Okay, so this picture itself is pretty much of a lemon but I was in a rush this morning and hurriedly snapped it before taking it downstairs and tossing it into the compost on my way to work. Actually the lemon is left over from last evening's shower. The juice went into a cup with a little bit of hair conditioner and after thoroughly rinsing my hair under the warm shower water, I used this mixture as a scalp cleanser. Then I rubbed the open half of the lemon on my face as a cleanser. That felt so good that I just scrubbed myself all over with the lemon.I've been reading again. In my past life, my then husband would jestingly threaten to take away my library card -- we had library cards then, no computers. Periodically, I would suddenly get an interest in some whacky thing and do multitudinous reading on the subject. I have became fairly knowledgeable on goat husbandry, solar heating, breadmaking (which I actually did), and lots of other stuff -- too much to list right now. I have now added 'Googling' to my resources.
The latest reading is curly/wavy hair. And I haven't really done all that much reading. I fell onto this subject through an article in our local newspaper about a hair stylist that specialized in cutting, styling, and teaching the care of curly hair. It mentioned a 'devacurl' demo. I Googled 'devacurl' and found that this was a hair product - plural, There was such a variety of hair products available that I was over my head in offerings.
At the library that same evening, I took out two books on curly hair. There is still something very special about books -- oops, that's another blog post. Anyway, the book Curly Girl by Lorrain Massey with Deborah Chiel is the one that makes sense to me. I do a lot of reading and research, throw out what makes no sense, is too expensive, or just doesn't fit my way of thinking or life style. Usually there isn't much left. I learn a lot through the process though.
So: nix on shampoo, blow dryers, hair spray. That all works for me. My hair had become stiff with hair spray, dry from shampoo and hair dryer and just plain blah. So week one into the new regime and there is actually a little body and a little wave, maybe even some half curls. Of course, my hair is very short and needs to grow out a bit and the top layer is too long for the lower layer so I have a bit of an adjustment period ahead. But, hey, why not?
