Hair Styles I Wore in Jamaica

Curly style for wedding (more pictures to come)

Vacations are often a challenging time for hair styles. Even with limited styling tools and resources, your styles don't have to be limited also. While in Jamaica, I wore a variety of styles based on the day's plan and the weather. 

When it was extremely hot (as opposed to the usual very hot), I wore a ponytail. For a wedding I wore a curly style. I will do a featured post on how I achieved my curly style shortly.
More pictures below.

Hair SOS: Mommy Edition

Satin covered roller with my mom's hair

My mom's hair has been on a whirlwind journey the past couple of years. It went from being very thick and long to short and thin because of hormonal changes due to menopause (she doesn't mind me sharing that). It is amazing just how much your hormones affect your hair. Now that her hormones are balanced again, her hair has made a complete turn around for the better. She cut her hair to shoulder length and has a low manipulation regimen, which works for her.

A few months ago, she told me that her ends were getting thinner. She suspected that because her hair was getting longer, her ends would naturally get thinner. I disagreed with her rationale and suggested that something she was doing was causing her ends to thin. I talked about that in my thread here. While in Jamaica, I assessed her ends and noticed a slight thinness. Then I looked at the products she used. Lo and behold, I found the culprit.

Family Features: Healthy Relaxed Hair

My aunt has one of the thickest heads of hair I have ever seen.  She is Type 4 and relaxes her hair. Her hair is mostly thick/coarse type 4, except for her nape which has silky/fine strands. I should have taken a picture of the edges, because it shows that hair type is not always the same all over your head.

Her ends make me want to reach for the scissors and cut 5" LOL.

(ETA: I meant that her ends make me want to cut my hair..sorry for the confusion).