Tag: Hair

Put a Bow on it

[Update below!]

At some point I saw a girl with a large bow in her hair. I immediately wanted one too. This was… 2 years ago. Now, I know bows are not the most difficult objects to make, but apparently I was to lazy to actually do something about it. Until now!

I grabbed a bit of felt, cut a long strip, cut pointy bits on the two ends, did a bit of folding, a bit of sewing, some more cutting and I had myself a hair bow! Then I figured out that my hair is so dark, that my bow doesn’t actually show up very clearly in it… I may have to remedy that with another 5 minute bow in another colour.

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I put a hair elastic on the back so that I could wear it. This seems to work fairly well. So I’m happy with it. Now I just need to see whether it will swoop down or fall out during the course of the day. On to testing it is!

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UPDATE:

I decided that I indeed needed some more, after wearing the black one all day yesterday. So this morning I set out to create two more. One identical to yesterday’s but in red, and a blue bow with a clip on the back and no .. pointy end bits? Here they are!

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And here’s how I wore it, for about 2 minutes (never do this in real life….). Also, in case you are wondering, yes, my hair is partly grey; natural highlights or so they say.

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Changes

In order to start my coming life in a new way, I figured some changes were needed. Actually just one. I cut my hair.

Hair before

This is how it was before. It was halfway down my back and I had had it with it. It got stuck between everything, it got very knotty very soon and I’ve had this long hair since forever. So a change was in order. I had actually been feeling like I wanted it off since January or somewhere around that time. The reason for waiting was that I wanted to have it long enough to serve another purpose.

Tail

This was what came off my head. I wanted to have it >25 cm so I could donate it to make wigs for children suffering from baldness. So the braid above want into a bag and will be sent to ‘Stichting Haarwensen’, to make a wig. Below is the end result.

Hair after

I’m happy with it, it’s new, it’s short, I can wash it in 5 minutes and dry it in 2 hours, instead of 20 min – 8 hours respectively. It doesn’t tangle, it’s less hot and I’m really glad I made the choice to take it off. I can’t braid is as much anymore as I was able to in the past, and thereby it’s less ‘creative’, but I can live with that, no problem. Lets enjoy a ‘lighter’ summer!