Ringlet Bombshell: TWA

Sunday, August 21, 2011

TWA : Mock bun (Hair Style)

TWAs endure an endless battle of fighting boredom. Waiting for your hair to grow is literally like watching paint dry. Lets delegate a certain group to handle that task, in the meantime we can reinvent the TWA. For those who are not familiar with TWA, no it's not airline related. TWA stand for Teeny Weeny Afro. After a while of embracing this young crop of hair things tend to get a little redundant, So here is my new way of putting some pizazz back into the Teeny Weeny Afro.

Purchased them from the dollar store

Things you'll need:
Decorative flowers
Hair pins
No pull elastics
Water
Gel
Hair oil (optional)

You'll find flowers in hair stores and arts and craft shops

First thing I did was wet my hair then used Eco Styler gel. After styling to desired curl I sectioned off the back of my hair into three puffs using my no pull elastic bands. Pull the puffs as high as you comfortable can. Try using a twisting method if all your curls don't want to fit in.

Now take one decorative flower pining it securely to one of your puffs. Anchor each flower with hair pin using puff as a foundation.
Get creative I styled mine in a circular motion to give off the effect of a bun. The second time I imitated a crown effect. The more flowers the better. You can pin them all over the back of your hair even some on one side.
Use small or big flowers, whatever comes together. Bigger flowers for a bold presence and smaller ones for a romantic feel. I like to put a part in my TWA for a more defined stylish appeal.

Tips:

You can achieve the crown effect by pining flowers high in arch movement stopping at each ear.
Rubbing hair with hair oil while wet will give your curls a gloss when dried.

Play with color, fabric, and texture

Have fun looking good!
Blessings, Natural Bombshell

Thursday, August 18, 2011

A Ringlet Butterfly

Hello all welcome to my Blog. I'm on my Bombshell kick. The name was referenced to me by my Cousin who is a natural bombshell herself. Never mind the fact that she has home grown silky hair.Natural is natural and I learned that you have to love and work with what you've got. Time had erased my memory of exactly what I have naturally but it wasn't this.

(Love this pic by the way.)

I went natural before this for two years! Even though its a distant memory, I loved the progress of my beautiful thick hair and I promised reverting back to the creamy crack had nothing to do with the pressure to be straight. The culprit was my naps! The dreaded word naps. Nobody wants to be called a nappy headed anything. Right, Don Imus?

So, we go extreme to prove were not so nappy

Full Weave

Sometimes it works for us. Sometimes it doesn't.

What in the world...?

Yes, my naps were friend and foe. How could something so beautiful seem so evil?
I hide my naps under wigs and weaves because I was lost. I battled dryness, breakage, and just plain ole bird in the bush. That's when you find things in your fro which shouldn't be there and you have no idea how they wound up tangled in your tresses. So eventually I said F#*k that and reached for the creamy crack.

I was in heaven :-) ..... until forgotten demons reappeared. Split ends, two textures, and Kyrptonite... I mean water. I figured out my naps weren't evil but I was evil to my naps.

Now I'm older and more educated on my naturalness I can rock my naptural hair with pride and health. Water is my best friend and the bird in the bush stays outside my window as I rock a sheik flower in my fro,

Thanks to Natural Chica and Naptural85 (just a couple of the other Ringlet Bombshells) I can be that Natural Ringlet Bombshell I'm intended to and oh so happy being.