I go through phases. I hope this is part of my learning and growing process. Sometimes it's part of a hoarding process. Vinyl figures. Bento boxes. Felting supplies. Crafty and collect-y stuff.
My current phase is vintage hairstyles.
Something that never goes away is my interest in style. Sure, my style is constantly in flux, but I always enjoy taking time to decide what I should wear, how I should do my hair and face. Sometimes I just throw on jeans, a tshirt, pull my hair back and face the world with no makeup. I'll look in the mirror and think I look really cute.
Most days, though, in order to be ready for anything, I have to spend an hour getting ready. It's a ritual. It centers me. The whole process wakes me up and shakes me out. It lets me be creative.
This whole vintage hair thing, though. It's something else. I've only tried a couple different things, but it's the kind of process I wasn't prepared for. And I'm afraid to get really into it, because I don't want to buy a bunch of new things, hair things, that will end up in a drawer when I eventually move on to some kind of low-maintenance hippie-hairstyle.
Anyway, this is what I've tried so far:
First try. Totally disastrous attempt at victory rolls and faux bangs. This was about an hour of learning how to use bobby pins for the first time. You can tell I'm kind of pissed in this picture. I get all frusterated and want to give up, but I have to try.
After sleeping through the night in pin curls. I did my whole head in as close to an aproximation of a pattern as I could get.
What it ended up looking like. The day was really humid, I'm not sure if that's why my hair relaxed so much or not.
I could have sworn I had another attempt around here somewhere, but I can't find it.
Well, I really want to keep trying different eras of hairstyles! I hope I can. It takes a lot of time and energy on my part.
Here are a couple youtube tutorials that helped and inspired me!
