Throwback Thursday

I think I have said it before, but I quite liked this length. Well, that and a bit longer… Up until eyebrow length where it got near my eyes and needed a ton of product to be tolerable (And daily shampoo to get the gross product out again to keep the product-related breakouts down)

The length was pretty flattering on me, but so very boring in the long run.

Looking at pictures like this and having my heavy snake of a braid resting in my lap, I can barely understand my hair was once so short.

New Girl Fast Scalp Hair Root Up Ampoule

Scalp scaling gels.

These makes me very, very happy.

Seriously.

What are in these?

I’ve tried two (2) and I have loved them so, so much.

They don’t make my scalp all dry, tight and unhappy like shampoo, but just cleans my scalp perfectly.

Second question: Where can I find more?

So far I have only received them more or less randomly from my Memeboxes.

I seriously feel a little sad knowing I don’t have a backup in my hair stuff-pile. 

Today’s hair: Knotted braids

Continuing my experiments with knotted updos.

Dual French braids knotted together and tied off. I once tried this without braiding it first and it turned into a slippery mess. With the braids knotted, it had some staying power.

Funny how short it ended up being though: Not even BSL.  

I like it! My hair isn't "up", but it's still very much out of the way for me.

Q&A answers

For some reason Blogger decided to eat up my answers. Huh. How odd.

So, here goes… Again.

What made you want to grow your hair? 

Helene Sørensen

Short answer: Because I like it.

Long answer: It just sort of happened.

After I shaved my head, I found short hair got boring really, really fast. So originally I just wanted to regrow it long enough to whip it up in an emergency ponytail (Like, a bit past shoulder length/flip length).

When it was finally long enough to do that, I wanted it long enough to properly braid (Like, BSL ish).

When it was finally long enough to do that, I wanted it long enough to bun (Like, waist ish).

When it was finally long enough to do that, I wanted it long enough to do a figure 8 bun (Like, classic ish).

When it was finally long enough to do that, I wanted it long enough to make a cool crown braid (Like, mid thigh ish)

So it sort of became a “More wants more” kind of thing…

If you would encounter a wizard, who could magically transform your hair to any length, what would that length be? 

indi500fan

Hah. Could be fun to have below floor length or something really long. But only if I could get the damn taper down. No fun having only 14 hairs reaching floor length.

What would you change about the following: 1. your hair 2. body (height/figure, ect) 

Buchfreundin

1: I’d like my hair to be a natural copper blonde/ strawberry blond.

Thicker and less taper. Yea, more wants more.

Also, some sort of natural parting/cowlick, thank you very much. My hair falls flat down in front of my face, so I always need to restrain it in some way or another if I want to see.

2: Ooooh boy… This will be a long list and probably makes me seem really insecure.

• Better skin. I have super sensitive skin and it seems it’s always mad at me no matter what I do.
• I have hooded eyelids and I’d like them not to be. It runs in my family and yes, I considered surgery.
• Larger eyes.
• Better eyesight. Minus 4,25 and minus 5. It’s a lot.
• Straighter nose. Broke it twice, so now it has a slight bump. Yes, I considered corrective surgery.
• My jawline is slightly asymmetrical. Yes, I considered the Korean jaw shaving surgery.
• Smaller boobies.
• I could stand to lose a few kgs.
• Change where my fat deposits go to: It pretty much only goes between my navel and top thighs. A little more distribution would be nice!

If you could live anywhere, where would you pick? 

Buchfreundin

Hmmmm. How about Réunion?

If you could become you favourite character from a book, whom would you be? 

Buchfreundin

Okay, this is a difficult question. I mean, favourite books and favourite characters and all don’t equal a universe I would want to live in, you know?

If we took some of my recent favourites like the Game of Thrones series, the Metro 2033 series and the World War Z book… Yea, I would not want to live in those universes. I don’t have a death wish.

But to pick a character I both like and would want to be: Asimov’s Dr. Susan Calvin.

Have you ever considered going from being a serious amateur hair and beauty blogger to being a professional one? What would influence your decison one way or another? 

Andi

No, never. I like blogging as a hobby, but I simply have no interest in going pro even if I could.

Do you like turtles? or any other animals for that matter? I'm a big fan of friendly affectionate ones. Best pets I ever had were Rats. Any pets? 

Nightgerbil

I haven’t had pets since I moved out of my parent’s house, but when I lived at home, I always had animals around me. We will get animals again once we move to a larger place.
Never thought of getting a turtle as a pet though!

My best pet was my peach faced lovebird Bølle. The most affectionate, intelligent and cranky little old fluffball in the world. He’s been dead for 14 years now, but I still miss him every day.

I would have had a pet mallard too that we found motherless where my parents have their boat, but Bølle refused to accept him in my room, so he had to be more of an outdoors-duck than a pet. Bølle flew into a screaming fit and would probably have murdered the little babyduck, so…

We had a budgie before I got Bølle and my parents have a dog.

I had a bunch of animals, not pets:

Chickens

Horses

Pigeons

And oh, so many injured rescues of tits, sparrows, pigeons and swallows though the years.

And since the duck had to be an outdoors duck, we got him a lady friend and they had a bunch of duckbabies themselves.  

Q&A answer session

Q&A

Anyone up for a Q&A session?

I'll post the answers in two days.

Just remember this: 

Double standards, maybe?

I know that to the vast majority of people out there, the thought of not washing your hair with shampoo is really disgusting. Strangely though, using dry shampoo seems almost normal. You shake a powder in, massage it around and brush it out.

I honestly find that a bit disgusting, no matter how much they claim it really, truly, honestly absorbs the grease. Ick.

I guess I’m in the school of “Do wash your hair, but find the least damaging method that works for you”, when it comes to hair. Dry shampoo (Or talcum or baby powder or cocoa powder or whatever people substitute it with) just doesn’t feel “washing” for me.

It’s like I feel with hand disinfectants, no matter how cute or clever or portable they are, I will still prefer at least wiping my hands in a moist towelette or something. No matter how much I’m told that hand disinfectants are really, really effective, I still prefer wiping or rinsing off my hands.

Anyways. I’m getting out on a tangent here.

My point is; dry shampoo is something that I should like because it’s hair friendlier than regular shampoo. But I don’t.

Which is partly why an amusing (I hope?) print like this is pretty disturbing to me.

It’s a flowchart to decide on whether or not you should wash your hair and it features options like:

Well how bad is it? => On a scale from carrots to pepperoni pizza, its melted cheese. This option still doesn’t lead to “Wash your f**king hair!”

It also features options such as “Can you wear a hoodie?” and “Will it be dark where you are going?”

Still. People pay for this?

I really hope this is a joke so clever it went over my head... 

Indigo revisited

First thought of the day: Crap, I overslept!

I had slept for 11 hours with the indigo in my ends. Crap.

Literally blue?

But once I had rinsed it clean, I’m not sure I can actually tell I did anything to the colour. How odd.

The henna did the perfect “barely there” effect, but the indigo seems to escape me and be so barely there I myself isn’t even sure I have done anything.

Don’t get me wrong, I would rather have that than it becoming too dark.

But it also irritates me: I wouldn’t have added indigo if I hadn’t wanted an affect.

It worries me a bit because now I’m tempted to add more indigo and maybe then it will turn out too dark.

Seems like an appropriate reaction :)

Is the problem maybe my henna-dose being so low that the indigo can’t even bind to my hair? 

Henna revisited

It’s been about a month since last I henna glossed, so I figured it was time to try again.

When I received my henna and cassia from hennabutiken, I split the two Indian henna samples and the jamila henna in four small portions that I then added water to and froze.

So my intended henna treatment would be:

• 100 g cassia
• 2,5 g Indian henna
• 1,25 g jamila henna
• A ”syringe” of  60 ml HairSalon Protein Clinic-1

I bought the same Tressemme Naturals Nourishing Moisture conditioner and my plan was to use half of it. So 375 ml for a henna treatment and I would be able to use a bottle for two treatments.

But as soon as I started mixing the mud up, I could tell it was way too thick. Like, way, way too thick.

So I ended up adding more and more conditioner the bottle was almost empty.

I ended up pouring out a portion of about 50 ml to go with the indigo and emptying the bottle in the mud.

Then I added water to the almost-empty bottle and shook it up for some good foam to help get the mud out.

No wonder the first treatment got so thick and difficult to handle when I needed this much conditioner!

I had everything planned out for a henna treatment:

• Schedule was cleared.
• Couch was set with pillows, blankets and towels.
• 4 seasons of Metalocalypse DVDs and my laptop ready to go.

But as soon as I started wrapping the cling wrap around my hair and putting pressure on the mud, the horrible dripping started. The horrible, awful, maddening dripping.

It’s like Cthulhu himself wraps his cold tentacles around your face, neck and shoulders and drag you into a screaming, spitting madness.

Rawr.

Okay, I exaggerate. A bit.

Well, I suddenly got a good idea. The dripping is awful, but it literally dries up after about an hour, so maybe the solution would be to get in the bathtub for about an hour or so?

So I did just that: Filled the tub and brought my laptop with the entertainment into the bathroom.

Then I spent about 5 11 minute-episodes of Metalocalypse in the tub while the water slowly turned green from the mud dripping down.

I found myself pondering which one of the guys in Dethklok would have the best hair if they were real. Silly thoughts, but entertaining. I guess I would have to go with Nathan, especially since he is described as white/Native American. That should make for an amazing head of hair right?

Agreed.

Then I wondered why I have never dated a guy with long hair. Hmm?

Getting in the tub worked absolutely perfectly!

With the initial dripping going into the bath water instead of driving me crazy, I’d say I cut about 90% of the total dripping.

It made it so much better and easier to continue the henna treatment afterwards. I got on the couch as planned and managed to keep the henna mud on for a grand total of 8 hours!

I’m very happy with that. It’s like twice as much as last time and it was so much easier and nicer!

When I went to rinse, the mud had almost dried out on my hair. Henna needs moisture to work, right? I guess that would mean you shouldn’t leave it on for too long since it eventually dries out.

I used the last bit of Tressemme Naturals Nourishing Moisture conditioner foam to loosen up any leftover mud I hadn’t gotten out.

Hair felt a bit dry and cranky afterwards, but it usually does after cassia. This is where I would normally do a deep conditioning, but instead I applied my indigo treatment.

I’m trying a simple, cassia-free treatment this time:

• The 50 ml Tressemme Naturals Nourishing Moisture conditioner from earlier
• Half a sample package of indigo

Wrapped it all up in a Nodosaurus from about waist and down, and went to sleep on it.

Good night :)

Glam Up Brilliant Steam Hair Pack

I received this in a Memebox back in July. 

This is definitely the dumbest and most gimicky thing I’ve ever put my hair through.

According to the pack, it had 30 gram of conditioner in it, so I figured I couldn’t get a lot of effect. Still, I followed the instructions and wrapped my hair up in it, stuck the sticker around to tighten it and massaged it around like instructed.

After rinsing, I couldn’t tell I had done anything to my hair.

Meh.

I do like the idea of wrapping conditioner up, but I prefer my trusty cling wrap.

However, I do wonder who is the target consumer for this. I must be someone with very short and/or very thin hair? Maybe it would work better if I had put some regular conditioner in my hair and put this over to keep the steam and moisture in?

No matter what, I’m not sorry I only had one of these available.