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End of the year legnth check!

Can be found here: http://diaryofakinkycurlytransitioner.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/happy-new-year/

Don't forget to update your links for the new year :)

And HAPPY NEW YEAR!

MOVED!

To http://diaryofakinkycurlytransitioner.wordpress.com/

I will NO LONGER be updating or responding to comments from this site. If you want more new and exciting posts, check out the above link! All the older posts have transferred over and I've finally got the "follow" thing fixed (RSS feed link on the right side just under the search bar). 


xoxo
Alice 

Ta Dah!

So, instead of doing my biology homework, I decided to move ALL of Diary of a Kinky Curly Transitioner from blogger to wordpress. Yay! I'm still working some kinks out (a subscription system that ISN'T done by email is on the top of my list..) so it should be up and running later.

Here is the new URL: http://diaryofakinkycurlytransitioner.wordpress.com/

Hope to see you there and don't forget to update your links!

xoxo
-Alice

Techinical Difficulties

So, as you can tell, I'm still having layout and posting problems and I'm getting tired of dealing with them. As a result, I MIGHT be switching this over to wordpress.com so keep an eye out for a new link! All of my posts and tags will be coming with me, so if you have a favorite post, don't worry it will still be there!

This is not hair related...

This is Keepon.

So what is it?

Keepon is a small yellow robot designed to study social development by interacting with children. Keepon was developed by Hideki Kozima (小嶋 秀樹 Kojima Hideki?) while at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Kyoto, Japan. Keepon has four motors, a rubber skin, two cameras in its eyes, and a microphone in its nose.

In the context of Kozima's "Infanoid" project, Keepon has been used to study the underlying mechanisms of social communication. Its simple appearance and behavior are intended to help children, even those with developmental disorders such as autism, to understand its attentive and emotive actions. The robot, usually under the control of a teleoperator, has interacted with children in schools and remedial centers for developmental disorders since 2003. (Taken from Wikipedia)

Ok, seriously, I NEED ONE!!

How I did my wash and go in fall/winter

Fall/winter isn’t prime time for a wash and go. Wet hair is a major no-no when it’s snowing or just plain cold (unless you’re trying to catch a cold or worse…).  My winter routine was very similar to my usual wash and go with a few different (and important!) steps in the middle. However, my hair is too long for me to wear a straight wash and go like I did in my TWA days (I miss the good ol’ days..) So this is basically what I did right after I BCed (I BCed in the middle of winter).  


1) Follow steps 1- 6 but skip 5 from my wash and go tutorial   
                                                

2) Baggie over night! When hair is fairly damp (just past the dripping stage) put on a shower cap and make sure it stays in place with the help for a skinny head band. Place a satin SCARF/ head wrap over the whole thing.  To make sure your pillow won’t get wet; place a really soft towel or fabric of the like over your pillow. Another way to do this is double up on scarves/wraps. This will help moisturize your hair which is very important when it's cold and dry out.


3)  Night night. Sleep tight. Don’t let the bed bugs bite.


4) When you wake up in the morning, get dressed and carefully remove your scarf and shower cap. Carefully shake your curls out of the helmet matt you’ve created.  A spray bottle will make your life easier and help with getting the most definition. Then use a spray gel--this won't provide a lot of hold, but it will provide enough for a defined but fluffy wash and go--and gently scrunch. I used John Frida Dream Curls Curl Perfecting Spray but you can make your own by mixing some gel, oil and water together (working on a recipe for this as we speak!).


5) Take a blow dryer with a diffuser attachment, set on low, and dry until roughly 70%-85% dry. ONLY IF YOU'RE IN A HURRY! Otherwise, try to let your hair air dry.


6) Go about your business, eat breakfast, pack your bags, find your keys, etc. By the time you’re done, your hair is probably dry enough to go outside without fear of sickness.


7) Have a nice day!

If all goes well, this will last me about 5 days with day 5 being a semi-defined wash and go. For days 6 and 7, I usually wear a beanie or a hat with a satin bonnet. 

In REAL winter aka once the snow hits the ground or my big ol’ winter coat makes an appearance, I don’t bother wearing my hair out at all. I do all the steps above and then slap a bonnet under a beanie or scarf and go about my day. It’s too cold to bother with making my hair look defined. I don’t want my head to freeze and no one is going to see it anyways!

A collection of cute beanies REALLY makes keeping this fun and cute easy. But, if you only want or have the basic beanies, you can pin pins to your beanie or wear a patterned scarf under the beanie and let that peak out. Lately I’ve been looking at underscarves (I love youtube's very own makeup guru makeupadkit’s especially this one/combination and I've seen students at my school with some truly beautiful ones)  as another way to possibly jazz up my plain beanies. Not sure if this would be offensive or not though...

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198....199....200 followers! That's right 200 followers! Thank you so much everyone for reading, commenting, sharing your stories and asking your questions. This blog wouldn't be where it is now if it wasn't for your help. It's an honor to write for you all!

xoxo

    -Alice