Tracy
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a pleasant relaxing experience..... /images/graemlins/grin.gif
This must all be some kind of omen or lesson for me about rediscovering lost treasures....
Today I went to an old stylist I used to use in Harlem. I got a touch up and a trim. I am pleased to say that this is the FIRST touch up in about a year where 1. it was non-traumatic and 2. I didn't burn.
The salon is called Sandra's. It's on 138th and Broadway. The owner, Sandra (how convenient! /images/graemlins/tongue.gif), did my hair (and has everytime I've gone there - there's no one else really). She charged me $50 for a trim and a perm. I brought her Motions Oil Moisturizing Relaxer because I could not afford Elucence right now and I wouldn't have been able to for another two months or so. My touch up can't wait that long - so I decided to go with the runner up - Motions Oil. Sandra has always applied relaxers in a manner that I have yet to find in a stylist - she manages to get the relaxer on the newgrowth with NO relaxer cream touching the scalp until the very last smooth through, and she NEVER brings the relaxer past about a 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch from the scalp - a great sign that minimal overlapping will occur. These things for me were always impressive about her as I've never found them anywhere else. Ever. One or the other thing was always missing from the equation. These two things are very important to me. She was too far and that was why I stopped going to her. But I am reformed...
She relaxed me, neutralized, conditioned with Motions Moisture Plus, and rollerset me. She trimmed me while wet. My hair has gorgeous shape and she barely took off any hair. I did not burn, tingle or have any tender places in my scalp. That may be due in part to the MO relaxer, but whatever the case, Sandra and MO relaxer are both PERMANENT touch up must haves from now until she closes or Motions stops making the stuff.
I am a happy camper....
Epilogue....After my terrible evening yesterday, I woke up this AM and decided to take my frustrations out on my hair /images/graemlins/blush.gif. It wasn't cooperatiing, the front in particular, and I got a scissor and hacked a huge piece off right over my nose. /images/graemlins/crazy.gif I turned that into bangs (which I had been trying to grow out now since the summer. They were about an inch below my nose which fellow bang growers know is TRAGIC). Sandra fixed those, and now I have bangs - ones that I will have to begin growing out again - but even, normal looking ones instead of what I was working with circa 9 o'clock this morning. And they're not even that short.
All is well that ends well...this may be a decent weekend yet... /images/graemlins/smirk.gif
This must all be some kind of omen or lesson for me about rediscovering lost treasures....
Today I went to an old stylist I used to use in Harlem. I got a touch up and a trim. I am pleased to say that this is the FIRST touch up in about a year where 1. it was non-traumatic and 2. I didn't burn.
The salon is called Sandra's. It's on 138th and Broadway. The owner, Sandra (how convenient! /images/graemlins/tongue.gif), did my hair (and has everytime I've gone there - there's no one else really). She charged me $50 for a trim and a perm. I brought her Motions Oil Moisturizing Relaxer because I could not afford Elucence right now and I wouldn't have been able to for another two months or so. My touch up can't wait that long - so I decided to go with the runner up - Motions Oil. Sandra has always applied relaxers in a manner that I have yet to find in a stylist - she manages to get the relaxer on the newgrowth with NO relaxer cream touching the scalp until the very last smooth through, and she NEVER brings the relaxer past about a 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch from the scalp - a great sign that minimal overlapping will occur. These things for me were always impressive about her as I've never found them anywhere else. Ever. One or the other thing was always missing from the equation. These two things are very important to me. She was too far and that was why I stopped going to her. But I am reformed...
She relaxed me, neutralized, conditioned with Motions Moisture Plus, and rollerset me. She trimmed me while wet. My hair has gorgeous shape and she barely took off any hair. I did not burn, tingle or have any tender places in my scalp. That may be due in part to the MO relaxer, but whatever the case, Sandra and MO relaxer are both PERMANENT touch up must haves from now until she closes or Motions stops making the stuff.
I am a happy camper....
Epilogue....After my terrible evening yesterday, I woke up this AM and decided to take my frustrations out on my hair /images/graemlins/blush.gif. It wasn't cooperatiing, the front in particular, and I got a scissor and hacked a huge piece off right over my nose. /images/graemlins/crazy.gif I turned that into bangs (which I had been trying to grow out now since the summer. They were about an inch below my nose which fellow bang growers know is TRAGIC). Sandra fixed those, and now I have bangs - ones that I will have to begin growing out again - but even, normal looking ones instead of what I was working with circa 9 o'clock this morning. And they're not even that short.
All is well that ends well...this may be a decent weekend yet... /images/graemlins/smirk.gif
