Today's hair

Okay, so not the most interesting hair picture ever, but the weird lighting in the hospital bathroom was kind of fun. Also haven't worn a Flexi for a while?

The Expanse hair appreciation post

I'm a simple girl. I like my sci-fi hard and my fantasy soft.

Season five of The Expanse is out in exactly a month and I am hyped.

"My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough."

- Chrisjen Avasarala

I love Chrisjen Avasarala in the expanse books. She is my favorite character by far. The snake in the sari. She is so amazingly bad ass, stubborn, clever and rude. Shohreh Aghdashloo did a fantastic job with the role. Way better than I dared hope for.



"How the fuck do you keep your hair like that? I look like a hedgehog's been humping my skull." Chrisjen Avasarala to Naomi Nagata in Caliban's war. 

Well, Chrisjen has amazing hair in the show though! It's quite obviously a (lot of?) wig piece, since you see her with her hair down at least once and it's nowhere as long or massive as it needs to be for her fancy updos.

I would like to try to copy some of her styles, but they look more like "hair pinned up and twisted/braided" instead of an actual updo I could create and would stay in place all day without needing attention.

Camina Drummer however, seems to just be wearing a single Dutch braid started right at the hairline.

Some times she pins the braid up, some times it's left down.

It looks like just a simple Dutch braid, but it might also have included a little trick first where you "flip" it from a French braid to add volume from the start. Like this:

This is probably more doable for me to try than to copy Chrisjens fancy and complicated updos?

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Good old double French braids turned into a Chinese bun. Simple, easy.

Ellingwoman/Nautilus hybrid bun

So, I wanted to check something: How big a difference is there between a Dutch or French braid as the base for the Nautilus/Ellingwoman bun? 

Ad as much as I love the Dutch braid as a base, I think it actually looks better with the French base?

The resulting bun sits flatter and neater, even though you can barely see the base braid.

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Today's hair is an Ellingwoman/Nautilus hybrid bun held with a very appropriate bone hair stick.

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Dutch braid for a bun base tomorrow

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Today on: Weird things I feel the need to check

Yes. Indeed. My dual buns are so large that it completely obscures the "French" detail of the braid. 

Happy Halloween!

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I have seen people do little tightly stacked baby buns where it almost has a mohawk-effect, but this didn't really do it, unfortunately. Meh. 

Also the top bun got noticeably bigger than the rest. Double meh.

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I felt like doing something different with my hair, but once I was about to actually do something, I felt lazy. So... Compromise? Three regular three-stranded braids. Going to make three little buns tomorrow. 

My autumn funk is kicking in these days... Everything is cold, grey and wet. Meh.

But! This brought me some energy:

Long hair Carolyn trying my Wrapunder and really liking it:

(And her high praise made me slightly embarrassed)