My 90 Year Old Grandmother...told me...

...that my hair looks terrible. Then she added, "But I guess that's the style." Her initial question was, "Why are you wearing your hair like that?" I decided to keep my response simple, "Because I like it like this." That's when she said, "Well, it looks terrible..."

I mean, dag! I don't suppose she's really been feelin' it since it grew out of it's twa anyway. I was speechless. I declare I don't know why people...particularly family...feel it's okay to be rude! It blows me. My cousin said she made another comment about my hair when I wasn't at the table. I mean, this is how my hair grows out of my head...yours would look the same if you didn't put chemicals in it. Why is there a question about why I choose not to put caustic chemicals on my scalp and hair? Geez. I may go ahead and prep a little lesson for the next time she comes out her mouth with something like that. I'll just try to make it concise without going into the whole slave mentality thing. I usually try not to say much about my decision, because I know it can offend those who chose to use the chemicals, but this rudeness has got to stop.

Acceptance

I was perusing hair albums the other day and saw a girl with hair that somewhat resembled mine. Her curls appear a little looser and her hair is probably finer, but her twists behaved exactly like mine except I thought hers looked beautiful. And I think mine look like crap. So it got me thinking that I probably need to stop with these attempts to stretch out my hair because it never works and only frustrates me.

So I was trying another hair experiment...brushing the front and wearing a scarf for 30 minutes to see what it would do. The last time I did this my hair was a lot shorter and the front of my hair was damn near straight. So anyway, I removed the scarf and proceeded to put on my ouchless band like I normally do and it slid right on back and formed a pony puff. I didn't think it looked cute at all with my big face and forehead, but I wore it that way for the remainder of the day.

That evening, I said...well, the front is stretched from wearing the puff and it's always my most challenging area to style anyway so I began twisting. I finally finished after more than 2 hours, I think and I'm going to try to stick with it for as long as I can. My goal is 7 days; if I can exceed that, I'm in business. I figure if some of them start looking crazy, I'll just redo the individual twists instead of untwisting my whole head. We'll see...

Another failed experiment...

So I tried the banding thing, which was fine to dry the hair and stretch it some, not much. But my twists were just as crooked as they could be and looked worse than twists done on wet hair. I've spent all day on NP and just can't wait until this hair grows. I ended up wetting it, because I planned on going to run some errands...which I didn't do because I've been on NP all day. So anyway...just trying to wait patiently and it's extremely difficult. I want a new style, but can't seem to have much success. I saw some flat twists that I like, so I should probably practice those, but I haven't...maybe I'll do that next weekend.

Cool Videos

There was a post on NP with these links:

Hair Wars I
Hair Wars II

It's growing! I've reached 5"

I should definitely have 6 by January. I was reading about banding today and I think I'll try that when it gets longer so I can stretch it out safely to try twists on dry/damp hair.

I have more pictures in my fotki album.

Shrinkage is something else...I have waaaay more than 50% on this head. More like 75-80%.