 Hey everyone it's your go rena jinx welcome back to my channel it has been a really long time and I am just so sorry for how long it's been it's been a while since I have filmed it's been a while since I posted anything at all in terms of my blog. I have been obviously on Instagram snapchat and on my Facebook page my official rena jinx Facebook page but other than that I haven't really been doing anything as far as content on my blog and on YouTube it really sucked but I had a lot going on so yeah this is just a little update on where I been and what I've been doing and I'm going to give a little hair update as well so basically I got a new job at first I was traveling an hour both ways back and forth to my job but I recently moved two months ago almost two months ago so I got a new job and basically at the same time I moved out I had roommates but now I'm just now it's just me and my boyfriend in our apartment so it's pretty nice and I really like it it's really cute we're putting it together little by little is taking a while but that's okay because I don't like to buy things I don't like so we're taking the time to buy things we like and basically make it our own having a new job I had to kind of take a break so that I can take the time out to learn my new job and get acquainted with it and get used to working the 40 hour week I was at my last job I was working around 35 hours a week so that five hours actually makes a difference I was working I would say I was working more like 32 to 35 depending on scheduling so I obviously wanted to work 40 hours a week like a grown-up person and so I had to get adjusted to working a schedule like that because in the beginning I was tired constantly so now I'm a little bit more acquainted and I'm kind of used to it now but besides all that I do really really really really really want to get back on the horse and get consistent again with my content on YouTube especially YouTube comes first a little bit more before my blog just because even though I do like blogging I do have more fun filming and editing my videos but my blog is based around my YouTube page it's not the other way around so yeah so I'm really going to try and get back on here and film and edit it's going to be another adjustment with my 40 hour schedule so I do want to stick with my one video a week schedule which is what I was doing before my three month hiatus I don't want to commit to that just yet maybe I'll do a video every two weeks in the YouTube world though that just seems like forever so I really hate thinking that I have to do one video every two weeks I'm really going to try and shoot for a video a week and I'm pretty sure I can do it it's just going to be more challenging with my 40 hour a week schedule if you would like a more formal hair update I can do that for you guys with my hair actually out so you can see it and see what it looks like but I'll talk a little bit about my hair right now it's okay it's doing okay I haven't been a big fan of my hair lately only because once again I have heat damage which is really really annoying my hair is really sensitive so I think that I'm going to try to limit my heat usage probably to like a few times a year really going to try and not use heat if at all on my natural hair even while using heat protectants and I double up on layers of or triple sometimes my layers of heat protectant and depending on the temperature that I'm using or if I've used a bow dryer beforehand and use a heat another heat tool after my hair will become heat damaged and just just to avoid future damage I'm going to literally not try to use heat on my natural hair at all probably only when I do go and get my hair trims things like that I'll probably still use heat to blow it out first so that then I can have my hair trims I love using heat I love styling with heat but if it's going to continue to damage my hair and not revive like if I can't revive my natural curl curl pattern it's almost not worth it because when I look at old pictures and I can insert some pictures if you're interested if you're interested I'm just going to insert old pictures so you see what I'm talking about yeah if I when I looked back and this is recently I looked back on old pictures of my hair when I first went natural like the first year I went natural and it was so beautiful and I'm just like I kind of forgot what my hair looks like again like my hair is not relaxed but I forgot the curl pattern that I had I didn't take care of my hair like I did the first year that I was natural I kind of fell off the wagon going to definitely limit my usage a whole lot now just so I can get my hair back to the states that it was I've definitely been co-washing more which has been helping me so much and it's helped my hair retain a lot more moisture at the same time and my scalp is definitely back to normal it's it feels so much better and I don't know I guess I might have over washed my hair I don't know but my scalp was super duper dry and now it just feels so much better I can also do an updated product video because I use a lot of different I mean maybe not a whole lot of different products but I use quite a few different products probably since my last products videos so I can film that if you guys are interested as well but yeah I think that's it as for an update on my life and about my hair yeah I just wanted to come on here and talk to you guys because it's been a while been a minute but I'm back in a better let me stop being corny oh thanks for watching and whoever has stayed on my channel all this time I'm sweating here my ring light is hot yeah whoever has stayed on this channel all this time I really appreciate you guys whoever has subscribed to me in the past few months during my hiatus you guys are the bomb because even though I haven't been consistent you guys seem to like my channel and I really appreciate that yeah I really appreciate all the love I really hope to see you guys again soon