A Natural Gal's Woes...

Honestly, I don't even know where to begin this post as I am brand new to the "Natural" community. I've watched videos, read articles, done plenty of research on the internet - but still didn't feel like I could be totally "informed" without going through my own trial and error. I figured since I have this blog, I would start to monitor my hair progress, even with my illness and sickness. Stress management and the works.

Back in May of this year (2014), I made the leap and completely shaved my head bald. Completely bald. 

Cancer, chemotherapy treatments and life stressed caused me to just make the big move. And though I didn't have the confidence to fully embrace it. It was there. It was done, and I had to move on from that.

It took a little bit for my hair to actually start to grow out but by August of this year (2014) it became a nice little curly fro. I am still not aware of what my hair type is, as there apparently is a glossary to this but as it grows and I learn, I'm sure I'll become aware of what my hair needs most.

Right now it's a decent length and honestly, I haven't been doing too much to it other than conditioning it, moisturizing it (when I wasn't lazy) and just letting it be a curly mess. And I can admit, I should be doing more as this is the vital stage to hair growth - but with my funds being low at the moment I can only afford but so much hair care products. I only use a curl custard right now and my regular African Shea butter and Suave Shampoo/Conditioner products. But I definitely want to venture into Natural Hair Care products.

So my hair looks like this now, and honestly I want to start wearing it out more. I've only been hiding my hair under wigs, and hats and such and I know that isn't the best either. And with summertime coming up in the next few months I want my hair to be longer and luscious so I don't have to be sweaty and hot in wigs.

I think my hair is adorable~ When it's like this. Only it doesn't dry like this,

This is a short post, as I'm just stating what I'll be blogging about more and possibly vlogging about over the next few months.

Anime USA 2014

This weekend past, was Anime USA. A local anime/manga enthusiast convention held in the Washington, D.C area. Having lived in the area, this was my first year ever attending. But what I can say.. This was the most fun I've had at a con yet.

Thursday night, it took me forever to get my con bag packed and ready to go. I was going to ride metro for the first time ever in cosplay and it just so happened to be Sailor Moon.

On Friday, I arrived their pretty early and to my surprise it was in a really nice hotel. The con is held at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, literally down the street from the National Zoo. It was fairly close to metro (which was a plus) and once again the hotel was fantastic.

I picked up my badge (like at any other con) which looked like this:

After picking up my badge I walked around a bit (after adjusting my cosplay) trying to see if I could find anyone I knew. Because it was still early nothing was open yet, not even the dealer hall. I didn't want to go outside as it was pretty chilly (and a short skirt + chill = no bueno) so I stopped by a little cafe they had and got some pineapples and juice and plopped back down on a couch and took a selfie. 

By this time people were beginning to pour into the convention. I decided to wander around a bit more and that's when I wandered into this wonderful person!

Meet Tara! She completely made her costume and did the make-up and everything and boy did she look cool. She was basically wandering the con alone while her friends were still sleeping so we decided to adventure together.

And here's my Sailor Moon!