Over the past year, I have been growing my hair out for my wedding, while getting it trimmed every few months to avoid crispy ends. I was successful and was able to get it pulled up into a beautiful updo. Here are some shameless selfies to show you what it looked like. The only picture of the back of my head is this gorgeous kiss where I’m lifting my hubby… because I’ve got mad skills! 💪🏻

The wedding came as went, and I found I was over the longer length. I felt it dragged me down and I really wanted a change.
I gave my good friend a call and she was able to fit me in to give me the ol’ chop ✂️. I cut quite a few inches off and it felt great. Two months later, I still love it and even think I may want to go shorter.
After cutting my hair, it took a few days to really get to know it and get a feel for what it wanted to do. After some trial and error, I finally found something I liked. For this months Tuesday’s Tresses video, I bring you my short hair routine “How to Curl Short Hair”. Click my selfie to open up the video tutorial!

I was reluctant to try the heavily talked about coconut oil hair mask. My nerves went rapid when all I could think of was this formula: oil + hair= oily hair.
I decided to try out a less oilier alternative and searched the beloved Pinterest. I came across a recipe to help tame frizz.
It consisted of…
1/2 avocado
1 egg
1 banana
1 TBSP coconut oil

Blend this all together and plop it on your hair. I left it on for about 30 min. I hopped into the shower, rinsed, lathered, rinsed.
I was pretty excited to see how my hair turned out. As I was brushing it out I kept discovering chucks of banana! It was so gross!! There was so much and with wet hair was next to impossible to get out. I had to let it dry to pick it out. It lasted about 2 days and finally the banana goop was gone.
My hair felt dry and dull. At this point I didn’t even care if my hair went greasy I just wanted it to feel better.
A week later I finally decided to dive into coconut oil, straight up oil and absolutely no bananas!
I decided to leave about 2 inches of hair close to my scalp out for safe measure. I plopped on the coconut oil and hoped for the best. I researched online and found that in order not to have your hair a greaseball, put shampoo in it BEFORE wetting it. So about an hour in it was time for a shower. I shampooed, wet, lathered and rinsed. I decided to shampoo 2x to be safe. My hair felt as if I just put conditioner in it. I didn’t want to get my hopes up but so I didn’t think too much of it. I brushed it out and it felt so silky. I let it air dry and although it was still frizzy it felt Ah-mazing!
I flat ironed it and it was so lively and soft. I was in love ❤
I decided to film my second attempt and came up with this video. You can really see how my hair looks at the conclusion if the video.
I urge you all to try it!
Here is a link to the –Benefits of coconut oil

http://youtu.be/eyp_wdaUzUA