Diary of a Braid Out: Styling, Struggles, and Surprises

It’s time to take these braids out. So time is 5:33. We’re working with two braids today, so I give myself five minutes to take these out. Had these braids in for a little bit over a week, so I’m excited to see how the braid out look. This honestly was the perfect hairstyle. I really didn’t want to wash my hair and style it anymore. I didn’t want to put any heat on it, which is funny enough, I did end up putting heat on it, because she puts it in these two braids. She blow dries it first, so heat was going on it, but not as much heat if I were to, like, straighten it. It’s been so easy to maintain, but with all the braids that I do, this is the one that I’m genuine. When we not doing a single thing to. It’s out of my face. I don’t have to tie it up. I don’t do anything with it. It’s perfect. Even though it was easy to maintain, doesn’t mean that it wasn’t painful, especially those first couple of days. It’s so tight. After a couple days of pain goes away. But then I just wanted to itch my head so bad, and I couldn’t do it. Okay, okay, it’s coming together. Okay, guys, wait. No. I hate this. This is not looking as good as my last braid out. And I’m kind of sad because I kind of took my hair out thinking That I’d be able to have it, like, out and, like, do errands. I have, like, a couple maintenance things that I wanna do today. Maybe I can put a hat on. This is, like, absolutely terrible and ugly. I’ll leave with a hat. I wanna get my hair straightened tomorrow because I’m going to New York on third Thursday. I originally was gonna do New York Fashion Week, and then when I realized I’m not prepared for that at all. I struggle with outfit on a day to day basis. I can’t imagine doing the whole entire run, but I’m going to, like, one or two events. Who knows? Maybe once I’m there in the city, once I feel the energy, maybe I wanna stay. Oh, my gosh. Oh, that feels great. There’s so much gel in my hair. It kind of feels really nasty. I’m not gonna lie. The braid out is not terrible. Like, I definitely think it was better last time. I definitely don’t think I’m gonna walk out like this, because I’m sure the back of my head looks crazy. I’m just gonna add a hat. Cute. Yes. For now, this is good enough. This was all the added hair, and that was 10 minutes. Wait, wait. No, I kind of like this. No, this is good. This is good. This is good. I just needed to see it from, like, a different angle. Like, I like this. She’s cute. She’s cute. As long as I keep The hat on like. It’ll be fine. Everything will be good.