What's new since my last post? Not much. I've gone to a few black lives matter protests, I visited with Love Bug a few times including for his neurology appointment (which was uneventful), and I had a 6-foot-apart Indian food dinner with Karaoqueen on her lawn. I also had the job interview for the 7-3 RN position at my work. The interview was not very encouraging but I've still got my fingers crossed about the job. I'm still waiting to hear back about whether my mortgage got approved.
Since nothing particularly interesting is happening in my life, I'm going to talk about hair. I finally got a haircut but I kept the top long because somehow my barber convinced me that my curls are beautiful. I've always hated my hair. Now that it's running away from my forehead I'm even less excited about my hair. I was honestly shocked when my barber said he thought my hair was beautiful. Shocked enough to keep it long on top to see if I can learn to like it more.
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| Crappy blurry photo of my hair after waking up this morning and before attempting to fix it. |
Because of all the time I've spent working with kids, I'm pretty good at doing hair. I can braid, I can give pretty decent haircuts, and I have a general idea of which products work for which type of hair. All of which makes it kind of ridiculous that I have no idea what to do with my own hair. The thing is, I don't know anyone else with my hair texture. It's thick, it's kind of coarse, it varies between wavy and curly seemingly at random, and it frizzes like crazy. As a kid I got teased for having n***** hair, which didn't exactly help me learn to love my hair. And like I said, I'm balding at the temples which kind of sucks. (Side note: I looked up hair transplants on a whim and it's something like $15,000. Yikes! Guess I'll stick with my original plan to just embrace baldness as it happens.)
Anyway, since I'm not shaving it off and I'm sick of slathering gel on it in an attempt to keep it straight, I figure it's finally time to learn how to care for my hair. Maybe if I actually had some sort of hair care routine it could help me hate my hair less? Guess we'll see. I looked up a chart of hair types and I think my hair is type 2C.
Who else has my hair type? Lorde (the singer).
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| Lorde. |
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| This photo is the most like my hair. Note the frizziness. |
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| This is what happens when I had long hair and I brush it. |
I feel better knowing my hair type, and I'm going to look into what to do to keep it from becoming a scary mop on top of my head. Wish me luck?
While I was at it with the hair typing, I decided to try and figure out Love Bug's hair type. His hair is a pretty obvious type 3C. I've been asked more than once if he has a Jheri curl. Nope, that's just his hair. If I had to pick, I'd say Love Bug's celebrity hair twin is Nathalie Emmanuel.
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| Pretty sure his hair would look like this if he grew it out. |
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| This is probably what his hair would look like if he brushed it. |
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| This is also fairly accurate looking. |
My one internet hair search complaint so far: there are not many hair type photos of men. Which means I was stuck looking at photos of women and trying to guess whether that's what me and Love Bug's hair would look like if it was longer. Sigh.
