Hair pins

I blogged about the hair pins that my sister got me in my CA Vacation Recap post and Mylene asked for pictures :) pero syempre, here's a short background muna:

I was attending a wedding and wanted to do something with my hair. I decided to grow my hair out months and months ago because I originally wanted curls.

I got myself a 1 inch styling / curling iron one time and scoured YouTube for how-to videos. I started experimenting on my own hair afterwards but found it difficult to get the look that I wanted. I wanted sexy hair but it wasn't easy. Even after numerous tries, it was still hit or miss with me, sometimes I'd get nice curls, sometimes naman gulo gulo, as if I went through an air tunnel or something.

One day, I was going through You-Tube again and looking for how-to-fix-your-hair videos and came across a series of films on hair sticks.

I wanted to get something like this (see picture on left, that's a geisha stick from LongLocks.com). The videos make it seem easy but I didn't want to spend for something that I wasn't sure about.

I decided to skip the online purchase and would just keep my eyes open for any stores that might sell them. Basta I didn't want to spend extra on something that I wouldn't be happy with anyway.

A few days into my vacation, my family and I went malling and came across this stall being manned by 2 pretty Korean ladies. They sell all sorts of wigs, hair extensions, pins and other accessories. Everything was so pretty! Their display on hair extensions caught my mom's eye so she dragged us over there to look.

I was checking out their wares when this lady came up to me, unpinned my hair and decided to put my hair up in an up-do. I started to protest, but she didn't mind me. I remember hearing her mutter "wow, you've got a lot of hair" but she kept twisting and twisting my hair anyway.

Then, she pulled out these pins, I didn't know what they were at first. They reminded me of the old-style bobbie pins that my mom / aunts used to pin up their hair when they were in their teens (think beehive hair).

Basically, the lady pulled my hair into a ponytail and started twisting. She kept twisting and twisting and then when she got to the end, she folded my hair in half and tucked the bottom portion behind the upper half, pinned my hair and it looked a little something like this:

Of course, the whole look could've been cleaner if I had tucked in the loose strands or sprayed something to set it... but this is how it came out.

I used 3 pins in the picture. Sis actually bought 5 pins for me, so when I attended the wedding, I had 5 flowers in a line that started from the top of my french twist down to the bottom - very very secure.

Note ah, the wedding was outdoors and near the beach so there were strong winds.

Practice lang and watch the videos :)