Hair Color: Kenra 7RR

If you get bored with your hair and like to go a little bit more dramatic with it sometimes, like I do, then you probably like to see the color of it before you do it, just be sure that it is something that you might like.  I have naturally red hair...more of a strawberry blonde but recently I decided that I wanted to go to a darker, more brighter red.  I had decided to do the Kenra 7rr color that I found at the salon store but when I went online and tried to find pics of people with that color, i was having quite a hard time. I was finding pics, but a ot of those people had mixed it with other colors, something that I did not want to attempt.   So in hopes that I might help others with the same problem that I had, I am going to post before and after pics so that if you decide that you might want this color and have a somewhat similar beginning hair color to mine, then you can get an idea of what you might get.

The color:

                                                                        BEFORE:

AFTER:

I love this color, I feel that it is very vibrant and beautiful! Just a side note though, the color looks much brighter outside in the sunlight than inside where it looks a little darker.  Still pretty though.

Hope that this helps anyone out there looking to use this color! 

Curls for thick hair, what worked for me

As you saw from my previous post, I have been trying to find a way to make my hair wavy without all the heat.  Well.....that did not work.  All of the methods that i am aware of i have tried and they have all failed.  Still I wanted to make my hair beautiful and wavy.  I finally found a way, after running into a girl in a restaurant bathroom that had hair that i have been desperately trying to get, I asked her what her secret was.  I could not be surprised that it was from a curling iron, something that i have tried and has worked but never made good waves and only fell.  So she explained to me that i was using the wrong type of curling iron and where to go to get a good one, which was.....Walmart!  lol. I honestly was not even going to try it because i felt that it would probably be a waste of time and money and that might work but fall flat later on.  After a week or so of going back and forth about it i finally went and got the Revlon Curling Wand, took it home then spent the next 10-15 mins (i have a lot of hair) trying it out and ready for this.....It made the most perfect and beautiful waves! It does take some time to do but it was completely worth it. I would and will recommend this product to anyone that ever asks because for so long i was searching for the right product and  i finally found it and i hope that writing about it could at least help someone else who has been looking too.

Revlon Curling Wand at Walmart

Here is what I am working with:
Straightened

This was done with a curling iron....this was about 4 hours later, as you can see all the curls are pretty much gone.

 And, Ta Da, wavy hair! p.s. this was the look that stayed in all night, fell a little but nothing to complain about! super happy with it and recommend if you have lots of thick hair!

I absolutely love this look and am so glad that i finally found a product that I can trust to give me what I wanted for my hair. :)

My Pinterest Experiments

About a year or so ago I, like many others, got addicted to Pinterest.  :) I love that site!  I have learned most of my recipes from there, a lot of good tips from other stay at home mom's and GREAT drink recipes! lol.  But there is one thing on there that I still have not found one thing that has worked for me.  That would be my hair.  I have very long, very thick, frizzy hair.  I can straighten it, which is what i do, but being a SAHM of 2 toddlers, it is hard to straighten all that hair in the time allotted.  So I went out on a search for a way to get wavy hair without all the work and heat. I have nothing against heat, but TBH if i have to use heat, i will just straiten and that is going to take just as much time, not to mention that the curls from a curling iron do not stay long, so i want to try to find something that is leave in over night/no time involved. (wishful thinking, i know).  I started to document my findings on FB so that my friends could see my progress and see what may or may not work for them.  A few friends suggested i start a blog about it, and here i am. I actually forgot that i even created a blog, like forever ago.  But I thought it might be a good idea, so here I go.  Today I am going to show you the experiments that I did and the finding of them with my type of hair.  Please DO NOT get me wrong when i say that they did not work for me..... i do not mean that they might not work for you. I have a very difficult hair type and thought that others out there like me would get some good use out of this.

First, The Sock Bun:

The Sock Bun-beautiful-curly-hair-without-heat

I recently tried this, having very high hopes, but after trying it twice, I have to say, that this will not work for me... As you can see in the last pic, there is something to it, but after my second attempt (no pics, wish i did but didn't) I have to say that this does not work for me.

Sock Bun for my thick hair = FAIL

Braid and Flatten = curls
This technique is when you braid you hair, run a straight iron through the braid and voila.....for me, not so much.

I am actually as i type, working on another one.
I truly hope that this might help my other frizzy headed,thick haired, momma's looking for something easy.  We may never find one, but I will totally keep trying and trying until i find something that will work for us or figure out there is nothing for us :/ lol!!!! hahaha, good night ladies!