Hair care excitement, woes, split ends and hair horrors. Wheee, i have to keep this consistent with the community somehow don't i?

this week has been so crazy, i've only gotten to take one decent shower all week, which means i haven't been real good about my hair. my hair should at least be wetted and conditioned every day, no exceptions! that hasn't been happening, soooo, really bad dryness and splits. yay. i'm going to do a dusting trim today, maybe use my freshly sharpened split ender to get rid of the worst of it. it is indeed possible to sharpen the damned thing, you just have to have a really small sharpening rod. so it has been sharpened and should work a bit better than before. wish me luck. it's either that or go back to the salon and have them butcher it again, which i would rather not. ta, i'll post how it went later.

yay for measuring day. since i'm measuring on different dates from the rest of the loom, i'll just post how my hair is doing and what i have done to get there. wheee fun. so this month (february) i have done a couple of deep oil treatments, leave in and wash out the next day. changed conditioner back to what worked really really well this past summer and loving it. it is one of the finesse ones. the vitamin e moisturizing one, not the aloe and vitamin e, it works really well and my hair has been so soft, except for the ends which are horrid. i've been doing search and destroy missions on the worst of it, along with using my newly sharpened split ender, but i think i may just have to take off an inch to get rid of the dry frazzled stuff that is not split so sad. but if it makes my ends better and easier to comb without immediate crackly tangles so be it.

It amazes me how many women with long hair wear it down on blowy windy days but keep it up on wet drizzly days like today. I like having my hair down on rainy days. At least here we don't have nasty things in our rain water until it touches the ground, so the worst thing that touches my hair on rainy days is drips off of a roof or trees. such a wonderful feeling to be able to walk around with my hair down soaking up the precious moisture. People always look at me weird though because my hair tends to balloon to twice it's normal volume when it is really humid out. i don't mind though, because it ends up so soft. like right now, i've had my hair down most of the day already and i can still run my fingers through it without snagging. it is such a wonderful feeling to be able to do that, especially with curly hair. ahhhhhh, if only i lived someplace it rained more often, but then i would be sick of rain and excited about sunshine.

so i finally have had enough of straggly with different layers with the stairstep effect trying to grow it out to all one length, and also with the extremely frazzled ends so i decided to take off an inch all over, and even up the bottom most layer. it's now just past shoulder and a little uneven in the back, but that's cause i did it all by myself. it feels really soft, but really short, and this isn't even the shortest i've had it either, it's almost the length it was last spring, but it feels so short now. guess i'm just meant to have longer hair. now to see if anyone notices that i cut it when i wear it down . . .

i dyed the oranginess out friday . . . used clairol natural instincts tweed. looks pretty good. it's a darker, slightly more red shade than my natural color, but it neutralized the red effectively. plus it should fade as i wash it so that i get back to my natural shade up near the roots as it grows out. happy day. other than that nothing new. still at 21.25" but there's a hell of a lot less damage or layers, so that's good. eventually all the layers will be gone and so will the damage. fun fun.

so last night my hair was feeling rather dry so i decided to try something i hadn't before. i mixed two Tbls of olive oil with essential oils added, three Tbls of honey and three Tbls of suave's milk and honey conditioner, warmed it up and put it on soaking wet hair in the bath. i let it stay on overnight. i got all sticky from it, but at least it didn't get on my pillow. i washed it out after my dance class this morning and my hair feels all soft now. it's not dry yet so i don't know if it's still going to be sticky or not, but i shall see.