Pinned-Up Style

I did a pinned up style the other day. I guess I kinda missed the "short cut" look on me. Hope you like it.

All I did to achieve this hair style was to take the back of my hair and make a high small pony. The hair at my crown was pinned up and the front of my hair was pinned forward.

Side View:

BLOW OUT

I did a blowout on my hair last night!

My Process: 

I oil rinsed with olive oil. Then I shampooed with Nature's Gate biotin shampoo. Next, I deep conditioned with both Aubrey Organics Honeysuckle Rose and Shea Moisture deep treatment  masque mostly because I'm trying to conserve the Aubrey Organics and I had the Shea Moisture laying around. I let my hair air dry for like 20 minutes or so in twists because I didn't want it soaking wet before blow drying (I wanted my hair to soak up as much moisture as possible even though I used low-cool setting to blowdry). Then I preceded to blow dry my hair in sections. I sprayed each section with Silk Elements Megasilk heat protection spray. The whole process (from the first time water touched my hair until I put down the blow dryer) took me about 2.5 hours.

Here's what it looked like last night when I finished blowing it out:

This is how I wore it out today

(it shrunk some and had less movement than the night before but it was still nice)

Less than three <3

Hair style!!

This was my hair yesterday. Feel free to duplicate it. It was super easy. I thought I was having a bad hair day but it turned out way better than expected.

 - Here you can see the bang in the front.

-this picture shows the small puff at my crown and the hair pinned towards the middle at my nape

How to:

I did 6 large twists in the nape section of my hair and smaller twists everywhere else with a mixture of Herbal Essences long term relationship leave in/shea butter/and jojoba oil. The next morning I took out all the twists and pulled the front section forward, bobby-pinning it down into a bang. Then I took the middle section and pulled it into a high puff using  pink Eco Styler gel and a boar bristle brush. The back I kept switching from having it all out, pinned to the side, or pinned in the middle. I chose the middle but part of me wishes I had chosen the side lol.

Do you like this style?

Less than three

Ms. Larutan

Hair-DO or Hair-DONT

I'm gonna start a reoccuring feature on my blog entitled: Hair-DO or Hair-DON'T


What the feature will consist of: Whenever I find a style that I want to mimic I'll put the inspiration up here and try to recreate it...probably with a little alteration to it. I'll also put up a picture or video of my verion of the recreated style. If  I like the style I'll proclaim it a hair-DO, if it's a complete failure or I don't think I'll be doing the style very often it'll be proclaimed a Hair-DON'T. I'll also say what I liked or disliked about the style as well.


So..without further adieu!!!

Janelle Monae Inspired Hair-------DO!

Inspiration:

Style Recreated/ Altered:

How I wore it out later that night:

Verdict: I loved this style! I wore it on halloween to go with my 1920's Flapper Theme but it could easily be worn out at other outings. It was very edgy/funky and complimented my headshape.
How-To: It was not hard to do at all. I french braided the back upwards and pinned it down. Then I preceeded to pull all the loose braids forwards and twist them backwards into a bun shape. I then pinned the bun shape down in the middle. Sounds harder typed out than it actually was.
Downfall: I guess the hairstyles' only downfall would be that it isn't very conservative friendly, not really a go to church.... or run for presidency type of hairstyle lol.
The Obvious Alteration: I had to do it with my senegalese twists cause I'm still protective styling right now but it is definitely something I'd try out with my natural hair as well.

Hope you liked my first hair-DO or hair-DON'T post!

Less than Three

Ms. Larutan