Witty Ginger

Well, If ya'll saw my last post, you know i have naturally wavy red hair. If you didn't read that one, well now you know. For about a month, I have been doing extreme research on at home perms because I wanted to perm my hair. I can hear everyone yelling at me now as you read this, "OMG, you should never perm at home!" The amount of research I did on products, rolling my hair, how to care for it, and everything else did not at all prepare me for the catastrophe that occurred Now adding on to a little of my hair background, my hair is extremely hard to change because red hair's ph levels make it harder to take products. Don't believe me? For my blonde hair (also a problem caused by my attempt to lighten my hair and ending with orange and blonde hair) It took 3 hours, on top of the hour i did to lighten my hair, for the stylist to correct my mistake and make my hair that lovely shade of blonde down there. Even after she did it she was amazed that my hair was practically not damaged a bit by all bleach in my hair.
On to the perm process... I bought all the correct items and had everything planned out. I used 5/8th of an inch rods because I knew I wanted my curls bigger rather than super tight -- just enhance the ones I already had you know? What I didn't know was how hard it was going to be to wrap my hair. For those of you who don't know, you must place paper sheets on the ends of the hair so that the ends do not become frazzled or more broken. Then you wrap the hair around the rod. Your hair must be split into 9 sections. Rolling my hair was the hardest but after I got the hang of it, easy peasy right? WRONG. Now I had even watched a lecture at a salon school, teaching how to perm on a doll head. I did all the steps and when  unwrapped and rinsed my hair I was pumped. It was curly and I was excited to see what it would look like. Needless to say, by the time it air dried, my hair was a dry, damaged mess. The perm solution stripped off the dye that was hiding my blonde hair, so half of my hair is my natural color and the other half is an orangish blondish tint. Thank god the ombre look is-- there is no way I am adding any more chemicals to this mess. My hair is now a fuzzy, lioness mess meaning the next month is going to be full of biotin and deep conditioning masks.
On to the pictures of my very angry hair...

Picture 1 is obviously what  I used. 2 is while the solution was on my hair. 3. was after my hair dried how much hair fell out of my head! AWFUL! and The final is after I immediately washed out the perm solution, deep conditioned it, and let it air dry. My hair is a complete mess! I had no idea what to do so I searched for natural remedies and this is what I have come up with...

I read a lot of places that vitamin A, B-complex, and E will help your hair grow, repair it, and keep it in good condition. (even if it doesn't I highly doubt I'm getting enough of these vitamins on a daily basis anyways so it can't hurt to try) On top of that I have coconut oil and Moroccan oil to put in my hair as well.

Once I felt like (only a week) that wasn't working fast enough for me, I had to get the dead ends cut off... which unfortunately was way too much but had to be done in order to get my hair back into good condition so here is my hair now.

  Obviously not super short, however my hair is my security blanket so I'm not in the process of growing it back nice and healthy.  Note to self: Never self-perm again... hair fail ): XO - Stacey