Product Haul Chi Straight Guard, Butters N Bars and Giovanni Direct Leave In

Chi Straight Guard Smoothing Styling Cream, Butters N Bars Virgin Organic Argan Oil, Organic Golden Jojoba Oil, Organic Unrefined Shea Butter and Giovanni Direct Leave In Conditioner

It was time for me to re-order some of my favorite products and purchase something new to try out.

Chi Straight Guard Smoothing Styling Cream (from Amazon) click to check price
Butters N Bars (Shea Butter, Jojoba Oil, and Argan Oil) click for website
Giovanni Direct Leave in Conditioner (from Amazon) click to check price.

I've been using the Ic Fantasia Heat Protectant forever, but seeing that my hair is really dry.  I decided that I may venture out and try liquid heat protectants to blow dry my hair with.  I started blow drying my hair with Just Naturals Dry Hair Lotion and like it alot.  So I decided that I needed to purchase a actual liquid heat protectant.  As soon as I try out the Chi Straight Guard, I will post my review.

Natural Joyanne

New Tyler Perry Movie Sporting Natural Hair Beauty's

So I decided to wear my natural hair out when I went to see Tyler Perry's new movie Witness Protection.  The movie was hilarious, but I noticed that there where several actresses, who played small roles wearing natural hairstyles.  Now I've been noticing for years that alot of black women who are in commercials on TV wear their hair natural.  However, this is the first time I've seen a lot of natural hairstyles in a movie.  There was this one actress in the movie who was in the choir when they had a church scene who had the seem hairstyle as minds.  See my hairstyle below:

More About My Big Chop Part 1

I remember thinking to myself boy my hair has gotten so long and not even thinking that it would grow to this length.  I loved it and liked wearing it out and showing it of, but if only people knew how much love and attention I gave my hair they might think I was crazy.


I looked around at different women black and white who I knew or saw every other day, friends, family and people I met every other day here and their.  Once they had long hair and then all of sudden they cut their hair of.  They just wanted a change, something easy.  


When I really decided to cut all my beautiful long once natural, then texlaxed and only recently relaxed hair of, was when I was having a intimate conversation with my husband.  We where on our way back to the Bahamas from are annual Thanksgiving shopping from Florida.  I was telling him how I really wasn't in to all the work with my hair anymore and was just going to wear a wig for awhile.  Surprisingly he said to me I liked your hair the most when it was natural.


I thought to myself, ok it's time to let go of this hair that I'd being wearing on my head for awhile.  Give up the long time spent doing my hair and put it towards other things, more time with the kids, writing my songs, etc.  It will take time to grow back, but I'm ok with it.  So I went in my bathroom one night and cut of the thick braids that I was going to wear under the wig.


It feels good right now just letting the water run down my hair every day or every other day and letting my scalp enjoy the water.  I'm looking forward to using more moisture in my routine, which is something my hair went without for like a month sometimes.  Boy it's a wonder how my hair hold up and still grew, is it that my natural hair is strong no matter what.  Or the Shea Butter.


I'm looking forward to my new journey and being free to do whatever I want with my hair when I want to do it.


Natural Joyanne