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Things I Bought This Past Week

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This week was filled with stress-- 2 quizzes, 2 lab reports, and 2 finals. YIKES! To calm my 'what if' nerves I decided to treat myself to a nice session of retail therapy. I went back to the Sear's Essentials store that's closing to recheck the sales. Now all make up was 50% off retail and hair accessaries were 30% off. Needless to say, the shelves were getting low but I still found some great finds. 

Here's what I picked up from Sear's Essential:

A Revlon hair crimper/ waver. It has 3 settings and I tested it out on a back section of hair and realized it worked quite nicely. It was priced at $18.99 with 30% off so I spent around $14.
I found some more Sally Hansen products. The VitaSurge Growth Gel is a cuticle oil. I am trying to prevent my nails from peeling (you can actually see the layers near the tips of my nails) without buying Hair, Skin, and Nail vitamins because Lord knows I don't need any more body hair (yeah, that grows too, they just often forget to mention it in the ads). It retailed for $5.99, I paid about $3. I'd been hearing great reviews about the Salon Effects nail strips and I finally found a color on sale that wasn't ugly, so I picked this up in the color Red-y For Trouble. It was priced at $8.99 and I paid a little under $5. Lastly, and the product I'm most happy about is an Essie polish. Its labeled as Mademoiselle, but it seems less pink than the images I found online. However, I don't think this is a mislabel more than likely the color difference is due to lighting.It retailed for $7.99, I paid a little over $4. This is my first Essie polish so I'm excited to test its formula and staying power. 


I found the Flawless Curls line by Tresemme. I bought the Curl Hydration leave-in conditioner and the Extra Hold Moose. I found these at Walmart for less than $5 each. Let me tell you, this was the HARDEST collection to find. Walgreens and CVS only had the Styling Mousse and they didn't even carry it online. I still want to get the curl gel from this collection but I plan on using these soon. 
Curl Hydration Leave In

Extra Hold Mousse

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Attempt at Twist and Curl

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Ok so this was a trial hair style that was either going to be a great success or an epic fail. I wanted curls that were looser than my natural hair, almost like waves. Well I didn’t get the loose curls I wanted but I am pleased with this outcome. I think that after some time the curls will fall and loose waves will appear.

I washed all of the old product out of my hair with Johnsons Natural Baby Shampoo and towel dried my hair. I used Shea Moisture Curl and Style Milk as a leave in conditioner (I added it in dollop form). I then took small sections of hair and twisted it tightly from root to tip. I added extra “milk” to each section just to keep the twisty from unraveling. It took me a while (what’s new?) but when I finished it looked like this:


If Rick James and Shirley Temple had a child I think she would have hair like this lol. Some people can rock the twist look well, I'm not one of those people. My boyfriend never makes negative comments about my hair and he said "why did you do that 0_o", yeah that's how I felt too. But I knew there was an end to my mean, so I ignored him. 

I let my hair air dry COMPLETELY and as you can tell some twist unraveled but that’s ok. Things happen, right? I did realize the bigger sections seemed to unravel easier than the smaller ones.

I split each twist in half and then wrapped each section around a 1 inch curling iron. I did not use the clamp since I wanted a loose curl. I set the curling iron to a medium temperature to minimize the damage. The curls didn’t fall loosely like they normally would’ve if my hair was straight. Not sure what happened but hey, it works.



After finishing, I realized I used too much “milk” and it left my hair a little oily. While my hair was still in the twist, it was soft and did not have the greasy feeling. So if you choose to just stay with the twist, use all the leave in you want. 

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