Yes, It's Her Real Hair: Sasha Tania

I've always said I wanted to do features with my blog and look, now I have my first feature! I would like everyone to meet Sasha, a native of New York and now a resident of Florida. Ever since I met Sasha I've loved her hair and I'm so glad she agreed to be featured on my blog. Thank you! 

And now everyone I would like you to meet our Friday Feature: Sasha Tania 

1. Introduce yourself!I am Sasha Tania, a 22-year-old aspiring model and natural hair blogger. I am a recent graduate of Florida A&M University. My parents are from Jamaica and England but I was born in New York, and raised in Florida. I am the youngest of four children.

2. How long have you been natural?

I have been natural for three years, it will be four in August!

3. What are your favorite products?

Right now, I cannot live without Carol's Daughter Black Vanilla Shampoo and Conditioner. My Favorite styling products are Camille Rose Naturals Curl Love Moisture Milk, and their Aloe Whipped Butter Gel.

4. What are your go-to styles?

I try and do protective styles as much as I can. My favorite protective style are two strand twist, its so convenient and when I get tired of wearing twist I take them out and wear my curls.

5. What are styles that you can't seem to get right?

Anything involving hairpins! My hair pushing them right back out no matter how big the pins are. I swear I have use at least ten pins per section.

6. What's the funniest encounter you've ever had with someone, involving your hair?

When someone randomly touches, or sniffs my hair. I think its so strange, it happens a lot. Its like they're checking to see if its real or not.

You can find more of Sasha and her gorgeous curls at

 

Youtube- www.youtube.com/ssblissfulbeauty

Facebook-www.facebook.com/sashasnaturalhair

Blog- www.sashasnaturalhair.blogspot.com

Instagram- @Sashatania

Straightening My Natural Hair: Q&A

Since I've been natural I've gotten my hair straightened a total of 3 times. It's not that I don't like the results or a natural hair Nazi against straightening (I actually like my hair straight. Yes, I said it. Lol)But I dislike how long a typical straightening of mine last (which is about a week, depending on the humidity), how long it takes to straighten it (which is over an hour) and the fact I can't style straight hair to save my life (which is reason why I went natural.) Well despite these three major issues I loved the few times I've had my hair straightened and enjoy those couple of weeks to the fullest. Now the above picture went viral on Facebook a couple of months ago and quite a few women asked questions so I'll take this time out to answer the Top 7 questions that are usually asked when I have straight hair.

 

1. What do you do? Well I do not straighten it myself, that's a no-no. I prefer to let a professional handle my hair so I can get the best results. There's no way I can get my hair to look like that. I suggest that naturals go to a salon to get their hair straighten, if they're not sure how to get the results they want to achieve.

 

2. What salon do you go too? I am a student at FAMU so I go to the salon on campus. It's called the Rattler's Edge. If you are in the Tallahassee, FL area you can pay them a visit. I've never had a bad experience with them.

 

3. What type of flat iron was used? A Chi. Sorry I don't know the brand.

 

4. How long have you been natural? My last relaxer was February 2011, I big chopped September 2011. So transitioned about seven months and I've been natural for two years.

 

5. How often do you trim? Not like I should. Lol. Since I've been natural I've trimmed my hair a total of three times and that was whenever I got it straightened. I DO NOT recommend that, because I usually have an inch of hair taken off.

 

6. What's your hair type? I honestly don't know. If I had to guess I'll say majority 4B. My hair is the front is of a looser curl pattern but yet it's still pretty coarse.

 

7. How do you make your hair grow? I really have no answer to this. I can tell you I do not take any supplements, vitamins included. My diet is OK, I eat sweets way too much. Lol. For the first couple of years I was natural I didn't wear my hair out. It was usually in twists, nowadays I wear my hair out more.

This is a photo from my third straightening. Which was April 2014.

Side view of my results.

Front View of my results.

 

Sunday Funday!

Let me get this out, I am horrible at taking "staged" pictures. I feel like my poses look too "posed" and I look downright goofy. Hopefully as I progress with this blog my poses look better. But as of right now let me revisit my weekend through these few pictures. 

I had such a great day Sunday, it was a day filled with church, food, fun and friends. What better way to start your week?

So about my hair in this post, ehh this is how my hair looks when I do nothing to it. I recently took out a sew-in a couple of days ago. I decided when I took out my corn rows I liked the curl pattern so I let my hair stay in the "after sew-in" phase. Honestly, while it may look nice that's probably not the best thing to do with my hair. Especially when you consider I may have a lot of shedding hair piling up. We shall see how much shedding I have when I wash my hair. I believe that'll make for an interesting post. Lol

                                                                          Close up

I love my stance

Hello!

Wanted to get a little hair twirl action. Lol

Thanks for reading! -Krystal 

Hair Inspiration Sunday!

Haven't done this in a minute but I look forward to expanding this feature with my blog in the next couple of months. But in the meantime let's admire someone who've I've looked up too for a VERY long time. Ms. Erykah Badu!

While I won't speak for ALL naturals, I can say I speak for most naturals when Erykah Badu is a hair inspiration. One of the things that I love most about Ms. Badu's hair is her ability to transform her look, she doesn't stick with a Big Fro all the time, sometimes she's rocking a short fro, maybe some braids and heck for the next couple of months it's a turban. EB shows us that it's okay to change up your look and okay to be natural, even if your hair isn't super long. This is why I choose Erykah as my inspiration on this lovely Sunday. Shine on Ms. Badu, shine on.

I searched high and low for this magazine cover. I was so glad when I finally laid my hands on it. Lol 

Blond fro with the hat. Love it. 

 Buns are a staple in the natural hair world. Badu gets it right. 

The fact that she's not afraid to experiment and chop her hair off is admiral. 

Making the Best out of a Fail: Flat Twist Edition

Don't you just hate when a hairstyle you had so much hope for turns out to be complete utter crap? Well that happens to me ALL the time. Since most blogs and vlogs only document the triumphs of hairstyles I feel that it's only right that I expose fails. Lol. Because we know it's not realistic to have a winning hairstyle all the time. SO let's hop to it.

Pinterest is my go to when I need hair inspiration, it's a really great tool to get ideas. View my board while you're at it http://www.pinterest.com/krystalnometh/natural-hair-inspirations/ (Not-so-shameless plug) Lol. So one hairstyle I see ALL the time on Pinterest is this one

A flat twist out done by the beautiful Ms.Rokia, follow her on IG @MsRokia.But yes I see this hair style ALL the time so I was like, "Gee Krystal, I bet you can get your hair to turn out like that. Now keep in mind I haven't done flat twist since I was transitioning so I knew I was up for the challenge.

Now unfortunately I don't have any picture of my hair while or after I washed it, only the results. I'll be sure to document it better next time.

Here are all the products I used on my hair. To set my hair I used the Blue Magic Organic Castor Oil. Yes, technically it is grease, however it leaves my hair feeling amazing and it defines pretty well. I see a review on that in the future. 

It took me darn near an hour to set my hair. I was too excited when it was over. Oh, hey Audrey! Lol

Side View.

Back View. 

 Annddd these were the results. Smh 

I tried to smile about it. 

 The side view is what killed it for me. It was as "together" as I would have liked it to be. 

Yeah...I'm pretty much over it right now. NEXT!

 Headband+Puff Combo to the rescue. Lol

 I was still pretty upset. I put in all that hard work just to wear a dang puff. Smh 

But by the second day I embraced it. :) 

Yeah so that's my hairstyle fail for you. It's pretty upsetting when a hairstyle doesn't turn out the way you want it to but sometimes you just got to learn how to finesse it and move on. 

This was tried on my hair last year around February. I know by now my hair has gotten longer and I probably can nail the hairstyle next time. So fingers crossed that I will get closer to it becoming a duplicate next time. 

Until next time! 

-Krystal  

I'm baacccckkkk!

Ugh the process of keeping up a blog is hard. Especially if you lack motivation. Well over the past few months, and well even the past year I've gotten so many compliments on my blog. Also the views don't lie either. Lol. I'd like to thank everyone who has viewed and found advice on this blog to be more than helpful to you and your hair journey.
In the next few months I'd like to see myself expand from just hair talk to: beauty talk , food talk, fashion and fitness talk. But we shall see how that goes. As of right now I'm just happy to be back and better than ever! Thanks for the support guys. And now...time for a fro shot. Lol

-Krystal 

The Importance of Documenting your Hair Journey

It would be a lie if I told you all the reason why I neglected this blog was because I've been busy or because I haven't had a camera. When I first became natural the beauty I found in becoming natural was being able to share your hair journey with others, to be able to watch your hair go from a TWA to a flourishing bouncing fro! Unfortunately for me a great majority of the pictures in my hair journey have been lost. 

It is completely irrelevant how I lost those pictures...just know they were lost in a dumb blonde moment (face palm). But I've decided to bounce back from it! Although you won't see how my hair "started from the bottom and now it's here" moments I will let you my two year journey, and show you how my hair has went from neck length (?) at least I believe my hair is now neck length, to hopefully bra strap length!

In the meantime I will share a few pictures I do have. The above picture shows the first time I got my hair straightened which was November of 2012, the third picture is freshly washed hair that was taken December 2012 and the fourth picture is from January 2013, yep I did those twists myself, took all of 5 hours *side eye*. 

So here are more pictures  

This was taken in September 2012... excuse the poor quality and the scowl on my face. 

I finally got tired of dealing with my hair and decided to get kinky twist! I loved them! This was taken in September 2012.

I rocked these twists for a little over a month. They were easy to take care of and they actually looked better with new growth. 

I finally took the twists out in October. Wow my hair got BIG!

I rocked a fro after I took the twists out. I missed my hair wanted it to stay out for a while. October 2012 

Finally in November 2012 I tried something new! I straightened it! 

My hair was finally longer than it was when I first BC! 

I pin curled it for more BODY! 

It's safe to say I was feeling myself wwwaaayyyyyy too much. Lol

Like all good things the straight hair had to come to an end. From their I tried my first twist out, can you say success? November 2012.

That's all I feel like sharing for today. In all these pictures I am 1 year natural. Right now I am currently 1 year and 4 months natural and in two days it'll make it 2 years since my last perm. Time sure does fly!

Well the lesson in all this make sure you take pictures and document your journey well! Especially if you are shooting for super length like I am. Sometimes we don't realize how much our hair has grown until we look back at the pictures we've taken. 

That's all for today, it doesn't make up for the months I've missed out on blogging but it's a start! Be back soon! XoXo- Krystal