How To: A Hair Refresher

Soooo I visited my Mommy for Mother's Day and pretty much raided her spa room. I moved out 7 years ago and my Mom did not hesitate to turn my old room into a "spa room". Talk about being missed, uh? Ca-learly me moving back was never an option. The closet, under the bed and the huge boudoir in the room are filled with butters, salts, oils, beads, stamps and a slew of other crafts that she was never into when I lived at home.

A peek inside the boudoir...

I pulled some of the oils out.

This isn't even half of them. Mommy has well-known oils like...

...and then she's got other oils that leave me thinking WTF.

Like...who knew there was a Black Pepper essential oil? And Ylang Ylang III? I didn't even know there was a Ylang Ylang II. So I grabbed the stuffs I was going to be using and set them out.

Took a glass spray bottle and filled it up with water...

Put in a good 1.5 tablespoons of glycerin.

And somewhere between 5-7 drops of rosemary and peppermint oil.

Shake shake shake..

And  ta da! A wonderful hair refresher. I sprayed this all over my scalp and locs. I saturated the locs until they were dripping wet and headed outside in the Florida sunshine. Loved. It. Of course I made a ton more of this stuff to take home with me. But I had to do it quietly because dipping in Mommy's spa room is like dipping in my make-up/nail polish stash. The culprit's outcome is never a good one.

A few hours later, I caught Mommy standing over me staring at my locs. She asked me to take out my loc adornment. And so I did. Then she went to her room and shut the door. Five minutes later and...

My Mom is soooo talented! Who knew she could make loc adornments? Of course I had her make me 7 more. Ha!! More on that later!


Let me know if you try or have tried the hair refresher.