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Hi Guys,

I wanted to share with you my first experience at a DIOR makeup session.

I was invited to this eye makeup session last week-end. I had an appointment at 6 PM at the Galeries Lafayette in Paris.

Here are the pictures of the place:

My makeup artist was late and we begun 20 minutes after the appointment time :/

At this time I was pretty upset but he took his time to explain the process and to understand what I wanted.

I wanted a “bling-bling” smoky eye but not too exaggerated…

He used the 5 colors palette:

The makeup artist in action (he explained all the steps while doing the makeup):

Then he used both mascaras : DIORSHOW EXTASE and DIORSHOW ICONIC to elongate and volumize the eyelashes.

Here are the results:

I used my phone to take these pics so you can’t really see the different colors but it was amazing! You could think I had fake eyelashes!

To finish he gave me a trial of DIORSHOW ESTASE and I was perfumed with DIOR MADEMOISELLE.

I must say that I LOVED the experience and I had so many stares after the session that I’ll try it at home really soon!

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K.

Hi Guys!

Many of you ask me how is the natural hair scene in France.

There is not much natural hair representation here in the media so I wanted to show you this ad promoting 2016 European soccer cup.

Look at this huge afro!!

This one is for a huge supermarket brand:

We are on good tracks!!!!

And the journey continues…

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K.

I don’t think I’m length OBSESSED but I’d really like my hair to grow longer!

Now it’s not shoulder length (I Big Chopped almost a year ago) but I ‘d like to see where it can go…

Here is a chart with the different lengths:

I’m not sure that I’d like to have fairy tale hair (too much maintenance!!), but I want to know if I can go at least to mid-back :)

If I follow the math I posted here, it’s 30 months to go ( If I manage to retain all the length)…

Let’s meet in two years and a half to see the progress :D

The journey continues…

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K.

Yayyy!! I’m featured on curlynikki!

Nikki was really kind to publish my interview on her blog

This blog was (and is still)  one of my first inspirations when I went natural!!!

Please take a look at it if not done already!

http://www.curlynikki.com/2010/03/kyara-story-of-transition.html

And the journey continues…

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K.

Hi guys,

We all are busy women and I think it’s important to be able to organize our hair routine in order to focus on other things…

When I first went natural, I had a difficult time building my routine! I kept seeing everyone’s video with different routines, different products, different periodicities and I didn’t know what could apply to my hair…

That’s the reason why today I didn’t want to share my routine – because what works for me, might not work for you -  but I wanted to share a methodology, for you to build your own personalized routine.

Here is a table I created to know what I do, and when I should do it:

	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY	COMMENTS
MOISTURIZE								every morning
SEAL								every morning
WASH								once a week
CO-WASH								once a week
DUST								on Saturdays every three months
BLOW DRY								not planned
STRAIGHTEN								not planned
PROTECT								protective style 3 days a week + every night with a satin bonnet
DETANGLE								twice a week (after shampoo and co-wash)
PRE-POO								twice a week (before shampoo and co-wash)
TRIM								on Saturdays every six months
DC*								*Deep Conditioning

Now that you see all the activities on one single table, you can better organize. For example, you know that you only detangle on your co-wash days, if you apply direct heat, you can plan to to deeper treatments on these days, and so on…

This table is an example but it allows you to put all the treatments you do to your hair and their periodicity, no matter which product you’re using. I put this table on my coiffeuse and now I never forget anything!!!

What do you think? Did it help you??

Stay tuned for the other parts:

Choosing the products, when do you need to change your routine, achieving your goals…

K.

Hi Guys,

I received a request for more information about the Carmel treatment.

I first talked about it in the Natural Hair Glossary and I had this request from Linda:

“Just read your blog and really enjoy it! Wanted to ask you some information about Carmel treatment.
I live in Paris and was wondering if the brand is selling to Europe.”

Thanks Linda, I’m so glad that you’re loving my blog!! I’m always happy to get feedback from you guys!! <3

The Carmel treatment is very famous in the natural world because it is considered as a “natural, completely chemical free, relaxer”. I’m a little bit confused when I hear about a natural relaxer but you can have a look at their website for a demo.

Here’s how the website describes this treatment:

"The CARMEL [is] a Deep Penetrating Treatment made with real bananas and honey will restore life back into all types of hair. Its high concentration of vitamins, minerals and potassium has the ability to provide the nourishment needed for both the hair and scalp. Its strengthening and moisturizing qualities will deeply soften the hair while improving the texture and manageability to create body and a natural shine.” (they sell it for 20$)

It seems to ship only in the united State, here is the message I got from the website:

“We only ship orders to the continental United States. Please call 1.800.768.ETAE (3823) to place orders to be shipped internationally or to Alaska or Hawaii.”

I coulnd’t find the complete list of ingredients on the website but the myth said that it is so natural that it could be eaten (please don’t try it!!!). Some naturals tried to reproduce it at home and here is one of the recipes posted on the naturallycurly.com forum:

• Wheat germ butter
• Olive butter
• raw honey
• molasses
• banana baby food
• coconut oil
• ACV
• cornstarch
• orange essential oil

I’m not sure about the results, I didn’t try the recipe.

However, last week I tried a deep conditioning treatment with banana and coconut milk. It was really good for hydrating my hair, but I had banana pieces in my hair for almost a week no matter how many shampoos I did!! ;)

Hope this helped you!!!

K.

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K.