Shea to Shave

Shea Moisture's Restorative Conditioner is not only a great leave-in, but as a result of a recent experiment, I've discovered it to be a great shaving cream as well. #RANDOM I know. But when shaving my kitchen (lol), I noticed it doesn't leave those bumps on the back of my neck like some shaving creams do. And when shaving my legs, I don't have to put on lotion afterwards - the best part.

Ingredients include: sea kelp (good for moisturizing and softening skin), argan oil (used to revitalize dull skin) and shea butter (great for everything)

 p.s. did you know shea butter could be used for cooking? try my Kinky Curly Cupcake Challenge with that stockpile of hair products you aren't using ;)

Review of Shea Moisture's Hair Color System

Curious about Shea Moisture's new hair coloring system? Check out my review:

Hair Talk | Feb 17

1| washed scalp with Shea Moisture black soap shampoo, conditioned with macadamia oil Organix conditioner, spritzed with my own leave-in and cornrowed for hair hat | Sunday
2| left in hair hat, moisturized scalp every other day with aloe+carrot oil, moisturized ends every other day with olive oil | Sunday - Thursday
3| washed with Shea Moisture black shampoo, used Aphogee's 2-minute reconstructor, left-in Shea Moisture Restorative Conditioner | Thursday
4| slowly installed faux dreads. post to come soon | Thursday-Saturday

Overall, I must admit that I don't like this macadamia oil conditioner. It leaves my hair too limp and stringy.

Hair Talk | Jan 27

Sunday: in the wee hours of the morning I LOC'd my hair with some water, JBCO+vitamin E mixture + Jane Carter Moisture and Shine then twisted into ~10 twists and bantu knotted each group of 3-4 twists

Sunday's bantu knot-out

Monday: didn't like the next-day hair so I co-washed + created an impromptu braided up-do for dinner with friends

Friday's blended "hair hat"

Tuesday: took out the braids but my ends looked dry so I ended up creating another random PS, this time pulled back into a bun

Wednesday: kept Tuesday's PS, spritzed with JBCO+shea butter oil+Carrot/Aloe Vera oil

Thursday: took out Tuesday's PS and decided to wear a hair hat

Friday: My roots and the hat didn't match so I spritzed my hair with water and twisted a 1 in front row into individual twists using Design Essentials oil (for sheen), halfway untwisted these twists so it would match the "hat"

Hair Talk | Jan 19

Week of 1/13
Sunday: braided my wash n go into 3 flat twists

Monday: kept my hair in the braids, oiled scalp with vitamin E oil

Tuesday: moisturized ends with Shea Radiance Nourishing Hair Repair Cream, pre-pooed with JBCO + Vitamin E mixture overnight

Wednesday: washed with dermatologist shampoo, deep conditioned with Organic Root Stimulator's Olive Oil Hair Masque + used Shea Moisture Restorative Leave-In Conditioner afterwards; I then parted my hair down the middle and did horizontal flat twists to the sides and twisted these ends back into 2 large twists, pinned then together and went about my daily biz-nazz


Thursday: PS from yesterday

Friday: ~4pm I took out the PS and had an AWESOMELY curly and shiny twistout but not sure if that was due to the pre-poo or the deep conditioner, hmmm...

Saturday: absolutely nothing but pin in an updo
This week's rating: 4/5 stars


My hair had shine after Wednesday and I accessorized with flowers throughout the week but Friday's takedown resulted in some breakage on the ends. No bueno.

Hair Talk | Jan 7

As promised for my new year's blogolution, I'm going to start a series of posts documenting my weekly regimen. Here comes week one!

Week of December 31st:
Style(s):

1. Took out mini-twists + kept in a twistout throughout the week
2. Co-washed*, braided into 7 braids and rocked a braidout for 1 day
3. Washed** hair and currently back into 7 braids, planning the braidout for tomorrow

*Co-washed with Garnier Fructis Triple Nutrition conditioner, didn't rinse out the conditioner

** Washed with my dermatologist-prescribed shampoo (no name) + conditioned with Shea Moisture Restorative Leave-In Conditioner, didn't rinse out the conditioner