Thrifty Shopper

✰☆99¢ Simplicity Patterns!☆✰

I'm so excited! Today while looking for sewing supplies my favorite place to shop Hobby Lobby was running a special on patterns, They normally cost $6-17 bucks, which is a bit too much. So look forward for more from me! I will also be participating in Project Restyle so i will be inviting you my readers to raid the thrift stores for fabulous finds!! In the meantime be easy and God Bless!!
*Chasity

Pre-Pleated Skirt Tutorial!!

Before Finishing Touches!

Afternoon Fellow Fashion Addicts!!

                          I decided to post a sort of interlude to my pleated skirt tutorial. I got the inspiration from Shirley B. Eniang you can watch her video tutorial with the link i provided! She is definitely an inspiration to create and share our blog! So i am actually putting the finishing touches on the first skirt and the second on im gonna actually show you how i completed the look. I am very excited to share my passion with the world and i hope you will welcome Trese and I with open arms! With that said im going to run off to finish my skirt and we shall meet again in the near future!! God Bless! 

Coming Up!!

I know you guys are SICK of hearing from me, so Chas got next, but I did wanna update you with what's coming up. Chas is working on a skirt...a pleated maxi skirt to be exact! It looks great, and we're both really excited to show it to you guys! The skirt post will actually start our series of fashion posts that we will call...eh...we don't know yet, but they'll be dope. I'm stupid excited about our Fall Fashion vidoes, as well as a cool lookbook type post that we're about to start working on.

Anywho, here is a list of a few of our fav blogs/websites at the moment!

Curb Appeal
The Sartorialist
The 2econd Floor

-Trouble Trese ;-)

Co-Wash Regimen

Hola! So it's Trese and I'm back with another hair post...I wasn't even planning on posting this but I wanted to try the Taliah Waajid "The Great Detangler" Leave-In conditioner. This won't be a full review of this product, because I want to use it again before I do that, but I will say I did like it alot!

So, the first thing I did was apply my co-wash product which is Veganese from LUSH. It's made with Seaweed and Lemon so it produces super shiny and soft hair! 

LUSH-Veganese

This is my hair with the Veganese on it!

 

 

I leave the Veganese on for about 30-45 min with a plastic cap on, then I rinse.

This is my hair after I rinse the conditioner out, soaking wet

After rinsing, I apply my leave in. Normally I use a concoction that Chas makes but I received a sample, from the natural hair show, of  Taliah Waajid's "The Great Detangler" so I decided to give that a go.

Walgreens-The Great Detangler Taliah Waajid

from left to right: Chas's hair potion (leave-in), African Royale hot six oil, The Body Shop's Rainforest Moisture Hair Butter, and LUSH's King of the Mod's Light Hold hair gel

 
 That picture is also the order in which I apply my products, Leave-in, oil, butter or cream moisturizer, then holding product. These products change with the season/how I feel, this is just what I've been using for the past month.

My hair after I add all my products (except the gel) and have detangled

Last, I two-strand twist my hair, applying the hair gel to my ends before I twist. This is what it looks like once I'm finished:

I wear these twists for 3-4 days before I was my hair with shampoo. (ex. I co-wash my hair Sunday and take down and shampoo on Wed-Thurs and re-twist)

I hope you guys have enjoyed these couple posts, I'm trying to get into the habit of posting regularly! 

Peace, Trouble Trese ;-)

Shea Moisture Deep Treatment Masque Review

Hello Blogger World! It's Trese, and I wanted to start off with giving you guys a review of the "Shea Moisture Deep Treatment Masque". First I just want to say that the product was purchased with my OWN money, & neither Chas nor I are paid to review any of these products. So let's jump into it!

I purchased this product about a month and a half ago. That was right before I put highlights in my hair and I knew I would need some kind of deep conditioner that would help with strengthening and moisturizing my hair.Well I'm a frequent youtube natural hair video stalker watcher, and I watched some really positive reviews about it so I decided to give it a try. I bought it from Target, pronounced Tar-jay, and it was $10 for 12oz, which is a great deal, especially considering the ingredients!!

This deep treatment masque is supposed to "deeply penetrate to moisturize and repair over-processed, dry, brittle, or damaged hair. It contains Sea Kelp minerals to detoxify hair follicles, Argan Oil to restore shine and rebuild elasticity, and Shea Butter to deeply moisturize and repair."

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I used the masque in my hair about a week after I highlighted my hair, making sure to adhere strictly to the directions. Unfortunately I didn't get the results I was hoping for, but I continued to use the product every week. By week 4 I was still getting the same sad results so I decided to try the product in a different way. I read on the side of the jar that it could also be used as a leave-in, so I decided to use it as a moisturizer for my twists. To my surprise it worked extremely well! I only had to use a little and it made my hair super soft and it smelled yummy! Speaking of the scent, it has a nice sweet floral smell that lingers nicely on the hair so you kind of get a whiff of it throughout the day lol. I'll post a more detailed review of how exactly I use it at a later date.

 Ultimately I was a bit disappointed that this was not my holy grail deep conditioner (I'm still looking!!) but I am glad I found a way to use it up so I'm not wasting my money! 

-Trouble Trese ;-)

Here's a few pics of the Shea Moisture Deep Treatment Masque:

It is super creamy and very rich but doesn't leave the hair greasy!