whip my hair back and forth

Spent the last two hours trying to find new and interesting things to do with my hair. It's bust-length, and in the summer it's got thick wavy curls - at least it does here in humid Indiana - so I can slam it up however I want and it generally looks pretty fab. But in winter it gets frizzy and tangly and glommy and gnarly. If it was like my mother's and just went bone-straight and slightly staticky that would be one thing, but it turns into this matting clump of frizzing ungood.

I've been trying to work against that, and going for heavily pinned and braided styles, but tbh I don't like how my face looks with my hair flat. I like having round voluminousness up-top to match the roundness of my facial shape - to make a virtue out of necessity, as it were. So tonight I decided to go with the frizzy/mattiness and learn how to do a Gibson Girl. I'm not willing to actually, intentionally mat my hair, so my volume is slightly less than it could be, but overall the look's pretty badass. And would be easier if I had better hairpins - bobby pins are too high-hold, I think. I need to get some more big two-prong pins - one of those, if it's got wavy prongs, is enough to hold up almost all my hair, and they're a lot easier to work with.

I like doing hair - I grew up in a household with three long-haired women, once we were teens and mama would let us grow ours out, and we spent a lot of family time curling or braiding or twisting. Maybe that's why I write about it all the time. Out of the 51 stories I have up on the AO3, 12 feature hair in a non-incidental capacity; three years ago I centered my whole yuletide story about hairstyling. Everyone in my stories is either putting up or unpinning or braiding or cutting their hair. It's a thing.