Attempted length shot

Ugh. None of these turned out well and I could't tell until after I had put my hair back up and transferred the pictures to my computer.

Hubby's "candid" shots were the best, actually. Heh...

Today's hair

 Two buns held with two Night owls.

Today's hair

Tonight's hair is two braids for a double bun tomorrow.

Hair stuff from Beauteque

I have been pretty happy with my Beauteque subscription. it has provided me with lots of fun new things to try, even though I have given a lot of stuff away to friends and coworkers. But then again, I am super picky with skin stuff..

This month, it arrived with three hair-items among the other stuff: A scalp massager, a conditioner and a shampoo.

Well, the shampoo went to hubby. It's kind of crazy how we haven't had to buy shampoo for him since... ever? Since he gets his full shampoo supply from my subscription boxes and 2-in-1 deals and stuff like that when I buy conditioners.

The conditioner? Mayo and banana? 

I'll bring it to work and see if someone is brave enough to want it. Maybe someone who doesn't hate the smell of bananas will want it.

The scalp massager turned out to be a fail too: I already have a Assoter scalp massaging brush I got back in 2014 from a Memebox superbox that I use once in a while. The new one turned out to be simultaneously too hard and too weak to go through my hair to really get into my scalp. How is that even possible?

Such a disappointment.

Today's hair

I just couldn't find the energy to redo the braid base yesterday, so today's hair is a slightly messy braided Chinese bun held with a single WoodArtJewelry stick.

It's funny how a single stick versus double sticks provide a slightly different bun-effect.

Today's hair

 Braided Chinese bun held with two Ketylos

Today's hair

A double braid for a braided Chinese bun tomorrow

Throwback Thursday

The standard braided bun was such an odd one for me. It had a very short span of time (length) where it actually worked for me. Too short and I couldn't get that self-stabilizing effect, too long and it slipped and slided all over the place!
I think it only worked for me between mid back and tailbone length...

 

Public service announcement

Dear friends and readers: Madeira was awesome!!!
We will definitely return there some time in the future.

I could spam you with so many pictures!

But now that I've gotten that little outburst out of my system, I will return to my planned hair-posting soon enough.

A theory on seasonal changes

When looking back through my blog (Which is why I started blogging in the first place! You really cannot remember all the things you try and fail with for your hair!) it seems my scalp and hair is pretty sensitive to the autumn season.

Since Darkhorse brought this up, so I thought I would borrow her comment for this:

My scalp always knows when the seasons change. I always wonder if it has something to do with sweating. We sweat more in the summer, and I wonder if that does something to the scalp that, when the cooler weather comes, is it irritable? Less moisture? Is something growing in there? For me, I have to wash, but I was using a special conditioner for my scalp once our temps dropped to what I call reasonable, and since our temps went back to August like (boo!), my scalp isn't cranky, but I am because I like the cooler autumn weather :D 
Just something to make you go 'hmmmmm...." :D

My working theory on this is that season changes, especially for autumn messes with both the scalp and length of hair.

For the scalp:
The acid mantle which forms the protecting layer on your skin (And scalp) is formed by three things: Your sweat which contains lactic acid to maintain the right pH value, the sebum which helps to waterproof the skin (Both for penetration and evaporation) and the dead skin cells (Epidermis) which physically shields the skin.

So autumn is cold and rainy outside, and warm and dry inside and you start wearing hats more.
I could see you sweating more and not even noticing...
Also I could see you producing more sebum to keep the moisture inside your skin?

For the length:
As for the weird "irritated" reaction I get on the length, my best guess is: Hair contains 8-10 % water and it can absorb and release water depending on the surrounding environment. The little "scales" that covers the hair can't to do this, but the inner core of the hair (The cortex that contains the protein bundles which give hair its strength) can. 
I imagine it would be like repeatedly steaming and drying wood. It should feel really strange, and I guess eventually it should crack and split.

Anyways. I'm just guessing and putting what little I know together.

...Anyone have some knowledge on this?