Random pics and thoughts

I feel like that pic makes me look so thin. :-)









My hair's lightened up some on the ends.







Tomoka's Twists. If you do a search you will find people that wear them much better than I do. I do love them. I've been telling myself I need to make another order, haven't bought any new ones in awhile.





My three year old daughter took this pic. She didn't do half bad. My personal photographer in the making.

One of my favorite locks.

Another one of my favorites. This one used to be two locks, and you can't tell anymore by looking, although I can tell by feel.

A lock that used to be two. I tried to knot it, don't really like how that part turned out.

A two-headed dragon -- one lock towards the root, two at the end.


Random thoughts:

RIP MJ. It's weird, because I only bought one of his albums (HIStory), and never saw him in concert, but I can't stop thinking about him now. I was so shocked when my husband told me he'd died. I thought he was joking.

No, I am not a Rasta. But "Rastafari!!!" and "Guidance" anyway.

Yes, I do my own hair. Thanks, but no thanks, I don't want to go to your recommended beautician. You do realize that came out like a diss, right?

Yes, I locked my hair without twisting it. Why is that so hard to believe?

Miss talking with you, girlie. Hope everything's going well for you. (Como me gusta your style -- "Little Freaky Girl", Concha Buika)



No hablo español con fluidez ahora, pero estoy mejorando cada día. Un día hablaré en forma fluida.

I really want more piercings. Trying to contain myself. Just an ear cartilage shouldn't be too bad, should it? That's pretty tame.

I'm so lazy, I really need to start cooking regularly. Junk food vegetarian is not healthy. And my body's feeling it.

I'm really just at peace with my hair. I'm comfortable with it. It doesn't stress me out. I like how it looks. I don't take too much time with it.

Small Youtube Video

I put a short youtube video up, basically because people on youtube were asking for it. :-)

Pics of my hair before the JHud Concert

I took a few pics of my hair before I went off to see Robin Thicke / Jennifer Hudson. It's a simple style. The concert was really good, it just didn't last nearly long enough.





Hmmm ... maybe I should have taken a full length shot. I did like my shirt.

This is not my hair

The title of this blog post is a play on The Treachery of Images, a series of paintings by René Magritte. One of the paintings he did in this series was of a pipe, with the caption "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (English translation: This is not a pipe). His whole point was that the painting is just a painting, however close to the actual object it may seem to be.

I gave that boring explanation to say this: This post was inspired by an online friend who I met for the first time (Hi Tam). We met, and one of the first things she said was something like "your hair looks so different in person." LOL. I agree. I don't know what she meant by her statement ("Angela, your hair is even more fabulous than I thought" or "Wow, your hair is interesting"). However I know things that I've noticed about my pics versus my hair in person. In pics, I don't think you can tell that my hair is really frizzy. You can't always tell that my locks are of several different sizes. You can't get a good sense of the texture, and you definitely can't get a sense of how dry (or not) it is, how healthy (or not) it is. I share my pictures and thoughts about my hair, and I'm happy other people are reading it and getting something from it (whether it's entertainment, knowledge, a different perspective, or whatever). However, I do forget to blog things, and I don't take perfect representative pictures, so this is not a complete representative of me or my hair. I've been wanting to say something like this for a while. :-)

(Eventually I'll style my hair again, and have more interesting pictures.)

A few close ups of my hair at a year and a half

My hair is frizzy. And me likey.

Look who's wearing a pony tail now

Finally! I can do a ponytail. A few pieces from the front were about an inch too short, and came out a time or two during the day, but I didn't care. I felt HOT today, LOL. It's funny how something so simple as a change of hairstyle can change a woman's mood. And it's not like it's a sexy hairstyle or anything, so I don't know why it made me feel like this. Oh, and I wore HEELS today (anybody that knows me well would be shocked at that).

Edited March 21: In the interest of full disclosure, and after a private message from a sweet lady on Napp.com

I did do the above ponytail when my hair was wet. My hair in the front doesn't quite reach, and the wet hair probably partially disguised that. Below is what my hair looks when I do a ponytail with dry hair (which is why a ponytail has not yet become a staple hairstyle, lol).