Hi people, what's been on?

I know, I know! 

Why haven't I been blogging? 

To be honest, I feel that you all know a lot about natural hair already so what else should I write about?!

I started a YouTube channel late last year to demonstrate many of the natural hair routines I blogged about in hopes that it would help those who prefer videos.

I've also been pretty up to date on Instagram so if you still enjoy natural hair content, you can join me there.

For my hair, I'm still natural....and nothing much will change in that department...lol.

I'm also still doing wash'n'gos. 

 You see this protective style called wash and go? It has helped me maintain my fine textured hair past waist length. 

I usually don't stretch, pick or fluff my hair  in a wash'n' go to reduce manipulation so my hair stays shrunken at around nape to slightly grazing my shoulders..and I'm perfectly fine with it. 

My wash 'n' gos last between 3-4 weeks and a lot of ladies ask how I keep my hair moisturized and prevent the gel cast from flaking.

Well, one important tip that helps is using moisturisers that combine well with my styling gel.

Doing so makes it easy to layer on moisturisers on your wash'n'gos without the risk of flaking. 

How do I know what works?

Well, these photos could explain it more....

 Sometimes, water alone to refresh an old wash'n'go doesn't do it for me and I need a moisturising product that would play nicely with the gel I used to create my wash'n'go without creating flakes.❄❄❄

I've found the solution in Afrobynature Twist & Curl Styling Creme.

 It's a dual use styler that moisturises at the same time provides hold for defined styles such as twistouts, braidouts, bantu knot outs etc.

However, the hold is not strong enough to use alone for my wash'n'gos (I have Type 4 hair)......so I use it in combination with my styling gels.

This product works amazingly well in combination with other stylers/gels.....without creating little beads of white flakes in my hair!

 It also has very good slip so I can re-style frizzy bits of my hair without worrying about tangling. 

I totally recommend giving it a try if you have issues with moisturising your wash'n'go.

I'd also like to know if you have experienced flaking when combining products.

Please share the product combos too, so we'll take note 👌👍

Do you have the fear of happiness?🤔

Some of us are afraid of being truly happy because we are afraid of being unhappy.

We have a hard time accepting happiness because we are afraid of feeling low with sadness after feeling high with happiness. 

We are afraid of the happiness ending and being sad again.

So instead of accepting happiness, we settle for just being okay.

'How are you?'

'I'm just okay o!'

We end up sabotaging ourselves by avoiding opportunities that can make us happy....instead choosing to settle for what makes us 'just okay'.

We also end up projecting this fear and suspicion of happiness on others.

' Surely, those smiling pictures on Instagram can't be real! There must be some sadness lurking somewhere'.

Our fear of happiness makes us envy those who are unafraid to express their happiness. 

People's fear of our happiness makes us hide our own.

"Let me not look too happy so that someone won't give the evil eye or I won't trigger the attention of 'my village people'"

"Let me not show that I'm too happy so that someone won't think I'm being boastful, proud or flaunting my happiness in their faces."

When we learn to accept happiness for ourselves, it's very easy to embrace and accept happiness in other people. 🙂🙂🙂🙂

Do you think the fear of happiness is the reason for envy, comparison, discontent, lack of ambition?

 Hi people, what's been on?

Around the ending of last year, I decided to stop blogging because I wasn't motivated to talk about haircare anymore. I means it's been 9 years of blogging about natural hair tips and I believed that everything that needed to be said had been said.

To challenge myself, I decided to start making videos. Given that I prefer communicating face to face or via text, this was a whole big step for me!

So, I abandoned the blog and focused on my YouTube, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms until I pondered one problem: Product Reviews!

How was I going to share detailed reviews about products I've tried out recently? How could I share product ingredients for those like me that are interested in knowing what goes onto our hair and skin?

Also, since I speak slowly, it may take a generation and a half to share every little observation I have about a product.

Then it hit me, I'm much more comfortable writing about this stuff....so here I am writing a product review!

If you've been following me recently, you'll already be used to seeing BelleStar Products on my feed and you've probably benefited from their generous giveaways!

I started using this Nigerian brand since 2019 and I'm so shocked at myself that I'm  only writing the reviews now!

One reason is that I didn't want to review their haircare products in pieces. Another reason is I wanted to test out how the products would fare both in rainy season and dry harmattan season.

Well, that's been done and here's my review.

BelleStar is a Nigerian haircare and beauty brand. The brand's policy is to provide the best hair and skincare products using naturally sourced ingredients at an unbeatable affordable price. They currently offer more than 10 unique products suitable for African hair types, relaxed, texlaxed or natural. They also have a line up of products suitable for maintaining protective styles such as weaves, wigs, braids and extensions. 

I've had tbe opportunity to try out all the products in their range which they kindly sent me.

Let's get right into the review 

BelleStar