Hello, I'm the Impish to Grow Up, how are you? I'm trying to find and make some sense in this crazy world. Lockdown too, this time. We're doing it properly. Well, I'm doing it properly, but I did first time around. Anyhow, today's experiment. It's been a long time coming, but have you heard about this? Yes. Ooh. So scrunchies are kind of a big deal. They've been really hyped up on, um, campness like, zines and chairs as being like the thing you can do for your long hair to give it that extra TLC, you know, a silk scrunchy or a silk bonnet. Um, the science behind it, um, some people kind of, is excuse that scratching noise. Ah, um, the science behind it is that the silk of it is, um, considerably less tugging on hair than your average hairband. And, um, it helps protect your hair, um, not against, um, what, 20, 20 years, but it just helps to protect your hair. It helps to enhance the condition. There is less breaking, less pulling, uh, and thus enhances your hair. Now, quite frankly, I'm all in favor of enhancing my hair. Um, so I thought I'd take to the internet and do, um, you know, actually buy one because lockdown in Inglam means that we can't really buy scrunchies in person. So, there you go, I'm pounds for three though. That's from one of the leading companies of selling silk scrunchies. I'm not going to name them in person, but I'm sure if you Google silk scrunchies on Google, you will find what this particular company is. I also took to Etsy, but, um, yeah. So I thought we'd be a really good idea to make one. You don't need me to show you talk you through the actual process. I mean, I thought I'd go on to YouTube because, you know, YouTube, there's bound to be some kind of tutorial on how to make, um, silk scrunchies. But then I fell down a YouTube wormhole, rabbit hole kind of warren of. Hi guys, welcome to my tutorial. Welcome to my channel. Please subscribe that the links just there, um, to it's like this really cool and really cute thing. And first of all, you need like a pattern and then you need to like measure things out. And then always subscribe to my channel. Q ridiculously perky music. You need blue scissors, a sewing machine. No disrespect, but that's just really not the vibe that I was kind of feeling, you know, it's, it's not particularly difficult to do. Making one of these that is, oh, come on, you rid. Does the internet really need another kind of like quirky cut away of someone kind of talking through all the thrills and spills of like sewing a silk scrunchie, huh? No, it needs this bed up kind of like cut away, but I will show you like this is the silk. And it was kind of like wrapped around the elastic. And then it was sewn and sewn and sewn and sewn and sewn. And look, there are pins to hold it into place because I don't have a sewing machine. I can even like put my hand into it. It's, it's that oversized a silk scrunchie. Oh, careful with the pins though. Also, you're sped the whole kind of like see me trying to thread a needle over and over again when the thread came out, right? Yeah, no one needs that. Here's an artisan while I literally made earlier. Look, oh, silk. That's a hole. Hmm. That you kind of like put your hair in. I completed it on, well, that one as opposed to the one I'm making right now, on October the 11th. And I literally put it to the test for two weeks, which is like a good length of time as any to see how it works. Yeah. Instead of, I had to use a silk scrunchie. So I'm having a hard to break in that. Whenever I had to wash my face, sorry, double cleanse and do my regime because skincare geekery is real. This my own my wrist as opposed to like, in elastic, you know? Yes. Like every time I had to just have my hair off my face. Well, exciting, right? But now I did this for like two weeks. So just use that bad boy every time I had to wash my face. Wash myself. Do some cleaning. Okay, cleaning is in cleaning around the flat. Possibly happens a lot less than the times that I clean myself. I'm not going to lie. Again. And again. You get the idea right? I used it all the time. Even when I went to sleep. Supposingly comfy, it has to be said, for sleeping and for general kind of like. But what about the actual, did it make a difference? Gradually asked, I didn't feel so much of a tug on my hair when I used it for a start. And it was genuinely nice to use and have on my wrist when I wasn't using it. And that's my hair. Well, I didn't notice my hair growing any faster, but letting a hair gang, where are you? Lettings hair gang, where are you? Having slightly, well, I say slightly, well, not having Anglo-Irish hair, it means that yeah, my hair is kind of like thicker than the such. It means that when I wash my hair, it's quite the process and moment for all the half days that we've lost to washing our hair. I noticed less hair balls around the place when I was cleaning up, usually when you're latina or latinx. You just notice kind of like fat little tribbles in the corner. I mean, I saw hair, but a lot less of it. And when I wash my hair, there's usually, like quite the hair ball by the sink and in my hands after I've like washed it. But and I apologise if you're a little bit graced out, but you will want to skip this bit. I washed my hair twice and this is the size of the hair ball that I pulled like of all the hair, like twice. Not a hair ball, not that big. That's something. I also asked my hairdresser because if anyone's going to notice the difference in my hair, other than me, it's going to be him. This was pre-locked down too by the by. I went for a trim, one locked down need because yes. He said that my density and volume of hair had increased, it was in better condition. So yeah, I didn't notice it grow any longer, but I noticed I, you know, it felt as though I had more volume. I could go slightly longer between washing my hair. Generally, I like having clean hair though, so yeah. But still, would I recommend it? Yeah, I would. I wouldn't recommend paying £39 for three hair scrunchies unless you really, really have a Jonesing for it. It's not the most difficult thing in the world to make one if you are financially strapped and you have the resources to make. So yeah, would I recommend it? Yes. Is it worth a hype? Kind of. Also, you get out of the habit of just having hair bands, which can't be a bad thing. So yeah, I'd recommend it. Also, you appreciate your time, a heck of a lot more after you've spent four evenings in a row, so in one of these bad boys, artisan or not. So yeah, silk scrunchies, they're all that. Give it a go, they work. 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