13:10 Feb 21 2017
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I am trying to do bohemian hairforbiddens (which I fucking adore) and I can do all the base techniques - French braiding, Dutch braids, fishtail, plain plaiting, messy buns, sock bun...
but I cannot for the life of me get it to work tonight in a whimsical, easy-going way. Mine are always so structured and this is a big change.
I can do milkmaid braids on other people (I did my mother's hair like this for the recently gone Christmas, with bright accessories pinned into her hair, as well, and it looked AMAZING!) but not on myself. I can fishtail other people's hair... as soon as I do my own, it always ends up being a side-fishtail, and not one at the center of the head. I'm just not coordinated enough - and with natural hair that is now 28 inches long (if not more! that was when it was measured 2 months ago) - it's a hairy mess.
I honestly wish I had some hair-handy friends around to help me do my own hair.
It's kind of like the scene in Tangled where the young girls braid, plait and weave Rapunzel's hair, haha.
I love my hair, but the amount of work that goes into it is honestly ridiculous.
Next time I holiday I'll have to buy big bottles of shampoo and conditioner and be extremely vigilant with it. My at-home haircare is a lot more than I ever imagined it would be. It's longer than it's ever been (I had fairly long hair in high school, but never bothered to maintain it - likely a large factor as to why I had it chopped it into a VERY SHORT bob-cut at the time) and I am leaning by trial and error.
For example, I've been sick for the last few days, so I have been sleepy and in a permanent state of dizziness... which means I really don't want to spend 20 minutes combing my hair every few hours (true story - takes me 20 minutes, roughly, to comb it on a GOOD day).
As such, it matted. Badly.
Very badly.
I ended up shampooing it and then sitting in the shower, water off, for over an HOUR, detangling my hair with so much deep conditioner that I was covered in it, as if it was a thick body paste.
It took an HOUR to detangle... and then 20-30 minutes to brush it 2 hours later, when it finally dried- WITH the help of an electric fan blowing on it.
Lordy.
Don't get me wrong- it's entirely worth it, but it's so time and energy consuming, and I don't think people realise how long it takes per day to maintain, lol.
It MUST be tied back for sleep, and it's ideal to use a satin pillow or satin headwrap when sleeping (or both), to stop it tangling.
Then there's the products... deep conditioner, huge bottles of regular shampoo and conditioner, different sized combs, extra conditioner in case of major knotting/matting, oils (I use mixes of ylang-ylang, coconut and argan), hair brushes for when I just don't care about ripping my hair out (sometimes I don't want to comb it properly and will just rip through it with a brush - Judgement was a witness to this last week, lol).
That's not including protein treatments or keratin, or specific hair types or scalp conditions (dry, oily or dandruff).
So much energy. So much time.
AND I CAN'T EVEN GIVE MYSELF MILKMAID BRAIDS. >:
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