Head wraps, aka how to wear your sleep bonnet in public without anyone knowing...

I snapped this pic right before taking it down for my bath, hence the robe. I had tied it some six hours prior. No pins or rubber bands, just a couple of knots and some tucking. And I don't have an occipital ridge, it's hard for me to wear the circle kind of headbands without a hairstyle to hold it in place at the nape of my neck.

Veiling in public started today. I took off my sleep bonnet and started to style my hair to go out to the grocery store, and then I was like "no, today is a head wrap day." So, I pulled out a Ukrainian scarf (might as well get as many points of ancestry in there as possible, right?), and copied one of the tutorials I've been watching over my mulberry silk lined, modal cotton outer beanie-style bonnet, which I could have stuffed for a taller wrap, but went just with my hair and the excess beanie material. Pretty impressive for fine hair, huh?

I'm saving the tutorials I want to try in a public playlist, if anyone wants to check it out:

I used the second wrap from this video for my wrap today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLLs0Cuv2jh6XtxfMKDHVn27J3g4MQ_rH7&v=G9NOFc5z-yo

I also got the notification that my jersey hijabs are in the mail, hooray!! You may never see my hair in the wild again!

In other hair news, I used up the yellow shea butter based chebe butter tonight, and promptly made a new batch with the kokum butter, so it has time to sit and solidify before my next treatment. This means I get to shake the jar every so often to keep the chebe from sitting at the bottom while it all hardens up again.

And as for why I was out grocery shopping in the first place:

Lentil sprouts were a rousing success, so I went out to pick up some mung beans and chickpeas to sprout next.

Munching on sprouts and sea salt is going to be my new popcorn, I can feel it...

And for something completely random, my grandmother announced today that her parents, my great-grandparents, were Freemasons their entire lives. She never thought anything of it, it was a lovely social club for both of them. Good grief.

My secret society ancestors right now:

Meanwhile, me: