Hurricane Day Updo

People up North have Snow Days but we have Hurricane Days in Florida. Today was the first time that I recall us having a Tropical Storm Day where all of the schools and non-emergency government offices were closed. On one hand I can understand the concern... not because of the T.S., but because of the threat of tornadoes. But on the other hand I think it's a bit of overkill. I mean I've lived in Florida my entire life and prior to 2004 can only remember one hurricane coming through Central Florida. It was back in the day and it must have been sometime before I started kindergarten because we were still living in Cocoa, which is on the coast.



Anyhoo... since I was bored and couldn't take care of the one thing that I had on my schedule today since both the community college and the agency that helps unemployed persons find jobs/training were closed, I began looking at Fotki albums. As always,
I started coveting some of the loose natural hairstyles that I saw. So I decided to do an updo. I think it came out pretty well but it would look a lot better on retightened hair (I've been to lazy to retighten).

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I cornrowed my hair up, wrapped my Tomoka's Twist to hold it in a pony, and then curled the ends with small Soft Spike curlers. When I first envisioned it, I wanted Bantu knots in the top but apparently I'm missing some secret because my sample Bantu knots looked a mess lol. I can't believe how thick my ponytails are going to be... I keep thinking about how much perms took all the volume away from my hair and then I would try to get it back by putting weave in it.... and the worst part is that I usually got weaves with a small curl pattern. I could have been wearing my natural, loose hair and getting the same effect! Do you know what I could do with all the money I've wasted over the years?

Here's a texture shot. I was trying to capture the back of my head but failed, this is one of the few drawbacks of living alone that I can think of. I think I did a pretty good job considering that my braiding skills aren't the best.