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How To Create Beachy Waves For Your Hair In Five Easy Steps

It’s no secret. I am bored stiff growing out my neurosurgeon undercut hair style. While I am grateful he was able to remove my acoustic neuroma tumor, and I’m thankful for the skilled hands of his “day job”, I hope he’s never a hair stylist on the side. Growing a 2 by 8 inch section of my hair around my ear from my face to behind my ear for more than 9 months has been tedious, and I’ve grown weary of my inability to do much with my hair while I wait. I shortened my hair length once my head incision was healed and a little less tender in May, at 6 months post op. For most of this time, I’ve been wearing it down, or pulled back into a half back-not even a full half up- while that shaved hair grows. There were other patchy areas of my head affected by surgery too where hair needed to regrow. It’s been a series of not pretty events.

Many months ago, Lilla Rose released a new product, Sea Salt Spray, used to create and hold beachy waves. While my hair and all my daughters hair was very long, we were not impressed when we did a test pilot run of the product. We felt like it made our hair sticky, greasy, and weighted it down.

However, in the past few weeks, due to the boredom with my hair and the limited ways I can wear it, and noting that the regrowth is at the awkward stage of sticking out in any direction it wants, no longer being hidden by longer hair, I decided to try the Sea Salt Spray again. Now I can honestly say, I at least like it well enough to use it for the purpose of creating waves. For the time being, it is allowing me a different option for a daily easy hair style. When I was much younger, I always longed for loose curls. I don’t have curls, but at least I have loose waves.

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What I’ve been doing:

  1. After washing my hair, I wrap it in my Lilla Rose hair towel for about 15 minutes.
  2. I brush out my damp hair with my Wet brush, spray in Lilla Rose Rose Water to tame my wiry silver hair strands, and blow dry the top back and my forehead area to create some lift.
  3. I finger comb my top areas into place, and scrunch the remainder of my hair while spraying Lilla Rose Sea Salt Spray.
  4. I then let it air dry, but I continue to scrunch my entire head is dry.
  5. I’ve also been pulling what would be my bang area back a little and securing with a bobby pin or Lilla Rose mini hair clip to keep my hair out of my face. Sometimes I spray in additional Sea Salt Spray to tighten the beachy wave just a little bit.

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Have you ever tried Sea Salt Spray to create waves or to secure wispy waves in your hair? What were your results? Tell me in the comments.

Blessings,

Deb

9 Nutrients For Growing Healthy Hair

As most of my readers know, in October, 2018, I was diagnosed with a benign vestibular schwannoma, or acoustic neuroma as it is also called. It is a tumor that arises off of the vestibular nerve that controls gait, balance, and the main nerve for hearing that connects to the brain. My tumor was a big larger than large, displacing my brain stem, causing shortness of breath, temperature control issues, some hydrocephalus, and necrosis of the tumor. At diagnosis, my situation was deemed critical enough to report to the ER, as it could have been life threatening. There’s a phone call you hate making to your parents, let me tell you.

On November 29th, 2018 my tumor was removed after being on decadron, a steroid, to relieve brain inflammation all that time. My shortness of breath and temperature control issues were managed, but my dizziness, facial numbness, tinnitus, massive fatigue, and hearing loss were not. In fact, the only thing that is not permanent, even after surgery, is facial numbness. I have facial paralysis turned facial synkinesis, but most facial function is returning through time, soft tissue mobilization therapy and neuromuscular retraining. I am permanently deaf in my right ear as the nerve was severed. My tinnitus is permanent because my brain thinks it can still hear. It’s trying to make sense of the sounds it can feel. I do still have occasional dizziness because I worked hard in vestibular therapy, but I’m no longer a fall risk. I have fatigue and brain fog, especially after being around noise. Single sided hearing is a challenge, as sound discernment is often not possible. That may be playing a part in the fatigue and brain fog.

All that being said, while I was recovering from surgery, and after my fabulous not so fashionable neuro-surgical hair cut, I needed to know what I needed to eat and be nutritionally sound to heal well, and to grow my hair back as quickly as I could. I sell hair clips as my business, after all, and hair is needed for demonstrating that.

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9 Nutrients for Growing Healthy Hair

In the course of that nutrition research, this e-book, 9 Nutrients for Growing Healthy Hair got written, and it is has literally been how I eat. What else did I have to do, besides lots of vestibular therapy, but focus on writing an e-book and my nutritional status?

I’d love to share it with you. Let me know in the comments if this helps you! I hope it does. You can access it free here.

The good news is that i stayed healthy all the time I’ve been recovering from surgery. My muscles have grown stronger through exercise and therapy. My head where my incision was made healed nicely with no infection. My physical/vestibular therapists have been working on myofascia release in order to prevent cervicogenic dizziness, no scar adhering to my scalp, and to relieve scalp and craniotomy tenderness. My brain mri shows only continued brain stem healing and only scar tissue and a small piece of tumor left to preserve my facial nerve. My facial paralysis is healing.

Diet is not a cure all, nor does it necessarily mean someone will never be sick. Exercise is not a cure all, and maybe it will help in the prevention of future illness.  Good nutritional status does give the best shot at best healing.

I do hope good nutrition continues to help my hair grow! The shaved sections of my head now have hair that is at my ear lobe. My goal is to have grown out my surgical hair cut by November, a full year since surgery. My hair styling technique is very boring while I wait for that to happen.

Goals are good. Good nutrition is good. Exercise is good. Keeping it all in balance-that’s good too.

Blessings,

Deb

The Benefits Of Rosewater On Hair

I’ve been using a few different Rosewater brands in my hair for a couple of months, and really like the softness that has been added to my “wiry hard earned silvers.” With straighter hair, it’s also added some body if I also am able to twist my hair into a bun. I like beachy waves!

One of the parts of my new hair care routine is also to wrap my hair in a bamboo cotton hair towel. Much of my hair drying now is from the hair towel, then mostly air drying during the day, and styling with Lilla Rose hair clips. but even if I choose to blow dry, these other two items, the bamboo hair towel, and the rosewater have been serving to protect my hair from excessive heat from the blow dryer.

Lilla Rose released a new rosewater hair hydrosol, and I have to say that is of much higher quality than the other brands I’ve been using. The presence of “real rose” is obvious without leaving a heavy scent–I am scent adverse, even natural ones.

I comb out my snarls, spray the rosewater, massage it in or re-brush, and walk away for a while. I come back to shinier, more manageable, softer hair that I then style.

You can DIY make your own rosewater! But finding organic rose petals and creating the conditions to create the hydrosol and bottle steam drops sounds long, laborious, and not worth the trouble for a 2 oz bottle to me! The hydrosol, when protected in the amber glass bottle from light, will last up to a year. And truly…the only ingredients in this are water and rose petals.

Lilla Rose’s certified organic rose water is steam distilled Bulgarian rose petals, creating a lovely and delicate hydrosol spray in a 2oz glass bottle. It has benefits beyond hair care too! It benefits skin.

Create a lovely gift set of Rosewater, with a swerve or other hair accessory, and a bamboo hair towel or branded brush/comb set to create pampering gift for a lovely lady in your life during a holiday, for a birthday, or other special occasion!

Everything is coming up Roses!

From the Lilla Rose website itself:

BENEFITS:

  • Use as a hair tonic to hydrate and to smooth the hair cuticles
  • Use as a no-heat hair setting spray when combined with a Swerve UPin or other Lilla Rose haircessory
  • Use as a facial toner daily for dry, aging or irritated skin
  • Mist on your pillow or in the air to relax and calm the mind
  • Mist on the neck and body for a soft romantic scent

FOR HAIR:

  • Spray Rose Water on your hair to keep it shiny and vitalized
  • Spray on natural curly hair to smooth out frizz and refresh curls
  • Massage into your scalp to calm, moisturize and stimulate hair follicles

FOR FACE:

  • Spray Rose Water on your face for an energizing boost of hydration in the morning, or a relaxing mist before bed
  • When used to fight acne, remove makeup, or treat puffy eyes, spray Rose Water on cotton and gently wipe the skin

FOR BODY:

Deb