thanks
Blairx0!
girls, i am proud to say that i was pleasantly surprised by how my hair turned out! naptural85's tecnique works, even if you don't use the same products as her. pics:
when i first took it down. the pics on the left are no flash, the large picture on the right is flash:
as you can see in the picture on the lower right, one flexirod curl did not dry all the way (UGH). I ended up twisting that curl and pinning it across the back of my head in a style. it actually turned out looking cute in the end.
my hair in the morning after separating & fluffing:
my hair at the end of the day after work. it frizzed out a lot, but it still looks good:
and here's my hair without the flash, so you can see how it looks under direct sunlight:
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ETA: for some reason lhcf won't let me upload the full-sized pic of my hair in the sunlight, i had to make it smaller than the others for it to upload. i tried playing around with the upload function but it kept rejecting the original file. ughh!!! sorry it's so small.)
thank you naptural85 for this new technique! it agrees with my hair. i also got compliments on my style at work today.
pros:
-cute midweek style, can do on old hair
-minimal products needed- aloe vera gel & coconut (vatika) oil
-pretty, S-shaped curls. i prefer these curls to curlformer coily curls. sometimes i feel like curlformer curls are like dreads lol
-flexirods can be worn under a hair bonnet
cons
-naptural85's hair is longer than mine, so in her video her curls hung longer and weighed her roots down. however, since my hair is shorter, my roots were puffier and didn't blend in as well with my curls. that's okay in the long run though- it just means that as my hair grows longer, this style will look even better
-sleeping in flexirods is no fun. but, it's not as bad as sleeping in curlformers
i would definitely do this style again!
