Something that I have always thought was an AMAZING idea was keeping gratitude lists. Just a little list for me to record the things I am thankful for everyday. I have been trying to keep up with it, but in the day to day, it is something that often gets lost. So this is the first official gratitude list being published by the Brunette.
I am going to try and do this at least once a week, so I can look back on the things that have made me happy.
So here goes...
I am thankful for...
1. My parents letting me have a car for the last month and a half. (Even if I no longer get to drive it)
2. The days of sunshine that we do get in this wonderful city.
3. What I think was a successful interview today with New York Collection.
4. John Mayer.
5. All my clean laundry.
6. Taylor Houston.
7. My warm bed, sooo cozy!!
8. Muni.
9. All my BRB Ladies
10. The cup of ice water I am about to drink.
And look how easy that was. I now know of 10 things that I am thankful for at this very moment. Feels good.
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
How I dress my Dreads
Since ancient times, women have obsessed over how to make their hair look beautiful, healthy and strong. The Ancient Egyptian women kept their hair long and natural, even when the hot desert sun was beating down on their scalps. The geisha women of Japan would wash their hair only once every two or three weeks. A slave to her beauty, a geisha woman would sleep on a wooden neck pedestal rather than a pillow, for fear that sleeping on a pillow ruin their intricate hair styles.
Even today, we are constantly blasted with images of Perfect Hair. But all the commercials and products are sending the wrong message to the young women of this world. When it comes to your dreads more is not necessarily good.
In the last few months, thanks to two of my favorite Blondies, (and you know who you are), and a bit of my own exploration, I have begun working on perfecting the beauty, health and strength of my brunette locks.
*The Secret*
The key to long, beautiful, healthy, strong hair is minimalism. In five simple steps...
Step One - Don't wash your hair everyday
When we wash our hair everyday, it drys our hair out. Dry hair is not shiny, and tends to break. Who wants that?
Step Two - When I do wash, don't wash I hair, I wash my scalp.
The thing with shampoo and conditioner is that one removes oils and the other moisturizes. Shampoo is good for your scalp, because it washes away the oil which weighs your hair down and makes it look flat. Your hair is what craves moisture. Keep the conditioner away from the roots of your hair, focusing on mainly the tips, and then split ends will be less common. Makes sense right? You can buy some dry shampoo for the days in between when your roots might get a little oily.
Step Three - Invest in Organic Product
Sure, Pantene Pro-V may make your hair shine like California sun, but that is because it contains wax and plastics. Who cares though if your hair looks good? Well, both plastic and wax contribute to breakage and split ends. So go to Trader Joes and buy one of their Organic shampoo/conditioner combos for $3.50 a bottle. More money to spend on shoes or shows or whatever your head of beautiful, healthy, strong, organic hair wants you to do!
Step Four - Stay Away From Heat and Styling Product
Put down the blow dryer! Unplug the curling iron! And don't even think about turning on that straightener! Honestly, letting your hair dry naturally will give it natural body, which is sexier than anything a blow dryer could give you! And styling product just makes your hair stiff, or oily, or sticky, etc. So unless I have a very specific style for a special occasion, I keep the hair electronics and products under the sink.
Step Five - Don't Brush your Hair
Unless you are working through real dreadlocks, keep the brush away from your beautiful tresses. Use your fingers to work through knots gently, but over brushing your hair with thin your hair out. Just don't do it. I don't think I have brushed through my hair with an actually brush in almost three weeks.
Obviously, I am not a hair stylist and I haven't been to beauty school, but I am just saying what has worked for me. My hair is looks so much healthier now that I don't blow dry it, or run the straightener through it daily.
Hope my hair quest can help someone on theirs!
<3
The Brunette
Even today, we are constantly blasted with images of Perfect Hair. But all the commercials and products are sending the wrong message to the young women of this world. When it comes to your dreads more is not necessarily good.
In the last few months, thanks to two of my favorite Blondies, (and you know who you are), and a bit of my own exploration, I have begun working on perfecting the beauty, health and strength of my brunette locks.
*The Secret*
The key to long, beautiful, healthy, strong hair is minimalism. In five simple steps...
Step One - Don't wash your hair everyday
When we wash our hair everyday, it drys our hair out. Dry hair is not shiny, and tends to break. Who wants that?
Step Two - When I do wash, don't wash I hair, I wash my scalp.
The thing with shampoo and conditioner is that one removes oils and the other moisturizes. Shampoo is good for your scalp, because it washes away the oil which weighs your hair down and makes it look flat. Your hair is what craves moisture. Keep the conditioner away from the roots of your hair, focusing on mainly the tips, and then split ends will be less common. Makes sense right? You can buy some dry shampoo for the days in between when your roots might get a little oily.
Step Three - Invest in Organic Product
Sure, Pantene Pro-V may make your hair shine like California sun, but that is because it contains wax and plastics. Who cares though if your hair looks good? Well, both plastic and wax contribute to breakage and split ends. So go to Trader Joes and buy one of their Organic shampoo/conditioner combos for $3.50 a bottle. More money to spend on shoes or shows or whatever your head of beautiful, healthy, strong, organic hair wants you to do!
Step Four - Stay Away From Heat and Styling Product
Put down the blow dryer! Unplug the curling iron! And don't even think about turning on that straightener! Honestly, letting your hair dry naturally will give it natural body, which is sexier than anything a blow dryer could give you! And styling product just makes your hair stiff, or oily, or sticky, etc. So unless I have a very specific style for a special occasion, I keep the hair electronics and products under the sink.
Step Five - Don't Brush your Hair
Unless you are working through real dreadlocks, keep the brush away from your beautiful tresses. Use your fingers to work through knots gently, but over brushing your hair with thin your hair out. Just don't do it. I don't think I have brushed through my hair with an actually brush in almost three weeks.
Obviously, I am not a hair stylist and I haven't been to beauty school, but I am just saying what has worked for me. My hair is looks so much healthier now that I don't blow dry it, or run the straightener through it daily.
Hope my hair quest can help someone on theirs!
<3
The Brunette
Friday, March 12, 2010
Sunday, January 3, 2010
A New Brunette for 2010
Happy New Years!! I can't believe that 2009 is gone... I seriously was freaking out a little bit when I realized that I am about to be 20. But a few days have passed and I am a bit calmer now. Thank God.
So what is in store this year for me? Well I have given up a vice, 3 days strong. I plan on making my apartment a grown up apartment. It needs to stay neat and tidy and I want to make my bed everyday. I also want to visit a new piece of San Francisco every week. I figure, I love the city so much, but there is still so much I haven't seen. Hopefully 2010 will be a year of travel for me, I am dying to get out of this country for a little while.
Last year, 2009, was a year for me to mend my broken heart and work on myself. I managed to do both. I spent the first half of the year tellng myself that everything was going to be okay, and the last half of the year telling myself that I wasted the first half of the year. I refuse to feel that way about 2010. I am so looking forward to everything that this new year has to offer, and I plan on taking it all in.
Goals for 2010
1. Acknowledge that I am happy every single day.
2. Read more... I miss reading for pleasure.
3. Stay focused in school.
4. Visit a new piece of San Francisco every week.
5. Do things that scare me.
6. Spend time out side of the US.
7. Write more... I miss writing for pleasure.
8. Burn more incense... They help me feel at peace with myself.
9. Keep my apartment clean.
10. Fall in love... (This one has to be on every single girl's goal list)
So that is hopefully a quick overview of what 2010 has to offer this Brunette. I can't wait, I am looking forward to every second of it... but for now I need to go make good on number 9... and clean my room!
Ciao for Now
<3 The Brunette
So what is in store this year for me? Well I have given up a vice, 3 days strong. I plan on making my apartment a grown up apartment. It needs to stay neat and tidy and I want to make my bed everyday. I also want to visit a new piece of San Francisco every week. I figure, I love the city so much, but there is still so much I haven't seen. Hopefully 2010 will be a year of travel for me, I am dying to get out of this country for a little while.
Last year, 2009, was a year for me to mend my broken heart and work on myself. I managed to do both. I spent the first half of the year tellng myself that everything was going to be okay, and the last half of the year telling myself that I wasted the first half of the year. I refuse to feel that way about 2010. I am so looking forward to everything that this new year has to offer, and I plan on taking it all in.
Goals for 2010
1. Acknowledge that I am happy every single day.
2. Read more... I miss reading for pleasure.
3. Stay focused in school.
4. Visit a new piece of San Francisco every week.
5. Do things that scare me.
6. Spend time out side of the US.
7. Write more... I miss writing for pleasure.
8. Burn more incense... They help me feel at peace with myself.
9. Keep my apartment clean.
10. Fall in love... (This one has to be on every single girl's goal list)
So that is hopefully a quick overview of what 2010 has to offer this Brunette. I can't wait, I am looking forward to every second of it... but for now I need to go make good on number 9... and clean my room!
Ciao for Now
<3 The Brunette
Sunday, December 27, 2009
First Post : About the Brunette...
So I have been thinking about starting this blog for a LONG time. I feel like I have a pretty good grasp living an amazing life. I am a fun, fabulous, loud, obnoxious, Brunette woman, loving life and living large. I have seen some pretty low lows... but obviously I have made it through and the highs have made every rough patch worth while. So now I am here, typing away on my laptop, needing to share with the rest of the world of beautiful brunette ladies, how I manage to laugh everyday and live a fabulous life. But don't get me wrong, no matter the color of your luscious locks, you are welcome here... I don't discriminate.
Now this may sound like it is an up-lifting, positive, self-help blog, and it may be, but two things that I pride myself on, among my many talents, is my sarcasm and my ability to bullshit anything. I could convince the Surgeon General that swine flu was fake pandemic, and any college professor that I deserve an A on a paper. But don't get me wrong, I am a hard working, motivated girl, I just know how to use my head and bend the rules to make them fit in with my lifestyle. So I guess this blog is just a way for me to vent my frustrations with the world and to let everyone know how I deal with it.... Because if anyone knows me, they know that I KNOW EVERYTHING... and I mean this in the most humble way.
So details about me, I am almost twenty and completely shocked that I am almost two decades old. I am studying Classics at San Francisco State University, totally nerdy, I know. I have lived in Northern California my whole life, but I have done my fair share of traveling as well. I live in an apartment in San Francisco (with two other brunette's) pretty close to the beach and just a short muni ride away from all the amazing things that San Francisco has to offer. I have the most amazing parents in the world, and they raised my little brother and I right...
"Girl, If anyone ever tells you that you haven't lived, you can spit in their face." -- My roommate about me..
For being only twenty years old, I have experienced a lot. I have had my heart broken more than once, spent a month in Spain working on an Archaeological dig, dated the same guy for almost 4 years, swam competitively for 13 years, practiced Buddhism, and enoucuntered countless other random, yet completely important and relevant experiences the last two decades.
I always have something to say, and advice to give, whether or not someone wants to hear it, so look forward to guidelines... they will be coming soon!!!
Now this may sound like it is an up-lifting, positive, self-help blog, and it may be, but two things that I pride myself on, among my many talents, is my sarcasm and my ability to bullshit anything. I could convince the Surgeon General that swine flu was fake pandemic, and any college professor that I deserve an A on a paper. But don't get me wrong, I am a hard working, motivated girl, I just know how to use my head and bend the rules to make them fit in with my lifestyle. So I guess this blog is just a way for me to vent my frustrations with the world and to let everyone know how I deal with it.... Because if anyone knows me, they know that I KNOW EVERYTHING... and I mean this in the most humble way.
So details about me, I am almost twenty and completely shocked that I am almost two decades old. I am studying Classics at San Francisco State University, totally nerdy, I know. I have lived in Northern California my whole life, but I have done my fair share of traveling as well. I live in an apartment in San Francisco (with two other brunette's) pretty close to the beach and just a short muni ride away from all the amazing things that San Francisco has to offer. I have the most amazing parents in the world, and they raised my little brother and I right...
"Girl, If anyone ever tells you that you haven't lived, you can spit in their face." -- My roommate about me..
For being only twenty years old, I have experienced a lot. I have had my heart broken more than once, spent a month in Spain working on an Archaeological dig, dated the same guy for almost 4 years, swam competitively for 13 years, practiced Buddhism, and enoucuntered countless other random, yet completely important and relevant experiences the last two decades.
I always have something to say, and advice to give, whether or not someone wants to hear it, so look forward to guidelines... they will be coming soon!!!
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