I follow many, many blogs via Pinterest, Facebook, and Bloglovin. Lifestyle blogs, hair blogs, DIY decor blogs, and also beauty blogs. I have to admit that reading beauty blogs is my guilty pleasure. I like reading about product reviews from beauty bloggers and learning new beauty tips I may want to try.
The great this is there are thousands of beauty blogs out there. Don’t just take my word for it. Google beauty blog and you’ll be scrolling for quite a while.
It’s been a while since I’ve done a post about my hair. I’ve been somewhat on autopilot with my relaxed hair care so I haven’t felt like I had anything new to share. Also, I’ve had many other topics I wanted to share with you that sharing about my personal hair care kept falling to the bottom of the list.
That is going to change today with this quarterly hair goal check-in. At the beginning of the year,
I set three hair goals for myself.
- Follow my new wash day plan all year
- Finalize my roster of hair products by the end of March
- Try eight or fewer new products all year
Pretty simple goals right? When I set them I figured the simpler they are, the easier they will be to achieve. I also tried to make them more measurable and actionable than the goals I had the previous year.
One of my 2017 site goals is to retain readers. While this is a broad goal, I anticipated that retained readership would also help me decrease my bounce rate which has been in the high 80s since probably my site launch. Well, I’m happy to announce that I’m starting to see significant decreases in my bounce rate.
When I first started wearing makeup I bought all my products at either the big box store or drugstore. Several of the products I tried ended up being a disappointment and I thought it was because they weren’t expensive. So I started wearing more expensive brands that I either had to buy online or from Ulta or Sephora.
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As part of my healthy relaxed hair journey, I decided I wanted to learn more about my hair type and why it would react or not react in various situations and to different types of products.
As I started paying more attention to my hair I started noticing things I hadn’t noticed before. Such as my hair takes forever to air dry, all of the strands don’t feel smooth to the touch, my hair will quickly absorb product but doesn’t hold moisture.
What I found is that a lot of why my hair reacts or doesn’t react to products is due to the porosity.