Evolutions

This was taken on the way to work for the first time as me January 2015, I may not look it but I was  a nervous wreck and scared for what the future holds for me. Like all too many of us I seem to derive my self worth from my job not from within myself as i should, I guess now that I think about it maybe I need to work on that. I guess writing my thoughts down may have some benefit for me after all, who knew. I realized at this point I looked like a decent looking lady on the outside, I also knew that my soul was female but my internal perception was that I was still playing a role. I was dressing and talking even doing my makeup as I thought I should not so much as to reflect me. Hope that makes sense to you, it is a internal thing that we or I is what I should say want to express to the world and at this point I still wasn't "there".

February 2015

I'm a pretty down to earth kind of person and want my makeup and hair to reflect that, no flamboyance or anything that is over the top. So I continued to look for "my look" with some limited success but I just wasn't quite there yet. The hair in particular needs body desperately and that would be my next challenge finding a hair style that I could manage and that looked good on me as well.

March 2015

By March I think I had found a straight hairstyle that works It looks decent and has good volume and more importantly I felt like this was me! Finally I think it had begun to sink in that this was who I was and would be forever more and I loved her!

I think this is it, I've found my look! April 2015

Now that I had found a straight hair style that worked I couldn't be happy with the same hair every day my goodness no I had to find curls that I could do first thing in the morning without burning myself with a wand everyday as I am want to do. I tried "magnetic curlers" first with no success. Then I went with Conair foam rollers and they worked but the rollers were too small and they are hard to sleep in. I happened to be looking around our new Sally Beauty in Kill Devil Hills and heard the sales clerk talking about how great "snap and go curlers" are so I had to try them out. I mean they were only $13 so no biggie if they sucked. The good news is that they didn't suck at all, they gave me good curls with my first try and I can assure you I will only get better.

I love that creating these curls took no chemicals or heat, dampen hair and roll then go to bed and when you wake up you should have some super tight curls like I did. I actually had to dampen my hair and pull some of the curls out which only made things better as I like the unruly beach hair look.

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