A friend took these to try out her new camera.

I can't believe how my hair is growing!

No rollers or curling irons. Just a decorative comb and a cowrie shell on the left side; and one of HerbalMomma's handmade hair ornaments on the right. You can barely see the ornament.  It's a small one and it's hanging right on top of the arm of my glasses. The little shell kept clicking against my glasses and driving me crazy, so I finally took that one out. In the future I'll remember not to place hair ornaments there.:-)
 

Not bad! 
I could do without the extra chin, though.

Oops! My tattoo is showing!

This is me right after washing my hair.  I just towel-dried it (by wrapping the towel around my head and squeezing a bit... not rubbing) and took out the braids and bands.  Then I ran my fingers through it. When I looked in the mirror I thought maybe you'd like to see what it looks like dripping wet. The really great thing is that the wet hair looks no different than it does when it's dry. I can style my hair wet like this and go!  5 minutes tops! No waiting for it to dry, or waiting for curls to set, or any of that madness. 

Even though I'll be glad when the permed ends get whacked, I love the way they curl up all by themselves in the back. I thought they would be all straight and ugly, but the little curlyQs on the ends seem to fit, don't they? I never have to do anything to them to make them curl up like that. They just seem to know that I don't want straight hair anymore. :-)

I have one renegade lock on top, though, and the permed end on that one just sticks straight out all the time. Thankfully I found a natural pomade from Carol's Daughter that makes my crazy lock lay down and stay down, but I sure wish that lock would curl up like the hair in the back!