Well, I've been especially drawn to the idea of upcycling or repurposing old things to make something useful, fun, and new. My latest target has been repurposing old t-shirts using online tutorials to make all kinds of cool things. On Sunday I decieved my brother-in-law, Justin, into giving me one of his old t-shirts. I'm pretty sure he thought I wanted it because my t-shirts are not very accomodating of my ever-growing belly. Nope. I wanted to cut it up, rip it into pieces, stretch it out and make this....
Pretty cute, right? And totally FREEEE! :) I still had a bunch of t-shirt material left over, so yesterday I made this...
Still having even MORE material left over from the headband project, I came up with a BRILLIANT idea late last night. I mean, we're talkin' after midnight here. That should have been my first clue. I had heard the term "rag rollers" before and sort of thought I got the idea. Maybe I should have looked it up online to see if there's some sort of trick to it...but I didn't. So after I got out of the shower, I started cutting up strips of the t-shirt...rolling my hair around it...and tying it off. When I was done, it looked like this...
I slept on it all night long. It wasn't too comfortable, but I think it was better than foam rollers. I almost couldn't get to sleep because I was so excited to see how my curls would turn out! (I've ALWAYS wanted legit curly hair.) I was convinced that I had figured out a cheap, easy way for me to get beautiful curls whenever I wanted without having to use a curling iron. It didn't exactly work out as I'd imagined...
I thought maybe I could fix it by shaking out the curls a little bit. I was wrong...
After several more attempts to tame the beast, I finally decided to embrace the mess...
I was alone in the house, laughing hysterically at myself. I can't decide if I wish someone would have been here to share the hilarity or if I'm glad no one had to witness this tragedy in person. With the help of some mousse and a little time for the curls to settle a bit, I was finally able to look like a normal person again...
They are pretty goofy, skeewompus curls, but at least they are curls!!! I may need to practice a bit more with this rag roller thing. Or maybe I should just stay away. Far away.
3 comments:
Tessa - I laughed so hard! I'm with ya - I'll try anything to get some easy, legit curls. So way to try it out! And go you for the DIY projects. I got that urge too and it was so fun!
I've tried curling with t-shirts before! My hair was longer and doesn't like to hold curl at all so mine actually came out pretty tame.
Tessa - my mom used to put my hair in rags as a kid and my hair looked just like that, every time! I'm not sure why I let her do regularly... haha! Love the shirt repurposing by the way!
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