Monthly Review #27

Oh man! I am late and just not many pictures. But I think the ones that are here are good? My hair is seeming so long - and yes month 27 seemed like a "full" month...until the end. But, alas - the damage is done. I started using the dryer on cold. I'm trying to sleep on it wet instead of blow drying in month 28 - will let you know how that plays out. Also - I'm averaging closer to 5 days between washings than 4 now. That cocoa brushed in about a half inch from the scalp with a foundation brush and then combed - it's excellent! Body for days! I'm sure when I use that powder nobody can tell my hair has been though days and nights and workouts galore. But it is hard to distribute at the crown of my head down the back...I can't see! and it's slowly coloring my comb brown. Maybe I should just own a brown comb. And sometimes I'll run the brush over my eyelids if I'm leaving the house - some eyeshadow without trying ;). It's funny that the photos are kinda in order of what my hair looks like from right after to right before a washing: piece-y and sqiggly to more congealed and loopy.

Monthly Review #26

So in this 26th month I am using more soap than ever. Stupid switch to the passionfruit shampoo! But I love my hair so much - all big and squiggly. That's my word for it. It's not quite wavy or curly - it's squiggly! I think the bottoms might be getting healthier? Or maybe the way it grows is cyclical in such a way: I swear some months it looks like it got so much longer - but only the scraggly bottoms; then other months it looks like it didn't get longer but the bottom gets fuller. Month 26 seems like a scraggly month - and so far (spoiler alert!) 27 is seeming like a full month.

As it's HOT AF in NYC right now (especially underground), I've been pulling it up a lot. Now I can put it up with just one bobby pin or a sturdy straight pin. I bring it up into a mid-height ponytail slightly to my right then grab the end toward the base of the ponytail and take the loop that is made to the left as I twist it then use the pin against my head on the left to gather hair at the scalp then dip into the top of the twisted loop then push back on it in towards the scalp. It sticks very well and I can decide to tuck the ends in or let them curl out a bit as I twist.

So I watched a long youtube video about wigs (on 1.5x speed - that's my secret to not getting angry at longwinded vloggers) and got excited for when I have no hair again...but looking at these pictures....UGH I LOVE HAVING MY HAIR; I HAVE SUCH GREAT FREAKING HAIR. How will this go down in a year? a shave? another year of waiting? STAY TUNED!

Monthly Review #25

Oh I am late to post this. BUT I gotta tell you - my hair feels so long - and so big! On my hair washing days it looks like I put my finger in a socket before I left the house....but I loveeeeee it. Big hair is my absolute delight. I do it by letting my hair air dry (after the 2 turbie twists have been sodden) for about 15 minutes (flicking it around a few times) then I flip my head over and blow dry from above and blow, pointing toward the scalp. But it does make the ends a little dry...I try to oil them but that seems futile, too....still experimenting with many oils and other moisturizing things.

So a few months ago I wrote about finally moving from a coconut body wash to a passion fruit shampoo and how excited I was. I did it...and I'm not super excited. The new shampoo doesn't seem to be moisturizing my hair significantly more but it does require much more pumps of soap to lather my scalp. It smells good...but only in the shower...What's the point of that? But on the upside - since I need many more pumps of soap per shower I expect it to go away quicker and I can decide what to do sooner.

I also did something this month that I'll write about soon....eyelash perming.