Girly-Girl....

[MariaJoy]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh...I'm such a girly-girl...I went and got my hair PERMED...and....*giggle* I love it!! My last perm was about 1 1/2 years ago...so it needed done....does anyone know how to make my perm "last"??

[redeemed]

sorry can't help you there! I got my perm a year ago next march and it's still in. (although i would never get one again because of the damaging effects.)
but they're really pretty and i'm sure there's a way to make them "last." I'll ask my mom next time i talk to her. (she's a hair stylist so she would know.)

[marichino_freedom]

i had a perm when i was younger, but it just got really poofy and frizzy....i probably wont get one again. it did last a long time though...my mom made me pick it instead of brush it

[blessed]

In seeing our thread the guys decided to post their own manly-man, sheesh, you gals just have to read it especially the part about girls qualifying as men if scars is what determined manhood. http://www.yqnews.org/forums/showthread.php?t=515

[redeemed]

In seeing our thread the guys decided to post their own manly-man, sheesh, you gals just have to read it especially the part about girls qualifying as men if scars is what determined manhood. http://www.yqnews.org/forums/showthread.php?t=515


Wow!! it's a good thing scars don't count because i don't know where i would be!

[FreeAtLast]

LOL Blessed.

Talking about perms: I personally think the prize is too high. It might look real good at first but it sure will do a lot of damage to your hair.

[redeemed]

Talking about perms: I personally think the prize is too high. It might look real good at first but it sure will do a lot of damage to your hair.


Amen!! i have to agree with that!

[blessed]

When you guys say perm exactly what are you referring to ?

[desertroses]

What the guys posted as a 'manly-man' was really funny. I couldn't stop laughing! I personally don't think that a man has to wear leather and all the rest of it to be 'manly'. I think self-confidence is key.

[FreeAtLast]

When you guys say perm exactly what are you referring to ?

I was referring to white ppls hair getting permanent curls through a chemical treatment.

[marichino_freedom]

its a nasty business!!! (not gross, just crazy)

:)

[NeedGod]

crazy huh? i am loving that word. anyhow, i am also such a girly girl. i carry big bags full of, well, everything, and peole are always dissing me about it. but a perm? no, it is currently cutting my hair so badly. i am removing it though. but you wait, i am making girly girl clothes for myself. all long and flowy. i am loving it....girl oh girl am i loving it!!!!!:yay:

[blessed]

Are you a white person who permanently curled your hair through chemical treatment namwcha? :think:

[FreeAtLast]

LoL Blessed.

But what about black ppl´s hair? Don´t you guys have perms that actually make your hair straight? Is that damaging you hair too?

[collegegirl]

With perms, you have to use special treatments, and lots of conditioner. I would ask someone at the salon where you got it done how you should take care of it. They should be able to tell you how to properly care for it.

[zippnkandibar]

my friend abbey has always, ALWAYS had her hair permed and it's thinned her hair so bad. when i told her once i was thinking about it she was very adamant that i not do it because it ruins hair quality. but that's just what abbey said, i dont speak from experience:y10:

[marichino_freedom]

okay, i'm not sure what happened but i posted and got logged off. but i didnt realize it, so here goes again!

i used to have a couple of perms when i was little, but i'm afraid that if i do now that the same thing that happened to your friend will happen because i have really thick hair and i REALLY like it (even though i do like to have curly hair sometimes!)

[NeedGod]

Are you a white person who permanently curled your hair through chemical treatment namwcha? :think:
oh, that cracked me up some. if youve seen my pictures, i am anything but white. whew! no, african hair is curly in a tight kinda way. i had it permed to straighten it and it is cutting like a problem. and now the salon i went to to get it braided chopped off some of it.

[FreeAtLast]

oh, that cracked me up some. if youve seen my pictures, i am anything but white. whew! no, african hair is curly in a tight kinda way. i had it permed to straighten it and it is cutting like a problem. and now the salon i went to to get it braided chopped off some of it.

lol namwacha, no doubt blessed knew that you are not white.

do you mean they cut some of your real hair off?

[blessed]

How did that happen

[NeedGod]

yeah, my real hair girls, my real hair. i am in such a state. it looks shorter and evener. now how will i go telling people i dont cut my hair when evidence is there. they are killing my testimony!

[redeemed_lizzi]

Isn't there a sister in your church that can do your braids for you? When I get my hair braided, I expressly state before, that I do not want 1 millimetre of my hair touched by scissors, and after we've argued for a while they soon get the message. Luckily I've found someone that comes to my house to do my hair for me and she now knows what I do and don't want. Don't worry Namwacha, God knows that you didn't go out there purposely to get your hair cut. In the mean time how about holding your hair in such a way that it doesn't show of ur new hairstyle?

[MariaJoy]

I love my cosmotologist...she knows that i dont cut my hair...doesnt even bother to ask! And...she has NEVER complained about how long my hair is!! (It's to my *ahem* bottom) She's real cool about it. And my hair still looks awesome! I've been using tons of conditioner (moisterisers, detanglers) I tried a volumizer....do NOT use that with a perm!! ACK! It tangled my hair awful!!!

[collegegirl]

I have this girl at work, and she had done dreads to her hair a while back...(yes, she is white), and she says she is trying to wait until it grows out more so that she can chop it off. I told her that I would be willing to try to undo the dreads, (after all, they are nothing but giant knots in the hair), and she now has asked me like twice when I am wanting to do it. Lord willing, I will be able to work them out. I think with some hot oil, (meaning warmer than warm, but not scalding), a comb, a towel, and some patience, that they could be worked out.

[NeedGod]

whew, that will be some work. i hold my hair in a strange way nowadays and noone has noticed yet. what more, i have the testimoniest of testimonies. my hair, which usually grows at a rate of one millimiter per year or something(its been the same length since i was like 12) has now grown at least a centimetre. isnt it great. i did hot oil treatment and it looks nice. till i get someone to do it for me, i will just stay out of salons. i have a phoia for those places now!

[blessed]

I have this girl at work, and she had done dreads to her hair a while back...(yes, she is white), and she says she is trying to wait until it grows out more so that she can chop it off. I told her that I would be willing to try to undo the dreads, (after all, they are nothing but giant knots in the hair), and she now has asked me like twice when I am wanting to do it. Lord willing, I will be able to work them out. I think with some hot oil, (meaning warmer than warm, but not scalding), a comb, a towel, and some patience, that they could be worked out.
I did not know that could be done, let me know how it goes

[marichino_freedom]

please do...if it could be done, it might be a fun 'do to try...heehee

[NeedGod]

oh, i have to relearn how to be girly girl all over again. why, i lost it a few weeks back and although my sister says i am still girly girl, i think i want to be more girly girl than i am at the moment. girly girl, watch out, here i come

[azurity]

Haha namwacha, you make me laugh. In a good way.

Aint it great to be a girly girl?

And now I shall tell you all about my hair.

It's thin. And frizzy. Whispy. Flyaway. And really really dry. I use alot of conditioner, and leave in conditioner, and it's getting better, slowly. But it doesn't grow very fast. A girl at work tells me all the time how much I need to get chopped off for it to be healthy. And, if I didn't believe what I believe, then I might think that she was right.

But, it's my hair, and there's no changing that.

[collegegirl]

I have heard that you stimulate your scalp. Give yourself scalp massages, or get someone else to give them to you. Give yourself hot oil treatments, and try an egg wash on your hair. But definately stimulate your scalp. Try just fingercombing your hair. I did that once. I fingercombed my hair instead of brushing it for two weeks, and my hair grew almost an inch!! In two weeks!. I have curly hair, but it is soo long that the curls are pulled out. But it was curly for those two weeks. Stimulate your scalp.

[SisTrev]

stimulating your scalp is always nice...expecially if someone else does it. I had a friend do that once and i almost fell asleep. Its so relaxing...not to mention good for your hair. I haven't done it in a while tho...I may just have to get Trevor to do that for me...part of a pregnancy relaxation treatment so to speak.... :-p

[collegegirl]

WOW!. What an excuse. :D :rofl:

[blessed]

One that is definetly going to work :D

[collegegirl]

I always give massages, but rarely get them. Can't wait to be able to use that excuse.

[SisTrev]

hee hee hee....i'll have to try it and let you know if it works...may be a nice way to fall asleep...:yay:

[redeemed]

just as long as he didn't read your post on here and figure out your plan

[azurity]

Wow, this sounds good.

Anyone want to come and do it for me? :D

[NeedGod]

yeah, i can come over and do it for you. how far away is it? can i walk back before its dark, coz i need to be in class early in the morning. or are there buses if it gets late?:)
ok, ok, never mind me! anyhow, i have been cleaning my scalp nearly daily now since i rebraided my hair. oh yeah, i got it braided again by someone else and she didnt cut it. i can take a pic of it but it takes so long to upload pictures, it tires me to wait. if i get it taken, i will put it on my xanga. meantime, all those who dont know how i look like here i am: http://xa8.xanga.com/9b617bf64515631661100/b22050848.jpg
its a picture i took like an year or so ago. i guess i wasnt so girly girl then as i am now. there is more in the yq gallery, those are for this year(last month in fact!) lemme see if i can get the link
oh, here is one:
http://drupal.yqnews.org/modules/gallery/gallery2/v/members/namwacha/100-0068_IMG.JPG.html
there you go, i was looking really cheesy in that one. ok, where were we? oh yeah, scalp treatment...proceed people, just ignore me!

[azurity]

Namwacha... you're beautiful. Really. And you've got such a sweet spirit, too!

I've been bad, and buying hair products! I bought a scalp brush (http://www.thenaturalsource.com/Products/tnsaccessories/scalpbrush/) and a wooden comb (http://www.thenaturalsource.com/Products/tnsaccessories/largecomb/) from tns. They are so nice on my scalp and hair, that I am wondering how I did without them!

I love all the tns products. All natural, all grown & made in Australia by an Australian owned company!

[NeedGod]

i have been treatingmy hair and its now stronger. i uploaded the pictures of me in braids and the pictures of me when they had just cut my hair. take a look at them on my site. www.xanga.com/namwacha
thanks dear, about the sweet spirit. you have the sweetest of spirits too!