Bluebirds and Birch trees

Things certainly are strange. But would I really have it any other way? Not to mention I already am a pirate. But you know, suddenly only being able to wear one earring does add a certain pizzazz to the whole deal of being a pirate. Not that I did this on purpose. On the contrary, I used to be able to wear two earrings, but two days after I had worn my last pair, I went to put a different pair in, and alas: my right ear was no longer pierced. So granted this is an extremely weird topic to talk about, but honestly right now I'm strapped for ideas. However! This does open up a lot of weird costuming opportunities! I could be a Bejoran from Star Trek! I could be a Pirate. I could still literally be anything, I'd just be wearing one earring. But mainly you know, I can have just one hoop earring in now and have some fun! :) Not to mention, I've been wanting to do something kind of spunky with my appearance, but couldn't work up the courage yet to dye my hair at al...

 So I was trying different types of braids and including my new elastic headbands, and what I came up with, was dutch braiding my hair, partly over and partly under the headband, to give a regular headband type of look. So really, the headband is just decorative at the moment, but small steps.  So I dutch braided my hair, then, I tugged at the sections gently, which gave it that nice full look, which although my hair is thick itself, the braid itself becomes surprisingly small. So a side dutch braid + yellow headband = a boho look. And, Boho (it took me a while before I actually looked it up) or bohemian hairstyles tend to work very well for my hair. And the fact that I like how they look in a grand plus! And experimenting now before the weather gets super hot again is going to be nice, also, it's hard to find easy but nice looking style for long hair that's not a type of ponytail, and this is a braid, but not to many braids actually get the hair off your neck. So hopefully I...

So in trying a new Hairstyle today, I found that I not only (1 Have an excessive amount of hair when it comes to styling it. But that (2 I really need to use the right hairstyling stuff.  The style was putting on a headband over the hair, and taking small pieces and twisting them, then twisting them around the headband, until all the hair is wrapped around the headband and, if needed, use a couple of bobby pins.  I used a thin elastic headband to put up my hair, and lets just say the resulting hairstyle was rather unexpected. I expected a nicely rolled up out of the face and off the neck hairstyle, while what I got was a really puffy on top, widely rolled slightly spikey roll. The result when I first saw it, I thought I was attempting to be a Greek Goddess for some sort of party! But I like it nonetheless. It's only the first attempt, and to be honest not all my first attempts look quite this nice.  So really, if your hairstyle when you first try it doesn't look that g...