Graduation Hair

Good morning ladies.

Were any of you chicas natural when you graduated from college (or high school)? I am having the hardest time trying to figure out what to do for my hair and graduation is next week. Eeeek!!! I was thinking the style in my avatar but that would require pins for my cap---tried it on and it was cute!!--- and I can rarely imitate a perfected hairstyle like that lol it came out a little different the second time I did it so I'm scared to even go there!

I recently straightened my hair (for my ends and a length check) and tried my cap on with that. O....m....g. Horrendous! College grad caps seem to be smaller or something b/c I didnt go through that for h.s lol Even if my aunt hooked me up with a bomb, sleek straightening I still dunno how thats gonna look (my version is just about hits-ville right now, my edges are frizzy after 1 week).

Any style suggestions? I really don't wanna straighten and its no telling how my hair will look if I do my rod set or even if I go to my natural salon (cough---too much $$$$ for a straw-set!!!)

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P.S guess who's pic showed up in the google images search of college graduation hairstyles for natural hair lol......Curly Nikki of course!!! yay!!!

Regardless of the ocassion, if anyone knows of any prettiful natural hairstyles that are sure to fit/look good under a graduation cap feel free to include your input!!

I'm in the same boat. Those caps are discriminatory!

LOL, I wasn't a natural when I graduated. So i'm not help. The picture in your avatar like you said is REALLY cute. Good luck and CONGRATS!

I was so confused when I was in this situation (2004) and one piece of advice I have is if you have an outdoor graduation like we did, don't straighten your hair. I looked like boo the fool for 90% of the day because my hair puffed up and I was mad because rain was not predicted in the forecast.

If I had to do it all over again and would do a super defined twist out.

I'm pretty sure that's the route I'm going-- twistout

Erica5417 wrote:I'm in the same boat. Those caps are discriminatory!

Omg! Yes they are!! lol I was looking at my cousins' grad pics and their caps looked even smaller like they're meant to just sit on the back of our heads or something

opheiliamath wrote:LOL, I wasn't a natural when I graduated. So i'm not help. The picture in your avatar like you said is REALLY cute. Good luck and CONGRATS!

Thank you!!! I think this style will be my default if i can't figure out anything else

tiashauntee wrote:I was so confused when I was in this situation (2004) and one piece of advice I have is if you have an outdoor graduation like we did, don't straighten your hair. I looked like boo the fool for 90% of the day because my hair puffed up and I was mad because rain was not predicted in the forecast.

If I had to do it all over again and would do a super defined twist out.

Lol Thats why I don't want to straighten it; usually our school had it outdoors, now its supposed to be indoors but who knows--they might decide to spring a surprise and change it lol. It would really be tragic if I had a press and it frizzed up b/c they're doing close-ups on the dvd as we're being called [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

I want a straw set with strawllers lol but idk--dont really wanna spend an extra limb for express shipping.....

I love your hair in your avi!

I think Strawllers would be pretty cute, I recommended them in Erica's thread. I like Erica's idea of the twists then twist out though.

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Currently doing a Strawllers giveaway: http://beadsbraidsbeyond.blogspot.com/2010/04/strawllers-giveaway.html

And you can see the full review here: http://beadsbraidsbeyond.blogspot.com/2010/04/review-strawllers.html

I just saw you mention Strawllers. Did you check out their store locator? They might sell them in your area, I don't remember but I know they sold them in NY.

Also, you can try regular straws. Now I would imagine it would be different since regular straws are not hard so don't give you much hold but you should be able to get similar results. I would hit up Mickey D's, then in the future maybe you can invest in some Strawllers. Also, I believe a store near me sells flexi-rods that are about the same size as Strawllers, I think they were yellow, so maybe you can look out for that.

I'm sure whatever you do you will look great! GL & congrats!

NikG20 wrote:I love your hair in your avi!

I think Strawllers would be pretty cute, I recommended them in Erica's thread. I like Erica's idea of the twists then twist out though.

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Thanks Nik! I hope I can keeping getting those same results or even make it better lol; Your daughter's hair is beautiful!!

NikG20 wrote:I just saw you mention Strawllers. Did you check out their store locator? They might sell them in your area, I don't remember but I know they sold them in NY.

Also, you can try regular straws. Now I would imagine it would be different since regular straws are not hard so don't give you much hold but you should be able to get similar results. I would hit up Mickey D's, then in the future maybe you can invest in some Strawllers. Also, I believe a store near me sells flexi-rods that are about the same size as Strawllers, I think they were yellow, so maybe you can look out for that.

I'm sure whatever you do you will look great! GL & congrats!

Yea, Strawllers may be in my future at some point lol Seeing those before and afters on the site and the pics of A's hair, omg! I want strawllers!! lol Smaller flexi-rods will probably have to do it for now since there aren't any stores in MI that sell strawllers yet [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] .

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