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Laeserin @Laeserin - 1mo

My hair is now long enough that I can tie it up in a knot-bun, without any paraphernalia, and that feels like a milestone. It's normally still too short for that, but wavy hair is magic ✨. Also fun to stick a pencil or a chopstick through it. Or do a band-free ponytail. I only use a bit of shampoo on the roots, every few days, and it's never been this nice, before. It's a bit too late, for my hair to be this nice, tho. Anticlimactic. But I love brushing that heavy mane. Swish. Swish. Swish. I just brush and brush and brush... And then I tie it back up, to keep it a bit secret. Wearing it down looks best, but makes me feel oddly exposed. #SolipsismPosting

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Kip Ashlynn @Kip Ashlynn - 1mo

I love keeping my hair super long but almost always in a braid or a bun so it's like a surprise when I let it down. My 3 year old niece saw it once and got all wide eyed admiring my "mermaid hair" 🧜‍♀️💖

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 1mo

Yes, exactly. I take it down and it sort of s...l...o...w...l...y... cascades down into these big, pitch-black waves and it's like

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 1mo

I never wear it down, IRL. Would drive me nuts, otherwise.

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 1mo

I love vintage aesthetic. Hunted it down on Pinterest.

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 1mo

I don't use any products on it. Just the bit of shampoo and a boar-bristle brush to spread the oils down from the roots. Wash it maybe once or twice per week. My hair is water-resistent, like lambs' wool. And it's rarely very frizzy. If it starts to frizz, I tie it up in a tight bun for a bit, and it smooths back out. Weird, but cool. Was thinking about dumping shampoo, entirely, and switching to conditioner-only washing, but I haven't yet made the jump.

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 1mo

I'm usually braids or buns, but I've been doing more side-ponytails and high ponytails, lately. I'm always trying to distribute the weight, somehow, as it already weighs a ton.

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Kip Ashlynn @Kip Ashlynn - 1mo

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Kip Ashlynn @Kip Ashlynn - 1mo

I did co-washing for years, but now they make shampoos without silicates, sulfates, and parabens. It helps keep the natural texture and also helps my scalp stay cleaner, I had trouble with dandruff when only co-washing.

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 1mo

Yeah, that's my fear. My hair really is deep black and every little flake can be seen from a mile away. As if it has its own personal spotlight. 😂🙈 And the water here is so hard. I just keep the shampoo to the roots and scrub the roots and then rinse, and that's enough. I don't have a soap-phobia, or anything.

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 1mo

Razors are brutal, it's true. I had the opposite: cut my hair Halle Berry short, in my late teens, because my scalp constantly itched like crazy. It's taken me decades to figure out how to deal with my hair. 🤪 And now I'm like, wow, it's actually really nice hair. 😂

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 1mo

That's not me, in the picture! I just thought it was pretty.

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 1mo

Oh, I can. I've gone from waistline to butch cut, a few times.

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 1mo

Thanks. 💖

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 1mo

The short hair was awesome, tho. I was totally rocking that. A guy friend of mine said really short hair only looks good on three types of women: French women, black women, and black French women. 😂 So, I qualify.

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 1mo

Well, you can also wash with oil and extremely hot water, but that will dry your skin out worse than soap. Tried oil-washing my face, once, and it felt like paper, afterward. 😱

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 1mo

I (rarely) use a straightening iron, but I just bought a curling iron, as that looks cool, of you do a messy updo like

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Kip Ashlynn @Kip Ashlynn - 1mo

I'm still stuck on my hot rollers if I want to do anything fancy, otherwise the bun gives it a nice wave. I need to move somewhere not the desert though, my hair is so parched it's turning frizzy straight and it makes me sad

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 1mo

The thing that comple destroyed my hair was bleaching. I've had to just deal and lean into the black-hair/blue-eyes combo and get over trying to be trendy. I'm getting white streaks, now, along the hairline.

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 1mo

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 1mo

Oof. That's scary.

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