hair musings

Confession: I honestly did not learn how to curl my hair until I moved away to college.

It's true.
Ask my mom.
(she curled my hair all through high school - bless her)

My freshman roommate (undoubtedly taking pity on my lack of skills) patiently taught me how to get by with a curling iron (bless her too).

And right when I was getting the hang of the thing I decided to lop off most of my tresses into a cute little A-line bob the summer before my sophomore year.

As you can imagine, my curling iron gathered a bit of dust.

I've been growing my hair out from then till now and haven't touched the thing much in between
(except for an interesting Shirley Temple episode when I thought it was a good idea to curl my shoulder-length hair...think again)

Long story short(er), I finally have hair long enough(ish) to put a curling iron to it...and I still have no idea what I'm doing.

Enter Pinterest.

THIS was a great tutorial I found on how to curl hair in a completely different way than I've seen before (coming from the non-expert over here) so I tried it out before the basketball game the other night...

It went alright (excluding my burned forehead - inevitable), but by the end of the game, well...

Exhibit A:

And that's only after a few hours of sitting (and a few pound of hairspray mind you)

The thing is guys, my hair won't hold a curl for the life of it and I can't seem to figure out why.

Perhaps I just need to reconcile myself to my straight(ish) hair and big buns on top of my head or maybe just cut my losses and go back to the bob (or something equally as darling as this lady's hair - SO cute, right? can I do bangs?? I have no idea...My only fear is that Pinterest will become a little more depressing...ya know, when I'll see things like this, this or this - I'm just going to have to prepare myself.)

But I digress.

The point is I'm on the hunt for the key to keeping my curls for more than an hour, it's possibly impossible, but your comments would be much appreciated!

xo

ponytails & pigtails

Upon going through some old pictures I came across these little treasures:

Did you guys know my hair used to be this short?

I decided to cut my hair the summer before my sophomore year in college.

It was great idea.

Fresh.

Cute.

A-line.

Darling.

I love the feeling of a new haircut.

The new ways to style it, curl it and play with it.

The problem is, when you go as short as I did...there aren't a lot of options.

This is definitely a Pro & a Con (depending on the morning)

I loved my short hair,

but sometimes a girl misses pulling her hair back into ponytails (notsomuchpigtails...)

So since that summer of short, short short hair, I've been growing her out.

And you can finally see my progress some 2+ years later:

Check out that ponytail.

It's all downhill from here, my friends.

metal head

so this one time I got my hair done for my wedding...

it took almost 2 hours to style

215 bobby pins

and when you add the broach that I wore in my hair to the reception the whole 

thing weighed about 6 ounces

...and all that was pinned to my head!

these are the sacrifices we make for beauty.