Why I don’t wear my hair down in public, not even in a braid

Because of sick freaks like this

Link 

(Also why even the politest and nicest compliment on my hair from a guy who “enjoys” hair and that I don’t know already from a forum tends to creep me out. You never know if he goes home to fantasise about something like this after his “polite and nice compliment” about my hair. Yeargh.) 

What your sleeping position says about you

I got into a discussion with a friend about different sleeping positions and how to protect your hair from rubbing and damage. She mentioned there are connections between your sleeping position and your personality. Naturally, I was curious and Googled for it.

Link

Another link

None of these really covers me though: I tend to sleep on my sides or stomach with one leg straight and one curled up and both arms up near my pillow but not around it. Sort of a foetus-yearner-freefaller thing?

But I guess its one of those things like bloodtype-starsign-things where you can always find something to recognise in you…

(One or more braids are what work best for me when I sleep. They do get caught under my hips and have wrapped around my neck some times, but buns and other solutions tend to get in my way and interfere with my sleep.)

Hair pet peeve

It irritates me like crazy when people assume my hair grows fast. And it doesn’t seem to matter if I explain it 10 times, 100 times or 1000 times in the same form or forum, sooner or later someone will come along with

“Like, OMG, your hair must grow really totally fast!”

I guess people are just stupid, lazy and prefer feeling some sort of “victimised” instead of taking responsibility for what they do?!

Too stupid to think for themselves.

Too lazy to look a post or comment further ahead.

And much prefer the “Bohoo, I can never get the same head of hair as this woman so I will just keep telling myself she has some sort of hyper-mega-hairgrowth and keep abusing my own hair with bleach and flat irons instead of making the most of the head of hair I could have!” instead of listening to simple advice that actually works.

And even if you do serve the answers on a silver platter, people still prefer their expensive snake oil products. Because, you know, when I keep telling people my hair doesn’t actually grow fast, I must be lying, right? 

Those short pieces at the neck

Seriously, you can’t win with those, can you?

My hairline is slightly asymmetrical, especially down the neck where my left side hairline goes a good 2 cm further down in the left side than in the right.

So I was always left with some pieces that either slacked or pulled. I cut them some years ago and have kept trimming them.

But now they are pretty long and I keep considering if I should try to grow them out.

But I ended up cutting them in the first place because they annoyed me so much.

Meh.

I just can’t win with this one, can I?

There are three options here:

1. Attempt to grow them out and see if they really are as annoying as I remember.
2. Keep trimming them  
3. Have my classmate take a look at them whenever I remember to bring my scissor for her. Maybe even wax or shave them to clean it up.

What do you guys think? 

*Giggle*

So I had the idea of wrapping my 5 braids around in a cool way: First make a Nautilus braid out of the middle one and securing it with a stick. Then wrapping the two bottom ones up and around and secure them with another stick. Finally wrapping the top two down and around them all.

In my head it looked like a cool braided beehive-ish thing.

In reality they sort of pushed each other outwards in a weird, shapeless blob.

Hairstyle fail.

Beavertail

Didn’t exactly look as planned, but here it is.

5 braids to begin with, with a single “French layer” each.

Braided into a 3-pattern to 5.

Then braided and braided and it degraded into a 3-pattern in the end.

The beginning didn’t turn out too well, but the beavertail itself looks pretty cool.

Double braids

Wow, it has been ages since last I wore my hair in double braids for bed!

I’m so happy with my tiny new elastics. It was such a pain in the ass to wrap a thin elastic around 30 times, even if I tied it off a lot higher than I would like.

Strange product experience of the day

I wanted to do an overnight Nodosaurus. 

I had recently bought a Garnier Fructis mask that was on sale, and here I have to admit I’m always a bit lost to what the name of a Garnier product is because there are always so much writing on them.

It says “Intense mask” and “Ultra-nourishing 3 minutes” on the lid and “Nutri repair 3 intense” on the side.

Then it says “3 fruit oils: Olive, avocado & shea + apricot micro grains” on the side as well as a bunch of other fluff about “Deep nutrient mask” and “Anti rough effect”.

I then tried to find an ingredient list for this online. No luck. It always leaves me slightly creeped out when companies don’t want to share these on their product pages. Why the secrecy? Are they afraid people will be able to tell their claims of super fancy hype-tech © molecules with deep-penetrating oil complex are in reality just a bunch of cones?

Oh well, too lazy to hand-type it all.

I just skimmed the list…

(Even skimming the list made my eyes hurt. Print it a bit better, will ya??)

Mineral oil high on the list. Oh my gosh, you will, like, get hair-cancer or something from this!!

(Really fantastic to have a head of hair that is so easy to get along with and that doesn’t listen to positive or negative hype. As long as I keep aloe vera and coconut oil away from my scalp, it is all good. But I digress)

Colour high on the list.

Blackcurrant seed oil. Odd that they don’t brag about that one when Fructis has such an obsession with fruit oils and fruit extracts?

Sugar cane extract. Sweet.

Olive fruit oil.

Camellia leaf extract. My hair loves this oil. Strange that this one is unlisted on the front too.

Linalool. Hah, my previous ingredients-checks have had an effect: I remember this one.

In Europe, Linalool is included on the list of “allergenic” substances. The European Cosmetics Directive requires manufacturers of cosmetics and personal care products to indicate the presence of certain “allergenic” substances in the list of ingredients if they are present above certain levels in the product (see Annex III). The presence of Linalool must be indicated in the list of ingredients when its concentration exceeds: 0.001% in leave-on the skin products 0.01% in products that are rinsed off the skin

Source

This one is about in the middle of the ingredient list, so I doubt it is below the 0.01% concentration.

Apple fruit extract. Ah, remember when Fructis smelled like horribly artificial sour apple bubble gum? This takes me back… *Swoons in memories of being off on the boarding school and smelling like sour apple bubble gum for like a year. It didn’t mix well with wearing CK One by the way. Ah, the mid 90s… *

Avocado oil.

Shea butter. Hm, not “extract” or anything, just shea butter.

Lemon peel extract.

Apricot seed powder.

Seems like your typical Fructis product. So far so good.

I opened it.

What is this?

Exfoliating grains?

…In a conditioner?

Is this what they meant with “Anti rough effect”? That you exfoliate your hair smooth?

I went over the ingredient list again, but found nothing, not even in the annoying fluff on the front about any sort of grains. It does mention “apricot seed powder” as one of the last items on the ingredient list, but hmm, this doesn’t look like apricot seed powder does it?

Zoom!

Weird.

I decided to put it in my hair anyways and did a Nodosaurus.

The bag immediately started slipping though. They really weren’t kidding about the “anti rough effect”! I couldn’t even keep the Nodosaurus in and ended up having to rinse it out before going to bed.

Odd product all the way around.

Really liking the blue

Such a simple and quick way to spice up a braid or bun!

Answers from a thread

I’d like to share my answers to a thread on UTT: Link.

What is your cinnabun diameter? (Different buns have different measures, I figure a cinnabun is a tight bun that will make it easier to compare apples to apples.)

I’d say around 12-13 cm?

What length hair do you have? (in inches or cm, please; waist or BSL or other varies so much from person to person) 

I measured for the first time in several years and got 144-145 cm or so, which  is around top calf length. 
(Pardon the slightly messy ends) 

What is your pony circumference?

 12 cm.

How would you describe your taper and/or how long has it been at your current length or longer?

Hmm, I don’t think my hair tapers a lot but since it is so long, the ends are pretty thin. It doesn’t taper to fairy tale ends though.

Just for fun, here is a side shot of the cinnamon bun.