New month, new challenge...style #1

Every new month brings about the opportunity to make a new challenge. In my opinion a challenge constitutes of doing something that is ACTUALLY challenging. For this month, I plan to figure out 20 protective hairstyles. Up to this point in my natural hair journey my hair has been particularly short, and it was difficult to find styles that protected my ends. So I really have been wearing my hair out and down....

Take Saturday for example,

I loved my hair, it was large (for its length) but the ends were bullied around by the wind. By Saturday night, my ends were dry and "frazzled" looking. :( So, I'm sad to say, I NEED protective styling. Hopefully I'll discover some that I can adapt to.







How I feel about protective styling is very simple. Its boring. The styles are usually pressed against your head and you cant really show off your dramatic hair the way you want to...

The pictures above are of my hair today. It WAS a braid out that I've been stretching. (it might be called the kimmaymethod?)

OH! and those goody clips are the truth. My hair is THICK and it clipped with no problem!

but, Here's to the first of my attempt at wearing my hair in protective styling 90% of the time. :/ I like the style I'm wearing today. It could be neater, but I'm still learning. :)

-CO <3