So I have decided to take it upon myself to test out some age old hair staples, but from a different view point. As someone who used to have hair that stretched all the way down to my butt I will be the first to admit that short hair can be something that can take some getting used to. Certain things that I used to do with my hair all the time I just haven't done in a while because I seem to have become accustomed to the limitations of short hair.
So what I have planned to do is take some staple hair techniques that most people with hair below their shoulders use on a day to say basis and see if they can be transferred over to those of us with slightly shorter cuts.
So for the first part of The Great Hair Experiment I am going to be testing out a hair technique that used to a regular on my list of hair tips and tricks:
Putting wet hair in plaits to achieve wavy hair
Now I don't know about you guys out there but I haven't had plaits in my hair for a very long time. One thing that I have to deal with, having short hair that's thick enough to house a small family of borrowers in, is the problem that if I go to sleep with even the slightest bit of moisture in my hair I wake up looking like something out of the lion king. This is a particularly big problem for me as unless when I'm making tutorial videos I as a rule do not blow dry my hair as part of my routine to keep my hair as healthy as possible. This never used to be an issue for me as most of the time I would just plait my hair and in the morning I would wake up with lovely soft waves.
SO! I would like to test whether or not the same look can be achieved with short hair and french braids. My hair only just reaches my shoulders at the moment, so after I braid it there's barely any point in tying up two separate plaits. So instead I take the two ends and wrap them around each other in a braid bun. So here we go, I shall report back in the morning with my findings.
When I eventually did take the plaits out (I needed my customary morning tea first of else I would have turned into the bitch monster from hell) I was very surprised with just how well it had worked! When I went to sleep my hair wasn't very wet, but there was still some moisture in it so I wasn't expecting the curls to be as defined as they were. The hair felt lovely and soft when I let it down and the curls themselves were lovely and defined without being too ringlet like.
TA DAAAAAAAAA!
Well first off I thought I would show you how my hair held up sleeping in plaits all night. Now I don't know about you guys but I am terrible when I sleep, I toss and turn and wriggle all over the place like a mad woman so I was pretty much expecting to wake up in the morning with half of my hair just randomly hanging out all over the place. So I was rather surprised to find my hair had behaved it self so well.
When I eventually did take the plaits out (I needed my customary morning tea first of else I would have turned into the bitch monster from hell) I was very surprised with just how well it had worked! When I went to sleep my hair wasn't very wet, but there was still some moisture in it so I wasn't expecting the curls to be as defined as they were. The hair felt lovely and soft when I let it down and the curls themselves were lovely and defined without being too ringlet like.
The pictures below show what it looked like after I gave it a bit of styling. All in all I think I can definitely call this little experiment a success!! I don't know how this technique would work for shorter hair as the curls would be pretty random, but for someone like me who has just about shoulder length hair I definitely think this is definitely something that I will be doing more often from now on.
(Here's a picture of the hair the next day as well, so you can see how well the curls hold)
When in doubt, shoot the ground x
Your hair looks pretty good! I never try to dye my hair again at home because it ended up in disaster!
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