Big Volume Up-do's
After a lifetime of short hair and medium length hair that was never styled/attended to, almost out of nowhere I have this overnight obsession with updo's. My hair is now at the tip of my shoulder blades and I have been going crazy with plaits, teasing and beachy waves. I would like to consider this as a good addiction though...
So my quest for wavy hair had begun....
I had seen on eBay and YouTube this crazy invention called the Curlformers. Automatically I thought, anything that sounds like Transformers has to be awesome right? So, for about $16 I bought curlformer's cheap identical cousin from China and got started that very night.
Problems.... My hair wasnt staying wavy/curly
The Scientist in me had to figure this out. Scientific method style. I needed this conundrum busted! The Asian in me hated spending money on something that didn't work.
CURLFORMERS! More than meets the eyeeeeeee
First night:
Wet hair
No product
Kept on for 4 hours
Result: Waves that lasted 15 minutes!
Second night:
Wet hair
Curl mousse
Kept on for about 5 hours
Result: Wavy hair that lasted about an hour
Third night... getting a bit tired of it but gained some amazing application skills:
Wet hair
Curl Mousse
Slept in overnight
Result:
OHHH MYYY GODDDDD
Result! Beautiful crazy wavy and curly hair that I was amazed with. Had the worst sleep in sleep history but it worked! Everytime I turned in bed, the Curlformer poked me horribly in the eye. All in the name of beauty right!
Here's the sad part... My hair was almost straight by the time I got to work at 8am!!! They lasted literally 2 hours! I was devastated!!!!! My hair was a little wavy by lunchtime and by the end of work I had messy straight hair. I was rocking the homeless woman look.
CURLFORMERS TAKE TWO!
Last night I was focused to getting these working. So with dry hair, I started. I grabbed a water spray bottle and only used a couple squirts on each hair length so it was barely wet. I think this is what was the problem. My hair was too wet all the time.
So... Here are the results!
The sleep was so bad. But the curls were so much better because of the dryness of the hair.
SO.... option two for better sleep?
Ye old rags! Minus the rags hehe
DORK!!
How I Did it:
Jumped out of the shower. Applied mousse. Wrapped them tight and then wound them close to the scalp. I kept them gathered with hair ties as I had no rags handy. (was sleeping at the bf's)
Sleep was good. Definitely better than the Curlformers Sleep!
Result:
After a good spritz of sea salt spray... I had messy defined beach hair. EVERYONE at work loved it. After a good scrunching I had awesome volume and it was nice and textured. Not curly, but had a nice crink to it.
PLAIT CITY!
Going on Pintrest almost every 5 seconds to the hour, i've gotten a little obsessed with plaited updo's. Now that my hair is getting longer, I can manage the super cute styles that we are seeing everywhere! They are very trendy and are good for second day dirty hair. Now here's the tricky part. Get someone to do it (working on teaching the bf) OR be double jointed and crazy freaky with "back of head" eyes.
Upstyle #1 (and so far the only one i've managed. LOL@bf taking the pic)
I have no patience and I get annoyed when things don't look like how they are on pictures. I was pretty happy with this but because my hair was so clean, the pins didn't stay in well and the plaits kept sliding down.
VOLUMEEEE
I have a lot of hair but its quite thin. So I have to do a lot of teasing to get anything that looks like this:
I really love this look. So... when I was at the shopping centre today I saw this at Gloss. It's a small shop that has cheap and affordable priced cosmetics, bags, eye contacts, jewelry and hair accessories. I saw this bad boy and went OMFG! It was $6!!
No, your eyes are not fooled. It really is this big. Almost as big as a lunch plate.
On Monday I will be putting this giant on and I will take loads of pictures!
Now to another addiction:
Peri Peri Chicken
I don't know what it is. The juiciness of the chicken... the spicyness of it... The blackened bits of salty goodness? Urggghhh.... So amazing! Usually I have to stumble by Nandos to get my peri peri fix but not tonight guys!
Throw it in the oven for 25 minutes... I added extra hot sauce but they were packaged pre marinated awesome winglets from Mount Barker chicken. The best thing about this is that its just chicken with a spicy marinade. The marinade has next to nothing sugar in it (like those bbq and teriyaki ones) I love them really hard and they're only $8 for this massive pack.
P.S. There are never any leftovers hehehe
