Today's hair

For an experiment I made dual Dutch braids into one, as the base of a Nautilus bun. It worked pretty well, but might also be because of the thin Ron Quattro fork?

Today's hair

I just realized I had the Olaplex no. 6 hidden way deep on my hair products shelf. I probably just shoved it in the back after making the review. Hint: I was not impressed.

I quite liked it though!
It held really well, made my hair easy to work with and left a nice shine.
But I'm not sure if that is worth the hefty pricetag!

Have you guys seen this thing?

Okay, I actually thought this was pretty cool: Customizeable hair products
Functionofbeauty

It first asks about your hair type: Straight, wavy, curly, coily
Then it asks about your hair structure: Fine, medium, coarse
It asks about scalp moisture: Dry, medium, oily

Next step, they ask for your hair goals and I was mildly annoyed with this, because other than the dictionary definitions of the words, who can really, honestly tell what these things really mean?
Then I saw that it changed the added ingredients to the formulation depending on what you picked:

DEEP CONDITION: Moisturize and deeply condition your hair from the inside out to repair damage from heat and/or chemical processing. 

Adds: Shea butter + avocado oil.

STRENGTHEN: Increase your hair’s resilience and elasticity, stimulate healthy hair growth and protect your hair from breakage. 

Adds: horsetail extract + evening primrose oil.

ANTI-FRIZZ: Hydrate and soften hair texture while protecting strands from frizz, static and breakage.Adds: 

Tamarind extract + argan oil.

CURL DEFINITION: Enhance and define your natural curls to achieve smoother texture and improve overall manageability. 

Adds: Chia seed extract + linseed extract.

NOURISH ROOTS: Stimulate your hair roots and facilitate the transport of key nutrients to hair bulbs and shafts for healthier, fuller hair. 

Adds: Blue-green algae + coconut fruit extract.

Finally, you can also check a box for silicone free products.

I could easily have picked "hydrate", because, who doesn't want that? But that would have added aloe vera, which I'm allergic to, and coconut oil which has a strong comodogenic affect on my skin and I avoid at all costs. So, good thing you can find the ingredients.

Third step is to pick a fragrance:

Peach and mandarin

Rose and black currant

Pear and apple

Eucalyptus and mint

Lavender and eucalyptus

and fragrance free

And if the fragrance should be light, medium or strong

And then, and this is perhaps the funniest part: You can pick your own, printed label. Only 10 characters, but still!

So I could fit in "Belltower" or "Lady Igor" or something.

You can also pick colours for the finished bottles.

The finished products are firmly out of the range I'm willing to pay for my conditioners, but I'm still tempted. It would be pretty fun to have "my own" products like this?

Today's hair

I practiced the rope braid today.

As much as I love the rope braids in themselves, I felt like the finished updo actually hides some of the details of the beginning of the braid?

Today's hair

Okay, the Nautilus bun officially mystifies me!
I'm guessing I'm right at the limit of making the updo work for me at all, but two factors seems to be a part of it...

1: How many strands I make the base braid. In this case 5, which makes the updo way flatter and easier to work with.

2: The kind of tool I use for it. This thin Ron Quattro fork worked well, but thicker sticks seems to push the bun out of balance.

Today's hair

Nautilus bun held with dad's awesome deer antler sticks 

Thoughts on making updo videos

I voiced my thoughts on starting a video series on practical updos for (super long) hair back on the post about the shoelace bun, and I find myself liking the idea more and more.

The angle I want, is to make videos on updos that are actually about the method behind how to create the updo, not a styling or variation video.

I mean, I did the 29 different updos in February challenge but that one was about making updos that looked different. For instance, a simple cinnamon bun can be turned into one bun, two buns, three buns, four buns, stacked on top of each other, placed next to each other, etc. It looks different, but the method isn't.

So now I'm doing some sorting and organizing, looking through my blog to check what I have and what I can do.

Right now I'm sitting at 15-20 videos I would be interested in making. The reason the number is so high, is that I have a few variations I really want to show separately. For instance the Nautilus, which I otherwise love but have grown out of, really needs some focus on tips and variations, such as Luisa's method. 

Strangely, I have actually had fun with it so far! I think this could be something good and useful.

My goal is to get a video series ready to go for the beginning on September where I go to Læsø with Mr Igor and my family for almost two weeks. It would be nice to have it queued up and automatically posting, so I can take the time completely off. 

We'll see. What do you guys think?

Today's hair

Heh. I just realized I went one bun, two buns and now four buns.

Today's hair

Double braided Chinese buns made out of five strand braids

Today's hair

Today's hair is Igor's messy mega bun.