Can you believe 2006 is already here? And I'm graduating this year! Oh my goodness. I was reflecting back on 2005 and realized that it was really a wonderful year, and everything turned out for the best. I hope that this year brings lots of joy, happiness, fulfillment, and success to everyone!
Happy 2006!
Love,
~*Leia*~
Pic from December 18, 2005 *Special thanks to Carlynn for this gorgeous doll!*
2bMiii
Current length: 41.5"
Goal: As long as it will grow and still stay healthy!
Growing since January 2003; found TLHL at the end of June 2003 and was at 25". I am 5'4.5".
Steady half inch growth. It is WAY past classic when wet, but the waves pull it up a lot more. I'll be away on the red letter days for January thickening, but I think I'll trim on the 21st to beautify .
Love,
~*Leia*~
Pic from December 18, 2005 *Special thanks to Carlynn for this gorgeous doll!*
2bMiii
Current length: 42"
Goal: As long as it will grow and still stay healthy!
Growing since January 2003; found TLHL at the end of June 2003 and was at 25". I am 5'4.5".
I recently bought this from the EverydayMehndi site - http://everydayhenna.com. It's a great site to order off of, customer service, shipping, and everything. So, I got the Lotus Powder Plus for Christmas from my brother, and used it this last weekend. Oh, how I love it! It was easy to mix up because I'm used to mixing up henna and other herbal pastes. I applied two tablespoons of the mixture, mixed up into a paste, to my dry length and ends. I washed it out the next morning and shampooed the scalp, let it dry over the day, and combed it out at night. The next day, I took these pictures:
My hair turned out
- Soft
- Few tangles
- Shiny
- Smelling AMAZING!
- Extra wavy - don't know why
In other words, I love this product!
Love,
~*Leia*~
Pic from December 18, 2005 *Special thanks to Carlynn for this gorgeous doll!*
2bMiii
Current length: 42"
Goal: As long as it will grow and still stay healthy!
Growing since January 2003; found TLHL at the end of June 2003 and was at 25". I am 5'4.5".
I washed my scalp with Timotei yesterday. It's a great shampoo for scalp washes because it lathers really well and gets all over the scalp. I would be weary about using it on my length, but my scalp is happy with pretty much anything that is slightly moisturizing and that keeps it clean for a few days.
This weekend I am due for my fortnightly herbal washes, but since the Lotus Powder Plus was herbal TOO, maybe I'll do a moisturizing wash instead. Plus, I'm going to Bangkok on Tuesday, and I thought I would curl my hair before I go - to look nice as well as to make my hair shorter, because it's HOT there. And just-moisturized hair curls better for me than just-herbed hair; probably because herbs make my hair a bit stiff and thicker. Usually my moisturizing washes are completely natural, but I was thinking I'd mix it up a bit and use a commercial deep conditioner for once.
In the Drawing Room I was responding to a post about the mining incident. I was about to post this there when I realized I might offend someone if I did, so I'm posting it here instead. I do, of course, feel terrible about their deaths and their families; however, I couldn't help noticing one fact. In Bangladesh, we have about 9 deaths per 1000 people every year. It always takes a massive catastrophe when thousands of people die for our news to make an appearance in the news outside of Asia. Not only that - China suffers from droughts that kill something like 3 million at a time, and there are so many countless numbers of deaths in Pakistan and India. It makes our news, of course, but when just 12 people are killed in a mining incident in America, the whole world hears about it.
That leads me to two conclusions. One - our deaths just aren't important enough to make the news outside of our region (which is really sad! ) OR two - that other countries don't care to educate their audiences as to what is going on in other parts of the world. The second part particularly bothers me, because I was never one for nationalism, always globalism. It's because my "nationality" isn't really something I can proudly call my own - I have a British passport, I'm half Indian half Pakistani (crazy in itself, as you would know if you knew some of the background between India and Pakistan), and I've lived in Bangladesh almost all of my life. Talk about culture craziness. Not only that, but most of the kids in my small school are faced with similar backgrounds. We call ourselves "global citizens" - a name that fits me well. And my favorite thing to say when issues of nationalism come up is that "we all live on the same piece of rock." That is, instead of tearing each other to pieces because we don't share the same culture/religion/nationality/color, we should recognize that we all came from the same place, and we are all sisters and brothers. Nationality just helps you give yourself a home and an identification; i.e., I live on this part of the big chunk of rock. I'm not saying that being proud of one's nationality is wrong - if it makes you happy, stick with it by all means. But it's when we start going to war, or saying "I'm better than everyone else because I'm Indian" (and believe me, that is NOT an unheard saying) that it hurts me. Because we're all the same, and we should be treated like that. (Now let's all hold hands and sing "Kumbayah." LOL)
Okay, so.....hair? Heehee, got a bit off track there.
Love,
~*Leia*~
Pic from December 18, 2005 *Special thanks to Carlynn for this gorgeous doll!*
2bMiii
Current length: 42"
Goal: As long as it will grow and still stay healthy!
Growing since January 2003; found TLHL at the end of June 2003 and was at 25". I am 5'4.5".
You know, every day of my holidays this year I've been putting on nice clothes and doing my hair nicely and wearing my contacts, but I haven't been going out anywhere or doing anything special. So today I decided to put on sweatpants and a t-shirt, and my hair is back in a french braid. Plus I'm wearing my glasses. Mum thinks I look like a kid :P.
This break is coming to a sudden close! I've just realized that this next semester is going to be my last semester in high school ... Oh my goodness!!!! I never thought I'd ever see this day! I did a really intense piano practise today and my audition tape is going to be recorded in just 3 days! After that, I send off the last of my uni stuff, pray it gets there on time (argh Bangladeshi post!), go to Bangkok for a few days with my family, and then school starts!
I reaaaally hope I get into this university. I have been working so hard and I really hope they accept me! Please keep your fingers crossed for me!
I have been cooking a lot the past two days. I posted the recipe for ll-natural homemade snack bars in the Drawing Room. This morning I tried a new sweet protein bar recipe, and I will post it if the results are good.
Love,
~*Leia*~
Pic from December 18, 2005 *Special thanks to Carlynn for this gorgeous doll!*
2bMiii
Current length: 42"
Goal: As long as it will grow and still stay healthy!
Growing since January 2003; found TLHL at the end of June 2003 and was at 25". I am 5'4.5".
I deep conditioned my hair last night with a commercial product! I am waiting for it to dry to see how it turned out. It smells amaaaaazing though! I really hope it worked!
Love,
~*Leia*~
Pic from December 18, 2005
2bMiii
Current length: 42"
Goal: As long as it will grow and still stay healthy!
Growing since January 2003; found TLHL at the end of June 2003 and was at 25". I am 5'4.5".
My hair isn't weighed down or heavy at all! The name of the product is L'Occitane Ultra Rich Hair Cream. I'm going to Bangkok in 3 days so I'll pick up a couple of tubs while I'm there. I can use it for when my hair is really in need of a pick-me-up. Plus it smells amaaaaazing. And it really DOES revitalize curls! I took a couple of pics and this is AFTER combing out. My hair is always 2b wavy right after washing, but the waves disappear almost completely after combing out. Not with this conditioner, though! They are still there, perhaps a little wavier than usual!
Anyway, on to the pics...
And the other one is in my sig.
Love,
~*Leia*~
Pic from January 7, 2006
2bMiii
Current length: 42"
Goal: As long as it will grow and still stay healthy!
Growing since January 2003; found TLHL at the end of June 2003 and was at 25". I am 5'4.5".
We are leaving tomorrow on a 4-night trip to Bangkok. I only wash once a week, so it can be easily assumed that the 4 nights and 5 days will fall somewhere in between my wash schedule. BUT our last night there is a wash night, and I don't compromise my wash nights for anything . LOL! It's a herbal wash, so I got out a Ziplock bag, stuffed it with 6 tablespoons of my herbal mixture, and put it in my suitcase! Once the mixture is mixed up (which doesn't take more than a minute), it only takes 2-3 more minutes to put it on my hair! Really, my routine is so simple and easy. Less than 5 minutes mixing everything up and putting it on my hair at night, and in the morning all I have to do is rinse out and shampoo my scalp. While I'm there, I'll just shampoo with hotel shampoo - my scalp isn't too fussy, thankfully!
Anyway, the reason I went through the trouble to get a mixture for over there when it's our LAST night in Bangkok that I'll have to wash is because we arrive back the day before school starts. That means I'll have greasy hair ready to wash, but will have to wash that night and have it wet in the morning to school. It'll stay wet all day, and I definitely don't want wet hair in my face all day long when I'm trying to study. Plus it doesn't look very nice while wet because I don't comb it through, and while I never dress UP for school, I don't like to look untidy or unkempt.
So, there we have it. My hair is officially too important for me to skip a wash day. LOL! Oh - that reminds me. I had better pack some shea butter for my face that I can just use on my ends in case they get dry (although they really aren't even STARTING to get dry after that intense deep conditioning I had!)
Anyway, I'm off to finish packing. It's so exciting going on a trip with the "whole" family (okay, so my brothers won't be there and it'll only be a few extended members of the family on my father's side who I happen to live with anyway...) for once! Whenever I travel it is usually with school or just with my mother. I hope this is going to be fun, and I hope I don't forget my camera!
See you all when I get back!
Love,
~*Leia*~
Pic from January 7, 2006
2bMiii
Current length: 42"
Goal: As long as it will grow and still stay healthy!
Growing since January 2003; found TLHL at the end of June 2003 and was at 25". I am 5'4.5".
I got back from Bangkok a week ago, but have been so incredibly busy with school and everything that it has been impossible for me to do anything leisurely!
My trip was fantastic! My grandparents also gave me $500 shopping money, which I immediately forgot about and gave to my mother while I went around being a tourist, but it occured to my parents (when my camera broke down for the second time on a boat) that my camera is getting old, and why don't I buy a new one? YAY! So I did! I got an upgraded version of my old one, this is an EX-S600 with 6 megapixels, optical and digital zoom, macro mode, and tons of other features! I took a picture of my hair the other day but haven't got around to putting it on the computer, so here it is... I wonder if it is noticeable that the quality is different! It was taken the day after I got back, after a herbal wash I did while still in Thailand!
I did a quick mini-trim today. It was the day for beautifying and my ends have been feeling quite dry lately.
I have a new camera! Skips about and dances....
Love,
~*Leia*~
Pic from January 7, 2006
2bMiii
Current length: 42"
Goal: As long as it will grow and still stay healthy!
Growing since January 2003; found TLHL at the end of June 2003 and was at 25". I am 5'4.5".
*Special thanks to Carlynn for this gorgeous doll!*
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) OR two - that other countries don't care to educate their audiences as to what is going on in other parts of the world. The second part particularly bothers me, because I was never one for nationalism, always globalism. It's because my "nationality" isn't really something I can proudly call my own - I have a British passport, I'm half Indian half Pakistani (crazy in itself, as you would know if you knew some of the background between India and Pakistan), and I've lived in Bangladesh almost all of my life. Talk about culture craziness. Not only that, but most of the kids in my small school are faced with similar backgrounds. We call ourselves "global citizens" - a name that fits me well. And my favorite thing to say when issues of nationalism come up is that "we all live on the same piece of rock." That is, instead of tearing each other to pieces because we don't share the same culture/religion/nationality/color, we should recognize that we all came from the same place, and we are all sisters and brothers. Nationality just helps you give yourself a home and an identification; i.e., I live on this part of the big chunk of rock. I'm not saying that being proud of one's nationality is wrong - if it makes you happy, stick with it by all means. But it's when we start going to war, or saying "I'm better than everyone else because I'm Indian" (and believe me, that is NOT an unheard saying) that it hurts me. Because we're all the same, and we should be treated like that. (Now let's all hold hands and sing "Kumbayah." LOL)
