Samikha
February 2nd, 2009, 02:47 PM
MASSIVE PICTURE SPAM AHEAD. You know how some members claim to be spamming you with pictures? Well, I really am. The page might take a while to load if you're on a slow connection. It also might take a while if you are on a fast connection. You are hereby warned.
There comes a time in every LHC member's life - well, hardly just one - when it is time to dig through the hair photos on your hard drive and do a massive, image-loaded post. My time is now.;)
When I was younger, I cared little for my hair. My dad would braid it for me, and that was fun, but beyond that...why bother? I recall massive tangles as a child, as we didn't use conditioner (why, mother? Why?!) and growing out bangs. The hair moment I remember most vividly is when my best friend kindly informed me that my face was too pink to pull off the dark green dye I fancied. Sigh. Anyway, moving on...I kept it in a blunt cut anywhere from chin to early BSL for years. Then I got layers, which was what everyone was doing at the time. These pictures postdate that.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/Sidsel/lhc/pre-lhc.jpg
Well, as the title says. Sorry for the poor pictures, but unfortunately it wasn't a hobby to take hair pictures when I was younger:o And mind you this was my hair after some - relative - TLC. When I was younger, I used Herbal Essences. The less said of that, the better - a dry, straight mess of static and frizz. At the time of these pictures I had crossed over to organic products. However, a sulfate-free shampoo doesn't do much good when you're overdosing on protein. Dry, brittle hair...it should need a repairing conditioner, right?
Right?
Nooooo. Argh.
I also overused hairspray. It did make it shinier for a while, but then frizz ensued, as you clearly see here. That sunlight is a bitch for showing off damage, innit?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/Sidsel/lhc/experiments.jpg
Early LHC days, prior and after joining. Here came a time of experiments. Those were days of brave new ventures, of creativity, versatility, and a great lack of common sense. These are the Bad Hair Days.
#1 is the only picture I will ever show to anyone of my Great Oiling Disaster. Yeah. I thought you had to put a lot in. Stringiness ensued. I don't want to talk about it:cool:
Number 2 is from my first attempt at CO. It went rather poorly. The conditioner I was using was far too rich. I wasn't applying it properly, using too little and not leaving it in long enough. You can't really tell from the picture, but it was icky. I had this weird cloud of greasy frizz to go along with the stringy length.
Picture number 3 is post-clarifying. My hair was dry enough that it could probably provide enough electricity to heat up my flat. Nonetheless, a definite improvement from the CO disaster. Note how you can see where the better treatment - non-protein conditioner - stage begins. The damage, while not dramatic, is plain.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/Sidsel/lhc/cassia.jpg
The experimentation phase wasn't entirely over. #4 is my hair after two weeks of NW. I did a lot of preening, scalp massages, brushing. But in the end it was too plain boring. While my hair looked okay down, it didn't exactly swing in the breeze. And in addition, my mother was very skeptical to my hair experiments. A visit home was coming up, so I ditched the NW thing.
5 is...I don't know. Err. Clarifying has occurred, but the hair is nicely settled down, so it must have been a wash or two ago. I do recall that I used Fox's Shea Butter for the first time that day. I loved it! There is some frizz, but far less than in the past, and the waves look nice.
6 is post-Cassia, the first time I used it. My hair was weird, as I had read it would be, but a couple of days later I really came to appreciate the herb. It brought out the waves and gave it an entirely new texture. It also gave it a certain greenish tint in some lighting - ashy meets greenish yellow - but I've been able to mostly avoid that since.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/Sidsel/lhc/winter.jpg
#7 is a day or three after the cassia. The waves have loosened a bit with braiding, and I really loved the way my hair felt. This is the CO era - I finally figured out what it was supposed to be like, which the next picture shows.
#8 is, my poor memory aside, the results of CO and cassia. Very nice! Less volume than with shampoo, obviously (see #3 for why I don't like shampoo) but more importantly an immense reduction of frizz. I also used Jessicurl products here for forming the waves a bit. Strangely enough, the cassia alone makes it more wavy than actually trying to encourage them, but I'm partial to this form of waviness anyway :)
#9 is mostly the same, but in daylight. With the short daylight hours we have here getting that picture was more of a pain than you'd think. Anyway, as you see, my hair isn't unnaturally shiny without the flash. It's a sad thing. It's also an important reminder that our hair doesn't look like in the photos all the time...unless you hire a papparazzi to flash-stalk your hair.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/Sidsel/lhc/today.jpg
And this would be today - or this week, anyway. Left is combed out, right is slept-on, bed hair really. Less wavy because I haven't been sleeping on it wet in addition to more combing than usual. An inch or two from waist, and eagerly awaiting what the next weird thing I do to the poor hair will be...
I'd like to thank you all for making this such a nice place to be :flower:
ETA: And if you made it through all that, congratulations!
There comes a time in every LHC member's life - well, hardly just one - when it is time to dig through the hair photos on your hard drive and do a massive, image-loaded post. My time is now.;)
When I was younger, I cared little for my hair. My dad would braid it for me, and that was fun, but beyond that...why bother? I recall massive tangles as a child, as we didn't use conditioner (why, mother? Why?!) and growing out bangs. The hair moment I remember most vividly is when my best friend kindly informed me that my face was too pink to pull off the dark green dye I fancied. Sigh. Anyway, moving on...I kept it in a blunt cut anywhere from chin to early BSL for years. Then I got layers, which was what everyone was doing at the time. These pictures postdate that.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/Sidsel/lhc/pre-lhc.jpg
Well, as the title says. Sorry for the poor pictures, but unfortunately it wasn't a hobby to take hair pictures when I was younger:o And mind you this was my hair after some - relative - TLC. When I was younger, I used Herbal Essences. The less said of that, the better - a dry, straight mess of static and frizz. At the time of these pictures I had crossed over to organic products. However, a sulfate-free shampoo doesn't do much good when you're overdosing on protein. Dry, brittle hair...it should need a repairing conditioner, right?
Right?
Nooooo. Argh.
I also overused hairspray. It did make it shinier for a while, but then frizz ensued, as you clearly see here. That sunlight is a bitch for showing off damage, innit?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/Sidsel/lhc/experiments.jpg
Early LHC days, prior and after joining. Here came a time of experiments. Those were days of brave new ventures, of creativity, versatility, and a great lack of common sense. These are the Bad Hair Days.
#1 is the only picture I will ever show to anyone of my Great Oiling Disaster. Yeah. I thought you had to put a lot in. Stringiness ensued. I don't want to talk about it:cool:
Number 2 is from my first attempt at CO. It went rather poorly. The conditioner I was using was far too rich. I wasn't applying it properly, using too little and not leaving it in long enough. You can't really tell from the picture, but it was icky. I had this weird cloud of greasy frizz to go along with the stringy length.
Picture number 3 is post-clarifying. My hair was dry enough that it could probably provide enough electricity to heat up my flat. Nonetheless, a definite improvement from the CO disaster. Note how you can see where the better treatment - non-protein conditioner - stage begins. The damage, while not dramatic, is plain.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/Sidsel/lhc/cassia.jpg
The experimentation phase wasn't entirely over. #4 is my hair after two weeks of NW. I did a lot of preening, scalp massages, brushing. But in the end it was too plain boring. While my hair looked okay down, it didn't exactly swing in the breeze. And in addition, my mother was very skeptical to my hair experiments. A visit home was coming up, so I ditched the NW thing.
5 is...I don't know. Err. Clarifying has occurred, but the hair is nicely settled down, so it must have been a wash or two ago. I do recall that I used Fox's Shea Butter for the first time that day. I loved it! There is some frizz, but far less than in the past, and the waves look nice.
6 is post-Cassia, the first time I used it. My hair was weird, as I had read it would be, but a couple of days later I really came to appreciate the herb. It brought out the waves and gave it an entirely new texture. It also gave it a certain greenish tint in some lighting - ashy meets greenish yellow - but I've been able to mostly avoid that since.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/Sidsel/lhc/winter.jpg
#7 is a day or three after the cassia. The waves have loosened a bit with braiding, and I really loved the way my hair felt. This is the CO era - I finally figured out what it was supposed to be like, which the next picture shows.
#8 is, my poor memory aside, the results of CO and cassia. Very nice! Less volume than with shampoo, obviously (see #3 for why I don't like shampoo) but more importantly an immense reduction of frizz. I also used Jessicurl products here for forming the waves a bit. Strangely enough, the cassia alone makes it more wavy than actually trying to encourage them, but I'm partial to this form of waviness anyway :)
#9 is mostly the same, but in daylight. With the short daylight hours we have here getting that picture was more of a pain than you'd think. Anyway, as you see, my hair isn't unnaturally shiny without the flash. It's a sad thing. It's also an important reminder that our hair doesn't look like in the photos all the time...unless you hire a papparazzi to flash-stalk your hair.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/Sidsel/lhc/today.jpg
And this would be today - or this week, anyway. Left is combed out, right is slept-on, bed hair really. Less wavy because I haven't been sleeping on it wet in addition to more combing than usual. An inch or two from waist, and eagerly awaiting what the next weird thing I do to the poor hair will be...
I'd like to thank you all for making this such a nice place to be :flower:
ETA: And if you made it through all that, congratulations!