{"id":427,"date":"2017-08-08T17:59:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T17:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essn.us\/?p=427"},"modified":"2017-08-08T17:59:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T17:59:33","slug":"coffee-curls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essn.us\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"Coffee curls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week (August 2) I permed my hair with braids. Securing the ends with perm wrappers and rubber bands, the Jheri Redding One &#8216;n Only acid perm worked well. I waited five days to wash it out. The smell lingered even after the wash. <\/p>\n<p>Tiny waves are locked in. This took a lot of do-it-yourself effort; about four hours worth. My hot crimper can have a break. Hair maintenance is working nicely. Prior to washing, I&#8217;ll be sprinkling in baking soda to prevent residue. A cool rinse helps too. Dry baking soda is a messy dry shampoo. Best thing is washing it out. It&#8217;s a water softener. <\/p>\n<p>Porosity allows processed hair to absorb color. For instance, a platinum blond can play with food coloring to get rainbows. I&#8217;m experimenting with coffee as a leave-in conditioner to see what happens. I&#8217;ve noticed tiny color bursts: the oils from brewed coffee (cooled down) created subtle tones with a dab of shine.<\/p>\n<p>Hard water makes a mess of color treated and permed hair. It turns brassy brown. That&#8217;s partly why I stopped coloring and started giving myself long bob cuts. The color is now a naturally blended two-tone ombre. The length after four months growth is almost five inches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week (August 2) I permed my hair with braids. Securing the ends with perm wrappers and rubber bands, the Jheri Redding One &#8216;n Only acid perm worked well. I waited five days to wash it out. The smell lingered even after the wash. Tiny waves are locked in. This took a lot of do-it-yourself&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,39],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grooming","tag-coffee","tag-hair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}