A Cita Life

So, lately I've been wondering and I'm not sure if you would call it worrying but wondering about my body image. I literally told my husband yesterday that I can not believe I've had two babies in the past two years. It's funny how you can ask a question and the universe will bring you the answer. I found it funny that a mutual friend sent me pictures of myself when I turned 30. First, I rolled my eyes because I'm thinking it's another ploy to get me out to work out. Then again maybe it isn't but we've been down the hey girl why don't you come workout road too many times to count. She means well in a sense she wants me to get my body “back” to the days of no kids but her approach is always wrong. I looked at those pictures today and laughed because if this was what she thought my body back was little did she know that I wasn't where I wanted to be but I was working on it then I got pregnant with my first child. After having him I literally ...

I recently just did my sew in for the first time and I wanted to talk to you about how I prepared the hair for install. I haven't used this hair in over a year and a half ago so I know I needed to treat it with some love and tender care before the install. I started the process by washing the hair with Edenbody Works in Peppermint Tea Tree. I did two shampoos with that then followed up with the Peppermint Tea Tree conditioner. It's a clarifying shampoo and conditioner that I use after I remove any protective styling to help remove any ick that has been in my hair and to stimulate the hair follicles. I then used Queen Helene Cholesterol with Ginseng Conditioning/Strengthening Cream. I use it to strengthen and repair any damaged hair. My hair dresser told me to use this when I was taking swim classes to protect my hair from the chlorine to not dry my hair out and damage it. I applied a generous amount to the hair then wrapped it in saran wrap and let it sit over night. I ri...

I did my sew in for the first time. I can not tell you how excited and beyond proud of myself for doing it. I was a little intimidated by doing it at first and was giving myself unnecessary anxiety about doing the whole thing. Part of it was because we were going on a birthday vacation for my sons birthday and I knew that there was going to be pictures of this experience.  So, I had a deadline to me well an imaginary one in my head. I was getting my nails done on Sunday and I wanted it to be completed the day before. Any time I try something new I usually have my nails super short or wear my natural nails so that they are not in the way of learning something new. The plan was to wash my weave on Friday, wash my natural hair on Saturday, braid and sew on Saturday. Well, it didn't work out as planned. I started washing my hair on Friday didn't complete the process until Saturday. Had my hair braided on Sunday and I sewn it in on Tuesday.  I had a conversation with m...