How has your week been? Are you adjusting or does it feel like you're just going through a motion with no agenda? If it's the latter, I'm right there with you. Nowadays all I do is sleep[update : sike😂] , eat, do some light exercises but mostly sleep. I don't know about you but I feel wasted.
I typed the above in April but never continued cause I got lazy. Most of the times I just want to quit writing but then again, I realise, this is one thing I'm slightly okay at. Anyways, enough about that.
Time : 12:53 am Date : 19th May 2020
What happened today? Something exciting I think. Well for a homebody like me, it is exciting. You ever try to do something from YouTube and then it doesn't work out or it works out? Well both situations happened to me today. Shall we start with the good or bad? I think I'll start with the good.. The bad is slightly interesting.
So recently I realised eco styler gel doesn't work for me and it seems to dry off my hair.I decided to checkout some gel DIYs and I found a popular one.. flaxseed gel. First of all, I suck at literally everything so I had to watch this video so many times. I got the hang of it and decided to just go for it.
So basically, you need like 3\4 cup of whole flaxseed but I used like half a cup. Personally, I think you can wing it on your preference, moving on . The next item, is 2 cups of water I think. just wing it. I'm Ghanaian so basically everything is based on eye balling. If you have all this you just go straight to boiling your flaxseed. How do you know if it's ready? By checking a snot like gel like look. Dip your spoon into the pot you boil it in and scoop a bit and pour it back. As you pour it, notice how it runs, if it's still liquidy, let it boil some more, if its gel like, then it's ready.
After my gel was ready, I strained it immediately, most people wait for it to cool down and then drain the gel through a pantyhose but I drained it right after. I used a strainer and that makes it easier without wasting any seeds. After this, I let my gel cool and I added 7 drops of rosemary essential oil. And voila, my gel was ready. I am very proud of myself, because I'm very lazy so doing this was really big of me. So yeah YouTube came through this time. Here is a picture of it and a gif of my hair after applying it. I was honestly blown away because it really moisturised and defined my curls.
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Let's move on to the bad.
So I've been planning on getting braids but this time I wanted to do it myself. That was my mistake right there. Thinking I could actually do it. Watching some videos made it seem so easy. Now I watched the rubber band method cause honey, I cannot grip my roots as I should. So yeah, I watched a lot of videos, I got so hyped about it. Now for my lazy people, I ordered some pre stretched extensions because you know, I don't want to do any extra work but sadly, I still had to fix this "pre stretched" extensions. That is where everything fell apart.
Listen, my hands are disastrous okay? And I am so not patient . So there are few things that make me cry and feel worthless. At number one, we have my hair. Look, nothing makes me hate myself more than my hair. Like I can't deal. The next part was expected. Yep, you guessed it, i failed so hard. It started with the parting, who knew parting your hair was a chore. It took me a whole hour to make a part and even when I was finally able to do it , it still wasn't straight but it was decent.
So I tried my first braid, and it was surprisingly decent. Now you're wondering why I call this a failure or not? Well I'm still going to tell you. After successfully doing the first braid, that was it, The next was a disaster, I ruined the extension . I'm pretty sure I ripped pieces of my hair. Like I got so frustrated , the extensions was just getting all tangled up and my body couldn't handle that frustration. SO I did the next best thing.
I took it off and I cut the other braid. Yup you heard me right. I cut it. Then I bawled my eyes out and hated myself for a while. You might think I overreacted but when you're controlled by your emotions everything is a damn mess. One minute you're happy, the next you want to choke yourself to death.
Was that too much? Oh well, I just needed you to understand where I was getting at. So yeah here I am finally writing this for no one to read . I'm honestly getting discouraged but meh, I'll just write when I feel like it.
What should you take from this? Never let your emotions control you. Be in charge of yourself . Emotions will break you. Trust me, I am an example. I think that's why most successful people operate with logic instead of intuition, because this whole emotion thing, it is the absolute worst.
That was what happened today. That was my interesting day for you. Anyone else experienced any failures lately or am I just the only one going through this? Let me know your story or not. Anyways, take care loves, I'm getting tired of typing all this and if someone out there was truly reading this and missed my book(as if) well, I'm back now. I think I'm going to take time to invest in this because I got lost in the outside world and I just got my feelings hurt . Never again. If anyone is reading this, please say something encouraging because I am really losing it.
Bye for now my loves, Stay safe, stay creative and don't let anyone tell you different. Thank you for reading. Wondering why i'm being all nice and encouraging? Well I needed to make this longer so I just figured hey, why not throw in that and type why you did that because it gives you more words lmao. okay bye now
