At the Age of 31

I am tickled because I have been around for 31 years and am just now figuring out a few things. Ok they are not life and death and I certainly lived quite well without these discoveries BUT I am none the less tickled pink to know them now. First off I have discovered my  hair looks cute with its natural curl when I do not rinse out my conditioner. It is the only product that leaves my hair looking shiny and soft  while still having my natural curl. How cool is that? I just took my hair dryer with the diffuser and dried it allowing my big loopy curls to stay and not be straightened. The conditioner is a perfect thing to keep the frizz at bay. My hair is fun today and that makes me happy. I am going to do this more often I think.

I learned this trick at the gym one morning while taking my shower. I did not have time to blow it out straight and had not brought any product for keeping it curly without the frizz. It worked great that day and now I have upped the notch by trying to blow it out keeping the curls using the same method of leaving in the conditioner. I hate when you use that stuff that keeps the curls but makes your hair stiff. Yuck. Not for me.

Okay the second thing I am so happy about is that while I am going through this period of financial something or another I have had to stop going to the salon to get my hair cut and colored. I am happy to announce I do a good haircut on myself which I never tried to do until recently. Apparently I have natural talent and maybe slaving at a 4 year college was not the right choice for me... Too late now that I have the degree and the job that has absolutely nothing to do with it. But I digress... I put in layers and trimmed the ends helping my hair look healthier and bouncier which is a good thing. The other issue was hair color.

If you've known me pre-babies at least you know that I have naturally black hair. I say this with the disclaimer that it has always been as dark as a Caucasians hair can be. In pictures growing up you can see blue highlights even and in the sun I also would have this blaze of auburn highlights too. I loved that fire underneath color in my hair. When I had to make the choice to start coloring it to cover up the grey hair the salon worked hard to mix the right colors to keep my hair from becoming one dimensional and flat black. I hate that more than anything else. Well jump up to when I could no longer fork over the $$$ to have my hair colored. I had to get my color from a box at the drug store. Oh the pity party I had!

If you too have to cover your grey hair I have found that the best product for me is Nice & Easy. This product leaves my hair feeling the best. I tried them all and I promise if you worry about the texture of your hair Nice & Easy leaves it feeling soft and silky when you used the conditioner that comes with the box. Love that stuff. Ok here is the issue. I don't like the natural black color because while it looks fine it is too solid and really still a shade darker than what I like. I tried the darkest brown and that was not dark enough. The woos! So I had this genius moment of thinking back to the day when my hair dresser did my hair. She did #2 with a shot of #3 of the Paul Mitchell hair color. Well I loved that stuff and the color always gave me just the right shade to keep me happy. I thought why not buy two boxes one of each shade and mix until you are happy with the result? Aha!

So I went with the dark brown and the put a squirt of the black in it and voila! my hair color woes were corrected. I have the dark hair but with multi-dimensional highlights that keep me feeling good. I seriously doubt that one person in the world other than me would EVER notice this but I feel so much better about the color I am doing on my roots. Oh and I am using a brush and bowl like the salon and I feel oh so nifty. The coverage is great and while I know that the ends are going to stay darker my hair will start looking more natural to my eyes over the next year as it grows and I cut and so on. It really is the little things in life that can make us happy!