Monthly Review #32

So I'm waging an ongoing battle to strike the right balance between curl/shine and volume. I like big hair. You know that! but I also want more defined, lustrous curls. What makes volume? a quick bent over blow dry. What makes shine and definition? sleeping on wet hair. So I've been trying to get it right but what I'm finding is sleeping on my hair makes it super flat, super fast. and the curl pattern is uneven (I think that's because it's so cold that I really am sleeping in one position for long stretches) in the summer I'll roll around more which gives more opportunity for my hair to get tossed about and dry on all sides evenly). So my next experiment is going to be to give my head a quick blow dry before getting into bed - not all the way through but enough to get some umph before I entrust the hair gods overnight.

Monthly Review #31

I have been thinking lately that my hair was not nearly as nice as it was in college. I watched a video of me and just thought it's not nearly as full and curly and lucious as it was back then. Then I was doing something in my room when my eye caught the swing of my hair in the mirror and I realized it doesn't look as full but cause I still don't have that much hair!

Anyway - my hair has started to look really lovely after I started using Function of Beauty shampoo and conditioner; custom soap based on your hair and your hair goals. It's taken a while to work; the first couple washes my hair was not so happy. But now it looks good! But I also have started using an Invisibobble style hair tie - that works so much better than I would have expected. See the pictures below and it never makes a crease in my hair. I quite like it.

   

Monthly Review #30

Shooooot I am really late with this. To be fair I had many days without a laptop during this lateness. But anyway. This month I did two things differently. #1 I changed shampoo (AND conditioner!) but I'll review that next month because I only used it twice in month 30. #2 I got a blow out at Arrojo cosmetology school in tribecca. It was sweet and lasted like 7 days between washing! Unfortunately I only took a picture of it at like day 6 when the body had drooped. But it was funny to have straight hair for a few months and to see people unable to recognize me from behind or to look startled when they saw me.

Pictures!