Natural Hair

So tomorrow (Oct.24, 2013) makes 6 months transitioning for me in my natural hair journey. I'm so excited! For the last month, I've been wearing my hair in box braids.

(NOTE: Ignore the mess and the bra hanging on the door knob, this pic wasn't originally intended for online viewers lol)

I have never been able to keep a hair style for long so next week, after keeping my braids for a month and a half, I'm taking my hair down and I'm going to attempt to do Havana/Marley twists. I will blog about that and also I will make a video showing you exactly how I do them.
Now putting Marley twists in my hair will be a bit of a challenge. This is how I want my twists to come out:

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(NOTE: I do not own these pictures, I do not know these women, I got these pictures off of Pinterest.)
The reason doing my hair will be such a challenge is because, on a whim, I shaved the sides of my hair off 4 months ago. The hair is about 2-3 inches long on both sides and about 12 inches long everywhere else. Since I am not exactly comfortable doing this style on my hair (since I've never done it before) I think it would be better to have hair that is at least 4-5 inches so I can really grip it and work with it. But ah well...what's done is done! I will keep you guys updated on my progress and hope this style works out on me!