Length hairstory - 2013 and mid-thigh

You can find an abridged version of my hair journey from 2010 to the present in the 'My hairstory' page. This is the fourth in a series of individual posts about my hair growing milestones over the years, plus a pic spam of length shots xD

Previous post: 2010 hair (tailbone length),  2011 hair (classic length), 2012 hair (fingertip length).

After 2012 and fingertip length, in October 2013 I reached mid-thigh, maintaining a reasonably good hemline, with microtrims in-between. Mini pic spam!

• January: Under fingertip length. I really like the contrast between the indirect light and the direct sunlight on the ends in the second pic.
  

 

•  August: Length shot with braidwaves for a recreation of a Catelyn Tully Stark style from GoT Season 1
  

• October: Finally reached solid mid-thigh!
  

•  October: Length shots with my Noldorin Elf OC cosplay for a Tolkien convention. First ones are with my natural straight texture, the last one features braidwaves and bandanna curls at the ends:

• December: Ending this post with a length shots with some bandanna curls -
  

 

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New LOTR Nightblooming hairstick!

In the Long Hair Community we have this swap twice a year (Winter and Summer), and if we participate, we send a gift (mostly hair-related) to an assigned giftee and we receive another one from our secret gifter (like Secret Santa, but twice a year).

Well, I received my gift a couple of years ago, and it included this gorgeous LOTR-themed hairstick handmade by my very talented and lovely gifter, Nightshade (from Nightblooming in Etsy):

It's delightfully nerdy, really, really beautifully made, and it holds my hair great (curvy sticks a a huge yes when it comes to straight slippery fine hair such as mine).

Action shot :D!

This is my post-wash slippery hair in a flipped-up bun (one of my favourite updos), and the stick still holds wonderfully, not only with pre-wash dry-shampooed (and thus, more texturized and less slippery) hair! I only needed a couple of little claw clips to fully secure the bun, just to be safe, because it was holding pretty well on its own.

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Game of Thrones hairstyles: Catelyn's rope-braided half-up

   I loved all the hairstyles in HBO's Game of Thrones series. Hopefully, all those braids will inspire me to practise!

   This is Catelyn's first style in the series, as seen in the first episodes of season 1 (she also wears it in episode 9). It's an easy style, basically a couple of rope braids as a half-up. Here's my classification of Catelyn's hair (I'm still working in guessing hairtyping correctly, especially when it comes to strand type, so it's all open to changes and suggestions) and the analysis of the hairstyle.  All reference pictures are credited in the link shown in the slides: http://screencapped.net/tv/gameofthrones/

   This is my recreation of Catelyn's rope braided half-up. When it comes to recreation, I try to imitate the texture too, so I French-braided my post-shower damp hair with a paranda and kept it like that for a couple of days to get some braidwaves. I got some reasonably defined S-waves, but to get Catelyn's waves I think I should rather try bandanna waves or something that'd give bigger waves. My hair's doesn't get wavy/curly easily, so recreating wavy/curly hairstyles is going to be tricky, but I'll keep trying! 

The rest consisted of sectioning a front section of hair at each side of my face and rope-braiding them (if you don't know how to rope-braid, try this, for example: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Rope-Braid), trying to keep the style a bit messy and loose, especially when tying the braids back, as Catelyn seems to favour loose, windswept messy styles with face-framing layers, and half-ups that loop loosely over her ears (I had my side bangs framing my face, as Catelyn, but you can't see that in the pics). Fine straight hair won't look the same as Catelyn's coarser, more texturized wavy hair, of course, so it doesn't look nearly as windswept-messy as hers...Maybe I should use aloe-vera gel as a way to texturize my hair a bit more next time.

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