A couple of blog housekeeping things so to speak. I want to draw your attention to the right side panel, where I've added a lovely image from weather.com that shows the current dewpoints for the US at any given time. It's neat because the image automatically updates whenever weather.com updates it's dewpoint map. So this can be a handy place for you to quickly check your dewpoint range before you pick what products you're using, since dew points can be so useful in determining what products to use. I definitely don't want to launch into a whole post about dew points, because it's been talked up elsewhere by people who understand it better than me, so I'll give you some links:
http://pittsburghcurly.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/its-not-the-humidity-its-the-humidity/
The above is from a poster on naturallycurly who I consider to be an expert in all things dewpoint.
That really should be enough to get you through the dew point concepts and how cutting out humectants in low dew points is a good idea, and adding them in may be a good idea in higher dew points, but in case you want more reading:
http://jillipoo.blogspot.com/2008/12/cold-weather-hair-care.html
Another housekeeping issue: I've been very lax about tagging/labeling my posts lately, which might affect what results you get if you try a search. I'll be going back over old posts in the next couple of days and tagging them to correct this issue.
One more: I've always meant to go back in and add lots more links to my "Resources" section. I've now begun to do this. I'll be posting links to blogs, threads on naturally curly, and other sites that I feel are valuable reads for a curly girl. If I link something of yours and you want it taken down, just ask and I'll be happy to do so.
Ok, now that the blog housekeeping is done, on to more curly talk!
As I've noted before, I really have no will power. Once I read a glowing review about a product from a curly with hair even remotely like mine, I have to have it. This does not go well with my college
budget, but eh..who needs food anyway? So long as my hair gets fed...So my latest willpower failure is the Curl-Ease Towel. This curl towel normally sells for $20, but it's currently on sale at Aziza Beauty Supply (great site for some good CG products) and if you use the 20% coupon code (the code is MARCH) along with the sale, you can get the towel for about $14 with shipping costs which is a nice discount. A lot of curlies use this towel to either plop or use it to scrunch out extra water after applying styling products, and the word on the boards is that they can really help reduce drying time. With the humidity in the air growing by the minute as we head into spring, I'm starting to think ahead toward longer drying times and trying to think of solutions to make life easier without having to diffuse every day. So I'm intending to use the towel, which I'll hopefully get by the end of next week, to scrunch out the water from my hair and to help "set" my curls now that I do not plop anymore. More on this to come when I get my hands on it of course!
Alright well I was going to talk about my adventures in clipping today, but I think that this is a long enough post for one day. Clipping has some intense pictures to it as well, so I shall save clipping for another day! Stay tuned!
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