Misconceptions~ Loc'D Hair| Straight Hair Lies| Reclaiming Beauty Standards-Traditional & Tiny

Experience the I am melanin magic Difference by going to our website www.iammelonynmagic.com and purchasing your products today I am melanin magic and so are you just locks, beauty, tips and potpourri the channel where we get it all in you can. Thank you for stopping by our hair. Is not just hair, our hair provides a portal to our journey towards greater self-discovery and self-acceptance. It'S about learning more about the totality of your experience of life through your hair. Locked hair is not just a hairstyle. It'S a lifestyle as a person who's chosen to embrace and honor your natural hair texture, you become a sort of hair educator, exchanging information with others about the beauty of your hair. This transfers cultural appreciation and reverence for The Unique options we as people of the African diaspora have it allows you to reclaim more of yourself and more hair freedom, freedom from products and synthetic chemical substances. You may have been used to freedom from styles that ultimately, don't embellish you but strip away your hair strength, and sometimes your identity being locked, gives you freedom from the enslavement of hair tyranny, which can be both costly and disappointing. Being locked allows you to focus on other things and always be in your beauty: Sweet Spot, there's more to life than struggling against your own kinky inheritance. Why not embrace the kink in your hair? It'S what sets you apart, makes you unique and gives you countless options, as you continually evolve to diversify beauty standards reclaiming the standard which was always yours in the first place, you have always been the birthplace of creative genius. Haven'T you, our hair has an identity that speaks volumes, a person's hair says a lot about who they are and how they think this is who we are. We are locked and loving, it welcome tips and potpourri, and we are diving into misconceptions about locked hair. We could be talking about traditional locks, we could be talking about free form, locks. We could be talking about any variation of tiny locks, but essentially we're talking about styles that have allowed us to really dig into our creative Essence as people and express that freely. In a multitude of amazingly creative and intricate styles that communicate our identity and who we are but oftentimes, this style has had a lot of misconceptions and some have been um. Heart have been uh the types of misconceptions that have separated people from Desiring uh or being able to move forward in initiating getting a locked hairstyle, even if they have wanted it. Many of these misconceptions uh have obscured the truth of these kinds of styles, and so today I just wanted to talk about some of those things. I made a list on my phone so that I don't lose track. I decided to identify, I believe, maybe 10 or 11 main um, the main misconceptions that I feel are important and worth speaking about and the first one is the fact that you minimize your ability to have creativity when it comes to styling. You are limited in your styling options when you choose a locked hairstyle and I'm gon na say that is one of the biggest misconceptions and I think, even before I decided to sisterlock. I had that same view and even when I did sister lock and I experienced the Overflow of different hairstyles that I was able to achieve. Should I decide I want to go down that route. I still had some sort of blockages when it came to traditional locks. I thought okay well, mine are much smaller. I definitely have a lot more versatility. I can do this. I can do that. You know kind of sort of separating myself from the rest of the traditional or free-form locked Community, but even um as you. You know when you get a thing, your reticular activating system, which is that filter that that filters, the four billion bits of information that you take in every second. It has to filter things out so that your brain just doesn't fry, and so it begins to filter out the things that you pay attention to or that you are familiar with so once I began my sisterlock journey, I started seeing suddenly all of these people with Sisterlocks and all of these people with traditional locks, so I had a lot of stuff to marinate on, and so it created a real sense of community. But my point here is that even when my daughter decided to get her traditional locks, when I see the multitude of styles that she's able to achieve - and I began to explore more hairstyles and creativity options in the locked Community, I thought oh, my gosh, like oh My gosh, we have had this mindset of straight hair to the point that it has marginalized the diversity of options that we have and that we have always had that has singled us out and made us almost an island when it came to originality, creative genius and So much and so forth, we have actually thought that when we had straight hair by way of pressing or wearing a wig or some other style that wasn't inherently necessarily us, but is a fine experience and uh. It'S fine as another expression of creative um uh genius. If that's what you decide that you want to do, but it is a different kind of Genius that I am talking about the original creative genius, and so we have been almost marginalized into thinking that when our hair is straight and we permit that we actually have More styling options when, in fact the opposite is actually true. If you were to explore your history, if you were to explore the history of the African diaspora in terms of hairstyles everything from hairstyles to everything they do with beauty, whether it be face paint face jewelry or whatever, you would be shocked at the multitude of hair. Styling options that you have when your hair is locked or when you are embracing the Kink that is in your hair. So you actually, when you embrace the Kink that is in your hair, and you stand in your authenticity and the core of your essence. The road to abundance is available to you, whether you choose sisterlocks traditional locks, free form, locks, cornrows, twists, bantu knots in the multitude of other names of these amazing hairstyles, of which I don't know the names of you have options. You have always have options. You'Ve always had options, but you were separated from your options. You weren't taught to look at what was available to you as the end all bill, as we continuously try to uh replicate what other people gave to us as the standard when we were actually the standard, and we still are at the standard and don't you ever Forget it and don't you ever allow yourself to be brainwashed. Otherwise we are the Hair, King and Queens and Emperor and empresses across the entire Globe. It'S always been that way because of what we came in here with, and the the the uh multitude of uh colors and um textures, and so much more that we were given in terms of just the DNA superiority when it comes to hair the options that we Can do with our hair that there's no other group on the face of this planet can do, and so it's it's important to claim that. I think that when you begin to claim that that's what the locks did for me when you begin to claim that a whole nother world of self-perception begins to open up to you, you begin to realize that you were lied to you were Bamboozled. You were duped. Okay, you were taken out of your element and put in a strange place literally, you all know what I'm talking about, but figuratively and metaphorically, we'll put it in a strange place to adopt standards that simply were never yours and then to embrace those standards. As being the go-to, they simply are not, they never have been, and so the more that you begin to embrace this and any other Style that is authentically yours, based on the nature, the quality, the needs, the wave patterns, the kink in your hair, the more you Start to realize the inherent Beauty and originality, and when you begin to claim that, then other people are forced to acknowledge your reality and you no longer have to run somewhere because of your hair. You begin to stand in your power, the power that has been denied. You that's why I always say: locks and locked hair. It'S a spiritual journey. It'S the journey within that many of us have got to take because of the unique history that we've had in this country and throughout the world all right. So you can do everything with locked hair with kinky hair number two uh major conception misconception. Is that lock so dirty? Well? I would think that if you wore your natural hair dirty and your natural hair was not clean and you didn't really care about how it looked, then maybe your locks would be dirty, but as a rule, locked hair is not dirty. Locked hair in and of itself is a natural process that has been ordained by the Creator. Our hair naturally locks and there's certain attributes about our wave pattern that actually allow our hair to be more clean than the opposite. Just think about it. I'M always encouraging people to think outside of the box. If you don't know anything about hair whatsoever. What could you come up with? That would help you to maybe Express or put forth a hypothesis about why the kinky of your hair is the cleaner. Your hair might be I'm going to leave that as a provocative question for you to consider, but the habits that you have with regard to taking care of your hair is what determines how clean your hair is all right. It has nothing to do with the style in and of itself, if you don't wash your bottom, it's not going to be clean. If you don't take care of your clothing and you don't launder your clothing, it's not going to be clean. If you don't keep your yard, it is going to look a mess, so anything that you do not take care of or that that you do not Infuse with with the energy of Loving Care. Concern is not going to be loved on it's going to be neglected, but the style in and of itself is a very clean style. Number two they're a lot of work. Um locks do have periods of Maintenance, but they are not a lot of work to keep up depending upon the type of lock style that you choose. That is what is going to designate the correspondence rituals with regard to Hair Care uh as people of the African diaspora. We have the kind of hair that has to be loved on you, can't you can't neglect it. It has to be loved on it requires the human touch, just like we as people being very uh. Just our our makeup. We require closeness, we require the human touch we are. Are the sun people? We are the people who have given love throughout the entire planet. This is some of what we come from, so our hair does require our loving attention, but it is not to the extent that it is oppressive. I feel - and you hear me always talk about the tyranny of of of of hair enslavement. I feel that we as a group of people have been tyrannized and been enslaved by our hair and by the so-called beauty industry. That has not been only and not has been exploitative, but it has oh gosh. That'S I digress that tyranny is experienced because we have run away from ourselves, and so we have become enslaved to the synthetic products and to all of this other stuff, that's not natural, and that is not a part of how we Thrive. That is what causes the hair, enslavement, the perms, the relaxers, the wigs, the the so-called protective styles and a lot of these other things that take us out of our natural element. While they are fine to serve the purpose for which they serve, but anything that you become enslaved to is out of balance, and you have to ask yourself how far away from myself have I traveled to the point to where now I must do this in order To feel beautiful, it's the same thing with the nails I cut those out. It'S been about a year right, I'm loving it. Now I reserve the right to go back to them when I decide, but I tell you one thing: I'm sure my body doesn't miss the chemicals and soaking in that that acetone, when I was getting those S Nails, I don't miss that what did it do it Caused me to have to be in that shop every three to five weeks. It caused me to uh and buy those chemicals within my my system. The skin is the largest organ that could not have been healthy, doing it at the regimen and in the ritualistic way that I was doing it the routine way at very determined intervals. It also caused my nails to weaken, which are the same things that a lot of these other things that we run to that are not naturally to us that become a cosmetic um, almost noose around our neck. Sometimes, when we overdo not just experience for fun and try different styles, but sometimes when we overdo those things, we experience the ramifications of those and oftentimes. We find that they're not embellishing, but they in fact strip us of our strength and they strip us of um. Our ability to make choices, healthy choices so um they are not without work. They do have some work. They do require some bit of care locks are unprofessional um. There are many factors to professionalism. The choices you make regarding your hair have nothing to do with whether or not you are professional. However, the pride that you take in yourself, the dignity um that you approach, everything that you do in your life with is going to also apply to you in terms of your profession. It'S you that you're bringing to the table your hair is simply an embellishment as it relates to work. It is not unprofessional. What is unprofessional is unkept hair. What is unprofessional or is going to work with wrinkled clothes on and other things that uh show a lack of regard and a lack of loving on you and having a sense of Pride and dignity about how you present yourself to yourself and then to the world Because I believe in when I get up - and I get dressed every morning - I'm presenting myself to me - I don't have a a job that I go to where I'm in a suit um. I don't have a job that I go to where I need to look decent each day, but that's something that I've been doing since a child. That'S something that I take pride in. I get myself ready for myself and then I present myself to the the world. So that's something that has to become a part of your personal Mantra and a standard that you set for yourself when you move like that, you never are going to feel that locks are unprofessional. And if someone comes to you from that particular Vantage Point, you're going to be willing to go to war for your hair. Okay, because it is as much as a part of you as anything else on you that you're taking care of so keep that in mind, locks will alienate you from people. I'M gon na say the opposite. Locks will bring a lot of people to you. Locks will bring being peop bring people to you, as I mentioned before, who you will become a hair educator. Uh uh you'll become a hair educator you'll begin to talk to people about hair. I mean, let's face it. You know when I got these sisterlocks, although I've Loved here since I was a kid and I come from a family of cosmetologists, I never thought I would have a channel and now I'm actually educating people on hair based upon my own personal experiences and the data That I have sifted through filtered and analyzed, based on what I'm learning on this journey and also what you all are sharing. So that's a very concrete example, but you will find that many people will be captivated. I cannot tell you the numbers of Caucasian women that have come up to me and admired my hair and more than a few of them have said wow. I wish I could have my hair like that, like totally and truly and authentically marveling marveling about my hair about our hair and how beautiful it is and the wonderment - and this goes for other people who don't have sisterlocks, I'm in a tiny little town with one Light one intersection and whenever I go to the tiny little store down the street from me, inevitably someone says something about my hair, so it draws people in it helps you to connect with people. It does create a Sisterhood not to mention the fact that whenever you see people who have chosen to make that statement about their identity with their hair, you feel a sense of kindredness. I know I do because this is more than just hair. It'S a spiritual journey. It'S going back to your essence To Your Roots, it's reveling in the beauty of what the African diaspora has provided for us, so it's a way of connecting with people. It is not something that should isolate you. If you find that your hairstyle isolates, you from people know that you are dealing with people who are ignorant, know that you are dealing with people if they happen to be of the African diaspora, know that you are dealing with people who have still have the remnants Of self-hatred and who have not claimed or reclaimed their Heritage and who they really are, and the the beauty that lies within have an understanding of that and be very compassionate. Just know that maybe, like you prior to you stepping into and reclaiming who you are, they just don't know any better or they haven't reached that level of awareness. Yet and that's fine. Everybody is where they are supposed to be exactly where they're supposed to be. Okay, the next thing I have is it's a permanent hairstyle, sisterlocks micro lives, free form, locks. Traditional locks are not a permanent hairstyle, while it may be an extensive and complicated process, one that can also be expensive. If you have to involve the assistance of other people who you have to pay, it does not make it permanent. You can still take these locks out. I can still take a lock today and take it out while it may take me an inordinate amount of time. I'Ve heard people taking up to six to nine months to take their locks out, we'll take them out. You don't have to completely cut your entire uh set of locks off in order to go down another creative path. All right next you're gon na have here is where you look crazy. We say this when we go through the rebellious teen, lock, phase, all right and from an objective, shallow superficial standpoint, you're going to look different, okay and they may look quote unquote crazy to you, but at a deeper level. What is important to realize is that you're, going through a period of evolution which starts with your self-acceptance, we look crazy because we're not used to seeing our self look like this we're used to seeing straight hair or hair, that's orderly or hair that that doesn't do What our hair normally does, because we have some type of artificial mechanism that is interfering with the with those I'm gon na call them uh superficial, neural Pathways. Okay, we have a way of seeing ourselves that we have gotten used to, and so we feel we look crazy, but at the at the the base of that or at the deeper level is that you don't look crazy at all. Once you accept yourself and then you you go further into the journey, you realize you go to bed beautiful, you wake up beautiful every day, because you are in your element and you go throughout the day, looking and feeling beautiful being beautiful. So it's actually the opposite. The next one is that uh, oh I'm almost done locks will thin your hair. I left some out the locks within your hair. I don't believe that locks in and of themselves will thin your hair, because it is the natural disposition of our hair. Okay, we would not be given something uh by the Creator that is going to harm us. I don't believe that I believe that the way we care for them, some of the things that we do ritualistically with regard to some of these Styles, can over time take take a toll. So, as a as a general rule, I don't believe that that they are harmful to your hair. I don't believe that they in and of themselves will cause your hair to fall out or to thin. I believe that there are things that we do that contribute to the demise of healthy locks and that's what um. I feel that we need to spend more time educating ourselves about. Let me go back because I didn't follow the list and I know I left some things out, oh, that they are too expensive. I don't think I could cover that. I don't feel that they're too expensive, and I know that these lock Styles have gotten way more expensive than they were. When I had my install 12 or 13 years ago, I know I paid 7.50 for the entire install and I was like okay, okay, they were beautiful. Then I wanted them. I would have paid more than that at the time, and I know now people are paying way more. What we have to ask ourselves is: when is it going to be enough? Is the price going to still continue to keep going up and keep going up and keep going up? Because I know if I were to ever, take these out and then go back later and decide I wanted another install. I would still be willing to pay for it so long as I knew that the person was doing my hey, who was doing my hair was going to do a good job, because, ultimately, I will tell you that it is the best hairstyle Lots in general art, Whether they're sisterlocks I'm tired for the price I happen to be talking about sisterlocks, but Micro locks are right up there with them tiny locks in general, because you're beginning to pay for the time that the person is spending on their feet. It'S kind of like remember, um. There was a time where, when we were secure people of Hispanic descent to do some work in our homes and you could go by uh Home Depot and pick up three or four put them in your car and pay them by the hour now you're paying them By the project, because the hourly rate was not satisfactory enough, there was a a point at which people more people - and I can't speak for everyone, but more people began to feel like what I'm doing is worth a lot more. I'M gon na fare better. If I charge by the project rather than by the hour all right - and so you end up paying more so long as you're satisfied with the work most people - I don't think would mind. The same is true with the sisterlocks in particular or micro locks. You will begin to have people who you're still you you you're, paying technically for the style, but somewhere in the whole mindset, people are becoming um, it's becoming more common to decide. What is the hourly rate that I want to make and what is commiserate with that? If I'm spending three days um 10 hours a day and I'm spending, you know um 30 hours, for example, um - and I want to make 50 bucks an hour - then that's 1500 is what I'm doing worth 50 bucks an hour. I think most of us would sit in that chair today and we would say yeah what that person is doing is worth 50 bucks an hour. It'S on our feet using a wrist, carpal tunnel, repetitive injuries, you know taking care of parting, the visual strain on the eyes. All of these things. We would agree that it it's easily worth 50 bucks an hour, but when someone is charging 400 to maybe 800 or 900 for an install you're, getting a great value if they're doing a great job - and you should definitely be grateful because, depending upon the the number Of hours it takes you're, probably getting a really good deal. There are a lot of particulars involved in the price setting thing we don't want to feel taken advantage of. We don't want to feel that it becomes Out Of Reach. We also need to recognize that the marketplace in and of itself is going to adjust and determine what the going rate is going to be, because many people will vacate this and go to other styles. Many people will begin doing their own self-installs right now. We'Re still at a period where so many of us are um are running towards these natural styles, and so the people who put them in are able to charge uh whatever they want for the most part, and for some of us it feels exorbitant, and I do Understand that I would have you to consider this even today. If I had to - and I've never been somebody to go to the salons I've been, I can count the number of times on one hand, all right. I'Ve never been someone who got their hair relaxed by somebody else. I'Ve been doing my own relaxers since Ella Mitchell said some part of my elementary school school term. I'Ve been doing my own hair since I was five off and on except for when my mom would press it wash it and straighten it uh every other weekend or every week, every Sunday or every other Sunday. So I've not been someone that spent money on hair and I had a few go-to products. I wasn't even someone who spent a lot of money on products. I spent money on my relaxers, but even I feel like it's worth it so to me the people who spend money on a lot of other protective styles on wigs on getting your hair straightened on the relaxers or going to the salons. I can tell you VAR: none hands down is definitely a greater bargain for you, 100 100. It'S definitely a greater bargain for you, but even for people like me and I'm saying that, because I'm only I'm saying that because I'm on the other extreme. Because I'm someone who didn't spend a lot of money on the hair or a lot of time in the mirror, but I still looked good. But I did it with my own hands. But I say that because really y'all with what you get from the hairstyle, I mean think about what some of y'all spent on shoes and pocketbooks and at the end of the day, what are you getting out of that? It'S not increasing your sense of self-worth. If it is, it's increasing an artificial sense of self-worth you're getting a hairstyle, that's going to cause you to go within you're, getting a hairstyle, that's going to cause you to take and that that that explorative Journey or to dive deep into yourself into not only your Roots with regard to hair and beginning to to to to to get the taste of hair abundance in a way that maybe you haven't been able to before, because you were running from yourself, you may have even not even thought that you could grow hair okay, so You'Re able to embrace so many different things that are going to help you level up and are going to help you get to have a greater appreciation for who you are as as an individual here and in this meat suit, but it actually has a lasting effect. You'Re going to save money, if you look at the things that you frivolously throw money away on, even if it's a three dollar cup of coffee every day from Starbucks or six bucks by the time you pay for whatever it is you get from them, that's over A hundred dollars a month, that's twelve hundred dollars a year and it's not going anywhere, and you can't even put that money into yourself as an investment and it's going far beyond the hair. It'S freeing you up. It'S freeing your time up. It'S giving you beauty when you wake up Beauty all day, Beauty when you go to bed, it's helping! You work on your inside it's more than likely going to raise your vibration, to the extent that you begin to seek out other ways to be more healthy. In your life, it's doing a job on you, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, physically and financially as well. It'S going to help you on a level because I would argue long-term. Most of you will save more money long term. Most of you will end up saving more money. If you it's definitely going to save you, an aggravation and time is definitely money, but for some of you money as well, especially if you're spending a lot of money on Remy, hair or wigs or a lot of other things, hair colors going to The Stylist. And you got to consider the cost of what you give up when you're spending money on that, so the opportunity costs to not have in the style and choosing something else. There are a lot of hidden costs, the time that you're spending on this other stuff. The morning routine, that is, involved all the associated products, traveling back and forth, to the salon trying to procure these things. The hair loss that inevitably is going to result from these so-called protective hairstyles and these lace front, wigs, which I've heard do a job on your edges over time. Like all of this stuff that you're having to spend money on to counteract what you're spending money on. I feel like uh. They are not too expensive for you. I feel like if you budget first thing you have to do, is identify with something that you're wasting your money on, whether it is paying ATT 160 or 70 a month for a cell phone that you might should have paid cash for and be paying fifty dollars For a prepaid plan with unlimited calling and texting and data like I do but you're paying them 160 for something else or maybe you're paying like. I mentioned the coffee or maybe you're spending money on a gym membership and you never even go to the gym. You have to ask yourself: what is the corresponding dollar amount that I'm already letting go and spending um frivolously? That'S not bringing me anything, the other thing you have to do when it comes down to the install outside of doing the research on a loctition. That is a good lactation. Someone That You Don't Mind Investing in see my videos or do a lot of videos on this channel, about educating yourself and doing proper research and finding a good loctition. But you have to consider you can break that initial install amount down into installments. Your installation should be seen as an installment and not so much something that is punitive or or a cost barrier to you having the style that you want, because I don't really feel like it is. If you say okay next year, you want to have Sisterlocks spent a whole year. Getting your hair healthy spent a whole year taking care of your hair hair and getting it ready and planning and putting a certain amount away each month so that when you find that person and you're ready to make that choice, you feel is always worth it. And it doesn't feel like something that has been punitive for you, okay. The other thing that I had down here. Let me go back is um. I said why people feel like you have to do too much work, they're. Also, people who feel like you don't have to do any work. That'S definitely a misconception. You have to love on these locks. You have to take care of them. You have to get to know every lock in your head and what it's doing and trust me as you go through this journey. You'Re gon na know, which ones are thinner, which ones are stronger, which ones represent, or reflect a particular texture. In what area of your head, while these over here, can undergo all types of trauma and they keep getting thicker, even as I separate them out over the years, this is where my baby hair is. This is where the strongest hair is I have to. I have to do just about any and everything to this. If I wanted to get this to fall out it just ain't gon na happen, but are these locks in here the same way? No, but you get to know your hair. You have to spend time with your hair. You have to inspect what you expect. You have to oversee what your loctition is doing. You have to actively participate in your own rescue. No, you can just not sit down and not do anything at all, and that takes me to my last point, which is that locks are for lazy people. Lots of for people who don't want to wash their hair locks are for people who are trifling and don't want to do their hair. Don'T want to take care of it. Don'T want to massage their scalp. Don'T want to take the time to pay attention to. What'S going on daily with their hair? Okay, I'm gon na say that when you get locks, it actually draws you in just like. I said it draws people to you and draws your Kindred Spirits to you and other people that have natural hairstyles and also people who are interested in the beauty of your hair or the beauty of the Kink that you have. It draws you in you start actually paying more attention to your hair, but it's not the type of thing that's going to slave. You enslave you with time you start noticing your hair. You may start researching more about your so-called hair type. You may begin to pay more attention to what your hair likes and what your hair doesn't like. There'S so many things that um are not lazy about this style because it does draw you inward um, you also, you know, are going to want to learn more ways about caring for your unique Hair Care needs. So it draws you inward you care about how fast my hair was growing every month when I had those relaxers, I didn't care about. You know some of the things that I pay attention to now. What might have been better for my hair, putting together natural products, and all of that? I wasn't concerned about that when I was not uh, uh locked and maybe that's because that was far removed from my hair like this is my hair. I care more about my hair. My hair is beautiful. My hair is abundant. My hair is um glorious in its Kink. So I care more about what I need to do to keep my hair looking luxurious, to keep my scalp shining to keep my uh hair. Uh luxurious and just beautiful and just doing whatever it is it's supposed to do. I I spend more time looking at my hair and reveling in my hair than I ever did, but I still am not enslaved by my hair and you will not be either so. If you like, this video, give it a thumbs up, do not forget to purchase my book here, manifesting your Masterpiece. This is my sister's book. It'S called the assignment. It is an eight-week therapeutic devotional for daughters of God using scripture, prayer, Jesus and therapy. If that is your thing, this book is amazing to help you deal with trauma, identity, boundaries, self-care and emotions. It is wonderful, it is, it takes the healing process and it simplifies it. My sister has a master's degree and she's a therapist and she's put together a piece of work that actually brought me to my tears. I'M so proud of her, I'm so proud of her Lauren, I'm so proud of her, and I love her and again. You can get the assignment okay by Lauren Smith, on uh Amazon, all right, so these are two wonderfully uh based books, with the intentions of helping people to heal and and and and and and clear, energetic blockages things that we refer to as trauma learning. How to be your best self and really thrive in the world? Those are two books, uh manifesting your Masterpiece and the assignment that you can get from Amazon. Thank you to the thousands of you all who have supported my book by purchasing it and left reviews for those of you who continuously text me and tell me: you have the book and you love it, don't forget to go back and do a review and the Same is true for your IML and the magic products. Okay, all right. I am currently working on and testing the uh magical, hair growth, serum accelerator and I'm loving the results that I'm getting I'm hoping to have it ready for you by spring, so be patient with me again. You know I'm also working on something specifically for sensitive, scalps or scalps that are itchy and irritable all right for many of you, this has been a go-to for you um, as Miss D of uh Goldilocks spoke about in my our interview or our just sister session. A few days ago, our sister chat regarding the locks and the lock Journey. She says this has helped many of her clients deal with everything that they've been dealing with with their hair, but some of you have particulars and other things, and you may want something else. So I'm working on that as well, along with a moisturizing spray and it is hella challenging. I will tell you, because I only want to put the best out there for you and it's got to be something that my hair also is thriving with. So just know. If it takes a little bit longer in production cycle because of r d, then it's definitely going to be worth it and when I put it out here for you, it needs to be something that you can trust. And, quite honestly, there are a lot of moisturizing sprays that are water-based, which I want to create uh for those of you who also want something more water-based to use more frequently, there's a lot of that out here, but it has. It has a lot of other stuff in it to make it feel a certain way to make it behave a certain way and oftentimes. It has more of those ingredients than the actual oils and when something is water-based - and you put a few drops of oil in it, and then you throw a bunch of chemicals in there just to get it to look a certain way and sit. It sit a certain way on the Shelf. That'S not my idea of wow. I consider that ethically unacceptable. I consider it unconscionable. I consider it dishonest and I consider it unacceptable for me, so I got to be able to put something out there. That'S really good that I can stand behind um. We know we've got to have some preservatives in there guys. We don't have to worry about that with these, but we know we got to have preservatives in there. So I got to find and use and get the best behavior performance outcome from the preservatives that I decide to use, as well as with the emulsifiers without them taking over the formula. So this is taking some time. Okay, but I love y'all. I appreciate you everything that you do are all the ways that you give me shout outs. Oh, my God, shout out to all of my cynthias here again on the channel shout out to all of my parlors here on the channel shout out to all of my there's. So many of you all that have the most beautiful names that are original, but there's so many of you that have that same name that I'm getting orders from right here on this channel, which surprises me because I'm like okay, Cynthia, okay, Cynthia, the name, Cynthia, okay I'Ll allow that that can make sense. Okay, Paula, okay! Well, you know Paula's, you know this can be a common name, but some of the other names it just it just amazes me. So we're a huge Community but we're also a tight-knit small community. I love all of y'all uh shout out again to both Shirley's on the channel three four Sheila's out there all of y'all. I love y'all, appreciate y'all. Please don't forget to share this video for those of you who are interested in the I am melon and Magic stay tuned. I am going to offer some type of deal a little bit closer to Christmas um. You may not get the order on Christmas necessarily, but you'll get it after Christmas. It'Ll be some type of deal and I'm also going to be putting a magical Elixir, which is a freshen up kind of fragrance. If you guys, like the fragrance that you smell in the box when you order you're likely to love this as well as oil-based, and it's just a nice way to freshen up after a long day or after your two one or two hundred dollar, pitiful perfume that You got from Bloomingdale's, or one of those other stores gives out on you and you want something that's going to last and continue to smell, because I got to tell you. I had some perfumes gifted to me over the years. They don't do half the half of what the perfumes I use do and those perfumes don't come from this country, and so I will be the first to say that we leave a lot to be desired in our production of fragrances in this country. When you can put a fragrance on that costs, you 100 or more dollars and by midday you can't even smell it. That'S a problem to me so anyway. This is a freshen up, magical Elixir and um. Hopefully I'll start putting some samples and maybe the first 50 orders when I began to almost perfect this formula I'll start putting samples in there and it'll be on the website. It'Ll be like in a little uh, probably a little roll on okay, but I love y'all. I appreciate you and make sure you continue to come back and share your thoughts. Your comments don't forget to share and subscribe and let someone else know about the channel. You can get uh these products on ironmillanthemagic.com. If you deal with chronic pain or anything related to inflammation or discomfort, whether it be knees back hips joints, the muscles um that go with that slow recovery time after workouts, you need to try the ouch magic. You really do it's really really good. It can be very helpful for you who may be experiencing chronic pain, so there are a couple of other products that are on the site that you might want to explore when these cells come across all right, if you haven't explored them already, I really love you Guys I appreciate everything you do. I hope you have a beautiful day and uh for those of you who haven't joined me over on butterfly Transformations for Content, not hair, related join me over there. Okay butterfly Transformations lots of love to you tell me you got that. I got it hey. Ladies, do you love the way your skin looks and feels? I know I do because I am using the I am melanin, magic, anti-aging, serum and at 50. I love the way my skin looks and feels this blend is Bomb. It renews. Revitalizes rejuvenates assumes conditions, moisturizes tones brightens and Fades all in one step. So if you're ready to get your glow on, go, get you some iron melon and Magic anti-aging serum. 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