Twisty Thoughts.....

I have multiple blogs, and it's funny seeing how one pulls ahead on the dashboard, and the other one falls behind as I go along. I still haven't added the new science links (haven't read through them), but I did spend some time updating the tags, etc. I suppose I should look at my labels, and add some tags that way, as well. We shall see.

Anyhow - Thursday before a hair-in weekend - I think that I'll permanently shift my SAF washes to the 'in weekends'. I'm concerned/worried that it won't be frequent enough (every other week) to really show any major difference, but ya know, this ain't a race, and glory does not always go to the swift. *wrygrin* Two main reasons for that - one, I rarely feel like hopping in and out of the shower after work, and two, it'll help me keep my hair looking nice longer - the whole first week it's dry, and then the second week, I'll only have to get through a week of semi-fuzz/shrunken twists, rather than 10-13 days.

I redid the front bit yesterday, and figured out how to angle/twist the end bit so that it tucks neatly BEHIND the 'hump' rather than hanging out on one side - and I only used one bobby pin/hair pin.....hair pin. It's not 'pinched' together in the middle, so that makes it a hair pin, I think. I don't know, but I do know that it doesn't seem to 'pinch' my hair as much, nor do the little end bobbies catch on my hair. I have to admit, I wonder when/if there is a hairpin with rounded edges, rather than the pointed ones..... I REALLY need to find those 'good hair day' pins.

Oooh! Speaking of which, TLHC has a new error message up - which at least means someone is meddling in the background. I registered for The Beauty Bottle to try to keep up, but Pppfffhht.

It's interesting, to me, that I'm rather hair-obsessed (hello?!) but, in general, I'm NOT the 'beauty' type. *snort* I'd never be 'That Girl' - I don't wear makeup at all...... I wanted to wear some a few days ago, going out to dinner with DH, and it was sad, digging through my 'makeup' kit - most of which most people would only consider fit for their 5 y/o niece, and the rest (the good stuff) was all from my wedding (four years ago) and I'm certain it should be thrown away. I managed to dig up some mascara and some lipstick - I've no clue where my eyeliner went.....and I laughed at myself as I put it on, because - really? I don't even think he noticed, and I came home with no lipstick, and raccoon eyes. Yeah.
I'm not a fashion plate - don't have the money, the tag size, or the inclination (we aren't even going to TALK about shoes), and so......

Maybe that's why I'm so obsessed with my hair. From growing up not being able to show it, and tossing in the whole weight thing (cuz you know the message always was that fat girls could never be cute - smart, sure, but cute? Come back once you've lost a few...), I've more or less abandoned the 'option' to care about anything but my hair. *sigh*

That was a depressing tangent - but a worthwhile one, because I've brought that message to the forefront - dammit, I can be cute. *sigh* I'll have to sew my own stuff (it's the only way my style AND my pocketbook will be happy), but I CAN be cute. I might do that this weekend.




Hah - and I thought I was done. Someone bumped an old thread, and I saw where I was talking about taking my hair down, putting con in my hair, IMMEADIATELY detangling, then braiding it up to let it 'sit', and rinsing while in the braids.

I know why I stopped - I didn't feel like I was getting everything off of my scalp, and I hate spending any more time than needed in the shower. But. After last weekends detangling session resulting in a Ball O Hair, I'm thinking that I might need to start doing that again. Instead of rinsing it out while it's in the braids, though - undo, rinse, redo - one braid at a time. Gahhhh. My hair isn't NEARLY long enough (in my mind) to have to move to that method of cleaning, but bugger. Seriously, ya'll, last weekends detangle (which, fair enough, was done WITHOUT EQ IFC - in fact, without any sort of 'commercial' conditioner at ALL) had me seriously debating the wisdom of this path.....but - I did give my hair almost two days to be 'free' and to tangle up around itself.....still. I might try it the way I did it last weekend again next weekend (which is Caramel Time, if I remember right), and if the detangling is as rough as it was this time, I'll move up...as I really want to move beyond the reliance on commerical stuff.

Though. I wonder. If I detangled *gasp* dry with AD - I wonder how that would turn out? I'm intensely paranoid about putting comb to my dry hair, but with the AD in it - well, we'll have to see. My goal/intention/hope is to ONLY detangle once every two weeks. I know I'll have to put comb to head at least twice every two weeks - once to detangle, once to part/style....but those times don't HAVE to be back to back. Hrrm. I dunno. I'll figure it out.