Trying Something New #AHOMHairFAIL

Whether you wear it natural, relaxed, straight, curly, wrapped, locked etc., we women (and I'm sure the men too) know that sometimes when you try new things with your hair….it just DOESN'T work! We've all had those "bad hair days" when our hair just doesn't seem to want to obey the physical instructions we give.

Well, I know I show a lot of what DOES work for me, so this week I wanted to show a little peak of something I tried out that just failed miserably. Haha. So here goes…

Top 7 Favorite Do's

I tend to switch up my hair styles a lot to keep myself entertained and to show the versatility of natural/locked hair. I've chosen 7 of my favorite looks here. CHECK IT OUT!

Style Alert: Roll, Wrap, & Tuck

(protective style good for dreadlocks; box braids; havana/senegalese/marley etc twists; BS/MB length and longer)

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

* styling gel
* grease
* comb
* spray water bottle
* small brush (optional)
* 3-5 hair ties/elastic bands
* 1 bobby pin (use more at your discretion)

HOW TO:

Style Alert: FoHawk

So last week's post was basically just an advertisement for my show celebrating the one year anniversary of my debut album, "Love, Loss, Lies", haha, so I wanted to give another style update/tutorial this week.

Photo: FULLOFLAVA

I was deciding between a couple options for how I wanted to wear my hair for the concert and finally went with a fohawk look. Here's how to achieve the look!

STYLE ALERT: Pigtails

A simple to achieve, cute, and quick hairdo is PIGTAILS :) 

I really like this "blast to the past" style and it can be dressed up, funky, or cutesy… Here's an example from an interview I did wearing some funky pigtails with a twist: I used fishtail braid technique instead of a regular 3 strand plait.

Valentine's Day Do

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I don't wear my hair down very often; I'm usually partial to the updo because I like the aesthetic and because my hair is SOOO long that its sometimes cumbersome and it's just easier to keep it out of the way…

This Valentine's Day though, I decided to let the locs swing! 

The Quick Fix

Like a good relationship, my hair is a little complicated lol….I have locs in the back and the front of my hair is not locked; I just keep it natural and do different things with it as I see fit for that day. That could be flat twits, baby locs, two strand twists, just let it fro or even straightened from time to time….I like to switch it up. 

These styles can take as much as 2-3 hours sometimes depending on what I'm doing to it. TWO - THREE HOURS!!! Of course most of us don't have the luxury of a 2 hr time commitment to hair or even if we do, we'd rather spend it doing something else. So I also have what I call my "quick fixes". They are reserved for when I have to be somewhere in two hours and can't spend a whole hour fighting the fuzz atop my head.