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poniesandpatchies) wrote2014-02-02 07:50 pm
poniesandpatchies) wrote2014-02-02 07:50 pm
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Kaya Before and After, Otherwise Known as "My Mom Is Better at this shit than me!"
So, what's gone on since I last posted? Well, I can show you. IN pictures!
Well, technically halfway through, because I failed to get Mom to take a before photo for me. But turns out Kaya's hair was not only knotted it was matted down into little dredlocks, and I think she might have lost half of it in this process. But onward to the picture before.
Her hair was so matted that I couldn't just brush it. So, I started trying to untangle it hair by hair. This went on all Friday and all yesterday, with Mom helping me through part of it. But as you can perfectly see, it was still a steaming hot mess.
So, this afternoon, Mom washed her hair, since we had enough of the knots out for it to work decently well to do so, so we could get shampoo and the like into it. We used baby shampoo, because like braid shampoo wig shampoo can't be found in the middle of nowhere. After that we used Herbal Essences conditioner on it. And since I've not had long hair in fifteen million years... okay, that's a total exaggeration, Mom started brushing it, while I went off to do my homework for school... She wound up brushing and watching the first half of the Super Bowl, and god only knows what before that. She was always better at brushing long hair than me.
But then, three hours and a lot of braid spray later, this resulted.
Then Mom braided it back. The braids in this case have not one single thing to do with Kaya's ethnicity. It just seemed to fit. Kaya seems to be the type of person to not want to fuss with her hair more than necessary, so braids it is.
Phew. May I never see hair that messed up again.
Thank you so much to my mom for all her help on this and fornethilia for introducing Braid Spray to the AG community and also for being one of the people who reminded me that just because an era is set for all historicals that they don't have to be confined to that era.
Well, technically halfway through, because I failed to get Mom to take a before photo for me. But turns out Kaya's hair was not only knotted it was matted down into little dredlocks, and I think she might have lost half of it in this process. But onward to the picture before.
Her hair was so matted that I couldn't just brush it. So, I started trying to untangle it hair by hair. This went on all Friday and all yesterday, with Mom helping me through part of it. But as you can perfectly see, it was still a steaming hot mess.
So, this afternoon, Mom washed her hair, since we had enough of the knots out for it to work decently well to do so, so we could get shampoo and the like into it. We used baby shampoo, because like braid shampoo wig shampoo can't be found in the middle of nowhere. After that we used Herbal Essences conditioner on it. And since I've not had long hair in fifteen million years... okay, that's a total exaggeration, Mom started brushing it, while I went off to do my homework for school... She wound up brushing and watching the first half of the Super Bowl, and god only knows what before that. She was always better at brushing long hair than me.
But then, three hours and a lot of braid spray later, this resulted.
Then Mom braided it back. The braids in this case have not one single thing to do with Kaya's ethnicity. It just seemed to fit. Kaya seems to be the type of person to not want to fuss with her hair more than necessary, so braids it is.
Phew. May I never see hair that messed up again.
Thank you so much to my mom for all her help on this and for
nethilia for introducing Braid Spray to the AG community and also for being one of the people who reminded me that just because an era is set for all historicals that they don't have to be confined to that era.