November 28, 2017

Hair Hat Chronicles

Now although I am not interested in abandoning my natural for the ever expanding diversity of the wig life, I do find it fun to throw one on every once in a while just to mix it up and compliment some style vision I have at the moment.

I own 5 wigs now! I have only worn 4 of them because the 5th one just doesn't make me as happy as it did when I saw it on the internet lol. I usually don't buy natural looking ones because I look at them more like hair hats than a substitute for my real hair. I'm not trying to necessarily make it blend in because it's just a fun, temporary little accessory.

Here are the 4 I have experimented with thus far:

1. My very first wig actually does look pretty natural I guess. I have only worn it twice and my real hair pretty much looks like this now with a good bantu knot-out...but maybe not quite as long:
 

2. I wanted to switch it up for Christmas last year, so I decided on this bold silver hair hat. I thought it looked great lol...but for some reason only took one picture in it:
3. My third hair hat is this long, flowy, fun, almost iridescent teal one that I wore to the BET Experience Fan Fest Weekend. I had gotten my hair straightened for the award show the next day and didn't want it to sweat out so I just kept it wrapped up and popped this bad boy on for this cute look:



4. My fourth hair hat is this short little bob I wore for my birthday shoot. I had a concept in mind for the look with my birthday dress and new car and felt like this cute bob was just the thing to pull it together without having to cut my own hair off!
 

Well, that's it. I'll try to update you guys again when I wear the 5th one. And maybe I'll take advantage of these hair hats a little more often now that it's winter time to give my real hair a chance to grow and recover after that heat damage fiasco...maybe, but probably not, lol.

What's your favorite wig look?

Have you ever made your own wig?

Do you prefer human hair over synthetic?

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- "Mo hair"

 
Rahkua Ishakarah

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November 14, 2017

Heat Damage Styling

I'm feeling like this is deja vu. Like, didn't I just go through this heat damage thing? Did I not learn my lesson the first time? Well, I guess not, because here we are again...the land of heat damage & sadness! hahaa
I went to Punta Cana & Atlanta for my birthday at the beginning of last month. It was truly amazing and breath taking. I have unreleased video that will probably go up on my artist page at youtube.com/Rahkua whenever I finish editing it. Anyway, toward the second half of the trip in Atlanta, I let my big sis straighten my hair. This is nothing new. She is who usually straightens it besides the times I've gotten stylists to do it. And she always does an amazing job...this time was no different.


I left it straight for about 2 weeks and did a bantu knotout on it for the 3rd week. After that, I was ready for a wash. I used my new As I Am samples that I got from this year's Nappywood Natural Hair Expo and deep conditioned for like 3 hours praying that my curls reverted back. I had no such luck.

After washing, rinsing, conditioning, sitting, and rinsing again, I could clearly see that my spirals were long gone :( I whipped the limp, straight strands up into bantu knots (cringing as handfuls of hair came out into my fingers and combs), and covered it up for 2 days dreading the reveal.

When I took them down, it was actually quite beautiful. I mean I can definitely tell that my hair is just, not the same, but at least the style looked good. So I have spent the past week trying to come up with styles that will help me disguise the damage and give me some semblance of curl. Although I can no longer make an afro, which makes me immeasurably sad, here are the styles I came up with:


  1. Flat-twisted side bun 




  2. Bantu Knot-out 


  3. Scarf tied on stretched hair 




  4. High bun 


  5. Flat-twist-out 



How do you style your damaged hair?

Should I just chop it all off and start from scratch?

Are there any products you recommend to bounce back from damage?

- "Mo hair"

 
Rahkua Ishakarah

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