Without fail, every single time I go get my hair trimmed (I only trim it unless I'm planning a dramatic cut) whoever cuts it is like "Omg, you have sooooo much hair!!!!1!!"
I fucking know, okay? Jesus, I live with this Amazon forest every day. The last time I had my hair dramatically cut (12 inches off for Locks of Love) the woman had to get these enormous shears that looked like they were for branches just to slice through my pony tail. I get it. But they continue to tell me.
If it's not huge and sturdy, my hair will break it. |
So I looked into braiding this summer. I've never really understood french braiding, and I still can't do the against the head tight braids, but I did learn the basic braid (top right). I usually have to do it more than once. How did I learn? YouTube, of course.
Second on the right is the easiest type of braid to learn, in my opinion. The fish braid. This I can do really quickly. Apparently, though, it makes me look like an Indian, because my hair was like this when a not-so-educated wife said I "looked like I was from Arizona."
The last style is my favorite but can be kind of a pain in the ass. It's a sock bun, also a style I learned from YouTube. A quick written tutorial:
1. Find an old sock you don't want anymore. Use the length and thickness of your hair to determine the length and thickness of the sock.
2. Cut off the bottom where the toes go.
3. Roll it into a doughnut shape.
4. Make your hair a little damp; it's much easier this way. Spritz it, comb it with water, whatever.
5. Put your hair into a pony tail; put the doughnut on it and slide it to the end of your hair, leave about two inches.
6. Curl the end of your hair around and into the doughnut sock.
7. Roll it up, distributing your hair around the sock as you go so it doesn't show.
It should make a nice neat bun. My problem with it is it starts to come undone, and as for pinning it I haven't discovered a way that doesn't look a little weird. The fun part about it is though, if you can make it a little damper than usual, put your hair up higher and make it stay, if you sleep on it it gets all curly when you take it out. It would probably be better to do two separate buns on either side, though.
I advise just wandering YouTube when you type in "hair tutorial" or something, it's kind of fun and people have some cool ideas.
LOL. "You look like you're from Arizona!" that's hilarious. I'm sure you're meeting some pretty interesting characters way out east :) Your sock bun is gorgeous! I've done it a few times in effort to get to curly results, but my hair is always just a tangly half-flat half-frizzy non-curled mess every morning I've tried it. But I agree, youtube is awesome for finding sick hair tutorials. Miss you!
ReplyDeleteI know right? I can braid my hair funny so I must be from that place with all the cactus and Indians. Yeah I've gotten that same frizzy mess before, it's hard to get it right and I wanted to try a different method. Curling irons don't do shit on my hair. I'm glad you're back in the blogging world! Gives me something to read and updates me on things at home :)
ReplyDeleteI am so jelly of those braids. mine never turn out the way I want them >.<
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