Porpoise’s Crazy Hair
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Topic: Porpoise’s Crazy Hair
Posted By: Porpoise
Subject: Porpoise’s Crazy Hair
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 5:15pm
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This journal is going to deal with the constant battles of my hair. My hair history: I was born with yellow blonde thin naturally straight hair. My hair darkened to dirty blonde and grew thicker as I grew older. It remained straight and non-frizzy through 6th grade. I hated my hair then. My hair didn't even have a slight wave. I thought my hair was so boring. I envied girls with naturally curly and wavy hair. But in 7th grade my hair gradually got frizzier. I finally started wearing it up because I was so ashamed of the frizz. That summer my hair became fairly wavy. I started straightening it mainly because my mom was ashamed of it. My hair grew wavier and wavier over the next few years. I grew more and more frustrated with it. I began to envy those with naturally straight hair. Finally, I chopped my hair off senior year. I had it layered and I learned to blow dry it with a diffuser to bring out the curl. I love it now! So much easier to handle. I also found a wonderful site called http://www.naturallycurly.com - www.naturallycurly.com I found many people in the same boat as me and I learned to love what I got. I just got my hair trimmed earlier today. It's been over two years since I first chopped it off. I still diffuse it and I still love it. I still have days where I am frustrated, but those days are rare. I am starting this journal to document the wildness of my hair and I what I do to it. ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
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Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: August 20 2005 at 11:18am
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Second day hair. I just wake up and brush it out. Probably not the best way to deal with my kind of hair, but oh well. My hair was a lot bigger this morning and harder to comb. It's always hard to comb the first day after I get it cut. What wasn't usual was that I had more volume than I expected. Naturally, I have a lot of body and volume to my hair, but this was too much. It didn't look right. I brushed it really hard and my hair finally calmed down. My hair finally looks normal today. I really need to start experimenting with my hair so I can get the most curl out of it. ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: August 21 2005 at 2:43pm
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Just finished diffusing my hair. It looks great today. It really needed to be cut. I love the messy wildness that I get after I finish diffusing it. Curly hair looks so much better on me than straight hair does! I'm so glad I gave up the flat iron! ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 11:19am
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My hair looked GREAT this morning. Odd since I had an job interview. Usually my hair will not cooperate on days that I have important events. I use the store brand of Herbal Essences Shampoo for dry colored and damaged hair. I use the store brand of Pantene Pro V's shampoo. I have no problem using stuff with sulfate in my hair. Probably that's because hair is more wavy than it is curly. My hair still looks great now. I love styling it this way! ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: August 26 2005 at 3:31pm
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This morning, I spritzed water on my hair to get the curls going again. I diffused it for not even five minutes and then sprayed it with hairspray. It looked awesome. My hair has gotten all frizzy now. It probably needs so more spritzing to look good. I have had an awesome day. I really do think that curly hair rocks instead of sucks! ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: December 17 2005 at 1:54pm
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I am about to diffuse my hair. The other day I washed my hair in the sink and astonishingly my hair didn't frizz! My hair is frizzing up normally today. I did wash it in the shower today. I'll reply on how it looks when I get done! ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: December 17 2005 at 2:11pm
Well, the wave pattern wasn't as great today...but it still turned out looking nice! ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: December 19 2005 at 1:36pm
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Diffused dried again today. Let hair dry almost completely before diffusing. It began falling in soft waves at the top and ended in a frizzy mess of curl at the bottom. Definitely looked better after I diffused it. ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: December 22 2005 at 1:59pm
Letting it dry naturally today as I have to go to work. Not a very good day for my hair at all. Not as much wave today as I would like. It's when I have a couple of days in a row where my hair remains fairly straight that I begin to freak out that my hair is straightening itself back out. I don't want that to happen! I love my natural waves and curls! If you read my first entry, you'll know that my hair changed from being naturally straight to naturally wavy. I've also read that hair changes every 7 years. It's been about 6 years since my hair changed. I hope that isn't true! Now that I know how to care for them I want to keep my waves! I want to coax more waves and curls!------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 1:05am
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Actually, my hair became very wavy. Yay! The waves were just taking it's nice sweet time forming! ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: December 27 2005 at 7:07pm
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My hair looked great today! I washed it and diffused it. It waved nicely. I felt a little guilty about throwing gel in it and diffusing... ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
But it still looks pretty good now!Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: December 30 2005 at 12:32pm
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Letting it dry naturally today. Average wave and curl pattern. Nothing special. ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: January 02 2006 at 2:39pm
Letting it dry naturally again today. Pretty frizzy and not as wavy. It won't matter as much since I will be leaving for work soon. Still... ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 10:19am
I put my hair up in a bun for work yesterday. It was still wet. I took it out when I got home around midnight. The top of my hair was smooth and shiny. The ends were very wavy/curly and bouncy not frizzy. I love it! Hair like mine that has a lot of body rules! ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 10:20am
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Oh. Those of you who have kids with curly hair and need help, check out http://www.curlykids.com - www.curlykids.com It's a fun new site sponsored by http://www.naturallycurly.com - www.naturallycurly.com and it has a lot of helpful information. ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: January 08 2006 at 7:12pm
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Let my hair dry naturally today. I dried beautifully in curls and waves. In fact today it dried more curly than usual. I still can't decide on my hair type. Am I a 2c or a 3a? ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 1:39pm
I diffused dried it today despite the fact I have to work. My waves did not frizz as much today.  ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: January 14 2006 at 11:18pm
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Let it dry naturally. It dried very wavy today and frizzed as usual. I put my hair up in a bun because I had to go to work and you are required to wear your hair up. I just got home about 45 minutes ago and I took it out. My hair is all soft shiny and curly at the ends. Boy does putting my hair up in a bun really control it. It actually looks pretty silky! ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: January 17 2006 at 1:33pm
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Washed my hair today for school. Waves were really messy today and didn't form as well. It looked much better after I diffused it dry. ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: January 19 2006 at 2:07pm
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Washed and diffused my hair for school again today. Waves did not frizz and fell in gorgeous pattern. My hair diffused looks really great today. Tis a shame I have to put in bun because of work... ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: January 22 2006 at 10:03pm
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Let dry naturally as I had work today. Hair was very frizzy and fell into more of a curly pattern than usual. ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: January 27 2006 at 9:42am
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Diffused my hair yesterday. Dried mostly straight before I diffused. It did not look as good.
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Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: May 05 2006 at 9:34am
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Haven't updated in quite some time! I got my hair cut about three weeks ago. It really needed a trim! I got the layers redone too. Layers are a must if you have really thick hair like me. My waves and curls are much bouncier now. I love it. I am going to wash it today and let it dry naturally. ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: May 05 2006 at 3:31pm
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Showered about two hours ago. Hair is still drying. Not looking good though. I have fairly defined waves and a few spiral curls on one side and a bunch of tangled frizzy mess on the other. Good thing I am going to work soon and have to put this mess up. Today is definitely not my best day. ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: May 11 2006 at 1:52pm
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Just got out of the shower. Had nice waves and my hair is starting to curl up a bit. Hopefully that will last, but I won't be able to tell for another two hours! ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: May 11 2006 at 3:14pm
Hair is drying very curly today. Yay! ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: May 25 2006 at 3:42pm
Man hair is just a ball of frizz today. Right side is more defined than the left. I hope it's not the shampoo I've been using. The Herbal Essences Fruit Frusions I use smells so good. ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: May 31 2006 at 10:46am
Well out of ALL days to have a good day, it's this one. It was thundering and lightning like crazy this morning. Now it is just an icky drizzle. I took a shower and decided to diffuse my hair dry today. I've just been letting it dry naturally as I have had to go to work and just need to put it up in a bun. No point in diffusing it if I am only going to wreck it again. Anyways after letting it dry about 20 minutes, I had gorgeous waves and soft ringlets. I threw in some gel and diffused. Got even more ringlets. 
By the way, I have discovered that braids and buns have the opposite effect on wavy/curly hair. Instead of waves. my hair straightens itself out and is calmer. I guess the calmness is a good thing but I like a lot of wave and curl!  ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 3:53pm
I am going to try this ONE more time!
 My hair dried very curly today! Yay! It also dried very big. Darn Texas Humidity. But that's what you get when you have hair as thick as mine is. I have layers to help control it, but nothing can conquer the frizz.
I am having a great hair day today. I actually restrained myself from touching it while it was wet. I think that is why it dried so well. ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: June 17 2006 at 12:18am
Washed and dried yesterday morning. It dried in a messy beachy barely wavy style. Most straight haired girls would have loved it if their hair ever dried like that, but as for me, the more curl the better. My hair normally dries wavier and curlier than it did. At least it didn't dry straight. There was some wave to it, although slight. ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 5:48pm
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My laptop is driving me wild.
The other day when I washed my hair and let it dry naturally, it dried into the average very wavy style (for me), although it was more defined and less frizzy. Though my waves and curls tend to be fuzzy. I HATE that.
Today I let my hair dry for almost 2 and a half hours before I caved in and diffused it. It dried more curly, but messy and tangled. Ugh. The left side of my hair was curlier than usual. The right was what you would expect. Normaly the right side tends to be the curliest.
I made a discovery. If let my hair dry a long time before diffusing it, I can get it to be more wavy. Which it is today. If I dry it like 20 minutes after I get out of the shower, my hair goes pretty curly.
So it is wavier today. And while I wish my hair were curlier at times, I love it this way today. I am in a wavy mood today. I guess that's because of this Wavy Women thread I read on another site. ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |
Posted By: Porpoise
Date Posted: June 21 2006 at 6:54pm
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This will be my last journal entry. I am moving this hair journal to fotki. ------------- DANGER! I drive like you do. |