
Originally Posted by
teeth_of_the_hydra
Recently, I decided to grow my hair out. It's going okay so far, and I'm out of the Deeply Stupid phase. I can gather it into an approximate, albeit abbreviated, ponytail. This pleases me. I toyed with the idea of getting extensions, because what I really want is long fucking hair, but I'm not dancing right now, so it wouldn't have been a smart investment. As a compromise, I bought some cheap clip-ins yesterday. I was so excited that I put them in and waited for the sexy to happen.
But they looked dumb! Like, it was so obvious that they were fake. The color is kind of close, but I think my haircut is off. My hair, although straight, is not straight enough, and I think it's too blunt to blend in with the extensions. What I want to know is: how do I style it? Do I need to cut it? Should I cut the extensions? Should I get more of them? Attached are some pictures (perhaps more of them than necessary, but I tried to capture the extensions being very wack as well as less wack), and below are some important addendums.
-I have never "blown out" my hair in my life. I do not own a blow dryer and would not know where to begin with this endeavor.
-Likewise, I do not own a straightener or a curling device. I cannot exactly tell the difference between the two (though I think with practice, I could learn to distinguish them).
-I have been styling my short, funny hair in the same hippie/gutter-punk way for years: I wash it with Dr. Bronner's soap and shape it with beeswax. Sometimes, when I need to look like a nice young lady, I shampoo and condition it, and then style it with texturizer and that magical weightless $22 Aveda powder that blows my mind. But I only do that sometimes, and I don't really like it as much. This is not especially relevant, but it shows how low-fi I am. I'd prefer to keep it that way when dealing with making my extensions work.
Thanks for being superhelpers!
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