I really love the way my hair and skin feels whenever I use shea butter, but it's always a pain to use because it's very hard a room temperature.  By whipping the shea butter, it creates an easier application.  For my whipped shea butter, I used 100% African shea butter, organic virgin coconut oil, raw honey, and Cantu Leave-In Conditioning Mist.

Heat up the shea butter for 45 seconds in the microwave.  This melts half of the butter and makes it easier to mix the other ingredients in.

Add the honey, coconut oil, and leave-in mist.

Mix all ingredients together and pour back the mixture into its original container.  The mixture should be very thin.

Place the container in the freezer for 5 minutes, so that it can thicken up a little bit.

After removing the mixture from the freezer, use a fork to whip it.  The consistency should be thick, but creamy.

The finished product!

Ever since I started my healthy lifestyle journey, I've been trying my hardest not to eat processed foods.  Spaghetti is one of my favorite meals to eat, but I do not like making it with store bought marinara sauce.  It usually gives me heartburn and has more sodium and sugar than I like to consume so I decided to make my own.  It's a really simple recipe that does not take long.  I've also been trying to cut down on carbs such as pasta, therefore I decided to make zucchini noodles.  My grandmother bought me a vegetable slicer, which made making the zucchinni noodles really easy.  This recipe was a great alternative to a classic recipe I grew up loving to eat.

I used 3 and a half pounds of  roma tomatoes and cut them in smaller chunks.

In a pan over medium heat, I added a half cup of extra virgin olive oil and sauteed one tablespoon of garlic for two minutes.  Pay close attention to the garlic so that it does not burn.  Burnt garlic will mess up the recipe.

Add the tomatoes and season  with salt and pepper and cook over medium heat for ten minutes.

Add one fourth cup of Cabernet Sauvignon, shiitake mushrooms, fresh Italian parsley and fresh oregano, and continue to let the marinara sauce simmer for another 10 minutes.  Add fresh basil to the marinara sauce the last five minutes of cooking the sauce.

This is the type of slicer I used for the zucchini noodles.

One large zucchini was enough for two servings.

You can boil the zucchini noodles for one minute, if you want them to to be a little tender.  Anything longer than a minute will leave you with mushy noodles.

Top your spaghetti with some fresh shaved parmesan cheese and enjoy!!

My go to hairstyle this summer is a mega puff.  It's so effortless and it gives me the big hair look, without having to wear my hair down.  I really enjoy wearing my hair like this because I can go to sleep and wake up the next morning without having to fix my hair.  The only thing I do at night is tie a thin scarf around my head, so that my edges can lie flat the next morning.  It's easier to achieve this style on an old wash-n-go instead of freshly shampooed hair.  Whenever I do it on freshly shampooed hair, It takes two days for my puff to become huge enough the way I like it.

Before starting this style, I apply Eco Styler Olive Oil gel around my edges and brush my hair to the middle of my head.

I use an elastic headband and cut it in half to tie my hair.

I start by wrapping the head band around the edge of my hairline.

Next I cross the two ends of the headband, just like you would when tying a shoe, and begin pulling both ends of the headband tighter in the front of my head so that the majority of my hair is being pulled almost to the top of my head.  Afterwards, I tie a knot in the headband.

Once I've pulled my hair into the desired size of the puff, I push the head band back from the top of my head so that my hair don't rest on my forehead.

And I'm done!!