Good mornthing!

[blissmorgan]

I am trying a thing with my hair. (Have you noticed I just about always mention my hair in the mornthings? It’s definitely a function of how the daily mornthing selfies started, for sure, but I wonder if it comes off as vapid and aesthetically self-involved to folk swho don’t know about that. Then I wonder if I am not, in fact, decidedly aesthetically self-involved. #BitchIMightBe ) One of the things that has really helped my curls work toward being their best selves was dropping $5 at Christmas Tree Shops a year or so ago for this microfiber “Turbie Towel”, a.k.a. a little microfiber thing with a deep pocket at one end for your head, and it gets slender toward the other end, and you plop your hair into the pocket and pull it down around your head and then twist the tail hanging from your forehead until it is a twisty ropey hoobiedo and tuck the end of it into the little elastic tabbything on the back of your head. The idea is that it schlucks the wetness out of your curly hair and lets the curls get mostly dry without a lot of motion and rubbing, which tends to make curly hair go all frizzy the way it tends to make wool get felted.

Now, the turbie towel itself is not new. As I said, I’ve had it going on for a year or so. Slightly newer, acquired over the summer, is the dark blue do-rag I picked up at the dollar store. I meant to use it for sleep, and it works on approximately the same principle: Gatherplop the hairs into the pocket, tuck it in around, tie it down, and go to be knowing that my restless ass can toss and turn and my hair isn’t turning into a felted mat rubbing against my pillow.

One morning a couple weeks ago I was getting ready to go meet a new friend for coffee, and I didn’t have the turbie towel on hand because I’d thrown it in the wash. ALAS! So when I got out of the shower I gently squeezed the water out of my hair with my hands and then put the do-rag on, and went about the rest of my readiness routine. I took it off right before I left, and turned up the air in the car to let it finish my hair drying as much as possible.

Holy crap, but my hair looked good. Dark and shiny and curly. It’s what I dream of my hair always looking like, and I had to point out to my coffee companion that my hair never looks that good and to not get too used to it. (They have seen several selfies of it since, so they have realistic expectations with regard to my hair.)

So this brings us to today - when I am wearing both. I put the do-rag on first, because it has even less texture than the turbie, and therefore is even less likely to frizzify my curls. The turbie is on over it to catch and collect the moisture slowly coming out of the hair.

I will have to do a secondary selfie later, to see how it turns out. Because the only difference between fucking around and science is writing shit down. #HAIRSCIENCE!
 

 

In non-hair news, my car goes into the shop today. I am hoping for the best (a quick and easy fix) but planning for the worst (it has to stay there for the weekend which would mean borrowing Secret Agent Lover Man’s car to shuttle Eldest Spawn to his father’s and also to get to work tomorrow). In the meanwhile, since Bosslady gets me, I am having the car place shuttle take me in to work even though I am not on the schedule. Spending the middle of the day working and earning monies and being with people whose company I enjoy hella beats sitting around in the car place waiting room trying desperately to ignore the TV that is playing morning daytime talk show stuff.

I feel like I was going to write more but my brain has TL;DR’d out. Time for coffee and catching up on other folks’ posts!

Hello, Blisstopia.<3

Comments

[phantastically]

As an enormous fan of full dark curls I approve of whatever the hell you're doing.

Happy Friday!

[blissmorgan]

Experimenting and squooshing conditioner onto it regularly, basically. Happy Sunday!

[salobu]

Good luck with the vehicle. They’re great when they’re working and oh so not great when they’re not. Hoping for a quick and inexpensive fix for you.

Also, your hair is awesome. Hope you have a good day!

[blissmorgan]

I am definitely teetering on the edge of How Much Money Do I Put Into It versus letting it go toward something new.

[fractalfrog]

Hello! I hope car stuff goes as smoothly as possible! I'm looking forward to hearing about the hair later!

I had my first high school "drop forgotten thing off at the office" just now. I have Thoughts about how to avoid the forgetting of this particular thing in the future.

[blissmorgan]

I never did get around to posting a picture of the hair later that day, but it didn't come out as well as I'd hoped anyhow.

There has been no Forgetting Of Things since I made my cranky post about it those several weeks ago, except for Middlest forgetting her lunch once or twice, but that's what school lunch accounts are for.

[fractalfrog]

School lunch accounts rock.

[blissmorgan]

They super duper do!

[littleweeds]

I really pay attention to your hair updates because my daughter has hair a lot like yours. Mine is pin straight so it's been quite the learning curve.

[blissmorgan]

I am glad that they are useful and interesting for someone other than me! I have been doing a lot of learning about the care and keeping of curly hairs, not only for myself but for Middlest, whose bio mom was black and native american, and so Middlest's hair very much takes after hers and needs different care than what I had when I was a kiddo.

[wa_bob]

Good afternoon now. Hair is a funny thing. I strive to keep mine short so I have to do nothing with it in the morning. However, someone I used to live with had very curly hair and she had the same struggles as you. Mine was gently curly many years ago when I kept it longish, but I have no idea if it still would be.

There's a difference between narcissistic and caring about one's appearance. You are not narcissistic and your care about appearance is a positive thing IMHO. It also is a pleasure to see so there's that too. 😎

Feeling kind of better today and it will be a slow weekend so I can maintain that positive upswing. Appendages crossed for easy and inexpensive car fix and a good weekend ahead!

[blissmorgan]

I hope that your weekend has been swinging as upward as expected! I am now sitting here trying to imagine you with long and gently curly hair. How long did you have it, when it was long?

[wa_bob]

Many moons ago in college is was down almost to my shoulders. Which, in the late 80's, was kind of in touch with the hair metal fashion of the day so I looked more like a metal head than a hippy.....

Somewhere I have a picture of it not quite as long, but it's a real photo and will take time to locate. It's not my full glory, but I have a picture of me on that other social network with much longer hair from that era. I will mention you in the comments for that picture so you can locate it if you get a chance.

[blissmorgan]

I saw it, and it's great! Long hair FTW.

[johncomic]

hair adventure yay!

[blissmorgan]

Yay!

[brianhawthorne]

Nothing wrong with aesthetic self-involvement (says the man who spends 15 minutes a day shaving because he got tired of how his full beard looked and switched to a modified Van Dyke, even though it means much more time). But I would never call your posts “vapid”!

[blissmorgan]

I'm glad that "vapid" is not what comes across in my postings, for sure.

As a beard-having dude, since you've had it multiple ways, what do you do for it aside from shaving it to the shape you want? Do you shampoo and condition a beard in the shower? Do you apply beard oil?