Showing posts with label derby city naturals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label derby city naturals. Show all posts

Friday, May 25, 2012

No Buy Challenge!!!!

All my Hair Products back in the fall
(I have soooo much more now)

WNHS Product Haul


As you can see from the pictures I have a problem.  I did not set out to own every natural hair product ever made, but..... well I think I do. Much like most additions it did not happen over night.  While I transitioned I gathered products very slowly, then I started attending natural hair events and started winning giveaways and learning of various natural hair companies and wanting to try new things as I experimented with my new all natural texture.  Fast forward a few months and I now have enough hair products to do everyone's hair in Louisville, Ky for at least a year. Ok that might be an exaggeration, but you get the point.  I know my weaknesses are cute packaging, a great smell and a good sale or free item with purchase. If a product falls into these categories I will buy it every time no matter how many products are currently in my stash. I am not the only natural out there with this problem it seems many of us turn into product junkies once become fully natural.  It really is hard not to.  Enter the Naturally Nu No Buy Challenge, in an effort to shrink my current stockpile of products I have decided to embark upon a self imposed no buy. This mean I promise I will not buy any hair products from now until the Black Friday sales the day after Thanksgiving.  Yes that is a LONG Time. But I know I can do it. I have also challenged some of my friends to this No Buy Challenge as well.  My friend and hair twin Haley of www.Derbycitynaturals.com has taken me up on my challenge. Trust me she has even more products than I do. Then there are those like my other bestie, Tanya10312000 on You Tube who refuse to participate but love to tease us about our no buy.  While I know it will be difficult for all of us to pass up great deals and new and interesting products I think it will be great to find creative ways to use the products we do have once our favorites start to run out.  I will be updating my blog with info on the challenge, but you can also follow what is going on with everyone ion the challenge or even join us yourself by adding yourself to my Facebook challenge page: Naturally Nu's No Buy Challenge. See you there

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The current subscription services that I am already signed up for will continue. This does not count as me buying new products. We can also trade products with each other. There has been some of that going on already on the Facebook page.  Sharing is great!!!!!


Thursday, May 24, 2012

National Natural Hair Meet Up Day: Presented By Derby City Naturals

May 19,2012
http://www.nnhmd.com


National Natural Hair Meetup Day was a day where beautiful ladies across the country gathered together on the same day to meet, mingle and show each other love all in the name of natural hair.  Locally Haley of Derby City Naturals (check out www.derbycitynaturals.com) organized the Metro Louisville meetup.  There was great food, various vendors, an awesome panel discussion with experts in hair, skincare, modeling and even a nationally known blogger.  There were tons of giveaways (OVER 30!!!) and the best part of all SWAG bags!!!!! There were two levels of swag bags. The was regular admission swag bag that contained numerous samples and 1 full size product and a VIP swag bag that had tons of samples and 2 full sized products. Both bags also had tons of coupon codes for products that were in the bags. Now which level do you think I got... You guessed it VIP!!!!!! Below you can see pics of all my goodies. Haley did a phenomenal job getting sponsors for the swag bags.  She truly went above and beyond to make sure this was an awesome event.  I  am still in awe of all her hard work.  I now have tons of new products to try and review for you guys. Not sure when I will get to all of them but I plan to start experimenting very soon.  So stay tuned between these items and all the stuff from the hair show I should be posting tons of reviews. 


View from the top of the inside of my VIP swag bag

all my samples and full sized products minus the coupon codes

Items I purchased from the vendors at the NNHMD

If you missed out this year no worries, there will another NNHMD next year on May 18, 2013.  Stay tuned to http://www.nnhmd.com for more details.