When Life Gives You Nuts: My Expeiramenting

Have you ever tried something new for the upcoming year at high school? Maybe it's a new hairstyle or a new way to shower....I don't know. In the last couple of days, I have been trying new things on my hair. I have a couple of new strategies when it comes to doing your hair at night, and just perfecting it in the morning. By perfecting it in the morning, I mean doing something(like braiding your hair) at night after you shower. In the morning you would perfect the look by unraveling the braid. I have tried twists, and braids at night and taking them out in the morning to find a great surprise waiting. (more or less an afro) Let me tell you what I did. If you're not interested, please feel free to read some of the other posts. I am sure you will find plenty to look at in the side bar on the right.

I used:

Curlformers, a special type of curlers that are some sort of mesh that you use on your hair when wet and sleep with them in. I found the greatest results by having a fan in your room, or sleep next to a vent, so your hair will dry compleatly. In the morning I have hairspray, and a whole bunch of bobby pins on hand. When I take out the curlers, a bouncy curl results. I stick my finger in the middle of the curl and I push it up to my scalp, where I spray it with hairspray and pin it in place for about five minutes while I do the rest of my head. I find that if you use this method, which is kind of like pin curling, that the curl stays in for the entire day.

French Braids: French braids are pretty just by themselves, but if you're looking for some loose waves, french braiding at night while your hair is still wet and sleeping with them in will give you nice waves without heat. When I braid, I usually like to wait about ten minutes after the shower to let my hair dry a little. I also add a little bit of hair oil in my hair just to help prevent frizz and to make my hair shiny. I also find that coconut oil works well IF you use a teeny tiny ammount, I like to do this to my hair a lot. If you don't know how to french braid your own hair, ask someone to do it, or split the hair vertically into two sections and split it again to make four sections and braid each individual section. This is how I did this method until I learned how to french braid on myself.

Twisting Method One: If you're running late at night and just want to get to bed as soon as possible, I would recommend this method. It took me about ten minutes to do, and I got tons of volume and tons of waves in my hair. I would warn you that if you don't have a hair serum or a hair oil, to not do this the way I do it. Experiment on yourself as your hair is different than mine. I used two drops of hair oil in my hair at night, and another drop in the morning to help prevent frizziness. Here's how to do it: First split the hair in half like you would to braid the hair. Tie one side up, and split the loose hair in two again horizontally. Clip the top section up, and twist the section tightly. The hair will loosen up at night as it dries. Pull the twisted section up to the top of the head and pin it down with four or five bobby pins. Untie the hair on the same side, and flip your head over and twist the section, when finished with that section, pull the hair back and pin it next to the first twist. On the front of the head there will be a bump so it will be all right I promise you will NOT have a bump when you take it out. Do the same to the other side and go to sleep. When you wake up, unpin the hair, but DO NOT UNRAVEL THE HAIR UNTIL THE LAST TWIST IS UNPINNED FROM THE HEAD. YOU WILL LATER. What I like to do is to shake my head to get the twists out, but do whatever works best for you.

Twist Method Two: This one is slightly more complicated and will therefore take more time to do. (About thirty minutes or so) This is a complicated method so I will refer you to this site to see what I mean.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crQtB285riU This video will show you what I do and what the results are. I must warn you that the hair at the top of the head that you start to twist will maintain the twisted shape when you do it. I like this method, and it looks more messy than the first twist method. I didn't use any product in my hair except hair oil, so if you really want to, you shouldn't need very much product.

I hope this gave you some ideas about what to do for school and what you can do at night. I like these. All of these are done at night and prove to work on me. However, as much as I testify that this will work, you will need to try them so you can decide if you want to use them. Summer is a perfect time to do this because you can just take a shower and not worry about it the whole day. Everyone's hair is different, just as every snowflake is unique in it's own way. Well I need to do chores and then....sleep!!!!!

P.S. I will post picture of each method on myself before I go to bed and after in a couple of days. Oh and the pictures above are not of me.

These pictures are of the First Method of twisting...Before and after.