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Guess who received all the stuff above for free today? ME! Yup, if there is one thing I love about my job, it's the amount of free goods we get. Even if I don't always get to use it.

I'm not sure how any of it is gonna work out just yet. I know we've received a LOT of good reviews about the Rusk shampoo and conditioner. The rest I will put to the test in the next couple of weeks.











As for right now, maybe writing this post wasn't the greatest idea ever. There are two thing that are BEGGING for more attention. Can you guess what they are?

Not feeling it.

The dry ends that is! I broke down and made an appointment with one of the stylists here in town. There goes a couple months of hair growth. But with it, so goes (most of) my split ends.
As we all know, my obsession has turned into growing my hair out. I've heard, read and watched almost EVERY tip on growing it out. But, recently I began following http://checkinthemirror.blogspot.com, and I stumbled across another tip: Hair fertilizer. Why didn't I try it before? Well, I don't know. I guess I expected it to happen with a combination of Nioxin supplements, and my hair care routine.
I'm honestly surprised at my own ability to refrain from coloring my hair. NEVER in the past five, maybe six, years has my hair been free from ammonia for so long. What else am I doing? Here's what's inside my shower...





Yes, those ARE big bottles of shampoo and conditioner. The Resurrection I bought the Moroccanoil was won a few months ago as part of a contest at work. Hence the "Not for Resale" statement at the bottom. Don't know that I'd have the nerve, or money, to pay for it.




The Revitaluxe treatment I put in towards the end of my daily shower and rinse out a few minutes later. I call it the "K-Pak on steroids" people laugh at it, and me, all the time, but they buy it. Some have even returned for it. It honestly takes the reconstructive elements from the Deep-Penetrating Reconstructor, plus the hydration from the Hydrating Treatment and the Protection from the Serum all at once. They say in order for it to work properly, it must be applied DAILY for seven days straight. It works from the inside out but you can feel the silkiness instantly.












Anyways, as a way of tracking my progress, I decided to take pictures from time to time. I'm usually behind the camera, so excuse the weird angles and expressions.




Taken yesterday with my little monster Joselyne.

Ummm.

So. It's been a VERY VERY long time. I think I've said it once, twice, maybe a million times. My job is like sending a recovering drug addict to work in a marijuana field: bound to relapse. I swore to myself, and others, that LAST year, I would leave my hair alone and let it grow out. Coming back to my place of venting, I see not much has changed in over a year.

In early May 2011, my hair was finally past my shoulders, growing out evenly, strong enough to quit the Resurrection and go for a regular daily shampoo (Not that I wash my hair everyday) and could take color again. I was going to be a bridesmaid in a friends wedding so I decided to go with a professional I had become friends with at work. This "professional" stylist had been in the business for about fifteen years. Yup, I sure did put that word in quotations. Why? Well, I ended up like THIS just two weeks before my friends wedding.



YEAH!!!! Right back to square one for me. *sigh* These were taken AFTER a cut to try to even it out. NOT done by the same person. Forced to cover it up with an almost black color and cut a HUGE chunk of it off. Rocked the A-line for a while but it got old quick. Last time my hair and a pair of shears met was in October. As for permanent color, December 5th 2011. As I type, a Demi-permanent color is processing. We'll see how I do this year.