Today has been a pretty good day
Oct. 18th, 2014 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotRealized while working on a mourning post that it will coincide pretty closely to Halloween and Death Becomes Her, excellent.
I haven't been using anything in my hair except water and a hairbrush, hoping that it would transition and suddenly be wonderful. Well, I don't know if it will suddenly be awesome or if I'll just get used to dealing with it in a different way, but I started looking into the latter because the former seems unlikely. I found suggestions for using corn starch (I don't want to use actual dry shampoo as part of the reason I stopped using regular shampoo is that I wanted to be ~all-natural~ and everything), mixed with cocoa powder to make it darker for darker hair, and tried it out - and it works really well! Except that it's "darker" in that it's no longer white, while my hair is "darker" in that it's a very dark brown, so I still have to use less than I actually used while trying it out. But now Mom will have to stop going on at me about how greasy my hair is and wouldn't I like to wash it?
After lunch I went to a yard sale just outside the village that turned out to be run by an acquaintance, and I bought an old salt shaker to keep my cocoa/corn starch in and make it easier to get a light dusting on my hair, plus computer speakers because Mom's are so terrible. These were both very very cheap, but then I agonized over this antique electric sewing machine that just looked so functional, and it was $25 ... I felt like an ass because I've been whining so much about being poor lately, but I went for it, and when I got home I confirmed that it works well (although I don't know how to use it fully atm, and I can't get it not to pucker the fabric). Then I went online to look up more about it, and found that it's a 1941 Singer 66 (or 99? conflicting information) with a crinkle finish, which is pretty rare. I just thought it was ugly! So I'm going to try to resell it for a profit, and wait until I'm in my own place to buy the same machine as my grandmother has.
I haven't been using anything in my hair except water and a hairbrush, hoping that it would transition and suddenly be wonderful. Well, I don't know if it will suddenly be awesome or if I'll just get used to dealing with it in a different way, but I started looking into the latter because the former seems unlikely. I found suggestions for using corn starch (I don't want to use actual dry shampoo as part of the reason I stopped using regular shampoo is that I wanted to be ~all-natural~ and everything), mixed with cocoa powder to make it darker for darker hair, and tried it out - and it works really well! Except that it's "darker" in that it's no longer white, while my hair is "darker" in that it's a very dark brown, so I still have to use less than I actually used while trying it out. But now Mom will have to stop going on at me about how greasy my hair is and wouldn't I like to wash it?
After lunch I went to a yard sale just outside the village that turned out to be run by an acquaintance, and I bought an old salt shaker to keep my cocoa/corn starch in and make it easier to get a light dusting on my hair, plus computer speakers because Mom's are so terrible. These were both very very cheap, but then I agonized over this antique electric sewing machine that just looked so functional, and it was $25 ... I felt like an ass because I've been whining so much about being poor lately, but I went for it, and when I got home I confirmed that it works well (although I don't know how to use it fully atm, and I can't get it not to pucker the fabric). Then I went online to look up more about it, and found that it's a 1941 Singer 66 (or 99? conflicting information) with a crinkle finish, which is pretty rare. I just thought it was ugly! So I'm going to try to resell it for a profit, and wait until I'm in my own place to buy the same machine as my grandmother has.
