Our Favorite Hair Item Reviews of 2011

We've been blessed with the opportunities to try some great products and fun items and here is our list of favorites from 2011.

-Bee Mine - Bee Mine Natural Hair Care Products are the greatest products for D’s hair, we love them! You can see our reviews of their Avocado Cream Conditioner, Luscious Balanced Cream Moisturizer, Curly Butter and Deja’s Hair Milk. If after reading our reviews and you decide you’d like to purchase some Bee Mine Products, you can get 10% off orders over $15. And you can expect more Bee Mine reviews in 2012!

-Diva Locks Crocheted Headbands - I love these gorgeous, well-made headbands, they stay on D’s head really well as opposed to regular headbands she won’t keep on.

-Sidewinder Hair Holders - Fun, colorful accessories!

-I Love My Hair Book - We love this book!!

-Created by Nature - I can’t say enough good things about these all-natural products, that smell so good.

-Curlformers - They provide amazing curls with no heat. Check out our Curlformers review, our cross-over headband style, short and wide curlfomers on my straight hair, and kid’s Christmas styles done with long and wide curlformers and an extra long and wide set.

-CUSH Cosmetics - more great, natural products!

-Tropical Traditions Coconut Oil and Coconut Oil Hair Treatment

We hope you find these reviews helpful and enjoy reading them as much as we enjoy providing them. Thanks for following!

Curlformers Giveaway

Curlformers is partnering with us to giveaway 3 styling kits!!!

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Cute Curlformer Hairstyles: Hair Carnival

We have used Curlformers several times and we love them! (Reflect on our original Curlformers review, D's Mothers' Day Criss Cross Headband Curlformers' Hairstyle and my short hairstyle done with Curlformers). We brought out the Curlformers twice last month for the holidays. First for Christmas photos and again for her Christmas Day style.

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Strawllers Review

We tried out our Strawllers, and I have to admit that I was so excited to do that, that I didn’t a) watch a tutorial video first b) just dove right in and didn’t really know exactly what I was doing and c) was in a hurry to get it done. So, the curls weren’t the neatest in the world, but

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Curlformers on Straight Hair: Momma Style

There are plenty of hairstyles for girls on this site, but not too many hairstyles for women, so I wanted to do a style for the mom’s out there. This is a simple style I did using Curlformers. I used the short and wide curlers that came in our styling kit. I washed my hair, applied some Bee Mine Curly Butter (Bee Mine isn’t just for curly hair, it worked great on my straight hair), then I put the Curlformers in and wore them for about 3 hours until my hair had completely dried.

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SheaMoisture Review

  I, of course, got these products from Walgreen's during their ‘buy one get one’ sale in March. I purchased one of the Moisture Retention Shampoo, one Hold & Shine Moisture Mist, one Curl & Style Milk, one Curl Enhancing Smoothie, and two of the Deep Treatment Masques. 
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Saturday's "Shappin" Hairstyle: Poofy Side Pony + Tangle Teezer

This weeks "Shappin" Style is one of D's all-time favorites (probably because it is so quick and easy), and I love it too! The poofy side pony! The way we get this look:





Once her hair has been washed, moisturized and detangled, we either braid or band her hair in 3 or more sections. She will either just sleep in the braids/bands or wear it as a style for a day or two, either way once her hair is dry we take it down and brush it using the Tangle Teezer. The Tangle Teezer creates a nice poof and we are then able to smooth into a cute side ponytail.












*Update- I would like to note that we no longer use the Tangle Teezer to detangle. I had notice a lot of breakage going on about a month or so ago (after we began using the Tangle Teezer). When we first started using the TT, I thought it was amazing! With some Kinky-Curly Knot Today and the Tangle Teezer the tangles just slid right out. There was always hair in the TT after each use, I just thought it was shed hair. After becoming aware of the breakage D was having and upon examining the "shed hair" it was apparent that it was actually breakage from the TT :(  I was using it correctly and even finger detangling prior to each TT use and nothing else in our routine had changed, what a bummer, I had been so excited and wowed by this brush. D had loved it too, it was quick and it didn't hurt. I haven't used the Tangle Teezer in about a month but if I were to use it again, it would be soley to create fluff and poof, and I would completely detangle her hair beforehand.

Has anyone else experienced breakage with the Tangle Teezer?



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Saturdays "Shappin" Hairstyle: Happy Mothers' Day Do

I've been wanting to do this style on D for a while and I just now got around to trying it. The first thing I did was wash her hair with a "new shampoo" (review coming soon!), I used our regular HEHH (on our last bottle of the old formua). I moisturized with the usual Bee Mine Dejas Hair Milk (which is almost gone, luckily there is a 15% off code floating around for Bee Mine Products!) I also use a little olive oil on her ends and scalp, they needed it. I parted out 6 small squares in front, applied Bee Mine Curly Butter and banded them into ponytails with olive oil soaked bands. 





Next I put the headband on and sectioned each ponytail into and began criss crossing them. I took a small section of hair right behind the headband to secure the criss crossed pieces to. I was happy with the way the top/front turned out, but I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with the back...

I tried it down...



I tried it in a bun, which I liked...





But I decided I really wanted to use the Curlformers again!





And we loved it! :)






Happy Mothers' Day to all the moma's out there!!!


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Curlformers Review

After much debating (in my mind), I finally purchased a Curlformers kit. I was torn between spending the money on them or getting flexi rods. My concern with the flexi rods was: would they stay in her hair? I've read that they don't stay in thin/fine hair very well. After using the Curlformers, I don't regret my decision at all. They are easy to use and produce some amazing curls! I got the kit that includes 40 long and wide, 6 short and wide and the hook. Pictured below is a long and wide curlformer and the hook.

Curlformers have an opening at each end; this is the slot for the hook to slide through.
 

Once the hook is through the Curlformer, you take your section of hair, give it a twist and put it through the hook then pull the hook out, in turn pulling the hair though the Curlformer, easy as that!

The amont of time this process takes depends on the hair length, thickness and the size of sections you place in each roller. I did about 1 inch sections, used probably half of the long and wides and it took about 30
minutes...not long!

I washed her hair and put the Curlformers in while it was still wet. I used Bee Mine Curly Butter on each section of hair. She slept in them overnight and I took them out the next morning. Here are the results:

The first stranger we saw after we stepped out of the house was complimenting her curls, asking if I did this with a curling iron! I explained to her what I used and that they are a great alternative to using heat on the hair, which means less damage!
Day 2

Day 3 

She didn't feel like taking pictures that third day, but they held up pretty well for 3 days, she slept with a satin bonnet on each night. So, it's safe to say that I love Curlformers and I can't wait to use them more in the future!
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