Believe it or not, I went on a 4th of July riverboat cruise to watch fireworks. It was misting rain and very, very humid all day. On the cruise my hair was wringing wet to the touch. I got home around midnight and tied it up and took these pics late Sunday evening. My hair looks amazing even after being out in that type of weather all day long the previous day!
I don’t know about y’all, but I’m just not ready for the dog days of summer. The older I get the less I have the patience or tolerance for extreme heat. I prefer temperatures in the lower to mid eighties; anything more just seems to sap my energy.
That said, I really, really, really needed a quick do that I didn’t have to fuss with for a week at a time. That’s what I have with this updo. Fashioned from flat twists in my hair line and two strand twists, I just pull them all up in the back and secure with a butterfly clip. At my temples I made finger twists. They’re sooo cute. I like them because they soften the style up. Also, if they don’t make it through the night (which they don’t sometimes) all I have to do is wet them, pull them loose, apply some moisturizer and make new coils. Takes just a couple of minutes and I’m good to go.
If I tie my head up every night, my hair usually holds up for seven days — from Sunday to Sunday. After one week, I assess my hair and refresh as necessary which includes taking down individual twists, finger detangling, deshedding, remoisturizing and retwisting. In week two, I wash my hair, and take down all my twists one at a time to detangle, deshed, moisturize and retwist, and I’m good to go with a clean scalp and hair for another two weeks.
Here’s what it looks like from all angles.
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She looks at me and smiles with a hint of surprise coupled with a smidgeon of amusement. It’s at that point I realized that my life on internet hairboards had crept into my offline life. I mean, it’s quite common place to celebrate someone’s decision to go natural online, but how often is it seen as something special out in the world?
This past weekend I was finally able to pin one of my friends down to help me color my hair. I could probably do it by myself but it’s a big help that she does it for me, quite frankly because she can see the back and I can’t.
Anyhoo, on Saturday we made an afternoon/evening of it. Now that I’ve got the routine down pat, 45 minutes after we finally got started, I had a full head of beautiful cocoa brown hair, courtesy of Clairol’s Texture and Tones line.
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and screw anyone else who doesn’t! (If you’re here from HC click here ) Or scroll down to read a related post…
Ok... Maybe these aren't grown and sexy...but that's not going to stop me from wearing them for awhile. But I am convinced that if I could pull this off if I can figure out how to part my hair in an attractive way. I'm not in a hair mood right now y'all, I just want something easy to take care of and for the time being...this is it. But if anyone has some grown and sexy box braid pics, please send them to me at nappymehappyme@aol.com and I'll show them off. Thanks!
Two nights ago I made an impromptu decision to take down my hair. It’s been up in the same twists since last September. Other than reparting my hair to vary my flat twists right along my hair line, I’ve been wearing the same flat and two-strand twist for six months. Someone once asked me how I did it, how did I manage to keep my hair looking so fresh? The answer was simple; all I did was cleanse my hair while in twists, take them down, one at a time to detangle, remoisturize and then twist them back up. Wearing my hair like this enabled me to wear my twists in a multitude of styles, including ponytails, chignons and a whole lot of different updos that I’m sure you’ve seen if you’ve been following my journey as of late. In fact, these twists were so versatile that I thought I’d never grow tired of wearing my hair like this.
Well I was wrong. Ok… sort of.
It was getting to the point that my method of keeping my hair looking fresh just wasn’t working anymore. I’d redo my flat twists one day and before the end of the day, they would look weeks old. Same thing with my two-strand twists, no matter if I just retwisted, they just looked old. And God help me if I slept on them…I’d wake up with my whole head looking like a fuzzy, wuzzy rug.
My hair was trying to tell me something, and that something was most def “TAKE ME DOWN!”
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Move along HC folks…there’s nothing to see here…
For the time being, I regret that I’ve had to take down one of my posts because some members of a particular hairboard have decided that they don’t like one of my hairstyles…the box braids I was wearing in this particular post. Someone has taken it upon themselves to visit my blog and go back to their general discussion forum and make fun of my hair. Then, they posted a link to my blog so that others could come and take a look and then go back to the board and continue to make fun of me and my hair.
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Ok… I decided to go ahead and do another BSL length check. And yeah, I’m there. My hair is once again horribly uneven since my last serious trim… ok, it was more like a cut… well maybe it was a trim… was last fall when I had about an inch cut off my lowest layer. I plan to do that again sometime this summer to get rid of one more major layer. Then that’s it. No more cutting — just trims to help keep my hair healthy and strong.
- Final length check for a really long time. Hair stats currently are Top/crown about 15.5 inches and back/nape about 12 inches. Do I qualify as a long-haired nappy yet?
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