Friday, August 5, 2016

Kinky (no, not like that.)

So. I had the vertical gastric sleeve thingy a year ago. Lost over 80#, which is great. Lost A LOT of my hair, which was not. My hair has been coming back in for the past couple of months. And the new hair is curly. Which is...strange. 
My entire life I have had STRAIGHT hair. Like, super-duper, advanced straight.
Back in the 80's I tried a "spiral perm" that held for about 6 days before my hair fell absolutely straight again. The amount of teasing and aqua net I had to put into play back then to have nominally "big" hair was astounding.
And now I have patches of 1-2 inch long kinky-curly hair interspersed with my regular old hair that didn't fall out.
I went to see my friend and hair-wizard, Jennifer yesterday to see what we could do about this mess.
She gave me a trim (I was all for cutting it all off and letting it all grow back together, but Mileena is getting married in 10 months and it doesn't have time to get back to a decent length by then).
She also gave me some advice. "You have curly hair now. Embrace it."

So today I tried "scrunching".

And I need to know, is this a look I can pull off?


5 comments:

  1. Yes! You look adorable! And congrats on the changes!

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  2. My hair used to be straight as an arrow too and now it's so curly that it looks permed. I scrunch mine because I'm not taking the time every day to flat iron it. You look great!

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