tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200902959527275332024-03-13T01:02:21.258-07:00Braidloczs (because poor people gotta look good 2)Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563999750150428230noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090295952727533.post-21207852164387839382013-01-14T08:35:00.000-08:002013-01-14T08:35:45.304-08:00todays JEWELS!<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><strong>I learned today that the way you treat God will reflect in how you treat yourself. God is way more important than you, and if you refuse to give him certian things, you will surely find yourself not giving those things to yourself. God should come first and foremost so that you can have a pattern for how to treat everything else in your life, including yourself!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><strong>I also am not impressed with blonde hair anymore even though people like Chef Ahki make it look SOOO dern beautiful!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><strong>Being friends is more than lauging and having a good time. It's actually another type of relationship that you have to maintain and work on. It will also bring things out in yourself that you need to work on. I honestly don't really have any friends but that's because I haven't put work into any platonic relationship. I hope at some point I will be ready to allow some friends into my life.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><strong>My edges are really thinning, and I really need to do something about it. Now I have all this length and my edges are thinning. Go figure.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><strong>I wear makeup for myself, to give myself the image of beauty I see in society around me. However I am starting to think this super cute look is not what I want other's to see me as. I think it gives people the wrong impression of me. I appear superficial, shallow, and fake. (just a little) I love being cute because people treat you nicer when they think you're pretty. But on the other hand i want deeper relationships than people who enjoy looking at me. Not to mention that although I like blush, people tend to think I have some sort of rash on my cheeks. hmph.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><strong>Adults amaze me at their inability to communicate. Even people on TV! They're good at talking, but not communicating. It's sad. If they just sat down and calmed themselves for a second and tried to think about what they mean, and how to get that across, so many araguements and disagreements wouldn't even exist. smh.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><strong>Sometimes when love finally makes it's long awaited appearance, there's nothing you can do about it. There's such a nice young gentleman at work who is soooo dateable and cute, but I'm just not interested. Not cuz of him but cuz of me. My life is so messed up right now, dating would just complicate things. too bad. I could have just trusted in God and just waited. It felt like forever then, but it really wasn't that long.</strong></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;">I DID NOT VOTE!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;">Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled that Obama's president. Not only because he's black and it's just a way of sticking it to people who think blacks cannot achieve anything, but also because Romney scares me more than Pee Wee Herman standing in line to see the same movie as I.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;">At some point, I'm going to die, and at some point I believe I'm going to have to answer to my maker for the decisions I have made. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;">My state is a blue state and it was going to go for Obama either way, all the political pundits knew this, so I figured this as well into my decision. My vote was just going to be one drop in the bucket of millions upon millions who were contributing for the few electoral votes our state is allowed. CT has my mental and spiritual support, but physical... not so much.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;">What decisions are we making here though? Although I believe the road we have taken is already too far gone to make any real changes, I do not agree with the Elephant Donkey circus politics soap opera that we are playing on television. What is happening is nothing more than a modern soap opera for those jaded by the bold and the beautiful type acting, if you can even call it that.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;">I know, I know, I'm starting to sound like a conspirator here.... but maybe I am. I do not think that Obama is maliciously doing ANYTHING to our country. But do I believe there is a thick web of deceit and complicated coverups that go back before my birth. Yes. I think it is going to take serious long looks into our history, our policies, our procedures, our media, etc. for the U.S. to turn itself around and get on the right track. IDK, this article is a tiny shot in the dark of the abyss that is the U.S. Gov't, but I guess I wanted to finally stand up for a little of what I believe in.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;">I didn't vote because I do believe it is my responsibility to vote, but I am also going to be held accountable for the vote I place to my children and to my God. I didn't vote because although I'm tickled by his presidency I do not co-sign with every one of his decisions, like for instance the decision to sign into law the act stating the american gov't has the right to indefinitely imprison any person in the U.S. without reason. No. I don't agree with that. At the time I didn't agree with the bank bailout. I've since changed my mind, but when it happened I was upset. I don't want to have to answer to God for the decisions of this man.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;">Don't, however, take this as my consent to right-wing-ism. I am NOT REPUBLICAN. I do like some of their beliefs but the fact that racists feel comfortable sitting in their party is something that is impossible for me to support, and I'd also like them to answer for. Obama may not be someone I co-sign for but Romney is the anti-christ's cousin. I probably would have searched for other countries that would accept me as a citizen if Romney won. Obama may not be perfect but make no mistake, Romney is a nose dive to the 6th level of hell.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;">ALSO (vent coming) Christian evangelicals in the media should be accosted for the manner in which they handled this election. They lost all bearing and appeared disgustingly racist this election. Allowing non christians to confuse God with hate. The stupidity that appeared is sad and embarrassing, I'm sure angels around the world hid their faces. Many christians lost their edge with Mitt. That man is no christian, so how do you support him saying he has your beliefs? HE'S A PAGAN! And a pagan is a pagan! If you didn't want Obama in office because he's "MUSLIM," and therefore non-christian, how in THE WORLD DO YOU SUPPORT ANOTHER NON-CHRISTIAN IN HIS PLACE?! I'm disgusted. Have a backbone and be consistent. When Mr. Graham changed Mormonism in his web site from cult to non cult just for this election I think that solidified the doubt I have for his leadership qualities in my mind, not to mention his past. ARRRRGGGGHHHHHH HYPOCRITES!!!!!!! #idigress</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;">I have thought out my position. I support the cause, I love being black, but I question where we are going as a country, even with a black man as the leader. I don't blame blacks for voting for Obama because he is black, I rooted for OJ Simpson too! I do not feel accepted by the republican party but I don't fully support democratic beliefs. I do not automatically see gayness on par with being black. I'm pro choice but to a point. Maybe I'm more independent. Either way the next time I vote it will be because I totally believe and support 100% the political stance. I'm sorry. (P.S. I also secretly hoped for Ron Paul - ooooooo!!! There! I said it!!!!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;">Please don't hate me.</span><br />
<br />Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563999750150428230noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090295952727533.post-6449436866714092732012-04-12T20:57:00.002-07:002012-04-12T21:06:03.018-07:00x husbandMy first xhusband is sneekily trying to get back with me.<div><br /></div><div>I'm so shocked he didn't think I would figure it out! I told him the day that I left that if he let me leave, I would never come back. </div><div><br /></div><div>So now year later he plots with a friend to trick me into meeting up with him and hanging out?</div><div><br /></div><div>Why are men so fickle? Don't they understand divorce is not a game. It's serious. Once you make that decision to leave a woman you'd better be sure that the decision is a good one because once it's over it's over. </div><div><br /></div><div>My life is not your game!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Anywho, I'm extremely forgetful lately. I hope it'll stop. It's starting to affect my daily life...</div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563999750150428230noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090295952727533.post-2413313084330034172012-04-12T05:26:00.002-07:002012-04-12T05:41:27.516-07:00Musings for the day...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">Are republicans serious?</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">Why do people cut you off when driving? They only end up immediately in front of you.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">Why do I have to shave my legs?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">Rachael Maddow is the queen of OWNING people.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">Why can't we get medical procedures done in mexico? Do you think Mexicans tell their citizens not to go to america because we're poor and our medical procedures are sub par? But sometimes they are.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">I propose we re-open the underground railroad. I just don't know where it will lead to because ALL of america seems to be hostile to us lately. Maybe we can run for our freedom to cancun. Why didn't the slaves run to mexico instead of north...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">Going to NYC with a stroller and an infant is the third level of hell.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">Babies make such cute noises.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">Men who fail to be men cannot raise men.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">HGTV can be really interesting.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">If we're all ugly without makeup then what is the true standard of beauty?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">Why are evangelicals so concerned with making God look crazy?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">Even if you spend $1,000 on an item once it's old, it's just old.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">A lady on Bravo TV said that women start to wear flip flops and no makeup because they no longer care. Why didn't I get this memo?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">LA looks so much better on TV.</span></div><div><br /></div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563999750150428230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090295952727533.post-37231187369782432612012-03-31T01:19:00.006-07:002012-03-31T01:45:04.032-07:00THE NEW STYLE! BANGS!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy6i2kCkPaLlpEh5Ft6Jk3eG78cpaBDqi8lbL489aNGzFOn3_PxIv4IdsCW8VcDXjAa7D2mWSQqFZctF-IQQwLhgfIf3MKckKOgv_rOrxeBeSXY1kK1XIvCA7iDum4BKjsGKkza33l/s1600/Photo+on+2012-03-05+at+14.17+%25233.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy6i2kCkPaLlpEh5Ft6Jk3eG78cpaBDqi8lbL489aNGzFOn3_PxIv4IdsCW8VcDXjAa7D2mWSQqFZctF-IQQwLhgfIf3MKckKOgv_rOrxeBeSXY1kK1XIvCA7iDum4BKjsGKkza33l/s320/Photo+on+2012-03-05+at+14.17+%25233.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725975335406158130" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6666;">SOOOO! I decided to go with a new style AND a new color. I was reading up on sisterlocks and discovered that they flat iron their locks, so i decided to do the same for mine, and color it red! So here it is!!!!! My red color and flat ironed bangs. I love my new style now and think I will keep it for a few years. It's beautiful but it also has meaning to me now. I think it gives breath to my old hairstyle because it was getting stale. So this summer will be my 4 yr anniversary? Something like that. I will check to be sure.<br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6666;">Now, I feel like I'm getting to the point where I'm </span></div><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGjVlGNJWgg_cXfWTUwQaZP1FDmHqok8JXxhIRv-msYIr068fVY3h1nf16BIFb53c7f1co0TxUUCrU2WWEjHOh8wDpcq7xOONBOv7dIv7v7GiX5kB2Rykd9CBe8YB6Y0VwKCjjsrdH/s320/Photo+on+2012-03-27+at+02.47.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725975330461436834" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6666;">happy with my locs. I am feeling satisfied with the length and the shape and the hang of them. Even the smell of them. When I first started with the locs I was obsessed with them; picking, preening, grooming, rolling, curling, cutting.... Every single day. I was constantly check them, comparing them with others the thickness and the length esp the length. I blogged as a way of dealing with the obsession and helping others. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6666;">Now I don't feel the need to do that anymore. But I guess I will continue... I can't wait until it's bra strap length, no it's still not there yet. I see now that it takes YEARS to get there.</span></div><div><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhExNPRzuAU5uI-NbFlKDBzJVWHZs6GODyODZVZTYeRxpibzd0LOWVV9xaIBJWU6eP541ESAVLlzyQiHt3w8URLeD1JMex24Lk8OAGWhMPLSDm7h3KmwkX7FsNeYAQSAgskgyobltV4/s320/Photo+on+2012-03-29+at+04.55+%25232.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725975326078770226" /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6666;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6666;">I haven't at all talked about the abuse or anything thing else that I have gone through on here but let me say that when that guy cut my dreads it hurt everyday to see that. It also reminded me every day of what a man can do to you. So now I am not really needing a boyfriend anymore. Not that I ever did, but I really wanted one, and now I no longer do. A bf would be cool, but not to have one is just a cool because now I know they can really do a lot of damage and wreak havoc on your life! #Notworthit</span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6666;">So a new problem that I have discovered in my </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6666;"><br /></span></div><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXhw7ds_O2Sd-smazQSeG1zDasYmJNPKOB57IKF8pbDU7wc51tFOMr6NuHhaaJBVzmFivSrSooeZ6SfF2uz8mltvYaEnuTSHUIs_pdL0zxxSlFjF93l1qghCwaR5W4MaioLwUFAC4A/s320/P3240078.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725975315530975090" /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6666;">dreadlock travels is that they are really hard to dye! I cannot get the color right. I wanted to bring the red closer to my head and it did NOT work. I ended up almost getting a total bleach blonde on the Left side of my head and it barely turned a color at all on the right side. You can't tell because I purchased a black rinse and put it on my roots so it wouldn't look weird. It takes a lot of dye to make my hair red, and sometimes it doesn't stick. I like the color but I would definitely like it to be more consistent, and maybe even a little more red. Either way, I like my new color and plan on sticking with it for at least a year. However I have no tips except have a professional do it. And if you don't keep a bottle of your natural hair color as a rinse just incase you end up with marylin monroe blonde. A bottle of black or dark brown and no one's the wiser. Good luck in your hair travels!</span></div><div><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6666;"><br /></span></u></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6666;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBShLqpNuouo_hOm__duGE6huVaYxvQUW_x1UkmwX69ZmQPlFxVl_NcApu5RO6KhxWqr_yIEmjmsdysoqDb7C7sfsfMZloJ3UzvZvQOlfy3qu4GyokVSq4vNmDCm1R8tPAl16rzcEx/s1600/P2020075.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBShLqpNuouo_hOm__duGE6huVaYxvQUW_x1UkmwX69ZmQPlFxVl_NcApu5RO6KhxWqr_yIEmjmsdysoqDb7C7sfsfMZloJ3UzvZvQOlfy3qu4GyokVSq4vNmDCm1R8tPAl16rzcEx/s320/P2020075.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725975313881983250" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6666;"><br /></span><br /></div></div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563999750150428230noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090295952727533.post-2038233676712700702011-12-05T21:47:00.000-08:002011-12-05T21:59:10.258-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCxHLwvefagbpEDHRPjkU1zZX9o6jpNwN2a-JYqdlxyMs0TQdZ6c9FtvD6AdG2kZ3HRWj0iPcYbQGxI2J8GbUiDysM_Wzt2AWlZOXg650eVQoHKbjy3py_cgcEZMYwGd-6-8LUyuah/s1600/Photo+on+2011-12-05+at+23.31.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCxHLwvefagbpEDHRPjkU1zZX9o6jpNwN2a-JYqdlxyMs0TQdZ6c9FtvD6AdG2kZ3HRWj0iPcYbQGxI2J8GbUiDysM_Wzt2AWlZOXg650eVQoHKbjy3py_cgcEZMYwGd-6-8LUyuah/s320/Photo+on+2011-12-05+at+23.31.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682890380755350146" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKOTnn1RJI46RvUQE3lAxYXfM7mrZXwY2ttXwEz8yR54Jg4kZGSqx64_igb8dJsxs12DkHz6HHz-p7zFJ4O1CMhsqmnvZIrp5FUaWbCkcrgiW6HDl3p8dKOda_mRvllyWxmsKdGpOP/s1600/Photo+on+2011-12-06+at+00.55.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKOTnn1RJI46RvUQE3lAxYXfM7mrZXwY2ttXwEz8yR54Jg4kZGSqx64_igb8dJsxs12DkHz6HHz-p7zFJ4O1CMhsqmnvZIrp5FUaWbCkcrgiW6HDl3p8dKOda_mRvllyWxmsKdGpOP/s320/Photo+on+2011-12-06+at+00.55.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682890369472780642" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnWIkwIVHp1_vag_uMbiksPFFMj9lAcxEK_D6_r7YvSCZBTEoZ2ni_KA4t-D4b28rQYhh4RhAkxfnhguWyxtgl5j_Ra01XoPMU0Ls4fPOi1SqUG_9vksOFS31ih0PJ2O6tV0aCl_eA/s1600/Photo+on+2011-12-06+at+00.56+%25233.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnWIkwIVHp1_vag_uMbiksPFFMj9lAcxEK_D6_r7YvSCZBTEoZ2ni_KA4t-D4b28rQYhh4RhAkxfnhguWyxtgl5j_Ra01XoPMU0Ls4fPOi1SqUG_9vksOFS31ih0PJ2O6tV0aCl_eA/s320/Photo+on+2011-12-06+at+00.56+%25233.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682890362911442962" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEicxsFRt-WHEwnighyphenhyphenubSpdu8oQ5H-c6kT-YD9Zzw81yCXnqzMVl7_NSb3Y0FU0Vy05_6z5WTknqKWPivEg8y0NSzvNyhHNkaCAGoPdIhMVHWnz3hOqHBVvKK7jytVjYm5EIlKP2p/s1600/Photo+on+2011-12-06+at+00.56.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEicxsFRt-WHEwnighyphenhyphenubSpdu8oQ5H-c6kT-YD9Zzw81yCXnqzMVl7_NSb3Y0FU0Vy05_6z5WTknqKWPivEg8y0NSzvNyhHNkaCAGoPdIhMVHWnz3hOqHBVvKK7jytVjYm5EIlKP2p/s320/Photo+on+2011-12-06+at+00.56.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682890363138590082" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br />So I'm getting a little depressed regarding my hair and let me tell you why...</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">I have just finally reached over 3 years. I'm getting nice length to it as well however-</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">I used to be married to an abusive man.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">The divorce will be final, GOD willing, this month. But on top of everything, he cut my hair. I was trying to get away from him, he told me to stay on the bed, and me being me, I got up and tried to rush past him out of the room. We struggled a little and he got me on the ground.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">He was sitting on top of me, took a fist full of my locks and snip, snip, snip.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">That was it for the front of my hair. Now, what I call bangs. lol. It was sooo short in the beginning. It was all I could do to just keep them locked up and not become an afro again. I had to retwist almost every time I washed. Now they are locking and growing back out. But now that my hair is reaching my shoulders my "bangs" are sticking out right at the front of my head!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">Now this is the length where I'm supposed to be enjoying my length and doing new hairstyles and I can't because the front is just out of control!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">I just don't know what to do. And it makes dreads look bad because the back is all neat and the front looks like I just lost my mind. I'm just praying it will get a little more length by the time the summer comes. ugh.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;">So what do you guys think I should do? any style suggestions?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF99FF;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563999750150428230noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090295952727533.post-24987045506943135702011-07-15T13:17:00.000-07:002011-07-15T13:31:56.165-07:00Havent posted in a while...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga5qTxbpeMKl6n8eSgeOhYm2uIcpew7xBuP0sD4Iv2S2fU-N54pDzoR6H0EZmj40LG2h-0dagClVI_dzfrVkjtxPLasWFCfBOTjTjED5rj5uxxvj-A8QZvKW3__eukl95wR48vuj6K/s1600/Photo+533.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga5qTxbpeMKl6n8eSgeOhYm2uIcpew7xBuP0sD4Iv2S2fU-N54pDzoR6H0EZmj40LG2h-0dagClVI_dzfrVkjtxPLasWFCfBOTjTjED5rj5uxxvj-A8QZvKW3__eukl95wR48vuj6K/s320/Photo+533.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629676514887415842" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;">Havent posted in almost a year so I guess I could give a catch up of what I'm doing. Here's a lobster tail style that I got from Kalia-dewdrop. (love her dreds)<br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;">My dreds are about 3 years old now. I love them to death. I have to be honest with you though, I get so insecure when I hear people talking about interlocked locks and how they are "not right" and they are taking them out to get sisterlocks. It makes me look at my dreds in the mirror and go, well I guess they are worth taking out... Or they're ugly, not right... </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;">I DON'T KNOW! But the only thing is when I look at them in the mirror I really can't see much of a difference. They are much thicker at the bottom but that's because I started them with braids. So the braids shrunk up a lot. So I know that is going to be a part of my dreds until I cut them off.</span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLmy5uv42l_WQY0dgpif3p3WcwQnfDjW13HKWOn9NzCnZ8-JW1x1r1u36XLlld2ASzb06mT8V-kUdhj561UFClDJvfhQe95og_YgSS1hei-pysjPj8a0C2xKr6U6PhRfXAxUlTlfET/s1600/Photo+532.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLmy5uv42l_WQY0dgpif3p3WcwQnfDjW13HKWOn9NzCnZ8-JW1x1r1u36XLlld2ASzb06mT8V-kUdhj561UFClDJvfhQe95og_YgSS1hei-pysjPj8a0C2xKr6U6PhRfXAxUlTlfET/s320/Photo+532.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629676508124661122" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"> Then I see people with sisterlocks and honestly people complain and complain of the time it takes to get them redone, the amount they have and the strength of their dreds. I listen to them and think, shoot! I need to keep mine! I don't even like to finish all of mine, I just have to many I know I have just under 500 and that's just overwhelming sometimes.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;">I encouraged my mother to get the actual sisterlocks. You can definitely see a difference but the difference is so minute it really doesn't matter. The difference between my dreds and sisterlocks looks like less than a 1\4 of an inch. per dred. Plus my mom and I have the same number of dreds! And hers are sisterlocks. I must admit however the parting is way better on the sisterlocks. But these are braidlocks. I went online and bought the instruction manual for 30 bucks and never paid a dime more. I'm doing it all myself so it's absolutely free. I know sisterlocks are beautiful, I know they are better, but at the end of the day my hair is clean, fresh, and MY HAIR! I hope all who choose go some sort of natural route. Any way is better than perms. But c'mon ladies we buy enough labels. Are we going to label our hair too?!</span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgUxdJ_JjiNlKKA06kSdPfEj_WboHZROEubeCb1gtkxJe8e_5AqNcrYlhnxUQXTQPXM43c7W1A1PeZWIrnrGNZTmIL3hwk1ItI23WYp1CY1nPbYx5AmAtwft6QsWfxE6yNmluzaeuT/s1600/Photo+531.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgUxdJ_JjiNlKKA06kSdPfEj_WboHZROEubeCb1gtkxJe8e_5AqNcrYlhnxUQXTQPXM43c7W1A1PeZWIrnrGNZTmIL3hwk1ItI23WYp1CY1nPbYx5AmAtwft6QsWfxE6yNmluzaeuT/s320/Photo+531.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629676492552844946" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><br /></span><br /></div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563999750150428230noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090295952727533.post-82400625725893037182010-05-30T19:57:00.000-07:002010-05-30T20:13:04.894-07:00not much of nothing<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ5jmkb4Kra490JNbJv5MYs1vSIhdsp0UMu_sK79CmjH7rGv7Wy9zIqF8-5h3GUShsJbPd51mZ6h5565IaMuOKKx-CN1iZe4kXQ2neot3cyvbhc9PHwt-lvc7hLRmqYQMu8PzV1Se4/s1600/Photo+141.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ5jmkb4Kra490JNbJv5MYs1vSIhdsp0UMu_sK79CmjH7rGv7Wy9zIqF8-5h3GUShsJbPd51mZ6h5565IaMuOKKx-CN1iZe4kXQ2neot3cyvbhc9PHwt-lvc7hLRmqYQMu8PzV1Se4/s320/Photo+141.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477266560274845778" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAS7j9a4kBJvJLLCePZ5ZZAhIyc3Z-mKeuFHy4hvRzrlYooL_q0NoluIQlBVXcMZIi-hmKfXL_KGRN3w7jvDMqi59cjYMuxZvWzHVf2lZLRReH7j4AAC8PAE986K6JwfoBKkbJiuWo/s1600/Photo+14.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAS7j9a4kBJvJLLCePZ5ZZAhIyc3Z-mKeuFHy4hvRzrlYooL_q0NoluIQlBVXcMZIi-hmKfXL_KGRN3w7jvDMqi59cjYMuxZvWzHVf2lZLRReH7j4AAC8PAE986K6JwfoBKkbJiuWo/s320/Photo+14.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477266546061914498" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWnKc2k6qggVD8xcLwPHFYOpWmfAHTXCkgjpQPDq-yLdApa8YI_Flv4_jLe9Px_c7wP9kP0W2IV1lSeQNRFAak94-nfb5iV0GAIMX3xfgVKtUwjz5CeBCoXHfEjDyFXAT55k0LMlAh/s1600/Photo+12.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWnKc2k6qggVD8xcLwPHFYOpWmfAHTXCkgjpQPDq-yLdApa8YI_Flv4_jLe9Px_c7wP9kP0W2IV1lSeQNRFAak94-nfb5iV0GAIMX3xfgVKtUwjz5CeBCoXHfEjDyFXAT55k0LMlAh/s320/Photo+12.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477266539622950178" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiFFW5QYQ73fK6BH8pvXtRg0D6esfpegdsGEbRMIoJJ-_JWhffyWjz2wQXHg-8g432F0Wg_HnV6LLAV5dUfytdI0vYf08c9X4zuy_Kw90rNTFFvv4RX6ei13v-3Za7hn4QdiKydfRt/s1600/Photo+11.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiFFW5QYQ73fK6BH8pvXtRg0D6esfpegdsGEbRMIoJJ-_JWhffyWjz2wQXHg-8g432F0Wg_HnV6LLAV5dUfytdI0vYf08c9X4zuy_Kw90rNTFFvv4RX6ei13v-3Za7hn4QdiKydfRt/s320/Photo+11.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477266528911425394" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgncPfYhD7y3WX50S8EVOejtVLbsizTc5sowTb3MinPIM4fhiZcTbK8T-KR9vxolwCOwHKwVqGnoLO4lPGmGUoC2ilPe__VxFcpImiHhyoerm7FHd8G8XR9vAPBEqX2CaAiqPkZJ8J_/s1600/Photo+10.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgncPfYhD7y3WX50S8EVOejtVLbsizTc5sowTb3MinPIM4fhiZcTbK8T-KR9vxolwCOwHKwVqGnoLO4lPGmGUoC2ilPe__VxFcpImiHhyoerm7FHd8G8XR9vAPBEqX2CaAiqPkZJ8J_/s320/Photo+10.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477266519598739362" /></a><br />I'm so very sad at the moment....<div><br /></div><div>I never understood y in my life I've done the things I've done. I've always dated the wrong guys, gotten pregnant. Dated verbally abusive guys, ditched my family, never kept any friends...</div><div><br /></div><div>I never understood why I was the way I was.</div><div><br /></div><div>After another horrible arguement with the family (one of thousands I've had over the years) I realized that the reason why I act the way I do is not because of my dad. I haven't been trying to escape my dad. I' trying to escape and please my mom. She's always been abusive, verbally and sometimes physically. She admits that she loves me but theres some intrinsic things about me that she doesn't like. Which comes off like she doesn't like me. It never occurred to me that the reason why I always dated psychotic controlling men is because I'm trying in a way to make my mom love me by making men that act like her love me. I was always trying to hard to be with a man because I was trying to create the family I was never able to have. I've heard of women doing this with their dads, but never their moms. But for some reason today it dawned on me that the controlling ways of my x's and their inability to love me resemble my mom. Because my dad may have ignored me at times and been strict, but I know I can get a lot out of my dad. He always falls for me and in the end he is very proud of me. It's my mom that I can't please.</div><div><br /></div><div>And my x's always controlling, always verbally abusive, always CRAZY, always have that inability to love me the way I always wanted... JUST LIKE MY MOTHER! Weird huh?!</div><div><br /></div><div>Now I know what the problem is... I don't know how to fix it. Psychologists always refer to the story when talking about this complex about the young woman who had an alcoholic abusive father. And then they put her in a room full of guys and she will always find her way to the ONLY alcoholic in the room.... That's me, but I always find the emotionally detached, verbally abusive lunatic! How in the world can u avoid verbally abusive emotionally detached lunatics?! They don't exactly wear signs. </div><div><br /></div><div>Maybe I need to just give up on men, or let someone pick them for me. Something along those lines.</div><div><br /></div><div>How do I fix the problem with my mother? Move out. The problem will never be fixed. She will never like me. She will always be pissed at me. She will always try to control me and use hurt to do it. The only thing I can do is accept that, try my best not to do it to my son, and try to avoid living the unstable disgusting anger filled lifestyle she has tried to teach me over the years is ok to live in.</div><div><br /></div><div>Sounds good huh....</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>As far as the hair... it's growing! I can't wait till 3 yrs. August will be 2 yrs so right now is like 21 yrs!!! yay for me! BTW the pics are different stuff. THe straight back shot is my hair wet from the back now... it's grown a lot. And the other shots are of the bantu knots, and what they looked like when taken down! One of the best curls yet for me....</div><div><br /></div><div>ttyl!</div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563999750150428230noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090295952727533.post-86745768135844770082010-02-28T20:57:00.000-08:002010-02-28T21:08:47.333-08:00More retightenings!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITCEeVBYQ7lm-X0aXfDgBIJm-bduU_iH3c25V91PEfIf5O3KVEhzy6DJjMd4YibFd9m3RYFrr9v5MkKA34i9zwNHUUy4HzSF0KQkaGtMK7jaClv6Hy4y9iz9XNyDiGvvRrMnjDHNN/s1600-h/Photo+124.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITCEeVBYQ7lm-X0aXfDgBIJm-bduU_iH3c25V91PEfIf5O3KVEhzy6DJjMd4YibFd9m3RYFrr9v5MkKA34i9zwNHUUy4HzSF0KQkaGtMK7jaClv6Hy4y9iz9XNyDiGvvRrMnjDHNN/s320/Photo+124.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443527909693975202" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtH6F5MVzRfW3j6TpKu90g7zf77FSZkbfsn7Pphd4WejICdGT1LvrO4hMvJLq-ZZVMLqHWQlKozXBKaQwVc0FoA8I4JZxJMP3KB2RelDMZrRq8JsRWhptjIc9V9Bz4x7yh6Taujau6/s1600-h/Photo+121.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtH6F5MVzRfW3j6TpKu90g7zf77FSZkbfsn7Pphd4WejICdGT1LvrO4hMvJLq-ZZVMLqHWQlKozXBKaQwVc0FoA8I4JZxJMP3KB2RelDMZrRq8JsRWhptjIc9V9Bz4x7yh6Taujau6/s320/Photo+121.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443527902741620514" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZHVHKIcP6JBVMfaNjy-x8a82lRbSDLsnPn6NBWHhn3Ww1F7DtjnVKgsPK3Owv5mYa3nxMzPUSnoUZCJzPgjPOcMP1a6gQhQgreRbgNMOVmjyaEzVorvG-bz6tdR-UZ1-FV087hL1V/s1600-h/Photo+122.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZHVHKIcP6JBVMfaNjy-x8a82lRbSDLsnPn6NBWHhn3Ww1F7DtjnVKgsPK3Owv5mYa3nxMzPUSnoUZCJzPgjPOcMP1a6gQhQgreRbgNMOVmjyaEzVorvG-bz6tdR-UZ1-FV087hL1V/s320/Photo+122.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443527897154267154" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxvQCapWRPpUXyFOHGdtrgeN09gAxD-PWowNqU95D5VgGWUEa5IfjyYm0Fq6HmRvNzuOzBiBBKHMhfOylPVBW4VCEulWRfg6c5GDPsrQ9NNQp_A_v7oVVPMRcEfTtpSSIPWZ6XyyTG/s1600-h/Photo+127.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxvQCapWRPpUXyFOHGdtrgeN09gAxD-PWowNqU95D5VgGWUEa5IfjyYm0Fq6HmRvNzuOzBiBBKHMhfOylPVBW4VCEulWRfg6c5GDPsrQ9NNQp_A_v7oVVPMRcEfTtpSSIPWZ6XyyTG/s320/Photo+127.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443527893658271826" /></a><br />I'm not sure that it's that interesting, when you have locks you just retighten them all the time. But when I first started mine I wanted a step by step detailed thing, so I guess I'll try and keep up. So I made some new lock latching tools. I like the hook, kind of, but..... well sometimes it does pull strands of hair, also it doesn't work at all with the edges, or the really tiny ones, only on the slightly smaller ones.<div><br /></div><div>I realized also that my locks are technically micro's to smalls.</div><div><br /></div><div>I want to also keep dying my hair. I need to find someone that does it, because I will not be doing that myself ever ever! again. Wow, that is a horrible experience!</div><div><br /></div><div>at this point right now it's.... 19 months! woooo hoooo!</div><div><br /></div><div>I met a woman at my hospital with sisterlocks. She said she gets hers combined because she can't stand them that small, she said they break a lot. Hers are sooo tiny and neat! But she keeps them short. I won't be doing that, at least not until I'm much older. Right now I plan on becoming the little mermaid! We shall see how long the Lord allows me to get there.</div><div><br /></div><div>I plan on moving!</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm hoping to move to arizona. I'm dating a guy right now but I don't care! I'm not staying for him, and if he stays then it's over for us!</div><div><br /></div><div>Right now living in CT I know that I cannot afford to live here. Houses average around $300,000. My cousin just bought a home in oklahoma for $40,000. Now that I can purchase flat out living here in CT. I make good money, I also live with my parents. Within a year I could have the down payment for half the house! and have minimal monthly payments. I know it won't be a beautiful house, but at least I can have one. I have poor credit, so I know I will never be able to afford a house here! Never!</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm just upset because my bf doesn't understand. But he's quite a but younger than me and I tried to explain to him that we are at 2 different points. I have to think about my son, and I want to raise him in a home in a good area. Not in an inner city in an $1,500 a month cheap-ola apt barely scraping by!</div><div><br /></div><div>It's amazing, but that's the way society's set up, and if they don't want me here in CT, that's fine, other states will take me!</div><div><br /></div><div>And with my dreds I won't have to spend tremendous amounts on HAIR! </div><div><br /></div><div>THANK GOD!</div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563999750150428230noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090295952727533.post-32314982905492970962010-02-16T18:16:00.000-08:002010-02-16T18:25:42.412-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB4CVbwB6-7uWsCPICp8IzhHVAIOGJlzws-jcLkcQ7tgrurgC97oJXNKQlLZgf-ljDndkKss4PDifVxof87Di3W3NlMQACUM-b5leSfX3GMkMtuq_D0VwUqZGcF3I92DS05ylhfpwL/s1600-h/Photo+50.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB4CVbwB6-7uWsCPICp8IzhHVAIOGJlzws-jcLkcQ7tgrurgC97oJXNKQlLZgf-ljDndkKss4PDifVxof87Di3W3NlMQACUM-b5leSfX3GMkMtuq_D0VwUqZGcF3I92DS05ylhfpwL/s320/Photo+50.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439032307996985122" /></a>Well there's not much going on in my hair life... I've redyed it and I'm just waiting for it to grow..... I want it to be long and neat NOW! I's so jealous of all those with long dreds. But people keep telling me that it's a process..... UGH! Well this is a process I don't like!<div><br /></div><div>I cut out most of the extensions but some I left in and just cut as much as I could. They tell you on youtube that they're not permenant and they will come out..... please! They are not coming out as I'd like, so not the length is uneven.... Oh well that was a little mistake! At least I didn't do my whole head. No more extensions, real or fake!</div><div>I wanted to dye my head blond for a moment, but I had a rude awakening. I like having my hair a dark brown but dying it is tedious and it's obvious I need someone to do it for me because the dred core does not dye at the same pace as my roots... and my edges.... my gosh, they dye like a white girls head! And the back won't take at all! </div><div><br /></div><div>Lesson learned from that? </div><div>Have a professional do it!</div><div><br /></div><div>LOL. Doesn't it say that on the label? ha. I'm a knucklehead.</div><div><br /></div><div>Well just updating for all those who follow me, I'll post recent pics.</div><div><br /></div><div>I am at 18 months! wow time flies... I'll never ever go back to perms....</div><div><br /></div><div>(on the fish pic you can obviously see my extensions!!! WOW, randomly long... I don't like them now)</div><div><br /></div><div>(And on the last pic as well you can see how they're just randomly longer and weird compared to the length of my hair! ohhh I wish I didn't do that, now I can't take it out! ugh)</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_WBueFrdnoyxoof1LjMH9drVXAgzqPVJ3t9EhGewI82Rd89XN7eCLZlt1HTORMLWDfTOgwqPV8PdEYyTqDeQUIz5Ad5XZ8-JQZhJ0o3Gu_3UdSkYBlEbeKgP4AlHgI10xSDjfyMM/s1600-h/Photo+102.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_WBueFrdnoyxoof1LjMH9drVXAgzqPVJ3t9EhGewI82Rd89XN7eCLZlt1HTORMLWDfTOgwqPV8PdEYyTqDeQUIz5Ad5XZ8-JQZhJ0o3Gu_3UdSkYBlEbeKgP4AlHgI10xSDjfyMM/s320/Photo+102.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439032304797734370" /></a><br /><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUdOQWqbK0kFzSeqJW6LStwG-gK1O2WPQTaa3MB1uIK5bMQY3N4JsRx580l8IT7kdCSvF-QPVHzKmajpLsX42n9xF_anJfB14ylbVXZOK6CX3mohcPQrm5VkDxKleZ3qGzD83CNdJU/s1600-h/Photo+43.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUdOQWqbK0kFzSeqJW6LStwG-gK1O2WPQTaa3MB1uIK5bMQY3N4JsRx580l8IT7kdCSvF-QPVHzKmajpLsX42n9xF_anJfB14ylbVXZOK6CX3mohcPQrm5VkDxKleZ3qGzD83CNdJU/s320/Photo+43.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439032303126223858" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZi0VFQjUlNWQe7Cpwpi0HPDf0Duu4meCW30ab1t4anAA4glwuw7e6r-IJuN-0RRAQT8FRifim4UeyhwZlyF-FEjO4mTcEoU81Vk8J2e7-c4WrPVSlGNP_18rGYmR_8x-eWLkkr61x/s1600-h/Photo+49.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZi0VFQjUlNWQe7Cpwpi0HPDf0Duu4meCW30ab1t4anAA4glwuw7e6r-IJuN-0RRAQT8FRifim4UeyhwZlyF-FEjO4mTcEoU81Vk8J2e7-c4WrPVSlGNP_18rGYmR_8x-eWLkkr61x/s320/Photo+49.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439032298795437154" /></a><br /><br /></div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563999750150428230noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090295952727533.post-28405840493427451852009-10-20T10:20:00.000-07:002009-10-20T10:21:12.700-07:00Sociopaths on campus<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Viner Hand ITC'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">SOCIOPATHS </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">ON</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">CAMPUS</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">~Sam Peckinpah</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">A Sociopath (Psychopath, Antisocial Personality Disorder) is defined as, “</span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others and inability or unwillingness to conform to what are considered to be the norms of society.” (Long, 2005)</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">There are 7 characteristics, only three of which, are needed to be defined as a clinical sociopath.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Those include:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.75in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">1. Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.75in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">2. Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.75in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">3. Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.75in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">4. Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.75in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">5. Reckless disregard for safety of self or others.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.75in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">6. Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.75in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">7. Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another person.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">The list of African American athletes on this campus who appear to meet these characteristics seem to be as lengthy as the school’s roster.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">However, the fault of this façade lies not within this specific student demographic, but in UConn’s athletic administration, staff, coaches, and the general school community.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">These types of behaviors are allowed to be exhibited until the point of embarrassment; when the brunt of the fallout rests solely upon the student athlete.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">The sociopath associated behaviors are ignored on a daily basis, and even rewarded when displayed in settings beneficial to the school.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Social supports are not set up, school related activities that a normal freshman would attend to gain community adhesion are not attended by said athletes, and normal societal expectations that are placed on every other student are abandoned.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">All the while, reckless behaviors are suppressed by continual practices, lengthy workouts, and violent characteristics are rewarded through the guise of sportsman-like competition.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Whether it is known or not, this school is breeding sociopaths.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">A Sociopath, also known as Antisocial Personality Disorder, is a documented personality disorder treatable with individual or group psychotherapy or individual cognitive behavioral therapy.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">“</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Antisocial personality disorder is one of the most difficult personality disorders to treat. Individuals rarely seek treatment on their own and may only initiate therapy when mandated by a court. The efficacy of treatment for antisocial personality disorder is largely unknown.”</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">(Ballas, 2006)</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Rather than setting up a group of people to fail when exposed to traditional cultural situations, this community should practice preventative techniques in this unaddressed mental health arena.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">A qualitative research study was conducted in this exact area.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Examining Productive Conceptions of Masculinities: Lessons Learned from Academically Driven African American Male Student-Athletes, </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">examined high achieving, African American, Division I athletic team members in Caucasian schools.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">The study revealed that high achieving African American athletes had masculine definitions that differed from traditional associations of masculinity.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">“</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">These participants associated masculinity with having strong, upstanding, and moral character. Moreover, they equated masculinity with having integrity and the courage ‘to do what is right.’” (Martin & Harris, 2006) The article identified the administrator’s coaches and faculty as the persons responsible for collaborating with each other, to not only win on the field, but to remember that these young men are students first.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">The identity and development of these young men need to be discovered with the help of their faculty.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">“This effort will only be successful if institutional leaders are willing to learn more about the student athlete experience and recognize the effects of policies and procedures developed for this group.”</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">(Martin & Harris, 2006)</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Expectations of the students behavior needs to be stated upfront and foremost.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Ways of expressing masculinity beyond the traditional “money and power” mode needs to be explored by the coaches, so they can express these ideas to their athletes.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">“Furthermore, coaches could collaborate with university offices that are equipped to address issues of male gender identity such as student affairs and counseling services.” (Martin & Harris, 2006)</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">The article also proposed that, “Identifying African American male leaders, introducing student athletes to African American faculty members, and encouraging student-athletes to live in African American-centered residence halls are all possible ways to socialize African American male student-athletes to campus.”</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">With Virginia Tech fresh on the country’s memory, this community needs to take a stand for what behaviors will and will not be allowed on this campus.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Moreover, the fault of said behaviors need not be placed squarely on the dejected and neglected young men fresh from high school.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">The fault of these repugnant behaviors needs to be placed on the school and the community.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">New ways of serving and protecting this underserved population need to be explored and implemented.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Standing idly by as another arrest happens on this campus is no longer excused by blaming others.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">UConn needs to be responsible, and re-examine its policy in dealing with athletes on this campus.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">One or two sociopaths on the team are an anomaly.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Continual sociopath characteristics exhibited by more than one athlete, year after year, unfortunately speaks to the administration and direction of UConn athletics as a whole.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family: Arial; "></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in; "><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></div><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">References:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Ballas, Paul (2006, November 15). Antisocial personality disorder. Retrieved April 27, 2007, from Medline Plus Web site:</span></span><a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000921.htm"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000921.htm</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Long, P.W. (2005). Antisocial personality disorder: American definition. Retrieved April 27, 2007, from Internet Mental Health Web site:</span></span><a href="http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis1/p21-pe04.html"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis1/p21-pe04.html</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on"><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Martin</span></span></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">, </span><st1:state st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">M.E.</span></st1:state></span></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">, & Harris, F. (2006). Examining productive conceptions of masculinities: Lessons learned from academically driven african american male student-athletes. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">The Journal of Men's Studies</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Vol. 14, No. 3</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">, 359-378.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span></span></o:p></span></div></o:p></span></span>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563999750150428230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090295952727533.post-61695833013785775762009-10-19T19:28:00.000-07:002009-10-19T19:40:10.872-07:00dancing = gay<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Imma try not to curse but I'm that upset.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">SO I tell this MOTHA F***A that I want to start my son in dance classes because he needs the discipline, and all my dad can focus on is the fact that if he does he might turn out to be gay?!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">MOTHA F***A!!!!!!!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">My son has already stabbed someone at school and according to the principle had "no remorse." He doesn't listen, wont sit still, always moving, acts terrible in school. Add on top of that I share custody with a drug abusing ghetto crappy apartment living no job having, I like my life and wont change it b***h of a father who tells my son he will beat him within an inch of his life if he doesn't fight and if he cries!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">My dad is always gone, always on some trip and planning on permanently moving as soon as summer of 2010, and now he's so worried about my son being gay with his gay ppl in church having behind that he's like threatening that he doesn't want to hear about it and isn't ok with it.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">F**K him! F**K HIM! WHO GIVES A F**K if he ends up being gay as long as he stops F**King STABBING people at school, and doesn't end up selling drugs on the corner with his dad. He tried to tell me that if I put him in dance, not only will he be a drug dealer and end up in jail still but he'll also be f**King everyone in the jail.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">WHAT THE F**K</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Does he really believe that? Is this life? So now the discipline I think dancing could offer my son, he can't have because my dad wants to be pissy?! F**K him! I don't need him. WHen he leaves, F**K him! He's such a jerk and he's always been a jerk and all this is his fault in the first place, cuz he's the one that started the whole you can't keep a kid away from his father, and now my son is sleeping on bare wood roach infested floors of his dads apt with drugs and everything, cuz I couldn't keep him away from his dad, when I could have and should have!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Not that it didn't cross my mind. Yes for a second I thought, geez there's an awful lot of gay men in dancing, but I felt that the benefits way outweighed the negatives. And the risk benefit ratio is better. SERIAL KILLER vs. GAY, DRUG DEALER vs. GAY NORMAL CITIZEN OF SOCIETY</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I'm not like pro gay, I just don't think of myself as dumb. No offense to anyone but I don't want my son to be gay. But I'm not at the point where I won't take a chance to improve him just to prevent the POSSIBILITY of gayness.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Like his dad wouldn't beat the crap out of him if he ended up being that way anyways.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I DON"T KNOW WHAT TO DO!!! I DON"T WANT HIM TO BE GAY BUT IM HIS MOTHER AND I SAW SOMETHING WHEN I WAS TRYING TO TEACH HIM TO DANCE I SAW HIS WORST SIDE AND I SAW THAT THROUGH DANCING IT WAS SLOWLY BEING CORRECTED AND I DON"T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">>>FRUSTRATION<<</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">sorry to vent but</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">whatever.</span></div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563999750150428230noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090295952727533.post-9948447615054726622009-10-16T20:34:00.000-07:002009-10-16T20:45:18.462-07:00Retightening 14 months<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir8OIdNlQYUnfgOdnrWyTiJbBcrix2RTxWWDcuSErpJ51z-0Nl3tkiZCkIYPdaeYfizIjhAZi5us0Hjr4RLDOPwjjCdiK6oBCyX-_dQ0xqlK09lKaoPUuFMYYaWl_iY4Uy1GFISYbO/s1600-h/Photo+81.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir8OIdNlQYUnfgOdnrWyTiJbBcrix2RTxWWDcuSErpJ51z-0Nl3tkiZCkIYPdaeYfizIjhAZi5us0Hjr4RLDOPwjjCdiK6oBCyX-_dQ0xqlK09lKaoPUuFMYYaWl_iY4Uy1GFISYbO/s320/Photo+81.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393409865603117442" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeN-5BCAIpslAOQB22I217hccfh-Oknly1vRap8nw7C26fjiLXPj_Ll1aM8ZDKrlA9o_EARIgIJc7kW7EVYo3-yuiAiwTyJGwYxSfFxlYY6YqSt_eO7FNBG8CRuVfVfkhwsrwmGqdB/s1600-h/Photo+79.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeN-5BCAIpslAOQB22I217hccfh-Oknly1vRap8nw7C26fjiLXPj_Ll1aM8ZDKrlA9o_EARIgIJc7kW7EVYo3-yuiAiwTyJGwYxSfFxlYY6YqSt_eO7FNBG8CRuVfVfkhwsrwmGqdB/s320/Photo+79.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393409855548896002" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO7RELnNIPjvY6YeP3tfKdF9Cz9KeOZ2RJS7ncaVI2HvQQV01r-yraiN6qk2f-8p7vK8unIp26pBmQ79sCAUS4Z9v8tMAjVwNMQ9Grm56fys7GgSKz_bFw5DojOgikgMZgLExqfFe-/s1600-h/Photo+77.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO7RELnNIPjvY6YeP3tfKdF9Cz9KeOZ2RJS7ncaVI2HvQQV01r-yraiN6qk2f-8p7vK8unIp26pBmQ79sCAUS4Z9v8tMAjVwNMQ9Grm56fys7GgSKz_bFw5DojOgikgMZgLExqfFe-/s320/Photo+77.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393409844948389442" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpRyb5UN015NdINO_pBjVY6vnxlp8KeUhLLXohOS6d-aVwbfX9pvSUR5a7xB0i5jdt6cL53U7uMxuCRB7iJCbJmEZxRprK77iko4fCN5RsyqBUy0C140wu_lxbEtOd87z2KXWhR6OZ/s1600-h/Photo+66.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpRyb5UN015NdINO_pBjVY6vnxlp8KeUhLLXohOS6d-aVwbfX9pvSUR5a7xB0i5jdt6cL53U7uMxuCRB7iJCbJmEZxRprK77iko4fCN5RsyqBUy0C140wu_lxbEtOd87z2KXWhR6OZ/s320/Photo+66.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393409840600973074" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh9AtbwmvpHJYIu8t7TLQmfCSJL_qVl3JKPic_8whXgh1hmchjcTvzm8WNA2QJoPB-SpOZkIEubUNJjj2tKeU4CmpGRDk7qkcy9iVehQ0dAUfbvuJqBsSM0FHzjwKAwORzz4M400XB/s1600-h/Photo+67.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh9AtbwmvpHJYIu8t7TLQmfCSJL_qVl3JKPic_8whXgh1hmchjcTvzm8WNA2QJoPB-SpOZkIEubUNJjj2tKeU4CmpGRDk7qkcy9iVehQ0dAUfbvuJqBsSM0FHzjwKAwORzz4M400XB/s320/Photo+67.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393409832510387938" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><br />so it's 14 months and I'm like so happy! Really I am. The locks are thinning out and taking shape. They're taking a good shape. Most of the extensions I cut out with the exception of about an inch around the ears and stuff where I thought it was just TOO short! ugg.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">Went to talk to an airforce recruiter yesterday. I asked him specifically about my hair and if it would be a problem if I joined. I don't even think he realized it was dreaded cuz all he said was, "well I'd go with a natural color if I were you." lolol. I didn't really feel like pointing it out...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">Even though I cut it I can definitely see the growth and maturation of the locks. Seems like when I cut the dreds they may not have been mature enough to have been cut. Nothing crazy but it seems like they're unraveling about 1/4 of the way up. Nothing crazy noticible, but when I do I hair I noticed. it. They unraveled a tad and then seemed to swell and knotted. 90% of the dred stayed intact. It was just interesting to note that!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">I didn't use the hair pin tool today I used the latch hook. It does catch quite a few other locks, but on the other hand it was definitely quicker this time around. It still took me about 3 days, but I only spend an hour to an hour and a half every day on it. So I'm still around 3 hours. However I do watch a lot of TV in the mean time.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">As for the extensions. I figured out to make dern good ones, and I sewed them in. Here's what I think after a couple of washings. The synthetic looks less like my grade of hair however it holds its shape very very well. How you finish it is for the most part how it stays. The Natural hair looks just like mine, HOWEVER I cannot get the extension locks quite as small as my locks. So I see why people say it's impossible to do sisterlock extensions. I don't have sisterlocks but I have over 400 locks in my head and it's definitely hard to match the size! Then again, I'm not at all professional.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">In consideration of joining the airforce, I def will be keeping these forever! For the ease of care. I cannot be in bootcamp getting rained on and all that drama in the dirt with a perm. LOL at the thought!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">later.</span></div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563999750150428230noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090295952727533.post-57497060119299705482009-10-12T11:00:00.000-07:002009-10-12T11:07:13.486-07:00extensions, buns, and the airforce<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXAfONpErsqt6Ri5IkAf9yqvYcU4iwqdZPb9csmxBmCSc2FeH8yU1cGGwNG4bfMXAidgjhoJFOr1_swqbVtINKRp4B9SF5bPA0Kci2lAXiND0UyjtSB-9lSsbGeIQQr0fS5a9vh95n/s1600-h/Photo+57.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXAfONpErsqt6Ri5IkAf9yqvYcU4iwqdZPb9csmxBmCSc2FeH8yU1cGGwNG4bfMXAidgjhoJFOr1_swqbVtINKRp4B9SF5bPA0Kci2lAXiND0UyjtSB-9lSsbGeIQQr0fS5a9vh95n/s320/Photo+57.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391775561370550066" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtS2H5hR2M9lJ6DYFBr7lN4atJU6pqd-8PYe7kjghOyeAFwM30VI9mSogWP1SnKoiUFnR9p_wGzIt8Et4I93hyEMRg_fxbe2gUtMcGoGWteVFwo8nC8a55eIrlWborTvVM45_bXEnV/s1600-h/Photo+63.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtS2H5hR2M9lJ6DYFBr7lN4atJU6pqd-8PYe7kjghOyeAFwM30VI9mSogWP1SnKoiUFnR9p_wGzIt8Et4I93hyEMRg_fxbe2gUtMcGoGWteVFwo8nC8a55eIrlWborTvVM45_bXEnV/s320/Photo+63.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391775559436568034" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbAI9d1LPdQ5Xt1UiiVd9a3dUXee14SZnM6vMNZ_3qjH6YkwGmSx4b1ljpV1ILnuMF3yQ1XXD6z5VWRDWPw95BCpDC8dh4n14OPhQV7sp2_Vu1RKh673EZ6GUj1VprVzEBULr3Tv9W/s1600-h/Photo+61.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbAI9d1LPdQ5Xt1UiiVd9a3dUXee14SZnM6vMNZ_3qjH6YkwGmSx4b1ljpV1ILnuMF3yQ1XXD6z5VWRDWPw95BCpDC8dh4n14OPhQV7sp2_Vu1RKh673EZ6GUj1VprVzEBULr3Tv9W/s320/Photo+61.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391775547019968866" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnR7lUZVx20Hu6TkuYY_8Evj5GOR1zvy0qJBXwWvj0fTLxfs7lvAlIgcjEwN6Te4BE57TZ29P5tOQZ-JYtK6eE-3GdOnNVQETpawAD6V3V9qtUSztFzJYU1pr0H9F1flacCcrLEmXX/s1600-h/Photo+58.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnR7lUZVx20Hu6TkuYY_8Evj5GOR1zvy0qJBXwWvj0fTLxfs7lvAlIgcjEwN6Te4BE57TZ29P5tOQZ-JYtK6eE-3GdOnNVQETpawAD6V3V9qtUSztFzJYU1pr0H9F1flacCcrLEmXX/s320/Photo+58.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391775543369455522" /></a><br />So I was so unhappy with my length that I added extentions. But then I cut those as well. LOL. My hair after the extensions is pretty much the same length! What was I thinking! I also trimmed my locks. I'm not sure if that was a good think. I like it. I like the "groomed" look. However some say that it makes your locks weak. UGH. So there's a picture there where I have my hair in a bun. I used a hair net (like a cafeteria lady would wear) to make the bun look extra neat. I think it does somewhat. <div><br /></div><div>Here's the deal. I'm thinking of joining the airforce. I know they don't allow dreds, but they might allow me to sneak by as long as I can put my hair in a low ponytail-ugh. I'm not quite there yet.</div><div><br /></div><div>I really will not join thought if they say I have to cut them. I love my dreds. I signed a petition that stated that congress is wrong for not allowing dreds. It's a fair way of doing nappy hair. I don't think white people really know that our hair comes out of our head nappy. I mean if I get deployed, how in the heck will I get a perm? I don't know why this is a rule. ugggg.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ok so that is basically all that I have done for the day. </div><div><br /></div><div>l8r</div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563999750150428230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090295952727533.post-6543815673310903112009-10-01T10:44:00.000-07:002009-10-01T10:45:19.081-07:00OMG<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">y did I cut my hair? OHHHH.... Never again!</span>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563999750150428230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090295952727533.post-34739221491878034252009-09-30T11:39:00.000-07:002009-09-30T12:14:08.670-07:00Random stuff I've learned doing my own hair!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi83hLEhsJVTi5LVnXwQF1Gq14Tsj8O-xSvpNJsblZBrT7qyWOQbFv5crupHr5ZWwdu9suMdSs9sOwcP9WhdLh4q-SBg-3muMeX95hti4oCwvCAGqqbj6LwDI1beGNyg5Itdl5M_QBm/s1600-h/hair-pins.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 219px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi83hLEhsJVTi5LVnXwQF1Gq14Tsj8O-xSvpNJsblZBrT7qyWOQbFv5crupHr5ZWwdu9suMdSs9sOwcP9WhdLh4q-SBg-3muMeX95hti4oCwvCAGqqbj6LwDI1beGNyg5Itdl5M_QBm/s320/hair-pins.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387338271697163698" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><br /></span><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">NEVER use a curling iron. Apparently you can burn you hair, and it will not retain it's natural curl that makes it coil, and I imagine it would stink! lol.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">When you interlock your hair there are several rotations. Lets pretend spot 1 is the ceiling, 2 is the left 3 is the floor, and 4 is the right, there are several patterns you can use: 4,3,2,1 rotation, 1,2,3,4 rotation, 2,1,2,4 rotation.... those are the only ones I know of. Originally I used a 4, 1, 2, 3 rotation. I switched to a 2,1,2,4 because I thought my hair would stop slipping out of the lock and it slipped more! It also was so tight it looked knotted, so I'm back to 4,1,2,3 because it looks more ropish. I guess every one's hair is different so you just have to see which rotation works for you. There are several ways you can do these rotations. You can use a latch hook that you can buy from an arts and crafts store for a few bucks. With the latch hook you have to take the latch stick it in the new growth through the dred. Put the dred lock into the latch, close the "latch door" over the dred so it is hooked in it and pull it out back the way you came. I like to go for spot 4(floor) I like to go in from the bottom of the nape of the neck and stick it through to the ceiling grab the dred and pull it back through towards the floor (hence the name floor) it's really complicated to explain but if you go on youtube and look it up you will find video directions that will explain it better.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">ALWAYS ALWAYS end the dred at the same spot. If you forget and during the next retightening start at a weird spot your dred will look messed up, it will not have a ropelike dred, it will be more lumpy. The rotation of the lock should go 4,3,2,1,4,3,2,1,4,3,2,1 consistently, if you stop and start at all kinds of places the dred rotation may look like this 4,3,2,3,2,1,4,4,3,2,1 so you can imagine why it will be lumpy. But hey a lumpy dred isn't the end of the world.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">OH I also use a second tool for my edges and really really small dreds. I simply take a hair pin, the thin ones, not a bobby pin, it's much thicher and harder to manipulate.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi83hLEhsJVTi5LVnXwQF1Gq14Tsj8O-xSvpNJsblZBrT7qyWOQbFv5crupHr5ZWwdu9suMdSs9sOwcP9WhdLh4q-SBg-3muMeX95hti4oCwvCAGqqbj6LwDI1beGNyg5Itdl5M_QBm/s1600-h/hair-pins.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 219px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi83hLEhsJVTi5LVnXwQF1Gq14Tsj8O-xSvpNJsblZBrT7qyWOQbFv5crupHr5ZWwdu9suMdSs9sOwcP9WhdLh4q-SBg-3muMeX95hti4oCwvCAGqqbj6LwDI1beGNyg5Itdl5M_QBm/s320/hair-pins.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387338271697163698" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"> i take a hair pin, open it a bit round the beginning then twist the ends together, so it looks like a large needle. I never bought a nappylocks tool, but in the end it kind of looks like that, and I also find that hair pins are easier to replace. you can retwist your dreds any time anywhere with that tool! and it's cheap.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Curling your hair OH what a journey. I curl mine dry. If I wet it, it does NOT dry. EVER. I do have a lot of hair though. I roll it dry with perming rods. Sometimes I use foam curlers to get a tighter curl, I also realized the other day that the old timers method of taking strips of cloth or strips of an old paper bag work as well. However the curl is a little more wild and unpredictable. But it does the job, EXTREMELY cheap.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Shirley temple curls!!!! YAAA I figured it out from youtube, thanks youtube! Pipe cleaners. Yea Pipe cleaners</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZn30cXnI_WGRiyYAiq1qjEhCDpGuVUlcqWbRzWlcoxnXwDoXn-XTqKt1cMTM4M7WPDwuefzpD7W5RG9-yDiuKRTe9sU8mcwg-9FzwEexezyiGelJtBzksYTznr99pc7tBC8dEFVtF/s1600-h/pipe-cleaner.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZn30cXnI_WGRiyYAiq1qjEhCDpGuVUlcqWbRzWlcoxnXwDoXn-XTqKt1cMTM4M7WPDwuefzpD7W5RG9-yDiuKRTe9sU8mcwg-9FzwEexezyiGelJtBzksYTznr99pc7tBC8dEFVtF/s320/pipe-cleaner.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387336610230398978" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"> here's a pic. I bought them in dark brown the color of my hair, but they have them in black as well. Take those and wrap your hair around them in a tight spiral kind of way. You can take the ends and bend them or whatever. If you have really long locks you can leave them in and let your hair look shorter, for us with short hair, I'd take them out before work. With these you'll get that tight shirley temple look everyone raves about and pays so much for!</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Apparently you have to go to professional for a dying job because there is a possibility the dye can get stuck INSIDE the lock! I didn't know that. I would still did it myself though, but let me tell you, it was NO fun! Color EVERYWHERE, and not to mention apparently different grades of hair dye at different rates! YEA! So while my hair turned dark brown, my softer edges turned BLOND! YES marilyn monroe BLOND! Luckily my mom had some black hair dye around that I used to turn my edges back to normal, but it was no fun, and because of that, I don't reccomend DIY for bleaching.....</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Some people don't put little combs with the jewels on the end in their hair, because they state it will rip the hair apart and weaken the dred. I used them all the time, but as my locks have matured the hair pin wont really go through the dred, so I stopped using them anyways.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">When washing, there is no need for vigorous scrubbing of the actual dred. I've learned that you're supposed to squeeze with the purpose of trying to get the soap through the whole lock and get the nasty stuff out of the middle. You're really only supposed to scrub your scalp. I didn't know, and entire locks were coming out all the time. SMH.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">When curling your hair sometimes you don't want curls all the way to the forehead sometimes you only want curls at the ends, the best way to do that is to put a headband on and scoot it back on the head a little bit a curl it up to the headband. That way the lock doesn't curl all the way to the head, only to the head band. That's better for people who don't like curls all the way to the top.</span></li></ul><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Ok if I think of anything else, I'll post it. ok later.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563999750150428230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090295952727533.post-50859748078144441072009-09-30T11:07:00.000-07:002009-09-30T11:36:06.876-07:00it's been WAAAAAAY TO LONG!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /><br />My fault, My bad!</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">I really should have updated but I didn't.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">I'm sorry.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">I FINALLY PASSED YEAR 1!!!!! WOOOOO!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">I thought I would never make it, uggg.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Ok! So, SO many things have happened. I got a new job, quit it, got another one quit that one too! now I'm jobless. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">In the realm of hair, it grew and grew and grew...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">I went on a helicopter ride this month, and had my locs. I was happy I chose to interlock cuz if I had traditional dreds, I don't think the helmets and stuff would have fit on my head! Another funny, is that I was riding along with these white ladies and when they took off their helmet their hair was SOO gross! ugh, it stuck to their forehead and was wet and sweaty... a MESS! I was so happy thinking, huh, I don't have that problem!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">But I do have some other problems I will share with you..... let's update, so I think I stopped at 6 months...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1s5W4JCMq5liN9ChoAAV5kIkU9uHzzOqh9Kq8ZPRwF6rFF7n6aKmgBXybCEbEEl9o8SXp5vRqJW-9FWMVqrdFAF79pA27tMlPRn6kM13dsnVchVGhJaCKcBOpKniFJVVKafp4TEMH/s1600-h/Photo+6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1s5W4JCMq5liN9ChoAAV5kIkU9uHzzOqh9Kq8ZPRwF6rFF7n6aKmgBXybCEbEEl9o8SXp5vRqJW-9FWMVqrdFAF79pA27tMlPRn6kM13dsnVchVGhJaCKcBOpKniFJVVKafp4TEMH/s320/Photo+6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387324865344455890" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8s3oBrV4w2ZTlzFPAn6DNAmcjdSalVs5VANrQB-T5paUPxojgpQG6IBvw5JkaCk0evqs5VjgYRq2yqfz7UmqCE0MOB0yr9x96NfBYbZMNKhqA78wYLZCkzbZh1eCPly0ZP9U-C6c-/s1600-h/Photo+50.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8s3oBrV4w2ZTlzFPAn6DNAmcjdSalVs5VANrQB-T5paUPxojgpQG6IBvw5JkaCk0evqs5VjgYRq2yqfz7UmqCE0MOB0yr9x96NfBYbZMNKhqA78wYLZCkzbZh1eCPly0ZP9U-C6c-/s320/Photo+50.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387325243364451442" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">I think these were around 8 or 9 months... I took them in my kitchen.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /><br /></span></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> And this is the picture that I fondly remember thinking that I was soo cute. It was 10 months I think.</span></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGYWPDD_fsLyaU0kKg4OL_p1phjOGHXcASECLsvGUUmT86Vt50KoleHPObzhRZ2FxBNB8F6Fq2cGTu2AAVsx2bhbmi-L4wfec6tQ4fEhCA86Bnym_OnAROH7SjGeTLeZGRHrDYeRhB/s1600-h/Photo+9.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGYWPDD_fsLyaU0kKg4OL_p1phjOGHXcASECLsvGUUmT86Vt50KoleHPObzhRZ2FxBNB8F6Fq2cGTu2AAVsx2bhbmi-L4wfec6tQ4fEhCA86Bnym_OnAROH7SjGeTLeZGRHrDYeRhB/s320/Photo+9.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387326105065201058" /></a></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> Now at this point underneath, I'm just posing to show the length</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidICpTjLx1MRnxOIqpJhOT3A3ix0sKTswr2JDq36L3VeGJZcry_dRDOa_j8AWVe8-ZxCHlb00VYybCPVK3qb3C_sK_ANQrsH_i94jpKxB6g-DomEnvLTNJdO02mnY6oLQdIvpzZJGc/s1600-h/Photo+29.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidICpTjLx1MRnxOIqpJhOT3A3ix0sKTswr2JDq36L3VeGJZcry_dRDOa_j8AWVe8-ZxCHlb00VYybCPVK3qb3C_sK_ANQrsH_i94jpKxB6g-DomEnvLTNJdO02mnY6oLQdIvpzZJGc/s320/Photo+29.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387326094093094866" /></a></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">And no one has told me how to do most stuff, some stuff that I don't even think should be a secret, or something sellable but it is!!! and that is ridiculious!!!<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiROCyJt5nYA89UdDpyZwKJMs5AZaeo11kXTEIxiwEjdPwsJrm7134lwUHZ7BkZRuVXN9-1c2YrEkC5I0BIGUHgb9n8oKoktjZ1s6oiOfQ1zYon_3L4JDmRYRetydnbTh8_9hsr9vq/s1600-h/Photo+32.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiROCyJt5nYA89UdDpyZwKJMs5AZaeo11kXTEIxiwEjdPwsJrm7134lwUHZ7BkZRuVXN9-1c2YrEkC5I0BIGUHgb9n8oKoktjZ1s6oiOfQ1zYon_3L4JDmRYRetydnbTh8_9hsr9vq/s320/Photo+32.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387326088370227394" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div></div><div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">I took this picture at almost exactly a year. I remember looking at this picture, and loving the length but hating the style. I looked at it and the ends looked so messy and unkempt, and I couldn't just wash and go. It was so messy looking I had to pull it back or up just to go out, and I hated that, and I hated the lumps, and I'm not talking about the buggies at the end of your hair I'm talking about big knots that I had developed at the ends because of stuff that I had done wrong, it was just not cute...</span><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYW-4J5yz6ca3jMfC0oPzLVjZs942c3kFHb7wARP-ymaBTnZ_P3Ol2SWAdwc1wPjAJN_hV_3vQQ9spgBTfMzc5Rf1KAK016im68XvfXtbAyDpGTnTTWCdkeHZIOm4hDlRF4PH3O_-s/s1600-h/Photo+35.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYW-4J5yz6ca3jMfC0oPzLVjZs942c3kFHb7wARP-ymaBTnZ_P3Ol2SWAdwc1wPjAJN_hV_3vQQ9spgBTfMzc5Rf1KAK016im68XvfXtbAyDpGTnTTWCdkeHZIOm4hDlRF4PH3O_-s/s320/Photo+35.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387326110529823586" /></a></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">SOOOO! I cut it. I'm not really sure how I feel about it, the edges are soo sooooo short, but one thing is for sure. I can now get up and just walk out the door. I cut off at least half of the knots!!!</span></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSMBpL0P6xDxlmWJV4_3APTuIp8o8oIJoDpaDBPv718ggYPDwvp-JSVIsJlZl0WNT8LqQb2jM3DdrblTe0EMX2j5gjwTA7tYyyoYVPvQC5_1FEiVgbFYQgndtT7qcjzqpmP54CbfxS/s1600-h/Photo+39.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSMBpL0P6xDxlmWJV4_3APTuIp8o8oIJoDpaDBPv718ggYPDwvp-JSVIsJlZl0WNT8LqQb2jM3DdrblTe0EMX2j5gjwTA7tYyyoYVPvQC5_1FEiVgbFYQgndtT7qcjzqpmP54CbfxS/s320/Photo+39.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387326117941181202" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br />The problem is that most people say that you shouldn't "groom" or cut or trim your locks for like 2 years, but I just couldn't do it anymore, if they mess up, they mess up. I didn't pay for this so this is a learn as I go situation. Hopefully it'll all be posted up here so everyone else doesn't have to go through the same drama... Another picture of the cut.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1qhUwzsAbXIQiv6cmtuTKVcMkPCSAm6WpjFZjmXLmJANVBUKWUNdSoh5AVTEotyekhLX7vZIDwzyFHbWr_Wsr9s4IXlVfqma0Mvl5RlYm_RGDNsHilsf6Om56OoEftTpy6exMtBh5/s1600-h/Photo+40.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1qhUwzsAbXIQiv6cmtuTKVcMkPCSAm6WpjFZjmXLmJANVBUKWUNdSoh5AVTEotyekhLX7vZIDwzyFHbWr_Wsr9s4IXlVfqma0Mvl5RlYm_RGDNsHilsf6Om56OoEftTpy6exMtBh5/s320/Photo+40.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387330025351742770" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq7UrD4UzJtRtxb0pxUCTT-lo9PrJqNi2zwUEb3On2BK11yJT4Tjchc5kYGaK9eRjvkKqc8MvUDLDVP8RBx7GVlKahyphenhyphenwCwSXo6ZRgkl9iu-rV96n1ppWY4L9PiHHah0bWl1LGKc6EL/s1600-h/Photo+43.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq7UrD4UzJtRtxb0pxUCTT-lo9PrJqNi2zwUEb3On2BK11yJT4Tjchc5kYGaK9eRjvkKqc8MvUDLDVP8RBx7GVlKahyphenhyphenwCwSXo6ZRgkl9iu-rV96n1ppWY4L9PiHHah0bWl1LGKc6EL/s320/Photo+43.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387330017611187618" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><br /><br />So right now that's where I am, I really REALLY miss the length! I really hate it this short, but I don't miss the messiness or the bumps!</span>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563999750150428230noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090295952727533.post-48740824774649882232009-01-29T11:24:00.000-08:002009-01-29T11:57:23.276-08:00finally I can start blogging on my hair!<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">So I've got braidloczs. People aske me if they're sisterlocks, and I always say no, this is DIY found on the internet hair. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">I've always been natural. I've never been a fan of perms for many many reasons....</span></span></div><div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">I'd been natural for about 4 years when I saw a website on sisterlocks. I thought they were the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I said what is that?! I MUST have those....</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">I contacted a few people and realized for the length of my hair it would cost me upwards of $600!!!! *OUCH!*</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">I was in college, with no loans, working part time to keep my child in private school, and I just said when I get out, I'll get it done. so 2 years went by. I got married. I moved to arizona, where there was like 3 locticians in pheonix and I lived 15 minutes from the border....</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">I was bummed maintaining twists by myself trying to figure out what to do when.... (drumroll please) my husband told me that he had been cheating on me for a month and he was leaving me for her and he wished me luck with everything but it was over...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Needless to say in a rage I tossed the house, took his car and a bag of carrots and some peanut butter crackers and his car and proceeded to drive home. From Arizona to Connecticut.... LOL.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">I only made it to Oklahoma city.... lol. Lets not even talk about how my twists looked at that moment....</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">I got home and was depressed, sad, and my hair looked like medusa on drugs. In a waiting to exhale moment, I said I'm getting those dreds, but I'm doing them myself cuz I want them NOW!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">So got on the internet and purchased the book on braidlocz and sat down for 3 days straight and braided my hair into itty bitty braids. They came out like this and this was the first smile I had seen on my face in months...</span></span></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFbBmVywfKueKYTQM5sXgCwYFSkiS_FiwBaB79s5Y5qLfITGOtzX5Kv5ymyVdCXzjV_2tL9hohl7asxpEZRNjLk2eHkNhEMkzbc-T5lDUjGH0uYmHeyKCFo4VxgeJbSezGmGwpWWD/s320/month1a.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296800856818214498" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></div></span><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhezglQh4vim84aViCrPC1aPh7BiIhLNBTYX8s5JJSDXGJiKMR_WG3v5vVObRVgqRu0XMTtDqmYycK8lY89mxuprMjn1h17Tmsg_waMXrP4HWSf2NSiYfxUXwQAzF6OfKSVKkMfje35/s320/month1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296800847074225250" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">So this was month 1. Now it's different with braidloczs they're not dreds they're just braids so they shrink and puff up which I learned the hard way, so a lot of the length I had went away as the dreading process began.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFfJwrxK24j26hlIYLfIKFO7Xd2uclBl22mUBu0A9JtPm0nZptf6fWnyH22M6O26YNDFgD7Ukv4XQQtydXs_XtrFWLjyteBYozBQl64VA5_mnccpSoup9IwYmoHm98su5Q3XjZk5OT/s320/month2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296801669069881890" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></div></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmiu6AQNECv5sqzD2q-2Rw6wFVbmbK7dgUldGHOxGjQ6dOGBVhShmXrMGguGgqYGYS9bRkB8A4GhKZcJ4s7-I_KFJpGwMNSepSNvTqxvEPrO7QmV-vKkM60U7bwNVglP2iLa1ZGHl3/s1600-h/month2b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmiu6AQNECv5sqzD2q-2Rw6wFVbmbK7dgUldGHOxGjQ6dOGBVhShmXrMGguGgqYGYS9bRkB8A4GhKZcJ4s7-I_KFJpGwMNSepSNvTqxvEPrO7QmV-vKkM60U7bwNVglP2iLa1ZGHl3/s320/month2b.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296801672747322066" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></div></span></a><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">you can see the difference in length here!^</span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></div></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3dEuepzdz_KA_a8A75jEPQB3zzlqQCxywck8lZLqs_ZDQplc3dNmYTbP0RetiMKyzUMzuQLEIhTR-u5g54FLQmAknbhSpy5lyJ0LEnK6odoZWHWrcXBlg0bKU32mL3vbNJdoCvdrN/s1600-h/month2a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3dEuepzdz_KA_a8A75jEPQB3zzlqQCxywck8lZLqs_ZDQplc3dNmYTbP0RetiMKyzUMzuQLEIhTR-u5g54FLQmAknbhSpy5lyJ0LEnK6odoZWHWrcXBlg0bKU32mL3vbNJdoCvdrN/s320/month2a.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296801668281195474" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Now as month 4 started to roll around I was able to do more things like curl them and not just braid them out for that crinkled look. And they were beginning to dred, but only a little here<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></div></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR7Xgz1eef3ar-nxs7qS9hW20ux0VtaXAJiDr7ZiJf2i5oGTXQMsKIGBeBvtjFziMmQhxzrivDWK_NsSCVqmK62B9qZysNYJZ34wIKnpE0_9FE2RlP_gCbBHPcQVl6fmQtIHjltSPR/s1600-h/4mos1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR7Xgz1eef3ar-nxs7qS9hW20ux0VtaXAJiDr7ZiJf2i5oGTXQMsKIGBeBvtjFziMmQhxzrivDWK_NsSCVqmK62B9qZysNYJZ34wIKnpE0_9FE2RlP_gCbBHPcQVl6fmQtIHjltSPR/s320/4mos1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296803561424439330" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></div></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyf1V_1CibiHncIAmBhVV9l9VvhFTTtgwQ6hir_iOil7i08tMk3Xwdn5m55GME49ECDAMqenayAzuWCK6HTXSf7x5qUSQqth75j_4oD1NClSYAgw1syaU-iOFm-Pi6B64Et349bCuK/s1600-h/4mos3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyf1V_1CibiHncIAmBhVV9l9VvhFTTtgwQ6hir_iOil7i08tMk3Xwdn5m55GME49ECDAMqenayAzuWCK6HTXSf7x5qUSQqth75j_4oD1NClSYAgw1syaU-iOFm-Pi6B64Et349bCuK/s320/4mos3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296803556955161218" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></div></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiFGzkTTfXRvDOLYBymDe6nOCxx7CrvAHeHEtD6k7ZzoHk_o4Y6MaF74IDBRP17JLC1eT4TJ51JV6CbPTcZq662bfxNoaV9oPwWod2a52UmgcGjiaEuFAX6euffAYLB4t7VlWLmel0/s1600-h/4mos4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiFGzkTTfXRvDOLYBymDe6nOCxx7CrvAHeHEtD6k7ZzoHk_o4Y6MaF74IDBRP17JLC1eT4TJ51JV6CbPTcZq662bfxNoaV9oPwWod2a52UmgcGjiaEuFAX6euffAYLB4t7VlWLmel0/s320/4mos4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296803547447820066" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Here is month 6 you can see they're looking cleaner and more dreded, but honestly they're still not totally dreded!!!! I can tell because when I pull them they get longer and when I let go they shrink back like a spring. I have little patience and want them to dred now and stop shrinking. But these are braidlocks and not sisterlocks so it's gonna take a little more patience for these to dred up... but hey! They were totally FREE!<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></div></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbvEoikS1CRjuxp08-HqfGK9Bt-MowIEu7uDBz5bsbUSM-CB7_QwGpVDZnQFvsh2ylvD9yVsQ4A4Q3NqL2ES99CsZiI0RD4ZEDruvVbXPWKTrwMzgJuTSYHEMw8GFU5xvzLKuQ68OW/s1600-h/6mos2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbvEoikS1CRjuxp08-HqfGK9Bt-MowIEu7uDBz5bsbUSM-CB7_QwGpVDZnQFvsh2ylvD9yVsQ4A4Q3NqL2ES99CsZiI0RD4ZEDruvVbXPWKTrwMzgJuTSYHEMw8GFU5xvzLKuQ68OW/s320/6mos2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296803559348791282" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">So now I'm thinking that I need to start trimming the ends and I'm contiplating dying with hydrogen peroxide. I'm a little nervous because people say that it's damaging and drying to your hair, however there are some out there that say dry hair makes it easier for the dreds to lock, so I'm still up in the air about it. And on many websites it says as long as you condition it well, the peroxide should not have adverse effects. I will try it and see what happens. <br /></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">I can always use lemon Juice... lol</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">later!<br /></span></span><br /></span></div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563999750150428230noreply@blogger.com6