COSMOTOPIA 2013

Hey peoples! I  FINALLY got internet so I can stop mooching off the neighbours!!! so I went to COSMOTOPIA about two weeks ago sans Ari, but still got some great stuff!

COSMOTOPIA is an annual beauty expo here in Jamaica. Ari and I went to our first expo in 2011 and got some great stuff.

The first booth I stopped at was of course Kumea's Hair Perspective To check out her AWESOME products! I got her Hair Smoothie and went straight home to do my hair. The first time I used the  Hair Smoothie I borrowed some from my sister to finish my twists and I ended up using the whole jar! 

Hair Smoothie

Kumea and I. Leave it to me to wear the same shirt!!

Twist out using Cantu Shea Butter Leave-In and Eco Styler Custard ( reviews coming soon).

Ok so I started off with the twist out. I noticed that I had some flaking in my hair after the second day. I'm not so sure if it was the combination of the two products or what.

Can you see them?

I washed, detangled, sprayed some aloe vera juice and separated my hair into big twists.

I use Naptural85's twist out method to achieve my styles.

I am very heavy handed when it comes to product but I was surprised when I barely scratched the surface of the jar!  What you see there is how little it took to do half of my hair.

Can you say thoroughly impressed?

  

The finished twists

The twist-out. Hair was soft and not "heavy" with product. Usually my hair is a magnet for dust and debris after a few hours but never had that with the smoothie.

 I gathered the hair into a ponytail and tied it down with my silk scarf and bonnet and went to bed.

Next day hair

It shrunk a little but I am not complaining!

Overall, I LOVE this product and will continue to use it for my twits outs. I will have to give the heavy butters a break because I do like my hair to be debris free most of the time. I will definitely have to stock up on this product! Kumea keep on doing your thing girl!

So until the next review,

Peace.

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Eco Styler Custard

So in my last post I mentioned mixing my beloved aloe vera gel with my eco styler argan oil gel to stretch it out. Well I stumbled upon this video by MakeupanBeautyJunkie who made an eco styler custard! so you know I jumped up out of my bed and made mines! 

Now the actual mixing starts near the end of the video.

Eco Styler Custard:

1 cup EcoStyler gel 
1 tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 tablespoon Coconut Oil 
1 tablespoon Aloe Vera Gel

I Got out my Argan Eco Styler, Coconut Oil, Vitamin and more Argan Oil and my Aloe gel. I mixed the two oils equally to make the one tablespoon, cause I did not have Olive oil and I wanted to try out these two.

I do not have a hand mixer so I used .......my hands... and mixed all of them together. I did however add a bit more Aloe to mine

Custard!!!

I used an old honey jar.

I began twisting on freshly washed hair...... and let me tell you, I L.O.V.E this stuff. I just want to thank MakeupanBeautyJunkie for this man!!! THANK YOU!!! NO CRUNCH!!!! SHINE! SOFT, YEAH!!!!!

(please don't mind my food...and the bears)

My hair never go that dreaded crunch feel and it never got frizzy and tangled after a few days like it always got when I used plain gel.

These pics are six days later. By now, I would have to pull them out because they would have been a mess.

They shrunk but it's all good.

I'm going to see how long I can keep these twists in to really see how good the custard is.

Until then,

Peace.

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Hello There

Hey, so I recently took out my braids because my hair at the scalp was becoming "hard" I guess with dirt and they were looking like a hot mess! so I  cut them out on the weekend.

yeah....

I got hair ALL OVER my apartment! forced me to actually clean it -_-

 Hey dere!

 Look closely, you can see the dirt and product all caked up .

The products I used.

Okay so I washed with Anwaar Co. Black Soap Herbal Shampoo, I had to wash THREE times to fully cleanse my hair!

 This stuff is pretty good, It didn't strip my hair even though I washed it three times, it never got/felt dry and stripped.

Shed hairs that came out while washing.

After that I applied my Vatika Oil and Anwaar Co. Black Seed Hair Conditioner, and I detangled with the Tangle Teezer.......I thought that I would be wowed by the Teezer, but I wasn't. It was difficult for me to use it and to detangle my hair properly, I got the hang of it soon after but my hair was not cooperating , I guess that the oil was thick and I did not use much conditioner because I applied more condish to some areas and it was easier for the Tangle Teezer to comb through, so maybe that was the problem.

My mix of Vatika Oil and Black Seed Hair Condish

The hair that came out after using the Tangle Teezer.

I had to used saran rap because I did not have and plastic bags or caps.

 I had to use Suave professionals Shea Butter Conditioner to wash out the Vatika Oil becuase the Anwaar wash finishing way too fast!

 

Freshly washed hair, I still had to detangle my hair again after using the Tangle Teezer twice.

 Length check!

WOOOT!

 More shed hair!

 I did my usual twists with Eco Styler Argan Oil Gel, and my Shea Butter Mix

Even MORE shed hair, using the Tangle Teezer again, this time it was a lot better.

The Anwaar Co. shampoo and conditioner are great products, I have to use the Teezer again to really have an opinion on it. The Suave is a good condish for Co-Washing and I didn't really like the Vatika Oil..... I will be revisiting the oil when I wash my hair again. My hair is not dry or crunchy from the gel and It has sheen to it, though you can't see it from the pictures.

Later peeps.

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