The House of Braid

Well, I finally figured out how to go about getting braids. Picking up the phone and calling a student's sister.

I was given the first task - go buy the hair, the fake hair. Yeah, that wasn't easy. Two calls to the braider yielded no help. First apparently you have to match the hair to your color. Since they don't make "Burgandy fading to Pumpkin Red" I settled on dark brown with burgundyish highlights. And how many fake hair packages are enough to braid my hair - well who knows. No one, not the braider, nor the clerks. Jdog and I figured it out. 6 is the answer.

So, we get to the house around 5pm. I thought how cool would it be to actually go home and swirl my hair around like on Charlie's Angels. Cool braids hanging down, sexily flowing all over. Yeah, little did I know the process would not get me home until 7am the next day. That's right, 13.5 hours. The result was a head full of box braids down to the middle of my back. My plaited tresses took a back seat to the 2 inches of ice Jdog (poor jdog didnt get to sleep but for a couple hours on a strange couch) and I had to get off my car so that we could get home. We get home, jdog heads to work, I head to 4 hours of no sleep - which was no different than the 24 sleepless hours before that. I called into work of course and spent the day in and out of sleep. ugh.

So, how does it look now you ask! Well,most of the braids are falling out - something about not burning or tying up the braids because they were self braiding and unnecessary. I do not like the longness of the hair because it is to the middle of my back. I do not like the lack of braids because I do not look good in straight hair. The front and sides look great though - box braids, which means that there are little boxes on my head with braids coming out. CUTE. Its sort of Lil Bow wow meets pre-rythym nation janet jackson meets Snoop Dog , meets Alicia Keys in her first album. That kind of cute. ;)

I had a little temper tantrum this morning as I begged jdog to cut it all out. Thankfully she didn't. She laughed at me instead - she didn't know how pissed I really was but apparently I looked cute despite the pouty evilness spewing forth from my every pour.

so, hopefully y'all can see me before I take it out. I LOVE THEM THOUGH WILL LOVE THEM MORE WHEN JDOG HOOKS THEM UP BETTER!