.

I first washed using VO5 Kiwi Lime Squeeze - Clarifying Shampoo
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/VKLSPoo.jpg

After that my hair felt squeaky enough so I did the CO wash using DUN Kiwi.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/DUKiwi.jpg

Under the cap for 20 minutes, rinsed, then reapplied and rinsed right away.

My hair is still fairly wet because I'm letting it dry without squeezing the excess out. But it's at least an hour later and so far it's got that silky feel to it. :)
Seriously, my hair feels like I'm touching my satin pillowcase. I did also use a very cool water rinse as the last step both last time and this time. So that probably helped. I am very happy with this product so far. We are getting very close to at least a 9 out of 10.

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September 7th - Hair & Music

Hair Wash Results Update
I've been wearing my hair loose for at least the past day so my hair got a bit tangled. But I am able to finger comb these tangles. My hair isn't as smooth and silky as last wash but it's still got a little bit. I'm happy. Tomorrow the 8th is a minor MM trim date so I might do some split snips if I remember.

Music - New Radio Station
We have a new radio station in the Detroit area called Doug FM. They claim to play anything and everything and they are not lying. So I thought I'd come here and just jot down the songs as they play.

This is the list of songs in order from Midnight until 2 am

Meatloaf - 2 out of 3 Aint Bad
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
Electric Light Orchestra - Evil Woman
Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain (Getting closer to my home)
U2 - Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Sanford Townsand Band - Smoke From A Distant Fire
Brian Adams - Somebody
Nick Gilder - Hot Child In The City
Paul Simon - Kodachrome
Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane
Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancing
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Blues Brothers - Soul Man
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round
Styx - Renegade
Eagles - Witchy Woman
The Wiseguys - Start The Commotion
Earth Wind & Fire - Shining Star
Steve Miller - Swingtown
Righteous Brothers - Rock & Roll Heaven
Savage Garden - I Want You Lyrics
Billy Squier - The Stroke
Rod Stewart - Reason To Believe
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
Fine Young Cannibals - Good Thing
Billy Joel - Allentown
Stevy Wonder - Sir Duke
Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker

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September 8th - Wizard Of Oz with Other Music

For this entry I must bring back my old disclaimer.

Warning: Bubba could break out into a pondering at any moment. Be prepared to be taken on a ride. Please keep your hands inside the car at all times and your safety belts fastened. We are not responsible for injury or loss of property while reading this entry.
Thank You,
Management of BubbaLand

Experiencing Oz A Whole New Way :rockerdud

In the late 90's I was watching tv when one of the music channels had a news blip. It mentioned that someone had tried watching the movie Wizard Of Oz while they were listening to Pink Floyd's, Dark Side Of The Moon album. According to the report the music supposedly followed along with the movie if you did things just right. So I set out about finding a copy of Oz as well as PF's DSOTMoon cd.

I finally found both and I gave it a try.

According to the blip you first put the movie in and press play.

Then put the cd in your player and put it on repeat the album. It's very important you do this now.

You then wait for the MGM Lion to Roar the THIRD time and immediately hit play on the CD player.

You then turn the TV's sound down. You watch the movie but listen to the CD.

Ok sounds crazy but please don't knock this if you don't try it.

The music will follow along with the movie. Certain things will happen to make it seem like they match. Such as when she meets the scarecrow, he starts dancing and the song is saying "The lunatic is on the grass"

or at the end after the cd has repeated for the second time and she is back home, there's a song saying "Home, home again. I like to be here when I can."

Now when I tried that and it worked I decided to try PF's The Wall cd. This is 2 cds so you have to have a multi disk player and put them on repeat all so that they play through 1 & 2 and then start 1 again.

Once again it followed along. A good example is when they fall asleep in the flowers the song Comfortably Numb plays. And another great example is Another Brick In The Wall starts up just as she's about to run away. And that goes "We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control"

Since this album also worked I tried 4 other PF albums. They all worked.

Here's an example from "A Momentary Lapse of Reason"
the song learning to fly plays at the same time she sings over the rainbow and is looking up at the clouds
"Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies, tongue tied and twisted just an earth bound misfit I"

Now since all these Pink Floyd albums were working I was wondering if anything else would work? I had purchased a few Alan Parsons Project albums and I read inside of one that Alan had worked with Pink Flody before. So I said let's give it a try. 4 Albums later my hunch was correct. They all followed along.

One clue is that Eye in the Sky plays at the same time she's visiting the wizard. "I am the eye in the sky looking at you I can read your mind. I am the maker of rules dealing with fools I can cheat you blind"

So I basically started going through anything I had on hand that would have come from the UK or nearby. I had one Rolling Stones album, Let it Bleed. I tried that and it worked. I had U2's the Joshua Tree. I tried that and it worked.

I know this sounds crazy. If you think I'm a Lunatic on the grass I don't blame you. But I am not on the grass.


Now I must explain a few things.
When I tried this I used an Oz video that was still the original film and not the newer DVD version. If they added anything to the newer version that involved deleted scenes or adding time then this will not work with the newer release. Plus they might have changed the way the lion roars at the beginning so that could throw off the timing.

Second, do not use any Greatest Hits albums. They will not have the songs in the order needed. And be careful if you buy the albums below. Some of them might have shuffled around the songs on an updated version. I made note of that on "Let It Bleed"

If you try this please let me know how it went. Here are the albums I have tried and which I consider to have worked.

Pink Floyd
Dark Side Of The Moon
amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002U82

The Wall
amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000006TRV

Animals
amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000024D4R

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002UA0

The Division Bell
amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002A3T

A Momentary Lapse of Reason
amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002C1W

Saucerful of Secrets
amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002U9Y


Alan Parsons Project
Eye In The Sky
amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002VC3

Pyramid
amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002VCT

Ammonia Avenue
amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002VCO

Vulture Culture
amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002VCZ


U2
Joshua Tree
amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001FS3

Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed - (Note the remastered version is not in the right song order)
amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003BF1


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September 9th - Split Snips

September 8th, Minor MM Date, Snipped Splits
Yesterday was the 8th, a minor Morrocco Method lunar trim date. So I snipped a few splits.
The next MM dates are
16 - 17 - the Fall Equinox, Major
21 - Minor
26 - Minor

I've updated my trim chart to include the 8th.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/TrimChart3.gif

September 10th - 1 Year Since Second Trim
Tomorrow is the anniversary of my second self trim using Feye's methods. That means that with all the trims I did in the past year I've stayed 33" or above the whole year. I'm definitely ready to go forward now. I'm still going to do some trims but I am trying to gain length now. 36" here I come.........

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September 15th - Trim Thoughts & Wash Related & You Get To Vote

Trim Thoughts

September 16 & 17 - the Fall Equinox - Strengthen

http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;10300;5/st/20050916/e/Sept+MM+Red+Trim+Date/k/8643/event.png
(http://www.TickerFactory.com/)

Friday and Saturday are possible trim dates. I would like to do just a microtrim to even the ends a bit. The last few times I meant to do this I ended up doing at least 1/2". Chances are I'll end up with at least some pieces being that much. But that was one reason I had planned to do trims more often this year. I wanted to practise doing smaller trims so that I could learn to do less. Unfortunately I ended up going 5-6 months without trims. I think it's time to start this up again the way I intended. I will use the no more than 1/2" rule that I meant to use.

Looking back at the last few entries where I was talking about my trims and goals I realized that I seem to keep repeating myself or finding new ways to say the same thing. But that is why it's good to look back through a journal. Hopefully I don't sound too much like a broken record.

Products
The other day I updated my product total
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/All3.jpg

There are 40 different products on that image. Of those I have tried 29 of them in the past 2 years.

You Get To Participate
I have in the past posted threads with temporary polls letting people choose the products I would use for my next wash. I think it's time to do this again but instead of a thread I think this time I'll do this as a PM Poll. This means if you are reading this and you wish to vote for a product you can PM me the answer. Unfortunately not everyone can vote by PM so if you want to vote by email you can reach me here

b_bubba3636@
sbcglobal.net

Note: This is only for LHC Registered Members. If you email me let me know what your LHC Username is.

Here is a list of 9 of the 11 products that I did NOT try yet. In order to make things a bit simpler in case I don't get a lot of votes I would like you to give me up to 3 choices. Your top choice will be worth 9 points, your second worth 6 points and your third will be worth 3 points. The individual product that gets the most total points will be used for my next wash. Since these are all conditioners I will be doing a conditioner only wash. I will Only Be Using One of the choices. If I get enough votes I will then use second place for the next wash. And then third place. Any remaining products will be used for the next vote if this works and I decide to try it again. Considering this is not my first try at this there's a good chance I will try it again.

VO5 - Pear Mango Passion - Conditioner
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/VPear.jpg

VO5 - Honeydew Smoothie, "Moisture Milks" - Conditioner
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/Honeydew.jpg

V05 - Blueberries & Cream, "Old Non Moisture Milks" - Conditioner
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/VBlueO.jpg

V05 - Creamy Peaches, "Old Non Moisture Milks" - Conditioner
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/Peach.jpg

V05 - Strawberries & Cream, "Old Non Moisture Milks" - Conditioner

VO5 - Cucumber Melon Crush - Conditioner
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/VCuc.jpg

VO5 - Fruitsations - Conditioner
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/VFruit.jpg

V05 - Creamy Citrus - Conditioner
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/VCitrus.jpg

White Rain - Extra Body, New White Bottle - Conditioner
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/WREBNew.jpg

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September 23rd - Trim, Wash, & Other

Trim Update
On the 17th I did do a tiny tidy up trim. I don't think I went over 1/2"

I updated my trim chart.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/TrimChart3.gif


Results Of The Product Vote & My Wash With The Winner

The winner of the product vote I started in the September 15th entry is.

V05 - Creamy Citrus - Conditioner
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/VCitrus.jpg

Here's the final results

Creamy Citrus - 2 Second place votes = 12
White Rain Extra Body - 1 First place vote = 9
Fruitsations - 1 First place vote = 9
Strawberries - 1 First place vote = 9
Blueberries & Cream - 1 First place vote = 9
Cucumber melon crush - 1 Second place vote = 6
Creamy Peaches - 1 Third place vote = 3
Honeydew Smoothie - 1 Third place vote = 3

I did my usual 20 minute CO wash with the Citrus. First this has a striong citrus scent. It smells real. At the time my nose was kinda plugged up. I had a bottle of Tangerine Tickle in the shower at the same time as this. I could not smell the TT but the Citrus was strong enough even then.
Results, for a first wash I'm giving this at least a 7 out of 10. I actually didn't get around to washing until Tuesday night so I'm only on day 3 hair now. But I'm still happy. Feels nice and smooth. I did use a dab of Jojoba oil prior to the wash. About 12 hours prior. So it is possible that it could have survived the wash.

Here is an after wash picture from yesterday, also showing the post trim results. I have my elbow marked to show how far past my hair is.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/9_21_1.jpg

This is a picture I did a few hours ago. I decided to put some tape on my tape measure with some red marks. This way I could get a picture of where they really were on me. It shows 33", 36", & 40". My hair is slightly past the 33" mark so I have changed my profile and signature to read 33.5". The fuscia line is where my hem is. The 33" mark is just above it. 36" and 40" are my next goals. I've also added a small version to my signature.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/9_23.jpg

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Hair Sightings

I was in line on Tuesday at the cable company and the customer at the counter had a thick wavy golden ponytail It was waistlength in the tail so it had to be at least hip length. Then right in front of me was lady with a light brown short mushroom style cut that looked freshly cut. It was nice to see two completely opposite hairstyles at the same time and have them both looking very nice.

Magazines
For those who may have missed my updates elsewhere Tuesday was a big run around day. While I was out I got October Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire. I also bought my first issue of Self. From what I glanced at so far it looks like one I'll like. I got that because LongRed told me she had the current one. I also subscribed to Allure for 2 years and am in the process of subcribing to both Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire. One of the latest issues of Cosmo had a card for getting both magazines 12 issues each for $20. Considering the other Cosmo cards for just Cosmo say 12 issues for $18 I can't pass this up. That's only $2 more for 12 months of Marie Claire. They usually have cards like these but most of the time it's only 6 issues of the other magazine. If any of you out there like to read magazines like these let me know please.

Goody Ouchless Ponytail Holders
On Tuesday I tried one of the small (2 fingers wide) black bands. I liked the way it held. I just need to be more careful when I take it out. I wish I could remember who send me those. When I moved downstairs I was being rushed so I had to kinda dump things in boxes. So if you swapped with me and sent me a small bag of rubber bands let me know please. And thanks again.

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September 27th - 2005 Washes So Far

2005 Washes So Far
For the past few days I've been doing some projects involving making calendars. Most of them involved my magazine collection. But tonight I decided to do one to show the number of washes I've done so far this year. This is a small version of it but it shows when I washed and what I used.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/Washes2005.gif

I plan to later show either larger versions or at least write what the pictures are. If my count is correct I see 26 washes for the year so far. The beginning of the year had washes more often because I was doing my hair typing project. The middle of the year shows my lazy mode that I got in. Luckily I had made an entry for July 24th in my journal because my written calendar did not show that I did a wash that day and I thought I had an empty month. I also need to do one of these for last year.

26 washes in 9 months means almost 3 per month average. 9 of those washes used Shampoo. Any image that looks like two bottles was a shampoo and conditioner wash. Or what I call a Shampoo & CO wash.
If you want to know more you can read about that in my July 24th entry.
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?postid=431746#post431746

PurpleBubba's Re-Introduction, etc
I posted a Re-Intro thread that also contains a lot of information including my washing techniques that were in the July 24th entry.
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=30419

If anyone was hoping to read about something else, sorry it isn't here. At the moment my plans are to work on my calendars, do a wash within the next week, and get more pills before I run out in 3 weeks.

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October 2005

October 1st - Measurement
From now on I'm using pictures of the tape measure to do my measurements. I figure it can't be any less inaccurate as my self measuring.
According to my new picture I'm at 34"
I'm tied again for my longest. That's if I was at 34" and not 33" back in January before the 3" trim.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB3/10_01.jpg

CO Wash
I wanted to do a wash before I took my picture yesterday. I was all set to go upstairs and wash when my Dad pulled up. He was here for about an hour. When he left I came back down and decided to see if I could get some help choosing what to wash with. I decided since I was short on time that I would turn on my instant messengers and just ask the people who were online to help me by voting.

At first I had 2 people online.
Messyhair and LongRed.

Here is how I worded it.
"These are all VO5 conditioners

Pear Mango Passion
Fruitsations
Cucumber Melon Crush
Honeydew Smoothie

Put those in order top to bottom of which one you'd most like me to use today"

The point values were 3, 6, 9, & 12 points.
After the vote Honeydew Smoothie was on top.
But while I was still talking to them RedNCurly came online. So I offered her the chance to vote.
After she voted I had a tie between Honeydew Smoothie and Fruitsations.

So I looked for someone to break the tie.
Everydayfantasia was online so I asked her to vote and after she voted it was a tie between Honeydew Smoothie and Pear Mango Passion.

So I looked to my new buddy LovesHistory.
After she voted the tie was broken and Pear Mango Passion was declared the winner.

So I Conditioner Only washed with VO5 Pear Mango Passion
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/VPear.jpg
It's now about 24 hours later and I'm happy with my results.

I got my bottles of Pear Mango Passion from Georgy.
Speaking of Georgy I got something nice in the mail from her today. Thank you very much Georgy.

Note: I asked all of these people if they minded me mentioning them in my journal either yesterday or in the past. Thank you all for letting me do so. And thank you all for helping me out.

This Time Last Year
I was thinking the other day that I would try going back and seeing what I was writing about on the same day the previous year. Looking back at Septemeber 30th and October 1st of last year I was pretty much doing the same thing as now.

My measuring for that day was about 33" not much different than now. I was talking about eventually doing small trims each month instead of larger less frequent trims. I posted the first of my trim charts showing the kinds of trimming I did and when. I then posted a report card that was for the second 10 weeks of my new routine. I was posting it at week 28 because I got behind.

Here are the grades I gave myself based on criteria I set.

"Report Card Grades for Weeks 11 - 20 (May30th - Aug 7th).

Sticking to Routine: Week 10 A- / Week 20 B
Since I was following my routine up until August fairly regularly I can still give a decent grade. Next card will have a lower grade.

Trying New Things: Week 10 A / Week 20 B+
V05 Free Me Freesia used once
ACV used once
I almost had to give myself an "F" or an "I" but I looked back and according to my journal those were tried after May 29th. I haven't tried anything new since so that give me 2 weeks. But hey if it aint broke don't fix it. That's why I'll allow an "I" for incomplete for this one.

Trimming & Split Ends: Week 10 C- / Week 20 C-
I just got done making my trim chart and it appears as though I've done about the same amount of trimming. I plan to get some splits snipped sometime soon. Please let it be within the next two weeks.

Handling of Hair: Week 10 B / Week 20 B-
As before I was still sticking to my routine but it started to go downhill. The grade two weeks from now will be lower.

Attitude: Week 10 B+ / Week 20 B
I was on track for 9 of the ten weeks and then august came and my laziness crept in. Once again will be lower in two weeks.

Journal Writing: Week 10 A- / Week 20 B+
I had 15 Journal entries in that period. I had less entries but the ratio of Routine related to Other was decent.

Overall: Week 10 B+ / Week 20 B
I didn't do as well as I'd have liked but considering that it only includes one week of august it was a good term. The next card will be lower because it will have 3 weeks of laziness to consider."

I'm going to try this again for my more recent activity.


Report Card Grades for 2005 so far

Sticking to Routine: A+
I've been on a no rules routine for this year so it's kinda hard to fail.

Trying New Things: A
Having 40 products and trying 31 so far means I have tried new things. However I still have to try the Abba Curls shampoo & conditioner that Laur sent me.

Trimming & Split Ends: A-
I didn't follow the schedule that I wanted to for the year but I have gotten back on track.

Handling of Hair: B+
I love my hair. After 18 months I have learned to be a lot more patient with my tangles. I've used not only my sleep tail but also have worn it during the day around the house. This has lead to less tangles. My denman brushes have helped lots.

Attitude: B+
During the summer I was starting to get lazy again while Grandma was here. I wasn't doing much with my hair. But for the past month or so I've been doing well. I got my trims on track. I am now starting to go for more length since I've done 18 months of cut back trims and slowing down. I've gotten rid of most of the splits and breaks I had. I realized that I was at hip length going on tailbone and that helped give me a spark. I've having fun again.

Journal Writing: B+
I haven't written as much as I'd like to but I have been active.

Overall: B+ to A-
I have improved a lot but it's not as good as I could do. There's room for improvement. But I'm currently heading in a positive direction. As long as I keep writing in here I'll be fine.

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October 10th - The Slippers Are Back On

The Slippers Are Back On
I was having a hard time coming up with a title for the entry and I looked at my feet which are currently up. Since It's finally cold enough to need my slippers I figured that works.

I don't have any washes to talk about nor any trims.

Earlier in the week I wore my hair completely loose during both the day and night for a few days. Then on Friday I had to go over to my Dad's so I sat here for at least an hour detangling. I applied Jojoba Oil to my dry hair and it seemed to help a bit. I then tried a Goody Stayput elastic to hold my ponytail. Georgy sent 2 of them to me by surprise. Today I wore the other one. They hold really well. You just have to be careful taking them out.

The other night I was in chat with Doctorblue. We were talking about pets and the subject of aquariums came up. I had freshwater aquariums 2 seperate times in the past. The first time I had a 10 gallon tank for about a year. I think that was when I was in 7th grade. Then when I was 18-19 I had fish again. I started with a 10 gallon tank and then 2 10 gallon tanks. Then I lucked out and found a 20 gallon tank really cheap. I kinda miss having fish. I was discussing possibly getting some again. There's 2 main obstacles. Electricity and Money for supplies. Back then I did not have a computer so I only had half as much stuff plugged in at once. Although after thinking about it I realized I do have a way to run a cord to the outlet in the next room. I was hoping to just get a few fish and try not to go so full blown into things. The problem is as I was looking up some of the fish I used to have it was telling me some info that kinda complicated things. I want to just get some Neons or similar small peaceful fish. But they recommend that you get at least 5 of them because the fish like it better in groups. Then they say not to use a tank smaller than 10 gallons but then they say the limit of fish is 6. So if I want to get 3 types of fish I would need to commit to a 20 gallon tank and get at least 5 of each. I wish the sites would have been a bit more in depth. All of the fish I was looking at getting are the Tetra type. They all had basically the same size and description except for their colors. I was hoping it would have said you can mix or match to create a group of 5 if you use certain Tetras. When I had fish before I had a decent mix of fish but I only had a few of each. I don't think I had more than 3 of anything until my Zebra Danios had babies. Luckily my eyes were good enough to see those small specs / fish floating around. We're talking specs the size of salt crystals. Had I not bought the little nursery net and then seperated all the ones I could find with my magnifying glass, they would have been chow. Of the ones I saved I had about 3 or 4 live to reach about 1" or more. As usual the things that aren't garbage to me were seen as trash to others. The last time the garage got cleaned out my equipment got tossed. That means if I want to do this again I have to start over. I hope the technology has advanced in the past 10 years so these filters and air makers are actually quiet now. Not that it makes as much difference since I have the tv on while I sleep most of the time now. That wasn't happening back then. I saw that they not only have Neon Tetras which I'd like to try again but they have some Purple aka Emperor Tetras. I want to decorate the tank with purple gravel and then a green background. Probably one of those posters with plants on them. In the past I mixed purple and green gravel. This time I might only do purple or purple and lavender. Something I just thought of, I can take pictures of the tank this time for posting. Hopefully I can do this.

I need to wash soon. I'm thinking of using one of the lavender S&C combos this time. Or maybe just one of the conditioners.

Thank you for reading my journal. I really appreciate it.
Feel free to ask questions and such.
Keep Shining :sun:

October 22nd - Important

For those who enjoy reading my journal I wanted to let you know that unless I change my mind I have no plans to continue this journal. I was maintaining two journals at seperate sites but I am no longer doing both. If you are someone who enjoys my journal and wishes to keep up with me you can PM me or contact me for the link. I'm not going to post the link.

I am taking a break from LHC. I have other sites that I've made commitments to as creator or moderator and I have not done the jobs I wanted to do at them.
I don't know if this will be a temporary break or a more permanent break. But I need to take a break.
If you wish to keep in touch by PM I can do that.

You can also contact me by Instant Message

Yahoo - purplebubba3636

AIM - purplebubba2

MSN - purplebubbatoo
@hotmail.com

Or by Email

Email - b_bubba3636
@sbcglobal.net

"Imagine all the people living life in peace...
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one,"
- John Lennon

No you aren't John

If the world had a front porch like we did back then
we'd still have our problems but we'd all be friends
Treating your neighbor like he's your next of kin
Wouldn't be gone with the wind
If the World had a front porch, like we did back then
- Tracy Lawrence

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction holding me fast, how
Can I escape this irresistible grasp?

Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted Just an earth-bound misfit, I

Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything
No navigator to guide my way home
Unladened, empty and turned to stone
A soul in tension that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try

Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I

Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air,
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night

There's no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, A state of bliss

Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I

PINK FLOYD - Learning To Fly

Somewhere over the rainbow..............

http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/smilies/music.gif When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother
What will I be
Will I be pretty
Will I be rich
Here's what she said to me

Que sera, sera
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Que sera, sera
What will be, will be

When I grew up and fell in love
I asked my sweetheart
What lies ahead
Will we have rainbows
Day after day
Here's what my sweetheart said

Que sera, sera
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Que sera, sera
What will be, will be

Now I have Children of my own
They ask their mother
What will I be
Will I be handsome
Will I be rich
I tell them tenderly

Que sera, sera
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Que sera, sera
What will be, will be
Que Sera, Sera


Que Sera, Sera
Doris Day

Written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans

This song was written for
Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 re-make
Of his 1934 film "The Man Who Knew Too Much"
Starring Doris Day & Jimmy Stewart

I'm posting this because I click these everyday and because I added one of the links to my signature. The text is from my web page with these links.

Charity Sites
Have you ever wanted to help out but just didn't know how you could make a difference? Well here are some ways you can help out and best of all it's easy and free. All you have to do is visit these sites everyday and click the buttons on their pages. That's it. You can even sign up for email reminders so you can remember to click everyday.


NOTE: You have to go to the page and click the buttons there. These are just links to those pages and not the buttons that count.


The sites are as follows:

This one doesn't have a logo button yet because it's newer.
The Literacy Site (http://www.theliteracysite.com)

Hunger Site (http://www.thehungersite.com)
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/angelfire/Hunger.gif (http://www.thehungersite.com)


Breast Cancer Site (http://www.thebreastcancersite.com)
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/angelfire/BreastCancer2.gif (http://www.thebreastcancersite.com)

Child Health Site (http://www.thechildhealthsite.com)
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/angelfire/Health.gif (http://www.thechildhealthsite.com)

Rain Forest Site (http://www.therainforestsite.com)
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/angelfire/RainForest.gif (http://www.therainforestsite.com)

Animal Rescue Site (http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com)
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/angelfire/AnimalRescue.gif (http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com)

Day 3 of Year 3 - March 23 2006

I'm Pondering

Will there be a year 4?

March 12th marked 2 years of being back at LHC after my 11 months offline in 2003. March 20th marked 2 years since I began this journal. Unfortunately the start of year 3 is not being celebrated here like I did with year 2. In October for personal reasons I chose to stop updating both of my journals simultaneously. I chose to only use the one I keep on the site I created. And I have been posting my updates in that journal but not here since. Those song lyrics don't count.

I've decided that rather than beat around the bush yapping about other stuff I'm going to come right out and ask.

If you are reading this right now and you would like me to return to posting real updates in this journal I'm asking you to please let me know.

For those that can PM and wish to do so my inbox is empty.

For those who cannot PM yet or would prefer another method you can email me at

b_bubba3636
@
sbcglobal.net

or My profile here has my Instant Messanger info if you wish to use that.

Note: If you Email or IM me please tell me what your LHC Username is. Using the subject "Your Journal" or something similar might help.

If enough people tell me that they would like to see my journal updates return I will begin them again. How many is enough? I've got a number in mind that could sway me. We'll just have to see what happens.

I noticed that some people were posting links to journals that they read in their journal. I'm not going to do that because all those links would take me forever to list. :)

Day 4 of Year 3 - March 24 2006

Thank you to everyone who has responded so far. I appreciate it. ((((((Hugs))))))


Day 3 of Year 3 - March 23 2006

I'm Pondering

Will there be a year 4?

March 12th marked 2 years of being back at LHC after my 11 months offline in 2003. March 20th marked 2 years since I began this journal. Unfortunately the start of year 3 is not being celebrated here like I did with year 2. In October for personal reasons I chose to stop updating both of my journals simultaneously. I chose to only use the one I keep on the site I created. And I have been posting my updates in that journal but not here since. Those song lyrics don't count.

I've decided that rather than beat around the bush yapping about other stuff I'm going to come right out and ask.

If you are reading this right now and you would like me to return to posting real updates in this journal I'm asking you to please let me know.

For those that can PM and wish to do so my inbox is empty.

For those who cannot PM yet or would prefer another method you can email me at

b_bubba3636
@
sbcglobal.net

or My profile here has my Instant Messanger info if you wish to use that.

Note: If you Email or IM me please tell me what your LHC Username is. Using the subject "Your Journal" or something similar might help.

If enough people tell me that they would like to see my journal updates return I will begin them again. How many is enough? I've got a number in mind that could sway me. We'll just have to see what happens.

I noticed that some people were posting links to journals that they read in their journal. I'm not going to do that because all those links would take me forever to list. :)

Thank you to those who contacted me and said you'd like to see me return to updating my journal. I did not get as many replies as I hoped for. But I can chalk that up to maybe I posted to my journal at odd hours or something. Things do move fast here so it could have been buried or missed. I bumped it up once but I didn't want to bump it up again with nothing in it. So I'll post something.

I don't know if I'm going to post here everytime I do an update or if I'm going to come back once a month. Que Sera, Sera

But at this moment in time I am going to post everything that I wrote in my other journal for March and then maybe later put more under this one. By under I mean I use Hybrid for viewing so at the top of my journal there's a little window that shows links to my entries and it looks a lot like the Network54 threads. So by under I mean the next entry will be under this one if I reply to this entry and not to the first entry. Eh Whatever right?

So here are the March entries from my other journal including one I just wrote a few minutes ago.

Note: I'm not using the same signature here so that stuff about my signature only applies to the other site.

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March 11th - Updates

Hair Related

I just got home from buying a new camera. And now that I know how to use it I took a blah picture of my ponytail.

This here is an As Is picture meaning I set the timer, walked over and let the chips fall. I didn't worry if the hair looked right or not.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB4/3_11_06_PT.jpg

I have not had any pictures since October but I needed a camera for the trim I plan to do in a few days.

Thank you Georgy for the camera review. It's a Kodak Easyshare C330 4.0.

I'd also like to thank Scorpeo once again for the previous camera.

Thank you for reading my journal. I really appreciate it.
Feel free to ask questions and such.
Keep Shining

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March 14th & 15th - Updates

Hair Related

Yesterday and today were the Spring Exuinox MM trim dates and I had planned to do a trim.

So I first did a CO wash using Aussie Knot Forgotten.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/3AuKF.jpg

This was the first time I used this product by itself. It does contain a silicone but I don't use cones often enough to care. Besides I wanted to use something meant for tangles so I'd have an easy time during my trim. And it worked.

Here is a few before pictures

Pointing to my Tailbone
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB4/3_14_WB4.jpg

Measuring before. I have to do the 10 second timer on the camera again so this isn't easy to do anymore.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB4/3_14_DB4.jpg

And here are the After pictures
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB4/3_14_A1.jpg http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB4/3_14_A2.jpg

The hair got smoothed down a bit by the band. I was doing a Feye's straight across trim like I've been doing for all but one of my trims since 2004. When I looked at the tip for the trim it looked like I needed just over 1/2" to even things up so I took between .5" and .7" off which is within my plan of between half and a whole inch.

That straighter section makes it seem like the hair might be crooked but I don't think it really is. And if it is I don't care. No one in public will know. And so what if they do. It's probably a lot more even than before the trim. And after the trim I am still where I want to be. I also did some split snipping before the trim while waiting for my hair to dry enough.

Here is my updated trim chart which now also includes February's SS. I didn't bother writing today's SS because it would probably cause me to redo the whole chart size.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB4/TrimChart4.gif


I have replaced the ticker in my signature with one for the June Trim.
http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;10732;128/st/20060621/e/Planned+MM+Solstice+Trim/k/abeb/event.png (http://www.TickerFactory.com/)

And here is my new Signature picture
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB4/Sig306.gif

I'm going with 36" as my official measurement. I probably won't measure again until June so if it's a bit off that's ok.

Thank you for reading my journal. I really appreciate it.
Feel free to ask questions and such.
Keep Shining

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March 30th - Updates

Hair Related

I'm going for a ride in the morning with my Dad because of a certain personal event this week for me, so I just did a CO wash.
My last two washes were CO washes with Cone products and I was thinking of doing an S&CO wash to remove them but I decided to just do a CO because I didn't want to be in there too long.

So I decided to try another of my tons of products I haven't used yet. This time I used
Alberto VO5 - Cucumber Melon Crush - Conditioner
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/VCuc.jpg

It's another of the old ones I found at Big Lot last year when they redid their line.

My hair is still wet since it's only been drying an hour so I don't know the results yet. But I don't have a regular calendar to write in yet for this year so I need to post something or I'll forget that I did a wash.

It's now over two years since my first Feye trim of March 26th 04. That's when my journey got new life after I started my journal. I went from thinking I was a bum with crappy hair to someone with new hair. I only trimmed up to 2.5" that day but it really sparked me. It's one of my earliest entries so it's easy to find if you start from the beginning.

After Arianwen posted about her new Mason Pearson Rake Comb it got me thinking maybe I should get one. $20-25 is within the range of what I'm willing to pay. Unlike the brush prices. It will be a while before I let myself spend a lot on a brush. As Matlock said when he got a ticket "It's the principal".

Edited to add: I just got a deal on Ebay and bought 3 Rakes for $46 which is basically buy 2 get 1 free. I had a Ebay coupon code also. It was in a PM Ebay sent out.

Thank you for reading my journal. I really appreciate it.
Feel free to ask questions and such.
Keep Shining

April 1st

Hair Related

I couldn't stand it anymore and I cut back to 24".


Life

I'm 30 now.

My Next Thirty Years
Tim McGraw
(phil vassar)

I think I’ll take a moment, celebrate my age
The ending of an era and the turning of a page
Now it’s time to focus in on where I go from here
Lord have mercy on my next thirty years

Hey my next thirty years I’m gonna have some fun
Try to forget about all the crazy things I’ve done
Maybe now I’ve conquered all my adolescent fears
And I’ll do it better in my next thirty years

My next thirty years I’m gonna settle all the scores
Cry a little less, laugh a little more
Find a world of happiness without the hate and fear
Figure out just what I’m doing here
In my next thirty years

Oh my next thirty years, I’m gonna watch my weight
Eat a few more salads and not stay up so late
Drink a little lemonade and not so many beers
Maybe I’ll remember my next thirty years

My next thirty years will be the best years of my life
Raise a little family and hang out with my wife
Spend precious moments with the ones that I hold dear
Make up for lost time here, in my next thirty years
In my next thirty years

Hair Related

April Fools. :razz: :lol:

Thank you for reading my journal. I really appreciate it.
Feel free to ask questions and such.
Keep Shining

May 18th - Posting Prior Entries

These are the last few entries I did in my other journal. They are April 15th & 28th. I don't have anything for May yet.

April 15th - Updates

Non-Hair Related
Yesterday I went with my dad to downtown Detroit to scope out the baseball stadium's parking situation. Reason being he's on oxygen and needed to find a close spot. Today we went to the game. Detroit Tigers Vs Cleveland Indians. This was the first or second pitch.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/Stuff2/FirstPitch.jpg

Hair Related
After the parking search yesterday we went up the river and then on the way home he wanted to stop at a hardware store. While there I grabbed a new handheld showerhead. This new one sits higher up so I'm no longer too tall for it. So I don't have to lean back. Plus it has 6 settings so I can choose a better one.
So with the game coming up today and the new shower head I decided to try it out last night. I did my Shampoo & CO Wash and I tried these that Georgy sent me. Nikki was asking me about them so I decided to try them.

Loreal - Vive - Nutri-Force - Shampoo & Conitioner
http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/LVNFS.jpg http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/LVNFC.jpg

I just looked and both bottles say Dimethicone. The conditioner has it listed twice. Once alone and once as a combo with something else.
Both of them are white cream liquids They both have a product or soapy smell rather than a fruit or flower.

It's now about 22 hours since I washed. My hair is doing well so far even with sitting in the hot sun for 4 hours. So far I don't have any complaints. The shampoo made my hair feel squeeky before I applied the conditioner so it seemed to work. And my hair does feel a bit conditioned. The kind of slip feel that cone products give. My hair isn't frizzy so I'll say that I would use this again.


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April 28th - Updates

Hair Related

I'm making a note that I went to CVS yesterday and stocked up on MSM. I was out of it for a few weeks and wasn't taking it or the Biotin. Now I'm back on both.

I need to remember to get a calendar to write on. Before I start forgetting things like this.

Thank you for reading my journal. I really appreciate it.
Feel free to ask questions and such.
Keep Shining :sun:

May 20th

Not Hair Related

May 20th is a date that always sticks in my mind. A lot of good and bad things have happened on that date over the years.

When I was in junior high I went to Cedar Point (amusement park) on that date. It was a school trip.

The following year I went to the local carnival with my grandfather. I remember telling him that I had gone on the trip the year before on that day.

In 1999 I had one of the best and worst days.
I didn't know about the good part until a few days later.
The bad part was that at 2 am while I was in bed a drunk driver smashed into my car. He hit and ran but he was caught. No one was hurt to my knowledge but my car was totaled. It was the first car I'd bought on my own and I had used it to go down to Georgia and other trips.

The good news was that it was the day that my Mom threw my dictator of a step dad out. And later divorced him.

So here I am, May 20th 2006. I've been meaning to write about something in this journal for 6 months. But something kept me from it. Fear. I was afraid of getting in trouble but more than that I was afraid of causing trouble.

LHC is a very special place to me. And I never want to cause any trouble here. Nor would I want to cause someone else to change their feelings from positive to negative about it.

When I post something here and someone sends me a PM saying "it's so good to see you posting again" it's :cloud9: but it's also :brickwall because I haven't been able to say why I've been gone.

The truth is I want to go over to the mane board and the polls and all that and jump in. But I can't. I cannot do that without stepping on the toes of the moderators here or making people suspicious of my motives. When it comes to posting here I have an on and an off switch. I don't have a slow speed or a medium speed. If I cannot be myself and try to help in every way that I can without causing trouble or causing the appearance of trouble then I have no choice but to keep the switch off. I don't want to be some troublemaker. But I am going to tell the truth.

Do I have a site? Yes I do. Would I mind if someone came to my site and acted like me? The answer is not only do I not mind but I recently gave someone like that a promotion.

But this is not my site and I will never make the rules or decisions here and I have to respect that. I also have to come to terms with the fact that despite so many people liking me or enjoying the things I post there are people who will always misunderstand me or be suspicious of me or just plain not like me. And they have that right.

I don't want anyone to change me. I refuse to change unless I do it on my own for my own reasons. So I'm not going to ask others to change.

I still love LHC. But unfortunately it's no longer my home. It's more like a big hotel where I can come to for a family reunion. I ache to have that reunion. But I'm not going to do it if it causes trouble or steps on toes.

For those of you who are reading this because you've been waiting for me to cause trouble, well there it is. I apologize for everything. Except for being myself even in the face of fear.

So for the time being I'm going to continue sticking to this journal and only giving pasted updates from the other journal. That's if I still have access to do that after this....

Keep Shining :sun:

May 22 - Updates

Hair Related

Making a note that I did a wash with VO5 Kiwi Lime Shampoo & Conditioner. I was overdue for a wash.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/VKLSPoo.jpg http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/CO/Bottles/1VKLS.jpg

Kiwi Lime Conditioner holds a place of honor out of all the products I have. It was one of the first ones I used when I did my first CO wash in 2004. So ever since then I've always used it whenever I've gotten into a slump with my routine or when I've felt I might need some clarifying. It's the product that I've used the most since then.

I'm overdue for a split end search and snip too. So for the time being I'm planning to do one on the next MM date. The next dates are May 29-30 which is next Monday and Tuesday. I don't know if it will happen but I'd like to do another wash before then.

Thank you for reading my journal. I really appreciate it.
Feel free to ask questions and such.
Keep Shining :sun:

May 23 - Updates

Hair Related

For the first time in a few weeks I wore my sleep tail to bed. I also left it in all day aka my Day Tail.

Thank you for reading my journal. I really appreciate it.
Feel free to ask questions and such.
Keep Shining :sun:

May 25, 2006

Non-Hair Related

I found out today that I'll be an Uncle soon. I don't know whether it will be a niece or nephew though. I don't know the due date either. But within the next 9 months. :)

Can you say "Uncle Bubba"

May 25, 2006

A picture = 1000+ words

http://photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB4/000_0208_2.jpg

Addison, Girl, 8 lbs +




Thank you for reading my journal. I really appreciate it.
Feel free to ask questions and such.
Keep Shining :sun:

I'm trying, honestly I am

Hair Related

I still have hair. I trimmed about an inch in June. I have no idea what my measurement is because I have not measured.


Not Hair Related

There are some things going on here that really bug me. I've had an urge to send a PM to the mods and ask if they were aware of it but apparently some of them are doing it too.

I cannot come up with a way to talk about this without going into all the details so I'm just going to quote Rule / Guideline #2 and you all can decide for yourself what it means to you.

I'd also like to apologize for all the times I may have violated this rule. I may even be doing so right now by putting this entry here rather than PMing a Mod. I apologize again. This is why I'm not going into further details.


2. Behavior of Members
A friendly and respectful approach toward other group members and the intent of the web site is required from all members, but is emphasized for new members, who should take time to develop a sense for the community and individual members prior to barging in with strong opinions and language. While most of the membership is adult, consideration must be given to the child members who regularly visit. While TLHC is committed to healthy freedom of expression, and no post will be edited or deleted due to its intellectual content, abusive language, flaming, and derogatory insults, collectively known as “trolling” when actively pursued to cause and encourage conflict and trouble, are all not allowed, as they work against the spirit of TLHC. If a member flames, insults another member, or resorts to trolling, it is best not to reply, but rather notify a Moderator for intervention. If desired, any direct response to a flame or insult should be accomplished through private communication, e.g. email or Private Messaging, rather than on the forum boards.

September 15

Hair Related

I'm making a note that I washed yesterday using Loreal - Vive - Nutri-Force - Shampoo & Conitioner.
This is my second time with these two. The first was my April 15th 06 entry.

It's now 9 days until the next trim. (Fall Morrocco Method Equinox Sep 25-26)

I wrote this on the measure in thread for September. (On another site)

"I still do not have a measurement to give but I am due for another trim on the 25th or 26th so I will get one soon. It is very possible that I may be at a place where I may stop going longer. I hope I'm at 40 inches or close enough to go to at least 40 and stop. That is my main goal since reaching 36".

I wear my hair down too much to go too far past tailbone. I'm too lazy and will be sitting on my hair if I let it get that long. But we'll see what happens in a few weeks. Whatever the moon brings.........."

I'm basically saying that I would like to trim an inch or more. But at the same time I hope I'm at 41" or 42" so I can do the trim and still be near 40" and say I've reached my goal. I used to want to go for terminal length but honestly I don't need to. I have not only reached 36" but am close enough to 40" that being able to reach a certain length beyond that no longer matters. I found out that 30" was not my terminal length. I guess what I'm saying is I don't want to look the gift horse in the mouth.

Thank you for reading my journal. I really appreciate it.
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Keep Shining :sun:

September 15 - Continued

Hair Related
I guess what I'm saying is I don't want to look the gift horse in the mouth.

I want to clarify this in case anyone misunderstood me. What I am saying is I have been fortunate to reach this length. And knowing that there are so many people out there who are struggling with reaching even half of what I have has made me think that I shouldn't keep growing my hair longer when I don't intend to keep it at those lengths.

It's kinda like as if I'm walking along and I find a penny. I pick it up and keep it. Then I find another penny and keep it. Eventually I'm going to say, "Ok I've had enough luck today. I'll let someone else find this one."

I don't know if that explains it better or not but that is what I am thinking. Whatever vibes or luck or fortune that came to me and let me reach my goal I am thankful for. But I need to stop for a while and care for what I have been allowed to have. My "roses" are grown but they aren't blooming like I want. I'm not planting more roses (growing more hair) until I get what I have to be at it's best. I don't deserve more hair until I learn to appreciate what I have. But even then I don't think I want longer than tailbone length. I just don't feel like I need it. My real goal is to keep what I have now. And not let anyone else cause me to change that goal.

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September 24 & 26 - Fall Equinox Trim

Note: The eye problem mentioned in this entry was posted about elsewhere. This is a repost of what I posted in my other journal.

Hair Related

September 24
In preparation for Monday or Tuesday's trim I did a wash tonight using the same Loreal S&C as I used a few entries ago. I have some errands to do tomorrow including the eye Dr. It's a 2:40 PM appt. but sometimes they call in the morning and ask me to come early so I didn't want to wait till tomorrow.

September 26

Fall Equinox Trim
38" trimmed back to 36.75"
Before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB4/Sep2606BF.jpg
After
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB4/Sep2606AF.jpg

According to the first picture I was at least 38"
It may have been more. The pieces of cut hair are 2 inches long. The after picture shows that it's still

past 36". I was going to make it 36" even but I decided not to. I know I trimmed at least two inches of

the longest hairs and everything is back to one length so I'm not going to do more. Besides as long as

I stay 36" or more I won't be going above the minimum goal.

According to my March trim I was at 36" after that one. I trimmed at least an inch in June. And now at

least 2 inches. So if I trimmed 3" and am still past 36" then I am getting more than 1/2" per month.

However I have been off of Biotin and MSM since early August so that might slow down. My eye

problem did not require steroid pills this time but I stayed off the hair pills anyway. I have 4 more

weeks of eye drops to take and then I'm done. Unless the eye flares up again. So I might start the

Biotin and MSM again then.

So that means an updated trim chart.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB4/TrimChart5.gif

We'll just wait and see what the Winter Solstice brings. Maybe things will be more accurate then.


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October - 2nd

Hair Related

I have changed my signature.
If anyone does not get it then feel free to PM me and I'll explain.

Current image in case you are reading this later and I've changed it since.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB4/FWTC.gif

I was going to use this and I will elsewhere but I didn't want to shrink it anymore.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/PB4/Sig906.gif

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October 5th

Hair Related
Not much to report.

I have too many products right now so I have not shopped for any in probably a year or more. So unless I use something you won't hear much.

I don't remember if I mentioned it because I was in my lurk mode but I did get a Mason Pearson Rake comb a few months ago on ebay. I found a seller that had them at a price that was like buy 2 get 1 free so I got the 3 that she had left and gave the others away. It's an ok comb but it's still not enough to go right trough my tangles. I still mostly use my D3 Denman brush.

But it's not necessarily the comb's fault. I cause the tangles by wearing my hair loose for days at a time and some nights. I recently started wearing my famous Bubba Tail again. Both the sleep and day versions. Mom has never made any comments about it so whatever. After this many months if she said something I'd probably not care. I'm at my goal range of 36-40". It's been over 12 years. I'm not going back for anyone but me. And I don't see that happening.

Not Hair Related

My purpose for this journal entry was first to mention my posts in the Sims 2 thread with the things I made. It's on the crafts board so I'm sure that some of the people who do enjoy my journal might have missed it since it wasn't in here.
So these are the links to the posts I did.
Hope you don't mind copy and paste.
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?p=879064#post879064
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?p=881691#post881691
forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?p=881745#post881745

Second I have been a bit busy with posting here lately and some have asked if I am back.

My reply was that I'm dipping my feet in the water and doing some paddling.

I'm not ready to jump in and do cannonballs. It's been a year and I was away a bit. I don't have plans to ever be as active as I was. But I will post to things when I feel I have something to say. And if that happens to be a bunch of threads at one time then so be it.

I still have commitments elsewhere that I will not abandon.

And I will speak up when I see something that can hurt the community. Next time (I hope there isn't one) I will try going through proper channels. I do not regret anything I did or said. I would rather have people upset with me than to have others being upset with each other. I may have grudges or problems that I can't get over but that's not going to stop me from wanting to see this place continue to grow in a positive manner. And if something threatens that I'm going to do or say something. I know it's not my job but it is my nature. My going into lurk mode was such a thing. I was starting to become a problem so I backed off. I admit it. I'm trying to not do it again.

Signed the sometimes Grumpy Bubba, not Bubba Gump.

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October 12th - Poll Idea For Journal

Journal Related

I was looking on the polls board a minute ago because I was going to answer a poll about "The best thing we learned at LHC" or something like that. I was going to put that I'd have to go with Feye's trimming methods.

But then I got an idea that I might go through the polls that I have answered before and copy my answers to my journal. So I haven't started doing it yet but I wanted to jot this reminder down. Plus maybe someone else will be inspired to do the same.

The easy way to do this is to go to the polls board and click on the search on the right side. Select advanced search. Or click the advanced search on the side and then highlight the Polls board on the menu. Then enter you ID in the member box and make sure posts has the dot in it at the bottom. Then your results will be just your posts.

Note: If you do this it might be a good idea to not make clickable links if you include links to the polls.

Take the http:// off of them. That way they won't eat the server by cross posting or whatever it's called.


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Octoberber 29th Updates

Hair Related

I'll start off by saying that I did another wash tonight using the Loreal - Vive - Nutri-Force - Shampoo & Conitioner for the third time in a row. I'm still working on using the pair until it runs out. Just because I feel like it. So far they seem to be working fine. They have dimethicone but I don't think I wash often enough to care.

Speaking of washing frequency I felt like talking more about it. Or my lack of. After seeing a commercial for the new Pantene Time Renewal line I went to their website timerenewal.com and they had one of those "Take a quiz and get a coupon" things. So I took the quiz for fun to see what they said.

The first question asks how many times a day you pass a brush or comb through and my answer was 10 or less. The second asked how often I blow dry and I answered Never. The third was what is your dry hair desired result and I chose smooth split free hair instead of frizz free curls because although my hair is wavy it's more like straight hair than curly. Next was washing frequency and I said Twice a week or less because it's the closest to reality. Then was a hot tools question and i said they are foreign objects to me. Next up was sun exposure and I chose hardly any, my hair is almost always covered. But in reality my covering is called a house above a basement because I spend 90% of my time in my basement bedroom. Nice hat aye. And last I chose Au Natural for hair coloring. That gave me a score of 5 out of 18 (0 being perfect health). But they gave me the following numbers for how many times I do the stuff.
For a two year period I would have 73000 passes of a comb or brush.
0 Blow drys
208 Washings
12 styling sessions
104 days of ultraviolet radiation
0 Color Treatments

There's a problem with that though. They did my numbers for 2 washes per week. 208 divided by 24 months comes out to an average of 8.7 washes per month. Well here's the reality.

Number of washes so far for 2006 that were jotted down. I may have done one in January but it was not posted about.

2 - Feb
2 - March
1 - April
1 - May
1 - June
2 - July
2 - August
2 - September
1 - October

A total of 14 for 10 months. That's 1.4 per month not 8.7
But I will give them props for actually having a quiz that I could honestly answer without having to need a does not apply option. Too many times I do those quizes and they don't give an option for "I don't color" or "I don't heat style". Even though I said I don't use them they still put me down as using them 12 times. I guess that's some sort of assumption that at least once every two months a woman is going to fancy up her hair with a hot tool or straighten it for some occasion. I wonder what my score would be if they had me down for 0 styling session? And combs and brushes is sort of accurate. 7300 comes out to 10 passes per day. In reality I brush or comb about one day per week. But in that one session I might be doing 50 - 70 passes. I will leave the sun thing alone. My hair is up to 12.5 years old and I've only been in the basement for 1.5.

So there it is. I wash about once per month. And I don't mean I wash with a product once and do water rinsings the other times. I mean once a month it gets wet. Except when I spray it with my water and conditioner spray mixes. I'd like to do them more often but I'm not going to stress out about it. When I try to do schedules or plan for a certain day of the week I just end up missing it and changing the plan until it's not the plan I made. Or other things happen. I am happy that my average is at least 1 per month.

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November 1st

Hair Related

I tried a new version of my "Bubba Sleep Tail".
It is done by starting to braid my ponytail and I do a few passes with the strands. Then after about 2-3 inches of the braid I put the band just below the braid so that the band rests below my neck where it won't be a lump. Then I leave the rest of the tail as a ponytail and put a band on the tail further down.
The reason I tried this was because I don't want the hair above the top band to be as loose as it was. Otherwise it starts to tangle eventually. I hope doing it this way will prevent some of those tangles.

Non Hair Related
Today is my dog Peter's 15th birthday. I've never had any of my pets live this long before. I also realised that I've now had him for half of my life. I'm 30. He still seems fine.

Several people have had some illnesses or losses as of late and I have not sent PMs or posted about them. But I hope that those of you who need well wishes or condolences are reading this.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/smilies/candle.gif
I'm sorry if I wasn't there for you when you needed me.

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November 5th

Hair Related

Just noting that as of today I am back on Biotin and MSM. I need to stock up on Biotin though. I'm down to about 8 days worth.

For those who may not know my routine from before it's 1000 mcg Biotin and 1000 mg MSM each day. Sundown brand Biotin and CVS brand MSM.

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November 19th

Hair Related & Other

The main point of this entry is to post that I did a hair wash. But it came as a result of something unrelated. I woke up today with a pain in my gut. And although it's been a few years I had my suspicions of what it was. And without going into too many details as to how I know I will say that once again I spent a few hours sitting in the bath tub passing a kidney stone. Afterward I stood up and did a quick CO wash of two applications of VO5 Kiwi Lime Squeeze since it was already in there. I still have a lot of it so I don't mind leaving some in the shower for Mom to use if she does.

Another Pleasant Valley Sunday......

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December 9th

Hair Related

I'm just making another wash note. On wednesday I did a S&C wash with Loreal - Vive - Nutri-Force - Shampoo & Conitioner. I'm still working on using it up.

I'll probably be doing another wash prior to the Dec 21-23 Morrocco Method Solstice Trim.

Non Hair Related

Current number of Journal Views :) 23,396

After my last entry I was looking at how many views my journal had and I was trying to come up with a way to say something about it that was similar to my journal title using alliteration (same first letter). I came up with this.

Apparently the alliteration of the appellation of my accounting attracts an audience. At least according to my approximation. Although said assertion could have gone awry.

I have accumulated abundant appreciativeness for the audience. My applause to you all.

Are you smiling? Laughing? I dare you to smile. Cmon you know you want to. Don't make me break out the feathers and goofy baby toys. I'm an uncle now. I have had some practise...........

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December 24th

Hair Related

The Morrocco Method Solstice came and went and I did not do my planned trim. I'm not sure if I'm going to wait and do it 29th or 30th or a January date or just skip it until March? But those days aren't today so until then it's wait and see.

I did another S&C wash with Loreal - Vive - Nutri-Force - Shampoo & Conitioner today.

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December 25th

Christmas Related

Happy Holidays to everyone.

At the end of 2003 one of my Grandmothers passed away from cancer. She had it off and on for years. That was the last year we had a Christmas with her.
In August of 2005 my other Grandmother was living with us because she had either alzheimers or some form of dimentia. On August 15th she had a stroke or heart attack and passed.
My Granfathers both passed away a month apart back in 1989. So last Thanksgiving and Christmas was the first without any Grandparents.

So the Holidays didn't seem like they would really be important anymore. Sure we'd still get together and eat dinner but it wouldn't be like it was.

That all changed in May of this year when my Niece, Addison was born. I posted in another thread about my going shopping for her and having trouble finding what I was looking for. While I was out shopping I heard a song that I'd heard lots of times before but this time it had real meaning to me. It lifted me out of my shopping dumps of "I'm getting sick of not finding what I want" and I ended up getting some stuff for her that will probably be better in the long run since it's not just something a 7 month old can play with. Fisher-Price's Sing & Go Choo Choo and all the other Amazing Animal. The whole collection. I went way overboard. But I didn't care.

So today is Christmas and even though she is only 7 months old and won't be sitting there opening the presents herself I'm still just looking forward to experiencing the following lyrics. It's something I saw the other day when my brother came over and I went out to help carry stuff in. He was at the backseat door getting her out of the car seat. I could hear her whining and about to cry. I came around and when she saw me she lit up. Sure she does that with everyone but this one was for me. That's what I want today. I'm an Uncle. (He says as the tears come)

I just want to wish you all the joy I feel. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/purplebubba/smilies/PHeart.gif

Christmas Through Your Eyes
by Gloria Estefan

Till I had you I didnt know
That I was missing out
Had to grow up and see the world
Through different shades of doubt
Give me one more chance to dream again
One more chance to feel again
Through your young heart
If only for one day let me try

I wanna see christmas through your eyes
I want everything to be the way it used to be
Back to being a child again thinking the world was mine
I wanna see christmas, christmas through your eyes

I see the rain, you see the rainbow hiding in the clouds
Never afraid to let your love show
Wont you show me how
Wanna learn how to believe again
Find the innocence in me again
Through your young heart
Help me find a way, help me try

I wanna see christmas through your eyes
I want everything to be the way it used to be
Back to being a child again thinking the world was kind
I wanna see christmas, christmas through your eyes

I wanna see christmas through your eyes
I want everything to be the way it used to be
Back to being a child again thinking the world was kind
I wanna see christmas, christmas through your eyes

I wanna see christmas
I wanna see christmas, I wanna see christmas through your eyes
I wanna see, I wanna see christmas
I wanna see, I wanna see christmas
I wanna see christmas through your eyes
I wanna see christmas
I want to see christmas
I wanna see christmas through your eyes

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