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oh i forgot to mention that on friday i gave myself princess leia endor hair. (is it endor, where she’s wearing the utilitarian braid crown?)
I combed coconut oil through my hair first because everything is so dry– partly to be a treatment for my hair, and partly because it’ll make the hairstyle look better for longer.
Actually I have this jar of something my sister put together and gave out as christmas gifts last year– it’s coconut oil, almond oil, and cocoa butter I think, and it smells lovely, and i use it on my hands and hair but not my face because coconut oil makes me break out. Almond oil by itself, though, is something I’ve really come around to.
But coconut oil is great in hair, so. I mixed a little castor oil in too, and then I braided my hair and sewed it to my head, which used to be my go-to hairstyle. That’s how you take care of long thin hair you can sit on: you sew it to your damn head, and then it’s comfy as shit. Oiling it first means you don’t get fuzzies as fast. I’m on day three before I remembered to take pictures.
It’s so damn easy to do, too. If you have shorter hair, you just do it in more braids. As long as your hair is long enough that the end of the previous braid can get tucked under the beginning of the next one, you can do this style.
I did pigtails, one braid starting over each ear, and then the ends, I tied off and then wrapped around themselves and put a thick hairband over, so that they’d be tidy and not fluff out. I should take a picture of that next time I do it. A consistent problem I’ve had with this hairstyle is the very ends of my braids somehow escaping and sticking straight out, so this solves that.
Then I wrap the braids, secure them with a couple giant bobby pins (and you need, like, the three-inch kind, and then you can use four for your whole head) and a couple claw clips.
Then you get a plastic yarn needle and thread it with narrow ribbon, satin or grosgrain or whatever. Yellow is the last color I should ever wear but that’s what I had handy, so. As far as length goes, IDK, this one’s way too long. The length of your arm is probably about right.
Start right behind your ear or at the base of your neck, and carefully just ram that needle through as many layers of hair as you can, and do a big overhand stitch. Pick a direction– either sew from the front or from the back, and go the same way every time. Pull the ribbon through and leave a longish tail where you started, and then go all the way around your head. The the beginning and ending tails together, then kinda poke them into the hair so they don’t hang down, and voila.
Now you have Fancy Hair that also doesn’t pull or give you headaches. You can innovate and come up with prettier ways to sew the ribbon, or like, put a thicker ribbon down and sew over the top of that so it’s decorative, or like, whatever, or you can just do it minimally like me.
There’s a line of ribbon across the back of my head because this ribbon was too long, so when I finished at the back of my head, I pulled the tails tight and wrapped it around my whole head again to tie it off in the front, and one of the ends wound up not where I thought. It doesn’t look great but I did this for comfort not looks so I’m not worried– that’s just why there’s a weird line there. Don’t be a wuss, just cut the ends off if it’s too long. I have this weird horror of cutting ribbons too short, I don’t know.
I also like this because this is the only way I can wear headbands. Otherwise they just slide from my mega-forehead straight off the back of my head. But with this lump of braid, I can keep the headbands from sliding back too far, and it’s nice.
I often leave this style in for a week or so; just be careful that while you’re sleeping on it you don’t wind up matting the hair on the back of your head. Feel that and if it’s getting too fuzzy, take the hairstyle down.
Otherwise I take it down when it starts to get too fuzzy and looks like I have a halo. I don’t mind, but it does give me a really pronounced Wacky Character Actor kind of vibe, and i try to avoid that in professional settings.
(However. I also have found that this hairstyle is great for wearing silk scarves wrapped around my head, which otherwise just don’t work for me because of the Endless Forehead Extending Into Sloped Skull situation. I have zero hair texture so nothing holds a bandana on me. I love wearing scarves but this is the only way I can make that work.)
oh i forgot to mention that on friday i gave myself princess leia endor hair. (is it endor, where she’s wearing the utilitarian braid crown?)
I combed coconut oil through my hair first because everything is so dry– partly to be a treatment for my hair, and partly because it’ll make the hairstyle look better for longer.
Actually I have this jar of something my sister put together and gave out as christmas gifts last year– it’s coconut oil, almond oil, and cocoa butter I think, and it smells lovely, and i use it on my hands and hair but not my face because coconut oil makes me break out. Almond oil by itself, though, is something I’ve really come around to.
But coconut oil is great in hair, so. I mixed a little castor oil in too, and then I braided my hair and sewed it to my head, which used to be my go-to hairstyle. That’s how you take care of long thin hair you can sit on: you sew it to your damn head, and then it’s comfy as shit. Oiling it first means you don’t get fuzzies as fast. I’m on day three before I remembered to take pictures.
It’s so damn easy to do, too. If you have shorter hair, you just do it in more braids. As long as your hair is long enough that the end of the previous braid can get tucked under the beginning of the next one, you can do this style.
I did pigtails, one braid starting over each ear, and then the ends, I tied off and then wrapped around themselves and put a thick hairband over, so that they’d be tidy and not fluff out. I should take a picture of that next time I do it. A consistent problem I’ve had with this hairstyle is the very ends of my braids somehow escaping and sticking straight out, so this solves that.
Then I wrap the braids, secure them with a couple giant bobby pins (and you need, like, the three-inch kind, and then you can use four for your whole head) and a couple claw clips.
Then you get a plastic yarn needle and thread it with narrow ribbon, satin or grosgrain or whatever. Yellow is the last color I should ever wear but that’s what I had handy, so. As far as length goes, IDK, this one’s way too long. The length of your arm is probably about right.
Start right behind your ear or at the base of your neck, and carefully just ram that needle through as many layers of hair as you can, and do a big overhand stitch. Pick a direction– either sew from the front or from the back, and go the same way every time. Pull the ribbon through and leave a longish tail where you started, and then go all the way around your head. The the beginning and ending tails together, then kinda poke them into the hair so they don’t hang down, and voila.
Now you have Fancy Hair that also doesn’t pull or give you headaches. You can innovate and come up with prettier ways to sew the ribbon, or like, put a thicker ribbon down and sew over the top of that so it’s decorative, or like, whatever, or you can just do it minimally like me.
There’s a line of ribbon across the back of my head because this ribbon was too long, so when I finished at the back of my head, I pulled the tails tight and wrapped it around my whole head again to tie it off in the front, and one of the ends wound up not where I thought. It doesn’t look great but I did this for comfort not looks so I’m not worried– that’s just why there’s a weird line there. Don’t be a wuss, just cut the ends off if it’s too long. I have this weird horror of cutting ribbons too short, I don’t know.
I also like this because this is the only way I can wear headbands. Otherwise they just slide from my mega-forehead straight off the back of my head. But with this lump of braid, I can keep the headbands from sliding back too far, and it’s nice.
I often leave this style in for a week or so; just be careful that while you’re sleeping on it you don’t wind up matting the hair on the back of your head. Feel that and if it’s getting too fuzzy, take the hairstyle down.
Otherwise I take it down when it starts to get too fuzzy and looks like I have a halo. I don’t mind, but it does give me a really pronounced Wacky Character Actor kind of vibe, and i try to avoid that in professional settings.
(However. I also have found that this hairstyle is great for wearing silk scarves wrapped around my head, which otherwise just don’t work for me because of the Endless Forehead Extending Into Sloped Skull situation. I have zero hair texture so nothing holds a bandana on me. I love wearing scarves but this is the only way I can make that work.)
