Cinnamon bun, take two

This time I did my initial braid with the purpose of making a cinnamon bun and got a bit more "direction" for the braid, which resulted in a more flat and smooth bun.

The "bump" is still there, just not as noticeable.
(And for some reason my phone insisted on focusing on my super amazingly interesting ear and I didn't notice until I got the pictures out. Sorry!)

Cinnamon bun

I was absentmindedly messing around with my hair and found I had wrapped it up in a nice cinnamon bun. It actually felt really comfortable!

Which is funny, because it's one of those styles I "abandoned" years ago for not having enough hold?

Maybe it was because I wrapped it around under the Ron Quattro instead of putting the pin into the finished style?

It did however form a really big "bump" in the middle of the bun that I disliked.
Maybe if I start off the braid with the intention of forming a cinnamon bun it will be smoother?

Throwback Thursday

Ah, the time where I had the patience to put my hair in like 20 little braids. 

When I took it back out, it left a cool textured effect in my hair.

Of course the second I combed it, it dramatically went *poufff!!!!* 

*cough* Another Christmas calendar, whoops

I figured I had enough Christmas calendars already. I got Lookfantastics and Rituals again because those were my favorites last year. Hubby got me an Anthon Berg as well (Danish luxury chocolate and amazingly good marzipan) and I even got a mini-Rittersport calendar from work too!

One I was actually interested in was Skinstores, but since they pissed me off so badly last year I wasn't going to get it. But then they had it for just 66 USD on black Friday and I caved. Like last year, I'm going to open it after Christmas like it was intended for.

Oh well. It's here now and I'm looking forward to it.

Funny detail: I liked the box so much last year I kept it and used it to store my supplements and other small items in. It looks like the box is completely identical this year, so now I will have two that matches!

An experiment in laziness: Day 3

Day 3, two cinnamon buns.
And it's definitely not just me, because that's a lot of flyways. I have an actual halo going on!

An experiment in laziness: Day 2

Day two and I went for a simple Chinese bun. Nothing fancy there.
Maybe it's just the Rosenthal effect, but I think I see a lot of flyaways. Is it just me?

An experiment in laziness: Day 1

Day one of the lazy/French braid experiment and I'm starting off with a crown wrap/Chinese bun combination.

It was actually mildly uncomfortable because the crown wrap didn't have a clear "bump" to lsupport itself against like it does with the Dutch braid. So it slid around a little more than I'm used to.

An experiment in laziness

Here's the finished French braid for my planned experiment.

I actually think I did a pretty good job! It's been a long time since last I did a French braid.

A theory on braids

I want to expand my experiment in laziness on different types of braids. For the original experiment, I found that my scalp got surprisingly tender after the five days. And when I say surprisingly, I don't mean that it got very tender, but more that I was surprised it got tender at all because I rarely "notice" my scalp at all (Did that make sense?)

An experiment in laziness

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

So I want to try the experiment in laziness with a different type of braids and for less days. I want to see the difference between French and Dutch braids for this.

But I have an idea on how the different braid types will influence the result, so I will try to explain my thoughts as best as I can.

If you imagine looking up or down the length of the braid against your head, the braid has two "parts" where additional hair is taken in along the length.

For a French braid, the hair goes above and into the existing braid.

Which means that for the French braid the place where the additional hair gets locked down is between the scalp and the braid. This means that the hair has to "travel" further and can't be pulled as firmly in place as for a Dutch braid.

For a Dutch braid, the hair goes under and into the existing braid.

Which means that for the Dutch braid the place where the additional hair gets locked down is between the scalp and the braid. Just like for the French braid. But unlike the French braid, the additional hair has to "travel" shorter, can be pulled tighter and is completely parallel to the scalp.

My point with this is that the French braid should develop more flyaways, and become more unstable and less comfortable faster than the Dutch braid.

Tomorrow I will make two French braids to test this on.

That was a nice surprise

The beauty calendars are generally too much makeup for my needs. And low in hair products.

But today to my surprise, I got not only one, but two hair products. And some I will actually try!

From Lookfantastic: A leave in conditioner. This is a perfect size to travel with so it will go directly into my almost-packed travel bag.

From Rituals: A hair and body oil. It smells wooden and oily, nice. Will definitely try this one.