Hair (or Whaaaat?)

This week I straightened my hair so my sister could trim my hair. I noticed it was a little damaged at the ends, and because of this, I was always wearing my hair up. And I don't necessarily think of the same old bun as my only look.

Showing off my white streak. It started growing this way at 23.

 Then out of nowhere, my hair started behaving as it never had before: full, wavy, bouncy curls occurring naturally, sleekness to boot! Now, the practice of straightening, that I had shunned for years, is looking like really good deal. (It may be because I put small coconut oil in my hair before heating it up...)

Mmm, gurl! Look at this buffant!

Teacher knows best!

A friend of mine compared this to the birth of Venus!

Daring to rock a center part for the first time since I was 10!

Perhaps in the future you'll see me using this hair style again. I really think so!

(Also, I had my first reader from Vietnam this week! Thank you again to all my readers, near and far!)

That's how I roll!

The other day I was reading a Refinery 29 article and they gave a few suggestions of what to do with curly hair. They were all good suggestions, but the one that stands out in my mind was the Victory Roll. It has all my favorite things:

• Pinned up and out of the face (though hair in your face is nice sometimes, too).
• Features (natural) curly hair
• A possibility for huge volume (I adore big hair)
• Uses hair pins (I like the old-fashioned flair of it)

With all those things considered, this simple hair style was just the ticket. 

My friend Nathaniel--aka Ivory Sorrows on Tumblr-- and I (dress by Old Navy)

To avoid practically plagiarizing the article, I didn't include a step-by-step tutorial. But briefly, it's a section of hair just a bit wider than the arches of the eyebrows (for me at least), that goes back about 2 inches on the scalp. One can just roll this section from the ends towards the roots in the same way one might put a paper towel back on the roll. Pin it in place with bobby pins (you can hide the pins under the roll). For the hair between the center roll and the ear, you can overlap them slightly and pin them in place just under the crown of the head.

I thought it looked pretty decent. Maybe you'll see me with this hair style again, sometime. ;)