I promised to talk about how I learned to do more with my hair. It's simple: a google search and, after finding out I learn better by video than by word and text, a youtube search. This was about four months ago and I think I was looking up Elizabethan hair taping. There I found Torrin Paige.
Let's face it, there are different personality types out there and some tutorials just... sort of... irritate me. Hers didn't. Hers made me chuckle. If she went on a tangent, at least it was amusing and sort of semi-relevant. When she talked about hair, she made sense and didn't go too fast or skip steps as if they were implied. I started raiding the rest of her videos.
I started with the simpler things, like her rope braid. Then moved up (for me) to things like the simple lace braid headband. Maybe a month ago, with some extra hands for help, I tackled the french rope braid on my aunt's head. Sometimes I'll just play with my hair to see if I can take a technique and do something else with it.
Then last week, it got hot! I couldn't stand the thought of my hair on my neck or in my face or anything, but wanted something more comfortable and more stable than a bun. So I combed my hair, fanning it out all around my head from the crown, the way I'd seen it in one of the 1950s videos from glamourdaze (around 0:15) and started french braiding in a circle around my head. It held well but the transition from french braid to pinned up regular braid looked a little funny. It was comfy though, so I didn't care.
The next day was my shower day and having liked the french braid so much and still being unable to dutch braid my own head, I thought if I did the exact same thing, but with a lace braid technique instead, maybe the braid would show more and it would look more uniform than the french braid did. I tried it while my hair was still damp/wet and ta-da! Success! Then it dawned on me... I'd just done, in essence, the dreaded, evil crown braid! And it wasn't even that torturous! Since when can I do something like this when I still can't get a decent cinnabun to hold in my hair!? Admittedly, she did hers with a lace dutch braid where I used a lace french braid, but the result was good enough for me. I also wrapped it differently since my hair's a good deal shorter and finer than hers. Maybe I'll move up to lace dutch braid eventually.
Nevertheless, I was pretty darn proud of myself and had high hopes for the next day.
I wore the braid all day and slept with it in. The next morning (we're at Saturday, now) it had all dried and I took my hair down then parted and finger combed it. Oh. My! I've done braids for waves before, but I've never had anything so full, so smoothly transitioning, and so evenly distributed in my life. It was so pretty and my hair looked so full, which made it seem longer somehow. I went to a big family barbecue that day and got more hair compliments from them than I've ever had before. It even seemed to distract their focus, reducing the surreptitious glances at my belly to see if I'm pregnant yet - but that's another story.
This crown braid done my way (maybe I should make a tutorial of my own sometime) is probably going into my mental list of top 5 favourite hair 'dos. Yay! It's always so nice to find a new fave.
By the way, I never did do her method of Elizabethan hair taping. My hair's not long enough, but maybe another year or two will change that.
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