Curlformers

I purchased a Curlformer's kit from Sally's at the beginning of the year and did not use them as I realized I needed the extra long curlers due to my hair hanging out of the regular ones. :(

Used the curlers on my sisters hair last week and the curls came out gorgeous!

1. Washed and Conditioned her hair
2. Finger parted medium sized portions of her hair and added Aphogee Foam Setting lotion to her hair
3. Set her hair with the Curlformers and sat her under a cool bonnet style dryer for about 45 minutes. She actually winded up sleeping in the curlers.
4. Removed the curlers in the morning, separated the curls just a bit with some Coconut oil on my finger tips and here are the results:

I will need to save a few bucks so that I can buy some extra long curlers for myself!

I ♥ Curlformers!

My first attempt at D.I.Y. SUSHI!

My sister and I wanted to make sushi over the weekend so we went out and brought a kit from Barnes & Noble (It was only about 8 dollars!) 

It came with the book, the spoon for rice, and 4 sets of chop sticks:

 

We visited the local Asian market and brought:

Rice seasoning packet

Nori (Seaweed used to wrap sushi)

Tempora batter

Low-sodium Soy sauce

Ginger

Spicy Mayo packet

Visted the grocery store for the rest of the items:

Carrots

Cucumber

Crab Meat

Raw Shrimp

French's Fried Onion pieces

Brown Rice

Here are the steps we took to make the sushi:

1. Cooked the rice, added the rice seasoning packet and hand fanned the rice to cool it down. This is important to keep the correct consistancy of the rice. Covered the rice with a moist towel to retain the moisture in the rice.
2. Heated the oil for the shrimp, made the tempora batter, cleaned the shrimp and fried them.  Placed the fried shrimp on a towel to extract some of the oil from the fryer.
3. Cut up the cucumber, carrots, shrimp and crab meat into neat strips.
4. Opened up the kit and put the bamboo mats in a plastic bag to keep them from getting food on them.
5. Set out a  flat bowl filled with water to keep out hands moist as we roll the sushi. Also set out a sharp knife to cut the sushi after they have been rolled.
6. Grabbed the Nori, placed it shiny side down. Wet my hands a bit and grabbed some rice and placed it on the Nori leaving a little less than 1/4 of the Nori exposed. Added my veggies, shrimp and crab meat to the middle of the rice and began to roll the Nori. Carefully rolling to ensure the roll is tight. Removed the mat and wet the exposed portion of the Nori so that it will stick and close securely. 
7. Cut the Sushi rolls in 8 pieces and added the Spicy Mayo and Onion Straws and we were all done! They were yummy! :)

Here are some pictures from our 1st attempt at making Sushi at home:

 

This weekend's style (Jul22)

I am cornrow challenged so most of my styles will be two strand flat twist... :) I wanted my hair pushed back in the front and two strand twists in the back.

This style wasn't too difficult. I made two medium sized flat twists on each side of my head. I made a zig-zag part in the middle area of my head and at the beginning of each of the zig-zag points is where I started the flat twists twisting toward the middle of my head. The rest of the hair in the back was two-strand twisted.

Products used:

Rat-tail comb for parting

Denman brush for making sure the hair was in order while twisting

Gel Mixture (ORS gel, Royal roots twist gel, Jamaican mango & lime twist gel)

Organic Extra Virgin Coconut oil

This is what I came up with:

I will keep the two-strand twists in the back in for 1 week and then do a twist out in the back and maintain the front flat-twist. 

Adding a few more view angles for delitefulmane



Combs & Brushes

This may have been posted a million times on various blogs but I just loved the comb and brush information on this website!

Combs and Brushes 101

I just love love love the Denman brush! I use it anytime my hair is full of conditioner and I want to detangle my hair.  I think I only use a comb when I part my hair, which is very rarely! The Denman brush creates chunky curls in my hair!  Love it! I get my Denman D4 brushes from Sally's BSS. Try it!

No more loc's

I know its been a few months without my hubby's locs... but ohhhh how I miss them so!

Below is the last time I re-twisted and styled his hair... :(  When I asked him why he wanted to cut them, he said "God wants to do a new thing in me"... How could I argue with that? 

I can't say that I don't hope he changes his mind and grows them back! LOL We shall see!

Now...