I used to think I was just bad at doing my own hair. Every messy bun I made looked great for the first hour, then slowly turned into a lopsided knot with pieces falling out everywhere by mid afternoon. Turns out the problem wasn’t my hands, it was the order I was doing things in,…
I gave up my curling wand about a year ago, not for any dramatic reason, just because I was tired of my ends looking fried every few months. The tricky part was finding something that gave me the same loose, undone wave without standing in front of a mirror for twenty minutes every morning. Turns…
I spent a lot of my childhood watching my mom French braid my sister’s hair and thinking there was no way I’d ever manage it on myself. Doing it on someone else is one thing, you can see what you’re doing. Doing it on your own head, working blind by feel, felt like a completely…