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It's been a while since I posted about my hair, and I just washed it, so let's talk about that. It is currently down and drying and spectacular.
I mean, let's face it, my hair is always spectacular, and I really need to find myself some handmaidens to take care of it and braid it in beautiful ways for when I want to look dressy or whatever, because I can wear it down or braided or bunned fine, and I can even manage two braids, or hair loopies, but that's about the extent of my hair talent.
Admittedly, when you have hair that goes down to your knees (and past? It's still growing. This is weird1.), you don't really need to have a lot of talent to make it look good. But you do need a lot of patience to let it hang out in the "down everywhere" version, and that I lack, except when it's actively drying.
Anyways, the big change of the last eight months or so was the realization that I wear hairsticks every single day, and that I should actually start investing in some as a decorative accessory as well as the more practical "get my hair the fuck out of my face". So at Arisia I bought some lovely scale flowers (and a stick decorated with chains and a scale flower and a bird skull) and at Frolicon I procurred a sculpey octopus. Is good start. I want insect motiefs now, and more tentacles, and always flowers that will not die.
The hardest part is finding decorative ones where the actual _sticks_ don't suck. I don't even bother with plastic, I'm not a complete idiot and I hate the feel of them snapping inside my hair. Most wood has not been treated particularly well --unless we're talking Kathleen, who finishes the fuck out of hers, putting wooden sticks into my hair is actively painful. The micro-splits in the wood catch individual hairs and yank them and *nope*.
My day-to-day ones are my spiral metal ones from HOLD EVERYTHING TOMAS THE LAPIDARY SELLS THINGS ONLINE NOW?! This changes _everything_.
Anyways, I love his metal sticks, they hold my hair pretty damn well and I _never_ need to worry about them snapping. Downside? Well, Alan has termed them my "hair stingers", which is probably pretty accurate. I am sorry everybody who has ever gotten caught unexpectedly when hugging me.
My original GenCon plan (which may have just been made _super easier_) for this year was to buy a largeish number (5+? 12+?) of Tomas's sticks with the loop on the end, for attaching various pretty dangly things. Would it be easier to just have one set and have things that I can easily swap out? Ehh, maybe, but I also kinda like the inevitable time when I wear like ten sticks at once. Maybe with careful application of lobster claws.
(NTS: Little plastic pyramids, in addition to the skulls and dice and beads and other what have you that gets dangled from my braids.)
I suppose part of the purpose of this post is to just announce that this is a need in my world right now. I say don't get me jewelry, but that's because I never wear it. These are something different, they are a necessity that can easily be ornamented.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: My hair actually did hit its terminal length in college. It stopped growing just at/past my hips. And it was long and beautiful and glorious then, and it's like a foot longer now, what the helllll. This is what happens if you wear your hair up pretty much every day. No really! No gravity + no pulling out a strand at a time as it catches on things = longer than terminal-length hair.
I mean, let's face it, my hair is always spectacular, and I really need to find myself some handmaidens to take care of it and braid it in beautiful ways for when I want to look dressy or whatever, because I can wear it down or braided or bunned fine, and I can even manage two braids, or hair loopies, but that's about the extent of my hair talent.
Admittedly, when you have hair that goes down to your knees (and past? It's still growing. This is weird1.), you don't really need to have a lot of talent to make it look good. But you do need a lot of patience to let it hang out in the "down everywhere" version, and that I lack, except when it's actively drying.
Anyways, the big change of the last eight months or so was the realization that I wear hairsticks every single day, and that I should actually start investing in some as a decorative accessory as well as the more practical "get my hair the fuck out of my face". So at Arisia I bought some lovely scale flowers (and a stick decorated with chains and a scale flower and a bird skull) and at Frolicon I procurred a sculpey octopus. Is good start. I want insect motiefs now, and more tentacles, and always flowers that will not die.
The hardest part is finding decorative ones where the actual _sticks_ don't suck. I don't even bother with plastic, I'm not a complete idiot and I hate the feel of them snapping inside my hair. Most wood has not been treated particularly well --unless we're talking Kathleen, who finishes the fuck out of hers, putting wooden sticks into my hair is actively painful. The micro-splits in the wood catch individual hairs and yank them and *nope*.
My day-to-day ones are my spiral metal ones from HOLD EVERYTHING TOMAS THE LAPIDARY SELLS THINGS ONLINE NOW?! This changes _everything_.
Anyways, I love his metal sticks, they hold my hair pretty damn well and I _never_ need to worry about them snapping. Downside? Well, Alan has termed them my "hair stingers", which is probably pretty accurate. I am sorry everybody who has ever gotten caught unexpectedly when hugging me.
My original GenCon plan (which may have just been made _super easier_) for this year was to buy a largeish number (5+? 12+?) of Tomas's sticks with the loop on the end, for attaching various pretty dangly things. Would it be easier to just have one set and have things that I can easily swap out? Ehh, maybe, but I also kinda like the inevitable time when I wear like ten sticks at once. Maybe with careful application of lobster claws.
(NTS: Little plastic pyramids, in addition to the skulls and dice and beads and other what have you that gets dangled from my braids.)
I suppose part of the purpose of this post is to just announce that this is a need in my world right now. I say don't get me jewelry, but that's because I never wear it. These are something different, they are a necessity that can easily be ornamented.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: My hair actually did hit its terminal length in college. It stopped growing just at/past my hips. And it was long and beautiful and glorious then, and it's like a foot longer now, what the helllll. This is what happens if you wear your hair up pretty much every day. No really! No gravity + no pulling out a strand at a time as it catches on things = longer than terminal-length hair.
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