More posts coming soon. I have been crafting and planning and doing a bit of mobile blogging using the cell phone app. I will start to post those soon. I hope you all are having a beautiful start to spring. It keeps snowing in Kansas so my spring has sprung a little gray.
Spring or not, I'm still cute though.
I was really in love with my braid out this day.
I have the found the braid-out to be a style that I love, but it's not a style that works well for me at every length of hair. The day I took this picture, my braid-out was perfect and it landed just right to frame my face.
I so wish I could get this look today, but my hair has gotten longer and it's at a length that is just not working for most styles that I try. I'll continue loving it and playing in it and hopefully I can get back to having to-die-for braid outs again.
Before I finally decided to go natural, I spent a lot of time looking at YouTube videos and there were so many horor stories of heat damage. I decided that I would embrace my natural hair and not do the heat thing trying to go back to what I had with the straight hair. Honestly, I think I look better with natural hair.
But here I am two and a half years later and I've decided to give a little heat styling a try. Because my hair is more straight in the front, I can't wear a wash and go so preserving a curl pattern really doesn't factor into the conversation anymore. I wear my hair in twist outs and braid outs most of the time and I would have to do significant damage for those styles to be affected.
So here I am, embracing all the styles possible with my natural hair.
I did a tension blow dry followed by flat ironing at 360 degrees. I used a shea butter/castor oil mix as my heat protectant. I pin-curl it nightly to get a really full curl.