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Hello.
I am just entering the awkward stage... or at least I am if you consider the hair starting to get into your eyes entering the awkward stage.
Anyways, I would like some opinions as to what you guys did during this period.
The "awkward stage" seems to be a verry long period.
Anyways, currently, I am just getting in the shower, letting the watter push all my hair straight back, and just letting it dry like that.
http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/rr211/Zenjamin/Photo9-1.jpg (about a month agao)
http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/rr211/Zenjamin/Photo22.jpg (current)
So far, so good. My hair is pretty thick, so no problems yet.... But can I keep this up?
Can I just keep on doing this till I can put it in a ponytail?
PS: My fiance said that she would love to braid my hair into a single braid in the back. And I at least love the look when I see in in the local natives (Navajoes).
But how long would it take to braid? How long would it take to unbraid? (midback)
Enjoy that while it lasts. Unfortunately, if your hair is thick, getting it to stay back just from the way it dries after washing probably won't last long, and unless your hair is much better behaved than mine, will quit doing that well before you can reliably tie it back.
Do you mean how long til you can braid it? Or how long to actually make or undo the braid? For the first question, if your hair is just now getting into your eyes, probably a year or more til you have enough to do a decent single braid with. For the latter question, putting your hair into a braid only takes a few minutes, especially if someone else is doing it for you. Taking it out of the braid also takes just a few minutes.
I would have loved to have been able to survive on just water to hold my hair back when it was growing out. Sadly, after a couple hours after the shower, it would fall apart and I was back to its messy self.
One of the tricks I found, though, was one of my female friends bought me a box of hairpins: small, black and very discreet. And until my hair was long enough to tuck behind my ears, I would pin it in place, so it appeared to be tucked. That kept me going for a couple months until what i considered the end of my awkwardness.
They do call it the awkward stage for a reason!
I slicked back during awkward. Nothing fancy. "CVS Styling Gel". CVS is a chain of drug stores (are they still in business?). I only slicked it back when I really cared about how I looked or wanted to work without brushing it aside too often. One bottle of the gel was enough to get me through awkward to ponytail.
Yep, they're still around. How did that stuff do on the "wet-look/greasy/sticky/stiff-looking" scale?
I can't really compare it against anything. The stuff did it's job. let's put it this way. If you didn't want somebody to know that you were using product, this was not the stuff to use.