Look what my dad made for me!

This is so cool!

Last time I visited my parents, my dad noticed my Woodartjewelry bone hair stick. And later he started carving a pair of hair sticks for me out of a set of antlers.

I'm going to try them on next time I visit, and see what more he needs to take off them. I think I would like them to be a little thinner, but I'm not sure how much strain the bone can take. Dad an I discussed making them more "oval", but I will have to try them on. I also suggested making the other one "opposite" and having leave the two or three spikes on the antlers as the decoration part.

Today's hair

Meh, braids got pretty messy over night. They held up very nice for a while though!
I used the massive L'Anza Trauma treatment and that one has fairly good hold.

I basically did a repeat bun style, but instead of wrapping the outer braids down, I wrapped them up and above the middle bun.

Didn't make much difference. But it's good to experiment with these things.

Still held with the same Ron Quattro from the day before yesterday.

Herbal hair treatment day

My hair is still not entirely happy after the Fuerteventura vacation. The sun, chlorine, saltwater and strange tapwater was pretty weird on it. Or maybe it's just me being overly suspicious... My hair has proven to be really resilient, so maybe I'm just paranoid.

At any rate, I did a herbal hair treatment with a pack of Eilistraee and a few conditioner samples and some leftovers. The Eilistraee mud had a funny texture: Both soft and grainy, strangely elastic and still falling apart.
And as always, I'm amused by bow it looks with the green mud on my head!

According to Nightblooming, the aloe vera is pressed without skin so I felt confident putting it on my hair (I'm massively allergic to aloe vera skin). The mud had a funny tingling, cooling feel even though I put it under a heat cap, but maybe that's from the stinging nettle?

As always after a herbal hair treatment, my hair felt strangely dry, so I did a quick, regular conditioning afterwards. That also helps getting the little leftover herbal grains completely out of my hair. There is always a bit hiding here and there no matter how long or how I rinse.

My hair felt amazing afterwards: Strong, shiny and soft.
The moisture just slid out of it and it dried too quick for my comfort. So I put it up in a bun to slow down the moisture loss a little.