Weddingbee Blog

My hair has always been the bane of my existence. It’s naturally super curly—like individual boingy ringlets curly. It’s also an unbearably frizzy mess if I don’t have a million and a half products in my hair at any given time. Needless to say, it is also a big pain in my butt. I kid you not, this girl has almost the exact hair texture that I have… curly sue on the loose! No joke. To add insult to injury, it also grows soooo freeeeakin slooooow.

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Of course it doesn’t help that I dye it, chemically straighten it, AND flat iron it.

In the last year alone, I’ve had a head full of blonde highlights, then I went red for a few months, and now I’m a warm brunette. I kid you not, I always get surprised by my natural hair color when my roots start showing. You heard me right, I seriously don’t remember my natural hair color. It’s some weird cool toned dark brown, almost black color. And if I haven’t tanned, it makes me look like a vampire… not the look I’m going for. *brief intermission for some photo hunting*

*voila! personal photo montage.*

From left to right: my natural color, my blonde phase, my red phase. I can’t find any photos of the new color, but since we’re sharing, it’s a little like this:

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Okay, okay, it’s exactly like that. It’s Loreal Feria in French Roast (number 45 if you’re nasty). There, now you know all my secrets.

Anywho, in an effort to grow out my hair, for the past 6 months I’ve been trying really hard to embrace the hair that nature gave me. Okay, let’s be real, maybe I’m not trying that hard—I still dye it and chemically straighten it religiously. Hair habits die hard. But I have been laying off of the heat styling and I try to deep condition on a regular basis and keep my hair curly for at least a few weeks at a time to give it a little r & r. Since I’ve been treating it better, it has been growing faster than usual, but not fast enough for this bride-to-be, oh no!

You see, I’ve had but one hair inspiration since this whole wedding planning shebang started. Maybe you’ve seen her? She’s half-up, half-down, long, wavy, luxurious, and she happens to live on the head of a woman who is married to one of the battiest men in Hollywood:

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She’s Katie Holmes’ ’do, pre-TomKat! Isn’t it gorgeous? The problem is, my hair, when straightened, is only about 3 or 4 inches past my shoulders. Of course, when you curl it it stops right around my shoulders. Uhm.. this is not meshing with my hair vision! This is where extensions enter the equation. I love extensions. I used to wear them to add a few inches when my hair was shorter and it looked totally natural. I’ve only ever tried the clip-ins because the thought of glue or fusion bonds on my hair freaks me out, and I don’t have the patience or pain tolerance to get them sewn in a la ANTM (have you seen the way those girls cry in pain?!), so I’ll be going the clip in route for the wedding also.

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This is the length I’ll be going for when it’s straight. I think it’ll turn out to be the perfect length once it’s curled. Audrina’s extensions look pretty believable in this photo, no?

Are you going to be going the extension route on your wedding day or are you keeping it au naturale? Ladies who have had extensions, do you prefer clip-ins, sew-in, glued, or fusion?