More bendy roller curls and length shortening updo

This is the style I did for the singing end-of-term concert at my music academy. A length-shortening updo with bendy rollers heatless curls on the ends:

• Texture: Braidwaves + bendy rollers curls on the ends.

 -More posts about my bendy rollers experiments here

After braiding my post-shower mostly-dry hair in a three strand braid with a paranda, I wrapped the ends around a bendy roller, secured it with an elastic and sprayed the ends and some of the length with salty water generously (I use Lush's Salt Sea Spray). I wore my hair like that for nearly a day and took the bendy roller and the paranda off just before the concert. These below are the results at the end of the concert (roughly two hours after I took the bendy roller off).


The Salt Sea spray gives me quite a lot of hold, especially when I leave the roller on at least overnight. The curls do fall a bit after a few hours, but I retained waves in my hair until the next time I washed it. Cons for me are that, even though this salty spray is infinitely heathier and more effective than hairspray for my hair, it can get a bit frizzy and tangly, and I generally oil my ends generously with jojba or sweet-almond oil to avoid dryness after these sporadic times when I need a lot of fixation (I have yet to try flax seed gel as a (moisturizing!) fixator, Henrietta recommended it to me, and I really want to try it out).

• Style: Length-shortening cinnamon bun. 

 -Posts about my length shortening updos here

This style is very similar to the cinnamon half-updo here, only with curls at the ends. I used a couple of spin pins and a Gimli axe hairstick (I sang Hobbit songs :) ) to keep the cinnamon bun part in place. And in this case, I added an accent braid at each side, gathered into the high ponytail with the rest of the hair before bunning it.

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-The site www.fashionlita.com is stealing quite a lot of material from this blog, even though I've tried to block their IP twice so that they wouldn't be able to steal any more posts of mine. I wanted to mention that those posts were copied and pasted from my blog without my permission. 

More bendy rollers curls and ponytail length shot :)

More bendy rollers curls! Plus bonus ponytail length shots :)

-Read about my bendy rollers experiments here and here

I used just a bendy roller on my ends, and left the rest of my post-shower hair braided with a paranda. I sprayed quite a lot of salt water on the ends just after I wrapped them around the roller (Lush's Sea Spray Light Mist, especifically. I don't like a lot of things about Lush. For one, they claim to be oh-so-natural, but still use non-natural ingredientes such as parabens and cocamide DEA, which is actually carcinogenic - it's misleading and pretty ironic of a 'natural' hair-and-body shop to add such an ingredient to some of their products. Plus their sexist policies when it comes to doing anti-animal testing activism. Still, I have to grudginly admit that I do like this product).  And wow, next day when I undid the roller, the curls lasted for the whole day and the Sea Spray mist had given them quite a lot of hold. My hair is veruy fine-textured and stubbornly straight, and most of my heatless curls and waves tend to fall back to straightness veeery quickly, but this time they lasted the whole day. At the end of the day, the curls had fallen a bit, but they were still pretty much there:

Plus this spray mist gave me a hold that is way less damaging than hairspray, in my opinion, it hardly dried my ends at all. I oiled them slightly with jojoba oil just in case, though. I don't like to put products on my ends, but this turned out well, so I already know what to do if I need to have curls on my ends that last more than an hour xD

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-The site www.fashionlita.com is stealing quite a lot of material from this blog, even though I've tried to block their IP twice so that they wouldn't be able to steal any more posts of mine. I wanted to mention that those posts were copied and pasted from my blog without my permission.