adieu box braids

Heya!

Yesterday I tried filling some gaps and practicing isolation and lash extension.

Honestly the application is not so bad, what is tough is isolation and mapping.

Like in all those videos they make it look so easy with upper lashes three rows and bottom lashes one...I am not sure if I have only 3 rows on top..it looks, like more? Also some lashes are too small to put something on, what do you do then, if right there you need another lash? My bottom lashes are 3 rows even...what the hell.

I was not being able to pick up the single lashes at all, probably because of my tweezers, they don't see suitable for doing this..the volume lash are the only thing that I could pick up lol

I tried at least doing the spikes but when wanting to glue another volume lash on the side, there was already a lash on or a y-lash for volume...it is so hard working on top of someone elses "design".

I tried doing the tape trick on the side and I am lucky I didn't do it all the way BECAUSE IT RIPPED MY LASHES OFF.

I found it so weird, sometimes you glue a lash to a tower and then it switches position and is laying somwhere completely different..

So yea, mapping seems the toughest part but maybe I just need to work on a blank canva.

I filled some of the gaps and just have some volume lashes hanging there now lmao.

I am gonna be honest, I am not a big fan of the volume...it is....too spiky.

So I will probably order other volume lashes.

Today I walked with the dog in the morning and promised my mum doing her nails after lunch. 

When my package arrived before she came upstairs.

Now looking at the pics I almost forgot about this.

I always wanted to try one...have you used this before? It feels...sharp, might ruin the skin or nah?

This book is so so so much better than these plastic rings that are annoying af, really.

Also you have alllll the colors in one go...

And the new hair I ordered:

yup...premade locs...I wanna put my hair into beads (or braid, if the hair is too thick for the bead) and then slip it through...no rubber bands...they suck, really.

I have no idea where my beads are, so just in case I ordered some..

You can't have enough...looking at the size of the ring, my hair should fit in..maybe..

Tada...my mum has the same nail color like me now lmao.

She wanted that color, it is from the lynis polishes, called seashell peach or smth.

I painted it over her pink born pretty rubber gel layer.

This is the only kind of manicure my mum likes...it is flexible enough to not hurt her and stable enough to not break...and she can keep her own nails.

And yes, after 3 weeks I say goodbye now

R.I.P braids...I almost cried taking them off..

I loved them more than I thought I would.

It took me like and hour, or an hour and a half I guess to take it all out..

We ate some honey melons for dinner and then I started brushing through.

I first thought...wow, there is almost no hair that fell out at all...hmm strange...and then after the combing...oh lord.

R.I.P comb...it didn't make it.

I brushed carefully through it, so it had been broken before but still it is an hilarious picture.

Luckily that nail shop with the lamp sent that comb as a gift...I then still had one lol.

1/4th of my hair got out lmaoo...

At first I thought, wow that's a lot.

But then I was thinking of all the hair that would clog the drain in the shower, in the sink...all the hair that would be in my brush, on the floor, on my pillow...

These 3 weeks my floor was almost so clean...it's crazy what a couple hair can do haha..

So then after giving it a thought, that amount for 3 weeks is totally acceptable..

plus, it is super fluffy now after being all curled up...probably just looks that thick.

It was so much fun combing it all out.

I then went into the shower and oh boy...my hair is so so so silky now.

Like DAMN...protection hairstyle? damn right.

I was too lazy now to take a picture but after drying my hair usually looks very similiar to the pic above but now IT IS STRAIGHT.

It is super smooth...only the tips that are damaged from the bleach etc. still look fried obviously but the top of my head is sooo smooth.

I am really glad I pulled throught these 3 weeks.

I am excited to try the locs...they are much softer than the braids too.

I am curious how they will look on me but at the same time, I needed some time adjusting to the braids as well, so just giving it a go.

My scalp feels relieved from the tension, so depending on how it will feel after tomorrow morning, I might wait another day or straight put the locs in..

I will do the boxes a bit different this time...maybe it was impatience but at the top of my head they were just too damn big compared to the rest.

Also some were too wide, I tried doing like the cross kind of thing but apparently forgot, that it still had to look like a box, not a rectangle.

Will head to bed now..C-Ya.

xoxo rinmero