Today's hair

Same French braid base as yesterday, now slightly messier.

The Flexi 8's tend to fall out of my hair tool rotation because they "need" to be placed horizontally, and usually a bun will slip a little...

Today's hair

Braided cinnamon bun held with a Ron Quattro starlite

Look what my dad made for me! Part IV

Dad did a bit of work more on the deer antler hairsticks.

Mostly just smoothing them down.

They are so awesome!

These are by far the coolest hairsticks I own.

Dad did a really great job of getting that "skull shape" in them for maximum comfort!

Look what my dad made for me! Part III

There are still issues with bringing mr Igor, who is Swedish, into my home country, which is Denmark. So I went on my own for a family birthday.
But it feels like it's my own birthday, because look at my dads awesome work!
I brought one of my favourite hair sticks based on its shape so we had something to compare to.

Today's hair

Yikes. Some difference from yesterday.
I was caught outside in a tiny bit of rain and it really messed the base braids up!
So much for my clever, lazy plan of squeezing four days of updos out of the base braids...

Today's hair

Tuesday's updo is two stacked, braided Chinese buns held with Ron Quattro pins

Today's hair

First updo of the week is two low, Royal buns

The U-pins are from Ron Quattro

Held well, looked good (Unlike my skin. Argh)

Today's hair

You probably all know by now that I love being lazy with my hair...
The last few weeks attempts of making the braided log roll work for me, and the updo work for the Iyarri Chronicles Art & Hairstyle contest has really filled my mental energy quota for messing with my hair.
So I made the four small braids, which does take a while to finish, but is really versatile and I can usually get four days of acceptable updos out of.

A few more pictures from the Iyarri Chronicles Art & Hairstyle contest

I asked Nightblooming if it was okay for me to share some of the pictures we took for the contest (Some times it isn't) and she said yes, so here is a mixed bag of the serious (Attempt of the character) and less serious (Meta pictures and just messing around for fun) pictures we took

Happy anniversary to Nightblooming!

Today is Nightblooming's 13 years Etsy anniversary!

Nightblooming and her products are pretty much Longhair Circuit Royalty, not to mention she is a generally really cool person, so I figured I would spend a blog post talking about her.

She recently published a book (Which I review without trying to spoil anything here) and have several e-books about haircare, such as Rehabilitating Damaged Hair Naturally (Which I also review here) Coloring Hair Naturally with Henna & Other Herbs and a free e-book Natural Hair Care Articles.

 

So for all of the many, many, many, many, many, many people bored at home and itching to mess with their hair (No, seriously, it's both sad and hilarious how many hits a simple Google search got me) Why not give her natural products and haircare books a shot instead of messing with your hair?

 

Better to change your hair for the healthier than to turn into another sad statistic in the "quarantine bangs" meme.

 

About a month back, she announced a Iyarri chronicles contest and I thought it could be fun to enter something like my new rope braid or something similar. So I did!

I liked this passage in the book:

A female Iyarri stepped forward, wings all shades of gold-red and
ochre, like a phoenix not yet burst aflame. She was older, her hair done
in a complex looped bun, the strands a mix of silver, copper, and gold.
Tiahmani whispered in my ear. “That’s Denôé, head of the Idura’s
Iadnah.”
If Denôé were human, I would have guessed her to be in her sixties—
though she walked to the center of the library with the straight-backed
grace of royalty. Her voice was clear.

Denôé then proceeds to make a pretty strong speech with no sugarcoating her words or what the consequences for what have happened will be (Trying to avoid spoilers here). She's only in there for like 5 pages, but she's an important figure with power in the story, and I liked the description of her hairstyle and what little we learn about her personality.

So I drafted mr Igor to take some pictures for me as Denôé. We don't get any description of what she wears, but I imagined it something like business casual, but I might have been influenced on her speech most of all. I decided to tone it more down though and mr Igor and I ended up having some fun with some more meta photos instead.

I'm not going to share any pictures from our photo-session, because I'm not sure if I'm allowed? But I will share this: After we were done, I re-wrapped the base braids into more of a Chinese bun. Which looked awesome!

But by then, I was in my fluffy kitten onesie, so not really competition material, and I can share that.

You can't tell because of the massive Chinese bun, but there is two hidden Dutch braids under it!