Completed - Natural Hair Lookin' Good

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4. Discover how to make my natural hair look good enough for a public appearance (3/18/2018)

If you didn't know, my hair is not naturally straight. It's nearly always straight - but that takes blow drying it as straight as I can, then separating it into 2-3 layers and straightening it. While this can be pretty time-consuming for me, I just didn't know what to do with my naturally frizzy, wavy, super poofy hair! These pictures below show what my hair REALLY looks like. I parted it and brushed it once after I got out of the shower, then just let it air dry.


And yeah. Definitely not straight. I knew that I probably needed to use some kind of product to tame it, but I didn't want to waste money on stuff that wouldn't work for me. Luckily, my fantastic sister-in-law Kenzie and my always awesome best friend Amanda let me borrow some curling sprays that they had. I tried all of these...(Pantene curling spray, tossd sea salt spray, TRESemme flawless curl mousse)

 
...and I honestly liked them all! I also bought Frizz-Ease Dream Curls spray (didn't really work for me), and I want to try another sea salt spray that Amanda recommended, but I think I tried a good range of products. I ended up buying the Pantene one and it's been giving me great results! And here are some pictures of my natural hair looking good :D



One of the biggest hurdles of this goal was being okay with the not-perfectness of the curls and getting used to how I looked with my hair like this. I kept thinking something was wrong or that it could be better somehow. When I finally decided to count this one as "done," it was the second day of having my hair curly and I managed to pull it back into a half-up 'do and I was really happy with how it looked! I knew it wasn't "perfect" and it wasn't something I had ever done before, but I was excited to go to church because I felt so pretty! (Although I do have to note that the first time I wore my hair curly to church, a sweet sister in my ward noticed and said it looked really good. This helped me start feeling like I could pull it off!)

Meeting Jonathan's mission president, Elder Palmer, at his mission reunion! Daisy's face haha

Now that I've worn my hair curly a few more times, I'd say I definitely discovered how to make it look good. I am REALLY liking it. It's easy, I don't have to use heat, and it looks a little better each time. Next hairdo test: to decide if I want or need to learn how to do curling iron curls...


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  1. AshleyApril 8, 2018 at 12:41 PM

    Yay so cute! If you decide you want to learn to do curling iron curls, I can teach you if you want! I'm sure you know other people who can as well, but just putting that out there. :)

    I LOVE your natural hair. I'm so jealous of it! My natural hair pretty much just flips at the ends and does weird curls in the baby hairs around my face. Lame!

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