The Clean Curl

Do you massage your scalp? This is week three of using this scalp massager ever night. I can put scalp serum into too which I love! I usually get way too much product deposited in one spot when I use the pipette. This spreads around a little as you run it over your scalp and my scalp isn’t left oily or weighed down. I’ve managed to stay consistent so far! I am using this with the Ordinary Scalp Multipeptide Serum.

My face *sigh*. It has been a rough week. I shared a video on my YT in more detail in hope someone can help. I have dealt with whatever this is for 3 months now. It got down to minimal (left picture) after a week of oral steroid. The next day after steroids it started up again (middle picture) and now this is where we are at (right picture). Yesterday I started oral antibiotics and 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽. I have no idea what started it, it’s blown up and calmed down several times. Before you ask, no I don’t wear perfumes, I already use free and clear detergent, I oil cleanse with jojoba oil, I moisturize with squalene oil. No changes in diet, labs are normal, I wear hats in the sun because I cannot put on SPF as it burns and flares up. It will itch and my left eyelid will also get red and itch. I eat pretty clean and watching that as well. I saw a dermatologist and they placed on oral steroids and a topical cream that burned like crazy. No answers. I haven’t been on antibiotics in decades but I am at a loss. I have tried manual honey, eczema cream, hydrocortisone, silver, the list goes on. It either doesn’t help or it hurts. I wish it had a name or a cause. Just looking for answers and praying it just goes away. So thankful to all my friends and coworkers who have tried to help me solve it and make me laugh when it gets to be overwhelming.

Starting on these supplements today. I absolutely have neglected taking my vitamins. I am interested to see if these help with my hair and my goal of growing it longer. I have been meaning to supplement with ashwagandha as I have heard of the benefits it has against stress and anxiety. Have you seen a difference in your hair with supplements? What have you tried?

It’s been a long time since I shared regularly. This is my hair now. Going to shift to focus on this again and share with you all. I turned 39 this year and so I now pre menopause is at the door. I also look back at hair I had and when I was most satisfied and I was mostly pregnant. 6 years out and I wonder if I was. More intentional now can I get close results. I wanna share with you all because it’s hard to see all the noise around hair loss. Join me? I miss you guys!!!

It’s been about 4 years since I’ve been active on my blog and 2 years since this big chop. This blog came up in conversation recently and it made me miss everyone! Wanted to say 👋🏼!

I spy with my little eye a little baby waves. My oldest two kids have curly hair and we have been guessing as to the baby’s hair. She has the least amount of hair compared to the other two at this age but pretty close. Today it just happened. All those little baby hairs on the top of her head justa started curling, like my daughter’s and son’s. Can’t wait to see how it turns out! Both kids have been curly girl their whole life, the more the merrier! 😆.

I did a thing. My last hair cut was over a year and a half ago. My hair had grown long, half way down my back without stretching the curls. But, it was starting to look stringy. My fine hair isn’t its best when it is long no matter how much I fight it with diffusing and products. I accept that when my hair is long my curls are more waves and my hair is more up than down. Finally, I gave in. I rewatched ‘s YouTube video on cutting your own hair and just did it. I am 3 months postpartum and that postpartum hair loss is real. It’s just starting for me. After it’s done, after about 5-6 months I’ll get a professional cut to shape it up but I already feel better. My hair is back to its bouncy, shiny self despite the loss. I will share a picture soon when I finally take one 😆. I didn’t do anything fancy, just cut off the ends straight. Now I am ready to continue on the battle!

My hair is getting longer. With more length comes less volume. But I’ve given into it and been air drying more often and surprisingly getting more comments on my hair lately. I haven’t noticed much of a difference between my normal hair and pregnancy hair. I have been full on curly for almost two years now and even before then I didn’t straighten much, only blow dry, no heat tools for at least 3-4 years. There hasn’t been much change in density or curl pattern. since going curly since I was so minimal before. I have go back 5+ years in pictures and even then I believe it was mostly weather and technique. I think I will keep the length till the dreaded postpartum shedding comes. For me, that’s usually about 5 months postpartum. I may give into a trim but for now it’s wavy days vs buns days but all the days have been good so I won’t bother to complain about it. 😁 I used the serum and .mi.beauty styling jelly on this particular day and if you are interested, the routine is in my highlights! Happy Thursday!

I won a giveaway that had awhile back and I haven’t shared on it yet! I got some face oils and two shades of the balm. My favorite so far is this shade in No 10, Tea Rose. Swipe to see it on my lips and cheeks. I love how creamy the texture is and how natural it looks on my lips and skin. Admittedly I washed and dried it on accident a few times 🙈 so needless to say it’s a mess inside now but I’m scraping up every bit! Thanks again to Trish for the giveaway!

I am so happy for the weather to finally be cooling off here in Arizona but I’m already missing my summer glow 😆. My hair is getting longer and longer and I can’t decide if I want to chop it off or not! In the mean time I’ve been rocking this half up hair on the regular. No new hair products for me. Been using up things in my stash when I can and keeping the same go to routine of hair serum and the .mi.beauty styling jelly.

I have not purposely been on a no buy but my spending on beauty products have been really minimally the last few months as I’m trying to get through my stash. just shared amazing discovery kits and seeing as Danielle from had a featured kit AND it was .care I had to get it. I have been wanting to try them for some time so this was perfect. I’ve only dove into Unveil so far but my skin just swooned as I washed it off. I hit a wall with cleansers lately but this 😍😍😍😍. I can’t wait to try The Bean! What other Mahalo products do you just love? I’m excited to try out more! #