Kneechay
Well-Known Member
I have to say I've gotten extremely hair lazy since I stopped weaving in Aug 2010. I've been bunning & doing twistouts and calling it a day. I let someone borrow my camera, and they broke it, so I'm buying a new one maybe next week so please forgive the whack camera phone pics.
This is how I usually wear my hair outside of buns. Twistout, bobby pinned up on one side to keep it out of my face, then when it's old, I bobby pin up in the back.
I hadn't straightened in a while and the last time I did I didn't wear it down or measure, but it was this pic from March 2011:
I thought it was funny to show a pictorial of my straightening process.
I tell people that when I wash and emerge straight from the shower, my hair shrinks up to about ear length. In this picture, I tried to put oil, eco styler gel and use a paddle brush to attain clumped curls to 'freeze' this style into a fro...of some sort... but it was a FAIL. I've learned for me, it seems the longer my hair grows, the more it shrinks.
So I wash, let it air dry a bit, and blow dry on cool
Applied products, flat ironed
I curled it a bit with the flat iron (which I hate by the way) for volume
My hair has a little of that 'natural hair that's just been flat ironed frizzy look' and I wrapped it in saran wrap, sat under the dryer and wrapped it over night with my scarf. I didn't like my ends, so I cut off that V-ish thing going on at the ends and curled it lightly with my flat iron the next day
these pictures suck. Sorry, y'all.
I've noticed a lot more thickness in my hair and in comparison to March 2011's picture, just very minimal growth, but definite thickness.
It's always fun looking back where you began. Just like in my siggy, I compared then and now:
That was Jan 2009, the semester I graduated from UT and began using the board more frequently. I used to whip my hair all over the place like I was Willow when that tip was almost at APL. You couldn't tell me NOTHING!!
I also compared my hair to the last sew-in I had. I had 12inches sewn in:
I'm getting close to reaching that length. I think to be honest, it's where my journey will end.
I have a wedding tomorrow, so I think I'll dry flexi rod set it and see what happens. I'm going to be winging it. lol
Thank you all for looking, and sorry the pics aren't up to par, but I was asked by multiple people to do an update thread and it's been a while, so I did so. Good luck to everyone in their hair journeys and I'm looking forward to seeing more update threads this year.
---More pictures towards bottom of this thread
This is how I usually wear my hair outside of buns. Twistout, bobby pinned up on one side to keep it out of my face, then when it's old, I bobby pin up in the back.
I hadn't straightened in a while and the last time I did I didn't wear it down or measure, but it was this pic from March 2011:
I thought it was funny to show a pictorial of my straightening process.
I tell people that when I wash and emerge straight from the shower, my hair shrinks up to about ear length. In this picture, I tried to put oil, eco styler gel and use a paddle brush to attain clumped curls to 'freeze' this style into a fro...of some sort... but it was a FAIL. I've learned for me, it seems the longer my hair grows, the more it shrinks.
So I wash, let it air dry a bit, and blow dry on cool
Applied products, flat ironed
I curled it a bit with the flat iron (which I hate by the way) for volume
My hair has a little of that 'natural hair that's just been flat ironed frizzy look' and I wrapped it in saran wrap, sat under the dryer and wrapped it over night with my scarf. I didn't like my ends, so I cut off that V-ish thing going on at the ends and curled it lightly with my flat iron the next day
these pictures suck. Sorry, y'all.
I've noticed a lot more thickness in my hair and in comparison to March 2011's picture, just very minimal growth, but definite thickness.
It's always fun looking back where you began. Just like in my siggy, I compared then and now:
That was Jan 2009, the semester I graduated from UT and began using the board more frequently. I used to whip my hair all over the place like I was Willow when that tip was almost at APL. You couldn't tell me NOTHING!!
I also compared my hair to the last sew-in I had. I had 12inches sewn in:
I'm getting close to reaching that length. I think to be honest, it's where my journey will end.
I have a wedding tomorrow, so I think I'll dry flexi rod set it and see what happens. I'm going to be winging it. lol
Thank you all for looking, and sorry the pics aren't up to par, but I was asked by multiple people to do an update thread and it's been a while, so I did so. Good luck to everyone in their hair journeys and I'm looking forward to seeing more update threads this year.
---More pictures towards bottom of this thread
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