This just in!! Product line is up!

Curling Dervish will soon be offering natural, homemade products!

As many of you know, I had my own line a few years back. It was a pretty good business, but at the time finances and time constraints kept me from maintaining my products. But we're back, and we have a new name! The same products are available, classic scent body butter, bath fizzes, classic scent body oil, soaps and lip balms. There will be a few new products to cater to every member of the family!

Product Menu

Soaps
All soaps are handmade, rustic bars that offer a rich lather and awesome cleansing abilities. They are all 100% natural, vegtable based soaps.

Scents available:

Coffee-Oatmeal: This hearty bar is a kitchen staple. With good for you ingredients like oatmeal, it agressively scrubs hands and removes food smells while softening hands.

Sultry: This decadent bar leaves skin delicously scented and irresistible. I dare you to keep your hands off...

Sweet: A lighthearted scent; leaves skin soft with a lingering spring morning scent.

Muscle: This bar is definitely for the HIM in your life! Notes of sandalwood and tonka bean will leave you craving his scent.

Body Butter

Velvet: This classically scented butter will leave your skin smelling faintly of gardenia and citrus.
Child: A whimsical fragrance; slightly lighter formula than the classic velvet.
Jane: An unscented version of the original-Hence the name...Plain...Jane.

Clean Finishes

Face

Rosy cheeks: A cream cleanser for oily or acne prone skin. This dense cream will cleanse, hydrate and tone all in one step. Rinses clean, hypoallergenic.

Moist: A dry oil cleasner for parched complexions.

Body

Buff: This scrub can be used from top to bottom. Wheat germ and bentonite clay remove toxins while sloughing away the wreck of the day.

Belly up to the bar

These soap/shampoo bars can be used all over. Excellent for throughough hair cleasing without over drying. Deeply hydrating, your skin will feel clean refreshed and ready for whatever life tosses your way.

Shea-coco: A bar specifically for dry, winter sensitized skin. Designed to bathe your skin in moisture without leaving your shower floor slippery.

Shampoo bar: With ingredients like henna and castor oil this bar will treat every strand to a bit of moisture. Rinses clean, conditions and strengthens.

In a Froth

Bath fizz/melts

Lavender: Relax after a long day. Life gives you lemons? Make lemon drops.
Triage: Eucalytpus and peppermint will clear a stuffy head, relieve headache and ease the aches and pains of cold season.
Velvet: Coordinates with velvet body butter and soap bars.
Child: Coordinates with child body butter and soap bars.

Questions, orders and requests can be forwarded to: glamazon0518@tmail.com

twist out-day 1

SO...maybe? It wasn't a good idea to pick it out. The headband is hidden, there's not much definition, but hopefully it'll last through the week. By the by...it feels SO FLIPPIN SOFT!!!! I'm officially a cassia girl. All the squiggles that didn't get picked out are fuzzy because I keep playing in it! And telling other people to play in it! lol SO>>>yea, maybe I'll spritz it a little and all will be right with the world.

Wrapping it up, turning it in. My chest hurts from coughing my lung up. I put it in my office, next to my candy jar and the goldfish crackers. Or was that my chicken sammich? Either way, my office smells like a stinky deli. Someone empty my trash please...please?

Parking wars is back on, that's my cue!!

-glamazon

Fresh twist out!

I did it last night! The henna was muuuch easier to rinse out for some
reason. Maybe because of all the rinsing and brushing I did? I just kept
adding condish and wetting and brushing like a maniac! I am LOVING the
its a 10 miracle hair mask! It rinsed really clean, and my hair felt so
soft I almost didn't want to twist it! It took about an hour fifteen,
not too bad! I did the twists a little too small I think. There's a
patch in the middle of my head that never curls, just waves, so once I
take the twists out it just looks frizzy and strange. I cover that with
a cute headband. I wish there was more moisture in the air. I like it
once my twist out swells a little and looks more like comb coils. Once
I spray it with my moisture maniac/vatika/water mix it'll be fiiine.

On more funner news...heh...Kev and I are having a date night! Woohoo! I
haven't seen my honey in a looooong time. With this cold leaning on my
shoulders I haven't been much fun. But we're going to dinner and a
movie, get all dressed up and act like grown ups...yea right, you can
dress us up, but you can't make us act right! We're still big kids!!
I need to find something to wear with the new fishnets I got! Woot woot!
Target clearance is the bestest!

Starting on Christmas gifts soon. Everyone is getting some homemade
soap or personal care product. If I start now the soap
should...*should*...be cured by December. Im gonna shop for supplies
next time Im off.

Oh yea, forgot to say...im starting my home business up again. All
natural lipbalms, soaps, creams for faces, feet and everything in
between. It'll be available through my blog.questions will be answered,
spotlights on gorgeous curlies and laxies alike, tutorials,
transitioning tips...all kinds of fun stuff will be coming up! Im gonna
need a lil help with keeping up with everything. Im aiming for at least
1 blog a week, maybe 2. Daily? That's somewhere in the distant future!

This just in!!! I got bored waiting for my stooped phone to pick up a
signal and picked out my hair! It probably won't last as long as if I
hadn't, but we all know when I get bored...
--glamazon0518

Chris Rock...political...are you serious?!

Some people goin be mad bout this jawn...

Im like soooo waiting for the lady from the V8 commercial to come bop
someone on the head!

Now, I love...LOVE hair. Period. Relaxed, natural, pressed, real
fake...hair. So yes, Im chomping at the bit to see the movie Good Hair.
I wanna set up a field trip at work! But am I going to leave the theater
and immediately blog about the lack of EDUCATION and his BIASED opinions
on relaxers vs natural hair??

Yea...it aint that serious.
Any chance to see a bronner bros hair show is a good day for me. As a
creative and open minded person, I know art can be created using any
medium. If a dude can paint with his genitals, how is it any less
creative to make a dress and matching head piece out of hair?? Coonery
you say? But its alright for Tyler Perry to dress up like an overweight
black woman, smoke, curse and blaspheme? You'll go gatcha hair did to
see some TP! SMH...

Its a MOVIE. The point of the movie was to entertain, not educate. If
you were enlightened upon leaving the theater, then bully for you. But
the whole thing is about as deep as a puddle: weaves are, and always
have been, hella entertaining. From the days before D L Hughley, Don DC
Curry and the chick on Im Gonna Git you Sucka, being unbeweavable has
sparked many a side splitting session. Who doesn't know, either from
stories or first hand experience, that relaxers will take your hair
OUT?? (Put yo hand down heffa, I see that MC Lyte hair. Its paper thin)
there's a sheet of paper the size of a road map inside each box with
pictures and dos and donts in 27 different languages. The only people I
can understand being educated even partially by this movie are races
other than African Americans and that's only if they don't have any
friends!

Knowing what relaxers can do, and still choosing to say yes is just
that. A CHOICE. If I choose to relax my hair tonight, that's me doing
me. My daughter wanted a relaxer, just because. As her mother and a
licensed stylist, I know full well the dangers that can mean. And as a
licensed stylist and her mother I took EVERY precaution to make sure
that she was safeguarded from any damage that could occur from my
negligence. (Write that word down, NEGLIGENCE. Yall wikipedia that
later)

In closing (because im getting more pissed the more I think about the
militant monas that reviewed the movie), the movie was entertainment. If
you took something valuable from it, cool beans. But no, there will not
be a sequel to shed light on the natural hair movement. You want some
light shed? Check out
www.curlynikki.com
www.honeybrownsugar.com
www.blackgirllonghair.blogspot.com
www.thefeistyhouse.blogspot.com
www.leaveinthekinks.blogspot.com
www.naturallycurly.com
www.curlingdervish.blogspot.com
www.nappturality.com
www.longhaircareforum.com
www.naturalchica.blogspot.com
www.tightlycurled.com
And those are just the sites I check on a daily basis. Don't look to a
man that played a crackhead with a jheri curl to hip you up on pimpin.
Don't fool yourself, he did it for his daughters, but not to help them
with their hair, but with their college fund. If you're looking for
education, google, take a class or just open a book.

PS that's the face I make whenever I see someone with their fist raised
spouting off about the lack of education and bias coonery. That's my
fiancee, Kev. Love you honeeey!!
--glamazon0518

I'm so excited! Protective challenge starts-TODAY!

Remember the twist out i did? Last tuesday??? Remember that? All the pics, with the fun bows and the what-not? It lasted ALLLLLL week! The only reason I'm washing today is because I'm closing tomorrow night and I'm SO not gonna wanna deal with this when I get off!

So my routine tonight (I have a routine! And it actually works! woohoo!):

• Shampoo 2x with CASTILLE (rose)- is there gonna ever be a time that I DONT get it in my eyes? So doesn't feel like sunshine!
• Applied my henna/shikakai/neem mix: 4 tbsp henna, 2 tbsp neem and shikakai, dollop of castor and coconut oil
• Let it sat for about an hour, or until Kev became incoherent on the other end of the phone
• Rinsed, castilled, conditioned with Giovanni tea tree and aubrey organics lavender-brush and wet...BRUSH AND WET!
• smooshed in IT'S A 10 Miracle hair Mask- we sell it at work. I can't very well tell people it works if I don't use it. Besides, the girl at Cosmoprof gave me like 50 sample packs...no really, there's like 45 left.
• BAGGIE!
• Rinse, towel dry (only...ONLY when I'm twisting! Towels are bad...towels are baaaaaad!)
• Grab and twist. I don't part out. Don't wanna see parts. Don't like makin em. Don't like it one bit.

And here I sit, typing this here blog. And watching Wanda Sykes. Funny, this was on the last time I twisted my hair! Must be a sign...

In other news...My hair feels SO FRIGGIN SOFT!!!! I seriously want to make up a cheer about cassia! It makes my hair soooo much happier than the henna did! No loosening of the curl, none of that nonsense. It felt a little rough initially, but I had yet to rinse it out. I guess instantaneous softiture is too much to ask...I seriously want to make up a sonnet about this blasted cassia...

So once I rinse the hair mask out, I'm planning to do a leave in with my moisture maniac and water mix as per usual and rub in some of my caster/coconut mix. Then twist as I laugh at crazy Wanda Sykes!

-sidebar: who DIDN'T know she was a lesbian??? How many males was she cast with? In a role as their significant other??? Come on guys...even Queen Latifah played the girlfriend!! Be yourself lady, who gives a rip what people think. Either they're gonna talk about you for doing, talk about you for not doing. Give em something to talk about! By the way...LOVE Wanda's hair!

ETA: This protective challenge thig? We're going to see if we can keep this up for a month. At least until the end of November. Hopefully by that time I won't be so afraid of the hairdo of pain. AND...I won't have to be wetting my head everyday and waiting until the end of time for it to dry.

SO EXCITED!!!

Twist out-day 2

Ok, so maybe it really was worth it! Depending on how long this lasts, I
think I'll try to do it once a week. Protective style challenge? Could
it be time?? I'll do anything to escape the hairdo of pain (braids)!

All I did this morning was spray a little of my moisture
maniac/vatika/amla/water mixture on it. The rain did the rest! It
swelled a little, but I'm cool with that. And Kev said the flower would
be too big...HA!!

Looks like Cam's braid and curl is on its last leg. She's been rocking
it all week, so we'll just slick it back this weekend and sunday I'll
wash and rebraid. Maybe we'll try a twist and curl à la
www.curlynikki.com ...hm...
--glamazon0518

Comparison pics!!

The first one is 3 days after the big chop (BC)- 6/20/09, the second is
2 months later-8/13/09 and the last is 2 months from August-10/12/09.
Its actually growing!!

Sidebar-- I can't sleep when im sick, hence the obnoxious updates. And
my phone is ignorant, so I hit the button once and it loads 13,279
times!
--glamazon0518

ETA: ok, I was wrong. It's actually my 4 MONTH NAPPIVERSARY!!!! I have never made it this long without chopping it all back off! Going strong! Next up: 8 months, 4 inches challenge!

Twistout!!

It only took about an hour. Not bad! No gels, just giovanni SMS and
castor/coconut oil. Done after a henna experiment with rainbow-neutral
henna/cassia. Luff it!!
--glamazon0518

Playin Catch-up!

It's been entirely too long since I last blogged, I know. I've been having issues with my phone. Translation=it sucks. So all my notes, contacts, emails...everything is gone. But we move forward, life goes on.

In other news, I'm 2 days away from my 3 month nappiversary! Wow...it seems like just yesterday I couldn't even pinch it between 2 fingers! Time flies when you're...I dunno, doin stuff. I finally have a routine! I'm so excited, and so is Kev. He may not admit it, but I know he was getting tired of running all over town to find conditioners, going to the Indian market 3 times a week and listening to me cry about looking like John Witherspoon. So my routine is as follows:

• Cowash 3-4 times a week with PM The Detangler ( I may be scrapping this soon, my hair is starting to feel a little straw-like)
• Condition with Tigi Moisture Maniac
• Leave in: Giovanni Smooth as Silk Conditioner and coconut/castor oil (I can't live without these three. I feel like they deserve the Nobel Peace Prize!)

I'm still on my naked hair kick! Going strong for about 2 months now! WOOT WOOT!! I did my very first press and no curl, as well as a twist out. It actually looks pretty cute! I'm hoping the moisture in the air is going to cause it to swell because it's a little too neat for me.

Let's see, what else is going on...OOH! I finally used up all the stinky, cheapie condish I bought! I had hit rock bottom in my pj-ism and bought all the v05 and suave I could fit in my arms before Kev smacked it to the floor. All I have left is a tiny bit of v05. I used it the other night to cowash the henna out.

Speaking of...I found the rainbow henna! At long last. Still no Jamila...so that sweet elusive Jamila... It was ok...just ok. I still dont feel like it's completely rinsed out, because as I was twisting my hair it was janking up in the comb and getting under my nails. but my hair feels uber soft and the curls didn't loosen. I used the neutral. High wattage shine! Woo! I wore the twisties all day yesterday, and for some reason the henna made the top of my head so soft it would NOT hold a twist to save its life!

OK, we gotta speed this along, there's a cricket in the office...BAAAH!

Pics will be up of the twist out in a min, they're on my phone. Next post! Promise!