Behind the Veil: Blue Magic Bun
Coming in hot from celebrating Mass, and actually stopping to eat breakfast before writing to you. I’m back on purple sweet potatoes TUFF (we cut them into slices, add slices of red onion, and then drizzle with Extra Virgin Olive Oil and black pepper and put in the oven for 30 minutes). Super filling. Oh, and espresso.
It’s been a busy few days with mom duties, but worth it. Max got an A on his Math midterm yesterday (!!!!)… Language Arts is today, and then we still have so much to do + projects to prepare for this week. My hair has been a complete afterthought. Last night after writing, I thought, ‘why not, grease?’ Why not bun? lol So I did a deep treatment with Design Essentials Honey Creme, rinsed fully, t-shirt dried, and then blew my hair out with amika Startfruit and my Drybar Oval dryer brush.
The drying process took all of 15 minutes, but then I was left with a mass of hair I didn’t feel like twisting. I did, tho, but the whole time I thought I should’ve just made 3-5 bantu knots, and tonight, I will! I made about 15 twists, applied the original Blue Magic Grease (like actual old-school grease), and rolled the ends on gray rods. I tied down my roots with a satin scarf and woke up to a greasy, piece-y twist-n-curl I’d never let see the light of day, and it wouldn’t anyway, because I veil lol. Thank you Naya for the inspiration!
But look at the low manipulation bun I remembered how to do! Back in my dayyy lol we’d call it the Mane-n-Chic bun! This is what my hair will be looking like (behind the veil) for the rest of the week.
While this routine is amazing for preventing mechanical breakage, I will DEFINITELY be clarifying at my next wash! You win some, you lose some! I love you! PRAY YOUR ROSARY!!!
I love you!
nik
