I took this
picture of my lazy (Sloppy) braid today. Honestly I think the taper is
acceptable. Yes, I do have taper. Yes, the end of my braid is way thinner than
the beginning. Yes, I do wish my braid stayed thicker all the way down.
But I don’t
think my taper is “unacceptably” high. My taper is pretty much what comes with
the natural and unavoidable xx shed hairs per day. I even think my shedding is
under normal but since I’ve been growing more or less actively for some 10
years, naturally it results in taper.
The tassel
on the other hand. Yikes, that’s thin and long. The tassel pretty much only
consists of the middle part of the 3 parts forming the braid. When I simply can’t
braid anymore, I tie if off with an elastic.
I really
think that if I went with the reverse U shape I could change that. My theory is
that it would result in less braid-length but I would be able to braid further
down and it would make the tassel a whole lot thicker. I measured the tassel to
around 15 cm
and its all from the middle part.
I feel like
I’m becoming obsessed with this idea, hah…
I think it looks fine, but I totally know how you feel about being obsessed with an idea ;)
ReplyDeleteI asked my hair dresser about the sectioning of hair whilst trimming and she said with long hair, it would take far too much off the top if you did that method of trimming. Soooo, if you did do that with your hair, would you not be able to have an even/thick tassel? in essence, would that not make your theory of the sides longer than the middle? If I can remember, when I had my hair trimmed this way, I'm almost positive my braid tassel was thicker, but I'm going back quite a few years now.
It's quite possible this is just because the ends are thin due to the fact they are the 'oldest' hairs.
I have a suggestion. Take some old wool and make it uneven----do the reverse U with some wool and see how it works? See if the theory is correct--you'd need a fair amount to mimic your length, but at least wool or any type of yarn, well, you can make mistakes with it ;)