Getting Creative With Unconventional Hair Accessories

I picked this bracelette up at the Greek Festival today. It will double as an adorable hair accessory.

By now, y’all know I’m a hair accessory junkie. Can’t help myself, really and it keeps me from getting totally bored with my hair. And that can be easy to do since I tend to wear the same basic styles for weeks and sometimes months on end. So I’m always, always always on the look out for something new to put in my hair.

Twistout Bangs2

This pic shows a three-strand twist and what a three-strand looks like untwisted.

I spent, oh like two-three hours doing my hair last night. And NOT into another full head of two-strand twists with flat twists along my hair line, which has pretty much become my signature style over the past year. As much as I love this style, I came to the realization that it wasn’t allowing my scalp to breathe. I’m currently at that time in my life where I am now experiencing my own “personal summers” and during these moments, I get so hot. I finally realized that in all this heat and humidity my hair, as styled, was trapping all my body heat in and not allowing me to cool down. This in turn has been making me quite miserable to say the least. A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting on the porch talking with my mom, and I started having a hot flash and literally felt as if I could not breathe and might pass out. I had to cut my conversation short really quick and duck into the house where it was air conditioned.

Personal summers really suck!

Twistout Bangs

 

I recently took all the twists out of my hair, combed out and detanged with a brush and a comb…something I rarely do. I hate taking my hair down simply because I know I’m not about to redo my hair anytime soon in small two-strand twists.In the interim, I really struggle with finding some way to wear my hair that I like. I have my broken off hair line to thank for that. I’ve had problems with my hairline for years; it’s the one thing that I cannot come to grips with when it comes to my texture. I honestly cannot stand the look of really short, rolled up, rough looking nappy hair framing my face. And no matter what style I come up with that doesn’t involve flat twists around my hair line, I cannot camoflage this broken off hair. It doesn’t blend and no product I’ve ever used can make it lay down in an attractive way. So this is the time that I can become incredibly frustrated with my hair. And it’s not until I put my hair back into my full-head twists that this frustration goes away.

Loose Hair, don’t care…

Ok… I lie.

I rarely take my hair out of twists. Not even to wash it or color it. But my hair had been up in the same set of twists for…wow it’s been so long I really can’t remember. Maybe early spring. So I’ve been really, really wanting to but dreading taking it down. So I finally did this past Friday night. Loose hair for me is such an ordeal. I started taking it down around six p.m. and by 11 o’clock or so I finally had it detangled (using a comb and a brush — something else I rarely do) and styled into some big fat twists. But since I so rarely take my hair all the way down, I first decided to do a little photo shoot, just for memory’s sake cause quite frankly, I have no clue when it will be loose again.

Hmmm, I just realized that I’ve never even seen my loose hair with color on it. Youser, it’s brighter than I thought.

Hmmm… Contemplating wearing a puff… But nah!

But, dang, it sure would be cute!

I finally did it!

flat twist up! (Insert snoopy happy dance here)

This is my first flat twists started at my nape and going up toward my crown! Not bad if I do say so myself.

After trying off and on for several years (with ChocoLatte from NP as my inspiration) one day about a week ago, I reached in the back of my head and flat twisted up. Up from my nape toward my crown. Yep up. Finger placement and what to do with my hair all coming to me out of the blue just like when I was trying to teach myself how to three-strand twist a couple of years ago.