My first completed knitting project.

[simonejester]

Yes, I used a Knifty Knitter. I make no apologies or excuses, and it's easier, and I don't know how to do round yarn work except for crochet. Anyhow, today is Chris's birthday...is this masculine enough for this to be a present? I don't have a clue what I should have gotten him but we're too broke for me to get the new kind of XBOX 360 and I'm not good at guessing which game he'd want. D:


P.S. Eurynome, this is some of the yarn you sent, and I love it! I'm making a matching scarf now and I might even be able to make a set for myself. XD

Comments

[simonejester]

Very true, very true. I have straight blonde hair and I've tried perming it and dyeing it red. Fizzy's stepmom has curly red hair and is constantly bleaching and straightening it. Too bad we can't just trade. :P

[jackandahat]

Heh, yeah - my mother was in denial she had curly hair, and bleached the life out of it - literally, it was just fried dead. Whereas my grandmother, who had identical hair, just bought different combs and lived with it.

[simonejester]

My mom has straight red hair, but it's more the orange-y redhead look. I can pull that off since she does it naturally, though I prefer the richer, more obviously fake reds. :P

At this point, though, I'm happy with my blonde, and the henna I got to color my hair doesn't seem to have an expiration date so luckily that can wait. :)

[jackandahat]

I think straight hair can look great, or bleached, but this was more like her hair had done her a personal wrong and she was going to punish it. *shakes head*

Oooo, henna! Nice.

[simonejester]

Ya. I don't know why people overtreat the crap out of their hair. I wait a long time between coloring or curling, mostly because I'm poor broke, but it's also helped me avoid frying my hair in a similar way.

I like the henna. I haven't used it, but it's this good organic stuff from mehandi.net (who also makes great shampoo bars and soaps and stuff), and I got cardamon too so once I do get the color done my hair will smell spicy and not the not-as-nice smell that straight-up henna apparently has. (I did henna on my hand with my friend Sukhpreet while she was doing her own for a Sikh ritual, something about the first anniversary, she also fasted for her husband's health and her husband, who's American raised, did the same for her which I think was way cool of him and oh look I'm rambling. :P)