I am pumped! Are you pumped? I SURE AS DIDDLY AM!
PUMPED TO BE SITTING HERE, POISED TO WRITE, WITH THE SILLIEST OF INTENTIONS!
-Singing muses intervene-
"Away with the flack, don't give her the sack. VRAIMENT! She's baaaack."
Largely due to popular demand, public demonstrations, a heartwarming letter from a young girl in hospital with a bad back (temporary, thank GOD). Well, that alone wasn't enough, of course. It never is. My heart usually remains sealed, within a fortress of obdurate laziness.
The Saudi Princess Salma or whoever, she of the fablastic lingerie line (Naomi, if you must know), may have pulled a few strings to get me writing again; you have her to thank. Even sealed fortresses have their drawbridges, with guards who succumb to only the most munificent of bribes.
Read between the lines: I like big words.
NOW THEN.
WHAT SHALL I SHARE WITH YOU?
Books? Well, apart from rifling through 'Chatelaine' and the like, I cannot say I have perused 'literature,' per se. I have heard good things about...the library. But it's a three minute drive away. Three minutes better spent...
MIXING UP LOTIONS & POTIONS! Cackles and thunderbolts!
Mais oui! I'm so excited about some of these amateur concoctions!
Here are a few things to note:;
1. That coconut oil + olive oil is + aloe vera gel is still the best thing ever.
2. That henna rocks.
3. That coconut MILK and coconut cream are worth their weight in gold.
~Unrefined, virigin coconut oil is nigh omnipotent! I don't know why I bother trying other things for my skin. It somehow brightens in a way that no serum I've tried has done, yet.
Olive oil and aloe vera mixed in seem to heighten the absorption?
I don't know the scientific mechanics, pH and such.
It isn't clogging for me, though it is reportedly very much so, for some.
~I have candy-floss, fine hair, which is also dry and all those other dull details that characterise curly hair. Henna powder + coconut milk, left for 5-7 hours to 'activate', then applied with or without coffee/lemon juice/egg yolk/glycerin/olive oil, mixed in.
This makes for an inexpensive hair mask.
It can be left in for 40 minutes or longer, for all the benefits of shine/strength/cuticle-smoothing-powers (aka gloss). It also imparts an auburn gleam which has refined my highlights and softened the dreaded demarcation of the roots. Katrinaosity has several useful videos on the subject.
The more frequently I do it, the thicker/shinier my hair becomes. Also: darker.
Of course, you risk protein overload with henna. Conditioners combat the crunchy, yucky feeling.
The Inebreya Ice Cream Banana-T (eh?) hair mask is indispensable for me! It's available at Shopper's Drug Mart. It has been whispered that you can go a few days after a henna treatment, using only a conditioner for rinsing! I cannot confirm this; shampoo and I, our relationship has endured the ages.
~Coconut cream/milk as a hair mask.
Too much of a good thing? Not so with this! It can be a leave-in mask for much less time than the henna mask, and impart similar results, aside from the colour.
I admit, I used the coconut cream on my face as a mask too, once, just for research purposes, you understand. Results: excellent. Most notable change was the undereye area--not crinkly, smoother. No pimples. But I'm not generally sensitive to coconut derivatives...
So there you have it! Coconut glorification, for your edification!
PUMPED TO BE SITTING HERE, POISED TO WRITE, WITH THE SILLIEST OF INTENTIONS!
-Singing muses intervene-
"Away with the flack, don't give her the sack. VRAIMENT! She's baaaack."
Largely due to popular demand, public demonstrations, a heartwarming letter from a young girl in hospital with a bad back (temporary, thank GOD). Well, that alone wasn't enough, of course. It never is. My heart usually remains sealed, within a fortress of obdurate laziness.
The Saudi Princess Salma or whoever, she of the fablastic lingerie line (Naomi, if you must know), may have pulled a few strings to get me writing again; you have her to thank. Even sealed fortresses have their drawbridges, with guards who succumb to only the most munificent of bribes.
Read between the lines: I like big words.
NOW THEN.
WHAT SHALL I SHARE WITH YOU?
Books? Well, apart from rifling through 'Chatelaine' and the like, I cannot say I have perused 'literature,' per se. I have heard good things about...the library. But it's a three minute drive away. Three minutes better spent...
MIXING UP LOTIONS & POTIONS! Cackles and thunderbolts!
Mais oui! I'm so excited about some of these amateur concoctions!
Here are a few things to note:;
1. That coconut oil + olive oil is + aloe vera gel is still the best thing ever.
2. That henna rocks.
3. That coconut MILK and coconut cream are worth their weight in gold.
~Unrefined, virigin coconut oil is nigh omnipotent! I don't know why I bother trying other things for my skin. It somehow brightens in a way that no serum I've tried has done, yet.
Olive oil and aloe vera mixed in seem to heighten the absorption?
I don't know the scientific mechanics, pH and such.
It isn't clogging for me, though it is reportedly very much so, for some.
~I have candy-floss, fine hair, which is also dry and all those other dull details that characterise curly hair. Henna powder + coconut milk, left for 5-7 hours to 'activate', then applied with or without coffee/lemon juice/egg yolk/glycerin/olive oil, mixed in.
This makes for an inexpensive hair mask.
It can be left in for 40 minutes or longer, for all the benefits of shine/strength/cuticle-smoothing-powers (aka gloss). It also imparts an auburn gleam which has refined my highlights and softened the dreaded demarcation of the roots. Katrinaosity has several useful videos on the subject.
The more frequently I do it, the thicker/shinier my hair becomes. Also: darker.
Of course, you risk protein overload with henna. Conditioners combat the crunchy, yucky feeling.
The Inebreya Ice Cream Banana-T (eh?) hair mask is indispensable for me! It's available at Shopper's Drug Mart. It has been whispered that you can go a few days after a henna treatment, using only a conditioner for rinsing! I cannot confirm this; shampoo and I, our relationship has endured the ages.
~Coconut cream/milk as a hair mask.
Too much of a good thing? Not so with this! It can be a leave-in mask for much less time than the henna mask, and impart similar results, aside from the colour.
I admit, I used the coconut cream on my face as a mask too, once, just for research purposes, you understand. Results: excellent. Most notable change was the undereye area--not crinkly, smoother. No pimples. But I'm not generally sensitive to coconut derivatives...
So there you have it! Coconut glorification, for your edification!
