Hair Therapy

Whether we forget to sleep with a satin cap or pillow case, or whether we forget to seal and moisturize for a week. Whatever the situation maybe there is a point in a natural girl's life where our hair had to take the back seat for a few days.

This past week I decided to do a "Wash n Go", now normally after a "Wash n Go", I twist my hair up usually for a few days, but this past week has been quite hectic to say the least, and my hair has been getting the short end of the stick.

Usually when this happens, I pamper my hair with a good deep condition, and baggy overnight for a few days. I baggy with damp hair, and olive oil. Then I make sure my hair stays moisturized, and I seal properly. After a few days of low maintenance styles my hair usually bounces back to its healthy self.

What is your hair therapy? Hope my suggestion helps!! :)

Til Next Time
~L~

A year in Progress

Its always nice to see the progress of the Love, Time, and Care you put into your hair, Here's mine after a year!

My BC 9/2009

My Nappiversary 9/2010



If you ever feeling frustrated with your hair, look back at old photos and see your progress, I promise it will make you instantly feel better : )

My Hair Regime

Creating a regime for the first time can be a bit overwhelming but starting from a basic format, can help ease you into the adventure of learning what your hair likes, and what your hair dislikes. I am a firm believer of keeping it simple. Here's my Weekly Regime.

Thursday night I start of with a baking soda deep conditioner treatment, I leave the treatment in for a half an hr to a hour. After running around for about an hour with a plastic cap on my head, I proceed to rinse my hair, Then I condition and detangle with either Aubrey Organics Island Naturals for dry and frizzy hair or with Aubrey Organics Rose Mosqueta for color treated hair. Once I'm done detangling, I use Kinky Curly Knot Today or Darcy's Botanicals Peach Kernel Hydrating Milk to style my hair through the weekend. Once my hair is styled, I massage my edges with a mix of Castor oil and Tree Tea Oil, and then seal with a mix of Olive Oil, Sweet Almond Oil, Castor Oil, and Tea Tree oil

Friday, Saturday, Sunday Nights I moisturize with my water spritz and seal

Monday Nights I co wash, style and seal

Tuesday and Wednesdays I moisturize with my water spritz and seal

The following Thursday, I do an ACV rinse and a Deep Conditioner. Then I style and seal, and start my hair week all over again

Do you lovely ladies have a set regime? Or are you still looking for the perfect fit?

While searching for a good way to start my eleven yr old sister's regime I found this article:

http://www.naturallycurly.com/curlreading/home/how-to-create-your-hair-regimen?utm_source=curlynikki.com&utm_medium=CNArticlePost&utm_term=bloggers&utm_content=CN&utm_campaign=CN

Check it out, Let me know what you Think, And I hope it was helpful!!!!

Til next time,
~L~

Getting to know you

Hi, my name is L. KinksnWinks was created to learn, to share knowledge, and inspire other women, and men to embrace their god given hair. We all know that hair has a direct correlation to how one feels about themselves, so if you understand and love your hair, you have a better chance of loving and understanding yourself. At first I was apprehensive about starting a hair blog, because of the many wonderful hair blogs out there, but i figured hey why not open up another source to learn from.

I am natural kinky curly gal, I'm not big on the whole hair typing system, but from my understanding my hair ranges from 3c-4b I big chopped 9/1/2009, so I have been fully natural for a year and ten days. I transitioned by micros from May to August unintentionally. When I took my micros down, I had a ton of new growth, and I fell in love with my waves, coils and curls. I knew I no longer wanted to relax my hair but I knew I didn't know what exactly to do either so I started researching and thats when I found the natural section at Blackhairmedia.com I was instantly inspired by their confidence, knowledge, and love for their hair. My first intention was to try to experiment with transitioning for as long as possible and then do the BC, and also to remain relaxer free for a year, but that didn't last long. I BC'd a month later and as of right now I'm pretty sure I'm a natural for life.

That's my mini introduction, because if I tell you everything now what will I have to talk about later lol. Well now that you know a little bit about me, tell me about yourself? where are you in you hair journey? are you natural? are you considering going natural? are you transitioning? Let me know in the comments

For those that have concerns or suggestion you can email me at noaveragebook@aol.com I have two blogs one on hair(of course this one) and a book writing blog http://notyouraveragebookwriter.blogspot.com/ my email works for both

Thanks for coming by, til next time
~L~