Midwest Natural Hair Health and Beauty Expo 2013

 So yesterday I went to a Natural Hair show expo held downtown at the St. Louis Gateway Classic. I arrived around 11am and I must say I was really impressed with the spread of the vendors that were there. There were various vendors there with hair products, jewelry, house wares,  and clothing. There was even a spoken word artist who was amazing!!! I ended up buying a few of her books, another lady who made custom wine glasses with black women on them, had to get one of those, and then another vendor I was familiar with from before and I bought a few earrings from her. My girl +Thisha Smith met me there around 11:30am and we enjoyed ourselves until about 1pm. Overall I had a good time;) The expo started yesterday and will last until this evening.

Natural Hair artist, Nancy

Spoken word artist: X Blu Rayne

FlirtyGirl Coctail wine glass

Natural Hair arist Nancy, also has a magazine and website called Artistic Rootz

Plenty of goodies

Until the next episode....

 All That MsJazz

My FAV Detangling Brush for my hair

This brush here, I can not give enough accolades to. I first talked about it back in a post a month ago, and for the life of me I don't recall WHY I didn't give the info for where I bought it. Originally I had found it some place online and it was selling for $10 dollars and I ordered two of them. Well unfortunately they didn't send it and after sending an email about it I received a full refund on it. 


So I went hunting for it and found it on a horse website called HORSELOVERZ.COM!

 Oh and it was only  

$1.55. 

Sooooo you know I had to order a few. Well needless to say, after first using the brush I can say it has helped me TREMENDOUSLY with my detangling. I don't go to my bathroom on Wash Day WITHOUT it. It comes in six colors. I've also become aware that this brush is also called the WRANGLER BRUSH.

Colors available: Black, Blue, Hot Pink, Lime Green, Purple, Red.

Now please be aware like I said before when I FIRST saw this brush it was going for $10 bucks, but I have seen it on various other sites ranging from $10 to as low as $1.55, with plenty of other websites in between with varying prices.


Some other websites that also carry this brush are as follows for under $2.00:

All Things Western

Chicks Discount Saddlery

KO Trading


For my Amazon.com diehard people, go here.


The following videos definitely helped me make up my mind in regards to buying and trying this brush. 

This video is by one of my fav Natural Hair youtube gurus: India from My Natural Sistas.

Another Natural Hair youtuber I follow: BlakIzBeautyful

So overall, I can say my 4 a/b hair LOVES this product and will continue to use throughout my hair journey. 

Oh and just a word of advice, Shipping is 5 bucks from the website I ordered it from, so if you are smart and don't want to spend that much for shipping on just one item, gather some other girlfriends together and order a nice size shipment to justify the cost;)


Until the next episode....

 All That MsJazz

It's official: 1 year of Kinks and Coils

Now - 5/26/13

Then - 5/26/12

One year ago today, I did the Big Chop on my hair and I haven't looked back.

One year ago today, I had a mini panic attack and thought, "Oh shit, what have I done!"

One year ago today, I said goodbye to the curtain of hair that shielded my face.

One year ago today, after my big chop I immediately went to Trader's Joe and bought Shampoo and Conditioner and washed my hair for the first time without worrying about it ripping out of my scalp or getting tangled. Hell I was happy to just be able to WASH my own hair!

Since then, I've learned alot about how to take care of my hair ranging from my beautician, to watching YouTube videos and reading natural hair care books. Yet even with all that out there, I still feel at times that I'm still learning just as much about my hair now as I did a year ago.

 I enjoy watching the growth of the my hair but still get impatient from time to time wanting my length back. I've learned to be more responsible with my hair now that it is natural better than I ever did when it was relaxed. I guess my only source of frustration is styling. I know my hair is long when pulled but boy it sure is coily as hell. Still trying to figure out how to stretch to get some length going. Shrinkage is a bitch. So for a whole year except for the two times I've seen my stylist, I've been wearing nothing but Wash n Go's. But thankfully my wash in go's look like I've had Finger Curls done because of my hair's natural curl pattern.

Today was suppose to be a wash day but with it being Memorial Weekend I wasn't sure if I was going to be grilling so I thought I better hold off until then.

No, not ashy in the face, just happen to take pic with flash on. lol

So here is to my first year natural, looking forward to many more;)

Until the next episode....

 All That MsJazz

Count your blessings, not your worries

Yesterday I can say I had a great day. I mean it was such a day that I had to take a step back and say, "wow, someone is looking out for me".  Of course that morning it didn't start out that way, I was so worried about some things I was like, how am I gonna make it through the day without stressing...

My blessings came in various forms yesterday.

Problem 1.- Had to call my bank about a dispute with a fee.

Blessing 1. - They took care of the fee. No long drawn out hassle.


Problem 2.- My gym membership (yea the same one I have had but unfortunately had not been to since last November) had apparently not been paid for April. I didn't know until I received a notice. 

Blessing 2. - When I did try to pay it yesterday I called the gym and they said that it had been taken care of. So I thought the lady there had lost her mind and so I called the billing company in charge of my account and they stated that April had been taken care of by my gym. I just started laughing on the phone and thought WOW. I thanked her and did a happy dance in my seat. I guess that is my sign to get my butt back in the gym:)


Problem 3.- I didn't bring a lunch so I was thinking about what to eat.

Blessing 3.- A former coworker came through surprisingly and brought lunch for the whole office from Nadoz Cafe. Can I just simply say that Wendy is AMAZING and the Panini sandwiches that she brought us to eat yesterday were the BEST that I have had in a LOOOONGGG time.

Turkey Cranberry-  

House Smoked Turkey, Cranberry Aioli, Cheddar Cheese

on Fresh Baked Sourdough Bread

After I left work for the day I went to the Delmar Loop because I was in the mood for some Phili rolls and rice for dinner. As I was sitting there I just kept thinking, I had such great blessings for the day. But then I thought about all the other blessings that happen every day that I really don't stop and pay attention to. 

So I just want to say, "Thank you God" I might not still know what to make or do with myself just yet, but can only hope I haven't missed my purpose.


Until the next episode....

 All That MsJazz