Friday, January 25, 2013

Cold Pressed Castor Oil VS Jamaican Black Castor Oil

Now as we all know the benefits of Castor oil.
It can be used both Internally and External.
In this case I we are going to be using it externally in the hair department.
But first we have to see the two main difference in the Cold Pressed Castor Oil and the Jamaican Black Castor Oil .

1) Cold Pressed Castor Oil

Cold pressed oil is oil produced through a combination of grinding and low heat. Many types of fruits, seed , and vegetables can be used to make it, but not all cooking oils go through this process. The introduction of heat to the process of making most oils degrades their flavour nutritional value, and colour, and may expose them to toxins. (http://tinyurl.com/83afndu)



Dr Pheonix (via Curlynikki) writes: "Manufacturers will use different types of processing methods when extracting oils from plants. And an oil will be either unrefined or refined based on how it was extracted from a plant. Unrefined oils retain most if not all of their nutritive properties, while refined oils will lose some (or possibly all) of their nutritive properties. 

Cold-pressed castor oil, is a colourless to very pale yellow liquid with mild or no odour or taste. It is a triglyceride in which approximately 90% of fatty acid chains are ricinoleic acid (interestingly, castor oil is the only place where this acid is found). Oleic and linoleic acids (essential fatty acids) are the other significant components of castor oil. A good reason to use cold-pressed castor oil instead of refined castor oil is that cold-pressed oils retain much more of these valuable nutrients. (http://tinyurl.com/bzw2omu)

2) Jamaican Black Castor Oil
PictureSunny Isle Jamaican Black Castor Oil is processed the “old fashioned “Jamaican way. Our Organic seeds are roasted and grounded by a manual grinder, after which the beans are boiled to extract the 100% pure, dark brown organic oil. Sunny Isle Jamaican Black Castor Oil is the best quality oil on the market. Why you may ask? Over the last ten years it is an established precedent that Jamaican Black Castor Oil is more effective than the clear Pharmacy Castor Oil because of the Ash Content in Jamaican Black Castor Oil due to roasting of the beans. Therefore it stands to reason that the more Ash Content the more effective the Oil. This is not a myth, it is evidence based FACTS. Compared to other brands, it is the darkest Jamaican Black Castor Oil because we roast our beans longer, which produces more Ash Content in Sunny Isle Jamaican Black Castor Oil than any other oil on the market. More Ash content increases the effectiveness and the colour of the oil. Therefore, the Sunny Isle brand will strengthen and increases hair growth faster than any other brands on the market today. Sunny Isle Jamaican Black Castor Oil comes in a safety sealed bottle for your safety protection.(http://tinyurl.com/3597e4t)

This are all Fact based which I gathered around the net so links are provided 

Collective Haul

WARNING PICTURE OVERLOAD
Hi peps today I come to you guys with a Collective haul which I have mange to gather over the December
period and The January sales.
This are the names of the the following shops and haul would be categorised under their shops.
Hope you guys enjoy this..And don't for get to Leave your comments Below
Thanks..

River Island
I love this heel as it was purchased by mum










Zara












Office








Boots



Boots were having a 3 for the Price of two and I purchased this Rimmel Lipstick
No 107 Kate Matte Lipstick
No1 Kate Original
Rimmel 500 in Diva Red








Cloud10beauty



 Sleek Sahara blush was purchased on Beauty Emporium
I love this blush because its an every day blusher for me.
While Permanganate was purchased on Cloud10Beauty



This is the Sigma F35 Tapered Highlighting brush





Ebay


"Zara" look alike bag






I never had hope
I would get this belt in the post
ordered this since late Oct
and it arrived 2 days ago



NewLook
I love this boots soo much that when I saw it I was so delighted that the next boot mum showed me below repulsed me.haha imagine
But one thing is that this boot hurt my feet like heel

My first word when I saw this boot was stumpy
mum picked it from afar it look so huge maybe it was because i saw the first boot which I picked I reli don't know
but one thing I know is that MUM IS ALWAYS RIGHT
lol


Primark

When the belt I order did not arrive I went into Penney/Primark
and go this
If I new the sold this I wouldn't have bothered with ebay






Hope You Guys enjoyed my haul

Here is the video if you would like to watch


Happy Dayz...


Ola

xoxo

Monday, January 14, 2013

Yoruba


Awe ibo lo lo ta 
Ta fin wa o ta
Ibi o balo ja mo
aunty ton gbe ile ito si
Mo wo e wa le yin
Lati ojo meta da bo
Owi pe oo
O loun fun oo
Oun osu meji
O loun fun oo
Ani wipe oo
O loun fun oo
(Asa - AWE)
Yoruba is such a beautiful and historical language you can just listen to a song in this dialect and you would be able to put it down on a page as I have done here. It is  so easy, flexible and almost easy to learn. I would know this, because for an English and Hausa speaking girl like myself who was able learn Yoruba through movies(the wrong way to start..lol) I say this because Yoruba is my native dialect but I wasn’t born in the Southern part of Nigeria but was born and breed in the Northern Part so huge cultural change but I was willing to learn. So may be that added to the fact that was why + much wanted us (Me and Bro) to be able to understand and converse in it fluently for a kid at the age of 11 to take on a new language heheh it got fun.
As the saying goes
If you want to learn a language you have to start with the curse words first.
(Same thing goes for the new language I’m learning now French )
And it’s fun that way

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!!!
Im so happy we all got to make it into the new year.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Avocado + Banana + Mango protein treatment

Hair post alert!!!

Hi all I bring to you guys one of my avocado deep conditioning protein treatment.

I know its a weekday and I normally do this during the week-end but last night, fortunately for me I feel down the stairs so i was stuck in be bed most of the day to rest my poor poor back ;)
And I just took my yarn braids out after one month last week-end all i did was wash it with my dudu osun and conditioned with Hello Hydration Herbal Essences..




I was rocking my braid out the whole of this week and I'm pretty sure my hair is in dire need of  some TLC



I'm Ok..lol

Needs:

1 Medium Avocado
1 jar of puréed  Banana and Mango baby food
Half a table spoon of Wheat Germ Oil
Half a table spoon of Castor Oil
Half a table spoon of Vitamin E Oil
10 drops of Peppermint and Tea Tree Oil


Cut in half your Avocado and spoon both half's into your blender.

Open your purée jar into the blender as-well, add water into the empty jar and shake to get the bit left behind out. Then you blend. (I recommend puréed banana or banana and mango because they are smooth enough to apply to your hair without having bits and chunks left in it(speaking from experience...lol)

Pour out your mixture into your container and this is where you add your oils
and you mix them all up and your good to go..

This one of the ways I mess around with my avocado protein treatment.

I would love to here your opinions on avocado protein treatment if you have tried it and if you haven't would you try it out in the future?


I can only say this for my self I love it and so does my hair...

And as always do not forget to carry out a strand test.


Happy Reading!!!

Ola

xoxo









Onion Sauce



Onion Sauce Recipe



Ingredients:
1 Can of chopped tomatoes
3 cloves of Garlic
2 Onions
Half a Thumb of ginger
Seasoning Salt
1/2 cup of Olive Oil

Method:
1. Slice the onion 1 cm thick for meat
2. Dice Peppers (as much heat as you please or not)
3.chop Garlic and Ginger

4. Add Oil into the pan and let it get heated (to test if hot enough put a pieces of onion in and if it sizzle its ready)

 CAUTION!!!

5. Add the can of tin tomatoes and peppers. Let it fry for some mins

6. This is the time you will add your onion

7.  Add your Seasoning Salt

8. Now you wait for it to fry and cook until your onion turns translucent

And BAMM!!! your sauce is ready  for your Sweet Potato Fritters
(If you haven't seen that post, Its the post before this One)


Finished Product



Happy Munching


Ola


Xoxo


Sweet Potato Fritters


I know it has been a while I posted any thing about cooking. Fear not for I have come with a quick simple recipe. Great for cocktails parties, quick yet simple and delicious dinners (well for students shall I say ;) who know)  kiddies parties and so many more..
Ok lets get into it.

What you will need, in this post I used 3 Sweet potatoes (you can use as many as you want depending on the crowd).

Ingredients:

3 Sweet Potatoes
2 Garlic (roughly chopped)
1 Can of Chopped Tomatoes
4 Onions
Tea spoon Curry
Tea spoon Black Peppercorns
As you know or didn't know I'm Nigerian we season with the eye
Seasoning Salt

LETS GET STARTED.

In the steps below I rinsed the potatoes and i peeled it with the peeler and cut both ends as you will see below.

CHOP CHOP


I cut them into chunky medium strips for the same cooking time
FINISHED 


MAKE SURE TO LIGHTLY SPRAY THE TRAY BEFORE LAYING THE
POTATOES ON THE TRAY



 This is the finished product :D cooking time 45-50 mins..Now if you do not have the patience you can fry the Sweet potato.. so its a very flexible dish..
This was accompanied with my onion sauce...YUMMM!!!

Presentation of some sort. I wrapped a news paper in a cone like shape to give the street food effect and the onion sauce was dished in a mortar
Yes Pestle & Mortar it fit its purpose i wanted :)


Close up of onion sauce.


Happy Munching 

Ola

XoXo