This time I left off at washing my hair.  I washed my hair, re-did my usual rituals, then began to blow-dry my hair all over again.  No one understands how aggravating it is to have at least 1/4 of hair dried and then have to re-wet the whole thing and start all over again; no fun at all.  The blowdrying process took forever as usual, but I got my hair straight enough to where I could start straightening.  Before I start to straighten my hair, I always put a heat protectant on it to prevent damaging my curls.  I might have to change my heat protectant from a premade one to a natural one: grapeseed oil.  Whenever I straighten my hair I always try to get to the roots, because my hair is super thick and it'll just look really puffy if I dont.  This includes me burning my scalp, burning my hands, and burning everything in sight; okay maybe not that extreme.  Once I finished straightening my hair I always go back over it, to style it.  I always either go all out with curling or I just do a easy swipe-curl through my hair so then it has a little curl at the end.  The end results always leaves me trying to put my hair in some type of awkward style; This time I went with what I like to call "Countdown".  If you know me well enough, then you know that I absolutely, positively, LOVE BEYONCE!  Ever since I saw her "Countdown" video and the hair style she had in it, I've always wanted to try it, but never got the chance to, because my hair was never straight or long enough to accomplish it; until now.  I grabbed the closest scarf I could grab and went to work trying to duplicate this style.  In the end I kind of liked it, but decided to just wear my hair down and keep a big "bang" in the front.  I loved wearing my hair straight, I missed it alot and I found out that it had grown alot as well.

Trial and Error; Straightening Hair Chronicles Pt. 2

Hello, I left off where I was thinking that things were going to go right in my endeavor with this "treatment".  I don't know why I did this, I think it was because I had just had my hair trimmed and it needed some type of treatment. 

The Treatment
After I mixed the concoction together I started to distribute it throughout my hair.  At one point  I noticed that there was more honey than there was olive oil, but I kept going because I didn't feel like measuring; I should've stopped.  Once I was done with that I put a shower cap on my head and let it sit there.  I think I let it stay on my head for more than 1 hour, I was tired, hungry, and I just wanted to relax before I continued with my hair.  Once I finished with my other miscellaneous tasks, I went back to rinse out my hair in the shower. 

Rinsing/Blow-Drying
When it came down to this part, I wasn't so happy.  It still felt like there was something very oily in my hair, but I thought that maybe it could've been the leave-in conditioner I put in my hair afterwards.  After that,  I went back in my room to start blow-drying.  When I started to blow-dry my hair I noticed that alot of things in my room that I touched were greasy, this included: Comb, Brush, Blow-Drying, Clips, etc.  I was confused, so I went into the bathroom to do my hair, so then I can actually see what was going on. 

Realization
After 5-10 minutes of greasyness all over my materials and hair, I finally realized that it was probably the honey that is making everything very greasy.  Trying to figure out how to resolve this, I took a towel and tried to wipe off all of the grease from my materials and hair; that didn't work.  I tried it again; it still didn't work.  There was only one solution and I was actually very devastated to have to do this to myself, wash my hair all over again.  I felt like I took 5 steps forward and 15 steps back; it was ridiculous.  Since, I had nothing else to do, I gave in to washing my hair to continue with my straightening process.  I was highly upset at the time and wanted nothing more to do with my hair, but I had to keep going.

To Be Continued . . .