2019 hair - Paranda French braid

I've been wearing more French braids recently, and I had missed how comfy they are :)! So here's a paranda French braid with a flexi 8 from an August outing:

 

 

 

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LHC Winter Swap 2018 :)

This week I got this amazing Whovian and fandom-centric box from fellow Long Hair Community member Milady de Winter, as part of our annualWinter swap 😍😄💙

There’s chocolate 🍫, a lovely flexi-8 (have this same one in red and love it, so yay for more!), a gorgeous watercolour of a scarved Gryffindor lion my giftee painted 🦁❤️ (check out @laura_dr4w on IG for more of her amazing art! 👌💙🎨), and the DW goodies: A lovely TARDIS bag with a cute blue Dalek keyring 💙, and an awesome TARDIS scarf that is going to see a lot of action this next Spring 😁👌

 

Non-hairy pic spam time!

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Cosplay hair - Erendis braid

Today's post is more pic spam than tutorial, featuring the hairstyle I wore for my improvised Erendis cosplay during a 2017 Tolkien convention. It consists of a three-strand braid with a paranda (tutorial in the link) with the addition of simple three-strand side-braids tied at the back and adorned with a star hairpin. I also like to wear a flexi-8 when wearing three strand-braids, both because of decoration and practicality - my straight, fine-textured hair is really slippery and even with the paranda the braid will become undone during the day, so the flexi-8 helps keeping the braid more in place. Already posted this updo, with casual Erendis pics, in this post:

 And here are the pics from the convention mini shoot:

 

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2017 hair - December random updos

 (Pics taken at the end of the day, so lots of flyaways xD)

• Rope-braided length-shortening bun with paranda with my new flexi-8 (blue flitter)
  

• Rope-braided bun with paranda with lightsaber sticks (originally another length-shortening bun)

 

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Hairstyles - Three strand with side braids and paranda plus updo variation

I started wearing this style quite a lot last Summer - A three-strand braid with a paranda (tutorial in the link) with the addition of simple three-strand side-braids (pinned at the sides before tying them at the back in order to keep them more in place and with less bumps): 

I also like to wear a flexi-8 when wearing three strand-braids, both because of decoration and practicality - my straight, fine-textured hair is really slippery and even with the paranda the braid will become undone during the day, so the flexi-8 helps keeping the braid more in place. Also featuring a decorative star-pin in the half-updo section:

 Bunned variation: A simple braided low bun in which I twist the braid at the nape of the neck and secure it with a couple of metal bun pins (the half-up section also helps keeping the bun more anchored):

I was then working on a Tolkien study on the role of Númenórean women for a convention (which was last week), and this style somehow gave me strong Erendis vibes, so here are is casual closet cosplay Erendis with this style, with the star in her brow (which is the Evenstar, but pretty close to the description of the 'diamond in a fillet of silver' that Erendis Elestirnë 'Lady of the Star-brow' wore as a circlet). Actual cosplay pics - of Erendis and a Noldorin Elf - featuring this style coming soon :D!:

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Random hair update II - LHC Swap hairtoys and braided buns

PhD work and other things mean I haven't updated this blog since December 2016 :S xD, so here is another random post with some pics from the last couple of months - Featuring braided buns with parandas, and new hairtoys from the LHC 2016 Winter Swap :D

In the last LHC Winter Swap I got, among some other things, such as lots of chocolate :D and a handmade lip balm, this gorgeous three-prong Jeterfork and a couple of metal bun pins with green stones. Both work great to hold my (slippery) hair and I've been wearing them non-stop for the last fortnight :D

I've also been wearing a lot of braided buns with my newest blue-and-purple paranda, sometimes with side lace-braids, and usually using my new metal bun pins:

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Hairtoys: Flexi-8s

*EDITED from time to time to update my collection. Last edit: 15-3-21*

Decided to make a separate post about Flexi-8s (before it was part of the 'hairtoy-rest' post) because lately I've been using flexi-8s more and more for braids, half-ups and updos, and my collection is slowly increasing as a result xD

 So far, I have 9 flexi-8's (from top to bottom in the image below): An extra-large 'Lúthien' one (don't know the name), Crimson Joy (large), Sapphire Joy (medium), Blue Flitter (medium), Trinitee (medium), Autumn's Delight (medium), North Star (medium), Starlight (medium), and an XS Elven flowery one (don't remember the name whoops):

 

Former pics:

 My first ever flexi-8 from Lilla Rose was the October flexi of the month back in 2014 ('Autumn's Delight'). I got a medium judging on my fine-textured, highly compressible hair, but I have to say I was delighted to find that a medium flexi hardly holds even my most compressible cinnamon bun without additional help, so my hair is definitely thicker (and longer) than I thought :D xD!  It works great as a ponytail holder and an updo accent, but for updos I need a large (half-up, half-down) or extra-large (full updos).

The next flexi I got was the Crimson Joy (the December 2014 flexi of the month), as part of the LHC Winter Swap. This is a large flexi, and it works with half-up, half-down updos (length shortening updos), as well as a braid accent/holder:

Next came my first ever extra-large flexi as part of the 2015 LHC Winter Swap. Don't know what this one is called, but it has a really Lúthien-y aesthetic to me, so I call it the 'Lúthien' one :) I can wear this one in compressible updos such as cinnabuns.

Then came the January 2016 flexi of the month, 'Starlight'. This one has Missy vibes to me :)

My next flexi was the 2016 November flexi of the month, 'North Star', plus three decorative pins. I can never say no to anything starry (the troubles of being an Astrophysicist? xD), plus I thought they would look cool as part of Elven hairstyles:

Next was Trinitee, the Saint Patrick-inspired Celtic flexi of the month for March 2017. As a lover of all things Celtic, as well as copper and green, this has become my favourite one alongside the Crimson Joy;

Next was blue flitter:

Another medium, Sapphire Joy, the blue version of Crimson Joy, I got as a gift as part of the 2019 LHC Winter Swap :D:

And the last flexi for now was my first mini, with a flowery Elven look, back in 2019 as well (I don't remember the name of the flexi, though!). This one is great for half-ups and accents!

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