Braided Mohawk into twists

Ok, so I "jocked" off my half mohawk style from June and tweeked it a bit to turn it into a full mohawk. Mari loves this style and i love that the barettes are not hanging in her face. This might get redone for the first day of school im not sure yet. She has so much hair you can't even see the full mohawk style.

the front and only way you can tell its a mohawk








and my little brat after we were all done

My Little Fashionista:Blog Preview

Starting on November 7th, 2010 I will begin my new Fashion Blog about my favorite hobby of all, dressing my little angel. These pics are from a mini session i did with her last weekend for her comp cards and porfolio. She is dressed in a white blouse, gymboree poppy love blazer, baby gap deauville shorts, payless ballet flats, and the tie is from a dress set bought from Forman-Mills.

Im still trying to name my blog so let me know which name you like
1. Dressing a Diva
2. My Little Fashionista
3. what ideas do you have?

Tackling Heat

Alot of people dont like to use any heat on natural hair for the fear of damaging the natural hair. I try to keep the use of heat to a bare minimum on both Mari and myself. Once every few 5-6 months i will take out our flat iron and flat iron both of our hair on the lowest heat setting. Most times its a pain in the butt. When using heat i keep the hair heavily coated in olive oil. At night i always wrap and secure the hair and wrap a silk scarf around it. I never leave the hair in that state for more then four days, longer for myself. When its time to wash i use half a bottle of Suave coconut conditioner on the hair before we even get in the tub. I let that sit for at least ten minutes then carefully rinse the hair out. Then i follow our normal washing routine putting extra conditoner in then i normally would. To avoid any damage that the heat might have caused i always put Marz hair in a protective style and leave it for a week after her hair is washed.

Heres some pics from Marz with her hair flat ironed.

More Catching Up

Half Cornrows, half natural curls






remixed with a bow


New Natural Headshot




Waiting for her icecream truck (our armed guard loves Mari and dispatched a icecream truck out here and let her have whatever she wanted off of it)








Natural Pageant Hair with Curlformers




Mari's B-day Pro Pics

Style Catch Up

So here are some styles from when i was gone.
Quick Style done for summer camp.


My Little Dork


Haha excuse my silliness. Half buns with twist and two strand twist. (for the half buns pull hair 3/4ths the way through the band then twist the remaining hair into a two strand twist.


the 4th of July (star idea from BeadsBraidsBeyond), tutu and build-a-bear tutu dress by me






HAPPY BIRTHDAY LITTLE MISS MY'ANGEL








Natural Curls, Natural Light




And after a day of playing with her natural curls

Beenb M.I.A. for a while

I've been working so much I havent really had time to blog but im back now and will attempt to update the blog at least twice a week. I'll post all my back hair styles as well from July and the begining of August. A little catch up from when i was gone. Mari is now 3 years old (*tears) she begins back to school on September 7th. She will be going into to preschool at Terry Matlock School of Performing Arts. I go back to college on September 24th. For the school year im planning on starting another new blog, a child fashion blog for none other then little miss Mari.

Cornrowed Headband

I seen the cornrowed headband on BeadsBraidsBeyond and wanted to try something similar. Well when i started parting Mari asked for beads so we switched it and changed it around a little bit. So heres what we came up with.

No Product Natural Curls

Well we ran out of all of our main hair products so Mari wore her hair natural until mommy was able to go to the store and buy some more stuff. Heres a few shots of baby all natural her hair was still damp here from getting cowashed

Citrus Cooler 2-Strand Twist

After Mari get went swimming and got her hair detangled i decided to put it in some type of style. I looked at her outfit (from gymboree citrus cooler line) and decied i would part a citrus in the back of her head and boy did it turn out cute.



i love how healthy and moisturizeed you can tell her hair is