bholmes87: twist challenge week 5!! Let's get it in!

Hello and welcome. I usually say to new comers " have fun here." But I see you already are....lol. How did you get your pics to change every few seconds, on it's own. LOVE THAT!!

Thank you intelligentbeauty! I still intend to take your advice and continue to "have fun here" lol. I looked up how to make animated avatars online and it sent me to gickr.com (at least I think that's right) cuz I take WAY too many pictures but I still wanted to show all my favorite pictures from my transition. It's pretty easy actually

I will definitely be trying those animated avatars. I LOVE pictures! Lol

I just went through your Fotki. I LOVE YOUR HAIR! That pic with the pearls... post that one tomorrow!

Thanks! I definitely will post that one tomorrow and I'm sure your animated avatars will be tight yo! lol

Hi bholmes87~

Welcome to the challenge. I enjoyed reading your introduction, and love how you posted your pictures with animation. (too cute)

I can't wait to see your natural curls, and by the way cute avatar.

Juices-n-Berries wrote:I just went through your Fotki. I LOVE YOUR HAIR! That pic with the pearls... post that one tomorrow!

I wonder why you want her to post the pic with the pearls...hmmm LOL!!!

Lynnieluve wrote:

Juices-n-Berries wrote:I just went through your Fotki. I LOVE YOUR HAIR! That pic with the pearls... post that one tomorrow!

I wonder why you want her to post the pic with the pearls...hmmm LOL!!!

Lol. Very funny. But seriously she has like one of those cool Chrs bun things going on. Very classy. You'll see. Lol.

Btw... Y is there no ivy or frog emoticon? Hmmmmm? Lol

KinkyNappyHappy wrote:Hi bholmes87~

Welcome to the challenge. I enjoyed reading your introduction, and love how you posted your pictures with animation. (too cute)

I can't wait to see your natural curls, and by the way cute avatar.

Thank you KinkyNappyHappy!! It definitely didn't take me long to get addicted to CN.com ... lol but I feel so very welcomed by everyone! I'll definitely try to get some natural pics up today, or at the very least my BC pics

Juices-n-Berries wrote:

Lynnieluve wrote:

Juices-n-Berries wrote:I just went through your Fotki. I LOVE YOUR HAIR! That pic with the pearls... post that one tomorrow!

I wonder why you want her to post the pic with the pearls...hmmm LOL!!!

Lol. Very funny. But seriously she has like one of those cool Chrs bun things going on. Very classy. You'll see. Lol.

Haha you guys are funny!!

What a wonderful Wednesday!! (I'm saying that because I'm trying to speak it into existence. Speak those things that are not as though they are!)

So my hair has been the same for the past 4 or 5 days. I just made some smedium sized twists and rinsed them last night because I had never done that before. And let me tell you I LOVED IT!!! Who would have known that co-washing twists would be the best thing since turkey bacon?
(pics coming soon)

I was also requested to add a certain picture on here, which I will do when I have some free time later today - I have an English midterm that I am EXTREMELY unprepared for. Yikes!

Juices-n-Berries wrote:Btw... Y is there no ivy or frog emoticon? Hmmmmm? Lol

I know! I don't think it's fair she can post an elephant and I can't post an IVY!

Bholmes- good luck on your midterm. I will be off CN at 2. I have to start studying for my CPA exam.

Welcome to the forum. I will try to check your fotki after I get 2hrs of study time in.

Pinkrage wrote:

Juices-n-Berries wrote:Btw... Y is there no ivy or frog emoticon? Hmmmmm? Lol

I know! I don't think it's fair she can post an elephant and I can't post an IVY!

LOL!!

LOVE the texture shots!!!! Hm..... hair twins much?

LOL @ doodoo braids!!! I sleep in them to stretch my hair... who would have thought those horrible things would be my best friend now?

Pinkrage wrote:Bholmes- good luck on your midterm. I will be off CN at 2. I have to start studying for my CPA exam.

Welcome to the forum. I will try to check your fotki after I get 2hrs of study time in.

Thank you! And good luck with the studying. We're going to retain everything we read, study, write and type in Jesus name!!!!

CurlieCutes1121 wrote:LOVE the texture shots!!!! Hm..... hair twins much?

LOL @ doodoo braids!!! I sleep in them to stretch my hair... who would have thought those horrible things would be my best friend now?

I love having hair twins! I'll have to post up more texture shots from after the BC though cuz the curls aren't that fine anymore. They're WAY thicker now!
And I surely wouldn't have thought that doodoo braids would every be useful again. But low and behold they are a life saver!

Hi Bholmes and welcome to the forum!

I loved all your pics! Your excitement is contaigous! I hope that we can all help find out more about your hair!

ooooo I like the pic with the pearls too!! POST IT!!

FemmeFox wrote:Hi Bholmes and welcome to the forum!

I loved all your pics! Your excitement is contaigous! I hope that we can all help find out more about your hair!

Hey Femme! I'm glad my excitement is spreading *sings* I'm so excited ... and I just can't hide it! lol I'm definitely ready to learn a lot more about my hair and I'm sure you'll be a part of that learning experience

sweetdrk1 wrote:ooooo I like the pic with the pearls too!! POST IT!!

LOL I'm getting there! (some people are so impatient ... lol jk) It should be up very shortly

So as requested, I am putting up pics of my hair with the pearls. But I'll start from the BC since I haven't shown you my napps yet so get ready!!!! lol

Before winter break I asked my friend, a newly licensed beautician, if she could do my BC for me. It was going to be about $10. Then the day before I realized that I didn't have ANY extra money! So I called her to cancel the appointment but she said she would do it free of charge AND she would do a rinse on my hair too! Now isn't God good? He sure knew the desires of my hair and the state of my wallet!! lol but I had already cut about 2 or 3 inches of relaxer off my hair the night before because I was contemplating doing the BC myself. But I decided to let a stylist do it.

These are from right after I got home, cellophane still on my face and scalp


This is the twist out I did the next day. First twist out as a returning natural! lol


This is how the first twist out held up over the next few days


And now for the requested pic of the day: the pic with the pearls!!


In the above picture I had put in some conditioner (it said it had henna+placenta so I bought it. I'm such a PJ!) and went to sleep with basically a wash n'go in a puff. When I woke up for church I wanted to keep it in a puff and continue to deep condition so my hair basically dried with conditioner it. Pretty simple but I loved it

OMG, I LOVE the picture in the pearls. You work those flowers. I need to up my hair accessory game.

Thank you Pink!!! I figured I would need some sort of accessory that would be mine, a little signature style going on. Why not flowers? I want to get some really great headbands and scarves though too ...

On this lovely day that the Lord has made I will rejoice and BE GLAD in it!!!!

I have a lot of hair news to share with you guys but I don't think I really wanna play catch up anymore. I'm ready to start sharing the here-and-now! Sooooooo I'll start with this: I put twists in my hair on February 1, 2010. I did them on wet hair and did them medium sized I would say.




I wore my hair up in these medium sized twists for 2 days. Then I decided I wanted to try smaller twists (not mini twists. I don't have the patience!) so what I did was I put all my hair up in a ponytail holder. Then one by one I took my twists out of the holder and begin to retwists. But I made every twist into 2. This was done on DRY hair with a product that has shea butter and mineral oil in it (terrible I know! but it worked). Essentially all I did was double the amount of twists in my hair.
I really liked the smaller twists, even though I also love big, juicy ones too! I kinda felt like I had sister locs and it made me feel like I was super cool! lol and I could NOT keep my hands out of my hair





After wearing the small/medium (or smedium) sized twists for another 3 days I wanted to try co washing my hair in twists. This is one of the best ideas I've ever had concerning my hair! lol so here's what the twists looked like wet.



I was in love!!! They looked a lot longer than I thought they would and I just really liked how they look wet. Of course they shrunk back up (but I love shrinkage so that didn't bother me at all) and I wore the twists for another day.



THEN this morning while I was reading an article for class, I decided to take the twists out. So I kept the twists in for an unprecedented (for me at least) 6 days! I know that's not a lot for most people but for me it's quite the feat!



So that's how this story ends! At least until tomorrow

It looks really good!! Love the twist out!!!

I use products with mineral oil in them too....MJ Baby buttercreme...It produces some of the best twist/twist out results I've have.

Congratulations on keeping your twist in 6 days. I am the same way!! I had mini twist last month and kept them in 7 days. I wanted to keep them longer and I probably could have but.....uh...yea, no good excuse.

Lynnieluve wrote:It looks really good!! Love the twist out!!!

I use products with mineral oil in them too....MJ Baby buttercreme...It produces some of the best twist/twist out results I've have.

Congratulations on keeping your twist in 6 days. I am the same way!! I had mini twist last month and kept them in 7 days. I wanted to keep them longer and I probably could have but.....uh...yea, no good excuse.

Thanks Lynn!!! I try not to use products with "bad" ingredients but I just buy what I can afford. If it works, I surely am gonna use it! lol

I saw your mini twists and they were so pretty! Sometimes that's just not enought to make you keep them in. No need for excuses cuz I understand! I just like for my hair to be out