Hair Products and Jesse Ventura

So, About the Hair...

Recently I tried a new, fairly expensive hair product and I am stunned and in heaven over the results. Surprisingly, the product, Shea Moisture Raw Shea Butter Deep Treatment Masque, is available in CVS and Walgreens, and runs between $10-$13 for a 12-oz jar. Here is a link (currently under construction) to their full line of products. On the jar, there is an interesting story about the products' origins, Sierra Leone. A wide variety of products, including a shampoo which appears to be sulphate free, and a conditioner which is silicone free, also exist. This product claims to contain no parabens, pthalates, paraffin, gluten, proplylene glycol, mineral oil, synthetic fragrance, PABA, synthetic colors, DEA, or animal ingredients, nor is it tested on animals.  For the more persnickety ingredients hounds out there, here is a list of ingredients:

Deionized water, Butyrospermum Parkii (Certified Organic Shea Butter), Argan Oil, Vegetable Glycerin, Emulsifying Wax, Sea Kelp Extract, Panthenol (Vitamin B-5), Essential Oil Blend, Avocado Oil, Lonicera Caprifolium (Honeysuckle) Flower (and) Lonicera Japonica (Japanese Honeysuckle) Flower Extract, Tocopherol (Vitamin E), Hyssopus Officinalis Extract, Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Leaf and Equisetum Arvense Extract, Soybean Oil, Daucus Carota Sativa (Carrot) Seed Oil

The product is intended for dry/damaged hair, which in layman's terms means that as long as your hair and scalp don't suffer from excessive oiliness, you can use this product. The consistency is very thick, like a mayonnaise, and can be applied to the hair as a deep conditioner wet or dry. I try to pick a day that I am gleefully off from work and free from responsibilities, and leave this product in my hair as long as humanly possible. Generously  apply it to dry hair, then bun and cover it. One jar lasts about 3 uses on tailbone length hair, that is my idea of generous application. Yours may vary. The scent is beautiful, not the fruity, sweet, chemical laden scents that most are used to. One can smell the shea butter, but it is muted by a sweeter, warm, almost butter cream vanilla aroma. I am usually a real cheapo when it comes to hair products, and $10-$13 per product is usually really steep in my opinion, but this product is well worth it, at least to me.

I am going to conclude the hair section of my latest blathering with a length shot, which was taken by my husband, who is super-supportive of my now 5 year adventure in natural hair care and hair growing, on 9/12/12 at the local park. I guess fairytale ends are here to stay, and I have decided to embrace them since I last cut my hair around January. In January, I did cut about 4 inches of length off the bottom, as I had increasing intolerance for the frayed ends. There probably will not be a close encounter with scissors for quite some time, although some have known me to jog with them every now and again. When you run with scissors, you run with the wrong crowd.

Jesse Ventura

I was incredibly overjoyed to see Jesse Ventura, the former Minnesota Governor and pro-wrestler, completely own Piers Morgan on CNN. As most people who know me are aware, I have a complete disdain for mainstream media and news. Here is a clip of that interview, where Piers Morgan is basically humiliated and sent cowering back from whence he came. Screw Piers Morgan and Erin Burnett and their ilk. Corporate media shills and propagandists they are, all of them.

Nothing makes me proud like people standing up for what they believe in. Jesse has made an announcement of sorts, on the dubious Alex Jones show, that he may just run for President. (Don't get me started about Alex Jones. My Dad used to listen to Limbaugh every day because he loved to hate him. I would say my sentiments for Jones are the same. I truly disdain how he cuts off some of his guests and I agree some of the things he says are sensationalized and spun, and I disagree with a lot of what he says.) Will Ventura get in?  I highly doubt it considering the whole thing is admittedly bought and paid for by lobbyists, SuperPAC's, and corporations. Jesse makes valid points about 9/11, some of which, sorry my dear naysayers, are backed up by a scathing piece in the New York Times recently. The question will forever be whether it was blundering, bumbling negligence or something deliberate, and darker, to justify pre-planned wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which caused these horrid attacks. My opinion continues to be that it was blowback for our horrid foreign policy that goes way way back. But I digress. I like Jesse Ventura. And did you hear the applause he got from the audience who didn't feel he was a quack? He seems to have a good grasp on the problems at hand: Corporatocracy, religious zealotry, and government corruption. The decrying of religious zealotry puts Ventura above people like Ron Paul (and by far the dubious Alex Jones), as I get a sense they quietly give a nod to condoning the Christian variety here with their statements on religious liberty. I emphatically agree with Ventura (and Ron Paul) we need to get out of these Muslim countries and cut off all foreign aid, and focus on improving what is happening within our borders.

That's all for now! Stay tuned for more hair posts, and a review of a Katatonia concert I will be attending in the near future.