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1:16am July 27, 2015

Was trying to get more hair pictures now that my hair is fully dried (and super shiny), but Fey had other ideas, still does (she’s blocking my view of the screen even now).

Argh, I tried to tag this #elderly cats and somehow got #elderly citizens.  It seems like tumblr is autocorrecting a lot of my tags in messed up ways lately.

4:13pm July 26, 2015

So I finally had a chance to do something I’ve been meaning to do all summer – an oil treatment on my hair.  (Don’t worry, I never do hot oil treatments and I only shampoo my hair at all, if I’m doing an oil treatment and need to get some of the oil out of my hair after.  So basically all I put into my hair generally is very occasional oil, and then the mildest shampoo that will still rinse the oil out enough for my hair to dry properly.)

My mom had sent me what she called a “conditioner”, but it’s actually just nearly every kind of hair oil imaginable, combined into one bottle.  There’s no other ingredients but various plant oils and possibly shea butter.  So I decided to try it out.  (Normally I wet my hair, put on coconut oil, rinse it out, put in olive oil, rinse that out, and shampoo if necessary.  And I also have a spray I’ve made out of coconut oil and olive oil and water that’s much milder and helps moisturize my hair in between oil treatments.)

So I used the multi-oil-thing, and then I left it on for a few hours, and then I shampooed my hair with the mildest shampoo I have, which is SheaMoisture Coconut & Hibiscus Curl & Shine Shampoo.  And this is the end result so far – long, soft, shiny, wavy/curly hair that’s much less frizzy than it started out,  It’s no longer trying to stand on end sideways, either.

3:05pm April 25, 2015

Hair from the back. In slightly different contrast levels so you can see where my clothes end and my hair starts in one of them.

2:52pm April 25, 2015

Hair’s gettin’ so long I can barely stretch my arms out long enough to capture all of it in a selfie. And I’ve finally recovered from the disastrous case of bedhead I got in the hospital. Even though it required shedding enough hair I could have built an entire cat out of it. (One of these days I should learn hair art instead of just throwing it out.)

11:26pm January 30, 2015
My hair grows fast.  Also I’m becoming rather attached to my dad’s orange Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho shirt.  Not least because getting my dad’s clothes has shown me how many colors I’ve ignored as possibilities, that I actually look pretty good in provided it’s the right shade.I still have a closet full of brown, yellow, and blue, because that’s my favorite unobtrusive colors, the ones that don’t bother my eyes. But I’m also adding all my dad-clothes to that closet, and they come in all colors, although he seems to favor dark versions of red, blue, and green (and others I’m forgetting because I’m in the bathroom, not the bedroom) for the most part.  I like the dark colors he likes, they remind me of nighttime.

My hair grows fast.  Also I’m becoming rather attached to my dad’s orange Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho shirt.  Not least because getting my dad’s clothes has shown me how many colors I’ve ignored as possibilities, that I actually look pretty good in provided it’s the right shade.

I still have a closet full of brown, yellow, and blue, because that’s my favorite unobtrusive colors, the ones that don’t bother my eyes. But I’m also adding all my dad-clothes to that closet, and they come in all colors, although he seems to favor dark versions of red, blue, and green (and others I’m forgetting because I’m in the bathroom, not the bedroom) for the most part.  I like the dark colors he likes, they remind me of nighttime.

12:09am November 8, 2014
Hair jewelry. That’s the only word I have for this. I got it when I was maybe 16. Wore it everywhere, claimed it was a satellite dish that let me communicate with people from the stars who had left me on earth to observe humans. Did not get many sanity points for that part of my fantasy world… but it was always just a fantasy world for me, and people who think that having been a confused and heavily abused sixteen-year-old, and acting like one, makes me a crappy person can shove it where the sun don’t shine. Anyway, I haven’t worn it in years, and I took it out and it’s rather beautiful. I can’t see wearing it in many contexts these days, especially since I’m trying just a little bit to blend in. But I can still wear it in private and think it looks cool. For those using screenreaders, I’ll try to describe this thing: There’s a heavy chainmail band that goes around my head. It has thinner necklace-chain stuff coming off of that in different patterns. On my forehead are three silver necklace-chains with red beads on them. And going to the top of my head, and down the back of my hair (it doesn’t come close to reaching the bottom of my hair at this point) is an elaborate pattern of necklace-chains and dark red beads. The dark red beads all have shiny parts that shine in different colors. And this is all against the backdrop of pale skin and long hair that’s somewhere between very dark brown and black depending on the lighting. The picture itself shows me from both the back and the front, due to being taken in front of a mirror.

Hair jewelry. That’s the only word I have for this. I got it when I was maybe 16. Wore it everywhere, claimed it was a satellite dish that let me communicate with people from the stars who had left me on earth to observe humans. Did not get many sanity points for that part of my fantasy world… but it was always just a fantasy world for me, and people who think that having been a confused and heavily abused sixteen-year-old, and acting like one, makes me a crappy person can shove it where the sun don’t shine.

Anyway, I haven’t worn it in years, and I took it out and it’s rather beautiful. I can’t see wearing it in many contexts these days, especially since I’m trying just a little bit to blend in. But I can still wear it in private and think it looks cool.

For those using screenreaders, I’ll try to describe this thing: There’s a heavy chainmail band that goes around my head. It has thinner necklace-chain stuff coming off of that in different patterns. On my forehead are three silver necklace-chains with red beads on them. And going to the top of my head, and down the back of my hair (it doesn’t come close to reaching the bottom of my hair at this point) is an elaborate pattern of necklace-chains and dark red beads. The dark red beads all have shiny parts that shine in different colors. And this is all against the backdrop of pale skin and long hair that’s somewhere between very dark brown and black depending on the lighting.

The picture itself shows me from both the back and the front, due to being taken in front of a mirror.

5:59am August 13, 2014

Finally got my hair fully brushed out again.  Which, after a hospital stay, is always a huge big deal.  And then got it braided into one big side braid.

11:05am June 17, 2014

Double bun!

I did one large bun on top, and one small bun on the bottom, with bun donuts.  I’ve seen double buns side to side before, but never top and bottom, so I don’t know if I’ve invented something or not.  This is my largest bun donut on top and my smallest on the bottom.  It’s done pretty sloppily because I wasn’t really going for looks.

This is because if I just do the single bun, a lot of hair still hangs down, almost as if there’s no bun at all.  But apparently two keeps most of my hair up.

Which is good, because it’s extremely hot in here, and I’ll be exercising at physical therapy later.

12:15am March 30, 2014

This is a better lit set of pictures of my hair, fully dried, after a coconut oil treatment. This is how wavy my hair is naturally, before I mess it up by brushing it, or letting it get too dry, or things like that. I wish it was this wavy and soft and shiny all the time.

10:26pm March 29, 2014

My hair right after it’s gotten mostly dry from a coconut oil treatment.  Took almost 24 hours from when I first put in the oil to when it dried (with a lot of washing and waiting in between), but it worked, I think.

What I did:

  • Brushed a bit of water through my hair
  • Brushed coconut oil through my hair
  • Waited a long time
  • Tried unsuccessfully to wash the coconut oil out with a mild shampoo
  • Waited a long time, and my hair wouldn’t totally dry
  • Washed the coconut oil out with a stronger shampoo
  • Washed again with the milder shampoo, because it had moisturizing ingredients in it
  • Conditioned
  • After everything was rinsed out and my hair was still wet, sprayed a light mixture of water, olive oil, and coconut oil onto my hair (just enough to help lock in the moisture)
  • Let it dry

And it’s darker, shinier, wavier, and softer than it was before :-)

12:45pm January 22, 2014

I opened my curtains to get some light, given it’s the middle of winter but very pretty outside.  Here’s some better lit shots of what happened with the new boar bristle brush (and this was just a super-cheap one), plus the oil treatment  a few days ago.  You can see that the hair towards the front that’s normally straight when not taken care of, is actually wavy.  And the whole thing, that I’ve gone my whole life with fairly dull hair, is actually shiny.  The brush is also helping the dry under-layers stay more moisturized.

Although I’d still be curious about any homemade concoctions people spray on their hair to keep it moist on an everyday basis.  I’m about to try one I found on the net, whenever I can get up the energy, but I’m still curious about suggestions.  (The stuff I have on hand is distilled water, coconut oil, and olive oil, but I could obtain other things if necessary.  And I don’t want anything that would lighten my hair or add highlights, because my hair color is already confusing enough to me without messing with that.)

11:25am January 14, 2014

Bun with yellow bun cover and ponytail under.

7:58pm May 4, 2013
I’ve been working on the tangles every waking minute for days. Pulling the hair out strand by strand, braiding it once I got a section detangled so it wouldn’t tangle again by the time I got through them all. And this is the result. My hair is a lot longer than I remember it. Longer than it looks when it’s braided, too.

I’ve been working on the tangles every waking minute for days. Pulling the hair out strand by strand, braiding it once I got a section detangled so it wouldn’t tangle again by the time I got through them all. And this is the result. My hair is a lot longer than I remember it. Longer than it looks when it’s braided, too.

10:34pm March 12, 2013
My hair right about now – wavy-curly. It seems to range from straight to wavy to curly to even slightly kinky in a few places. Both based on location and on random other factors that I’m not aware of. Some of it changes day to day. Just like the color seemingly changes from black to brown in different enviroments. Hair is weird.

My hair right about now – wavy-curly. It seems to range from straight to wavy to curly to even slightly kinky in a few places. Both based on location and on random other factors that I’m not aware of. Some of it changes day to day. Just like the color seemingly changes from black to brown in different enviroments. Hair is weird.