Our Favorite Fly Girl -- Andrea Pippins of Fly
As the year is coming to an end and 2011 approaches, it’s time for new resolutions. Along with saving money, exercising more, starting a business or finding a new job, many natural hair wearers set hair resolutions as well.
The following is my list of 2011 natural hair resolutions, some being carry-overs from this year!
10. Try more styles—For 2011 I’m going to attempt to not have a “signature” style. I’m going to try to stay away from twists, or box braids in a bun, and get more creative with my styles.
9. Exercise and take supplements—a carry-over from this year. I started taking hair vitamins and actually began to see results, but kept forgetting to take them for weeks at a time. I don’t even have an excuse for not exercising. For 2011, I plan to stay on routine with both.
8. Go to more natural hair events—There are so many meet-ups and natural hair events announced over the web, next year I’m going to plan to attend more than one or two.
7. Keep a hold on product junkism—I actually did pretty well with this one. I stuck to my $20 budget when visiting beauty suppliers, most times spending way less. I plan to continue this in 2011—I have to work on a budget for online shopping though.
6. Stay away from the scissors—At the beginning of the year I would routinely trim/dust my ends every two or three months whether they were split or not. The last half of the year, I only cut knots or when I noticed split ends on certain strands. I saw a big difference when it came to retaining length. For 2011, I’m planning to only trim my ends when necessary.
5. Keep up with natural hair social networks/blogs, YouTube videos, etc—For 2011, I plan to stay current with the online hair community—which will give me ideas for my own products, styles, routines, etc. . . .
4. Keep up with documenting my journey— I find that documenting (i.e. taking pictures, blogging, etc . . . ) my own journey also helps me to come up with creative styles, and more DIY products and accessories. And it’s a way to “give-back” by helping others as well.
3. Continue pampering my hair— I noticed that the more pampering, the better my overall hair health. I plan to try more ayurvedic hair treatments, keep braid washing, once-a-month deep conditioning and wearing protective styles.
2. Make more products at home—This will not only ensure that what I’m putting on my hair is chemical-free, but it will help to keep the product junkie in me from arising.
1. Clean out cabinets—via using up all of my products and seeking out product swaps before purchasing more products.
I need to add all these resolutions to my list PLUS some. I have a horrible habit of buying conditioner and I’m overdue for a serious purging of hair products.
Ugh her hair in that picture is like… insanely amazing! Which reminds me of my number one resolution lol.
#1 Do not covet what you do not have… yet.
Hopefully, this TWA will grown into a full-on force field of locked and popped confidence. But for now, I’ll try to make it through winter.
1. Wear my natural hair color
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2. Stop cutting my hair
3. Buying a silk pillow case b/c I have never been able to keep a scarf on
4. Taking vitamins (never remember to take them)
Great list. I have four, 1, Retain length! I want to see more 6 inches by 2012. 2, Exercise and take supplements. This is a BIG one. I need to lose weight, so here I am killing 2 birds with one stone. 3, Protective styling!!! 4, Buy a silk scarf/pillow.
What vitamins or supplements would you recommend?
A good quality multivitamin, biotin and flax seed or omega 3 vitamin and lots of H2O!
I like Bluebonnet’s Ultimate hair, skin, and nail supplements. It has everything you need including MSM and biotin.
Mine is to buy some more conditioners and work on detangling my hair.
Retain and grow my hair 6″ this year.
Wear my natural hair more often (mostly on the weekends)
Figure out a good moisturizer to make my hair shiney.
I am new as well so mines are 1)Retain length so I can finally do my BC hopefully but the end of winter 2) moisturize, moisturize and moisturize! My hair gets super dry naturally so I need all the moisture I can get 3) take hair vitamins and exercise (which I should be doing in general right…lol), 4)learn and master styles at least one at a time 5) treat my hair gently, love it and listen to its needs
What are some good natural hair blogs, youtubes etc..
kimmaytube is a beast on youtube. So is AfricanExport and Taren916.
Hairlista is a good hair blog
CurlyNikki.com is also an amazing resource, as well as NikkiMae2003 on Youtube (love her channel because her hair texture is like mine!)
kisforkinky is my fav. great articles and awesome style!!!!
I like all the blogs and YT channels mentioned. Also BGLH.com is good too. maneandchic.com use to be my fav. If you go on that site go to the hair101 tab located o the top of the site, which is great starting point for new naturals.
For youtube channels msvaughn is good for natural hair styles.
oh I forgot my favorite blog! moptopmaven.blogspot.com
On YouTube some of my favorites are:
Naptural85 ( for tips & recipes),
Nikkimae2003 ( for basically anything),
Kimmaytube ( for hardcore facts about natural hair),
BeautifulBrwnBbydol ( for hair styles)
Msvaughn ( for hair styles), and
RusticBeauty ( for tips and tricks; plus her hair is amazing/mesmerizing)
and as far as blogs go:
thenaturalhaven.blogspot.com
moptopmaven.blogspot.com
healthyghb.blogspot.com
itsjusthair.com
naturallyobsessed.onsugar.com
bglhonline.com
sofullsista.blogspot.com (she doesn’t particularly focus on natural hair styles but I just like her
My natural hair resolutions include:
1- less manipulation- thanks to braid-outs and the pineapple method I’m able to get three days out of my style without re-setting.
2-curb my product junkyism- I’ve learned what my hair likes and what my hair don’t like. I will only try a new product only if I run out of my old product. Also I will not buy conditioners that is more than $10 and only if I ran out of conditioner.
3-Dabble in Ayurvedic treatments- I’ve always wanted to try Ayurvedic treatments but always thought it was too complicated. Thanks to Moptop Maven I will implement some staples without feeling like it’s too time consuming.
4- Length retention- I was never a person to obsess with the length of my hair but I love big hair and the only way I’ll get that is with length.
I also need to do most of the things on this list. I need to get an accountability partner and work on just one at a time. Trying to make too many changes at once is a surefire way for me to #FAIL.
I have never set resolutions for my hair before but I will be inspired by this post.
-Learn to sport shrinkage
-stop wearing braid extensions
- Try not to become a product junkie.
- Retain more length.