#i can do a 3 strand braid on like yarn. as soon as its on my head where i cant see it all falls apart

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I am re purpled and re undercutted but I also had my mom trim my hair and that was. A Mistake. It had a taper from the back to the front, the front was longer back shorter, and she was just supposed to make it not touch my shoulders anymore. She fucked up the taper and its too my chin now and I can just barely put most of it in a ponytail but bits fall out and that's very not ideal for my *food service job*. I also feel like the blueberry kid from the old charlie and the chocolate factory and I Dont like it

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Protection Magic 101

-Religious Symbols and Assorted Others. If you associate with a religion/practice/dharma, chances are, there is a symbol to represent it. Pentagram, hexagram, cross/crucifix, ofuda issued by a shrine, ankh, omamori, trident, swastika (be warned: sign of Nazis, but the swastika has been a ward for thousands of years but wear at your own discretion), Om, Seal of Solomon, Fatima’s Hand/Hansa, Votive tablets, Lockets, Animist figurines, Agimats etc...These symbols are easily acquired and hold intrinsic symbolic magic of their own without having to consecrate them for using as a ward.

-Circles/Mandalas. Drawing just a plain circle around you before any magical working will do just fine. You can add glyphs, sigils, scripts, sacred words around it to customize further.

-Taveez. This is a hollow cylindrical pendant anywhere from an inch to two and a half inches in length and .5 to 1.5 inches in diameter. Traditionally, you write a sacred verse from your holy books and fold it up inside the taveez (ta-huh-VEEZ). If the verse/poem/prose is too long however, you burn it and add its ashes to the taveez.

-Scrolls. I use rice paper with dragon’s blood ink to write prayers, armors and callings on them. Bless the paper and ink before use and once the ink dries, place in a small wooden/marble/stone/metal box in your room, office, altar space, desk etc.....These are incredibly versatile and can be made for a variety of things/demons. If you are not religious, fashion a rhyme of protection in your preferred language, charge it like you would a sigil, burn it and add its ashes to your ink and write with a brush. If you don’t have a box of one of the materials mentioned above, you can also use a cloth bag. Be warned though, cloth does not retain magic like wood, stone or metal, so you will have to recharge it at least once a month. 

-Painting and engraving. If you have a particular symbol/sigil/prayer/name of gods or goddesses or their images that you use as a ward, then transfer them on a plain t-shirt, jacket, cotton sheets, altar cloths, wooden plaques, stone tablets, clay tablets etc and they will work like a charm.

-Water. I use the water of the river Ganga. You may use any blessed water. Doesn’t have to be river water. Place is a blessed bottle ad spray or sprinkle on you and around you anytime you feel a presence or an influence that has no business being in your space. 

-Salt. Put it in your baths, floor washes, washing machines and any place else you can think of. Salt is an incredibly powerful tool that will suck unwanted muck right out of its vicinity. Plus. It doesn’t break the bank. What can I say? I’m cheap. 

-Braid. If your hair is long enough to be braided (love me some mini braids), recite a prayer of protection or your on rhyme and braid a small section of your hair, visualizing the prayer infusing into the strands of your hair and protecting you from negative intentions, vibes, powers and people. The magic will discharge as soon as you open the braid but you can do this with minimal effort and time so there’s that.

-Amulets. This is where shit gets expensive. If you are an excruciatingly sensitive ClairX, you should make one of these. 

            Ingredients: protection stone (obsidian, onyx, jasper, carnelian are good choices), metallic wire for housing the stone (I use silver cuz everything else irritates me), or you can use leather cords, hemp cords, yarn, twine etc if you don’t want to complicate things, tools for fashioning the housing (YouTube this), sigil of protection-make this as specific as you can I can’t stress this enough, black candles and white candles(tealights will do), wooden matches, pin/pointy objects, black salt (black chalk will do in a pinch), prayer for protection from a holy book or a rhyme of protection by you, a paper with a sigil of protection drawn on it and you. You can add what you want from this point forward but these are the basics. 

          Draw a circle with salt/chalk large enough to accommodate you and a circle inside the circle to house all ingredients.

         Draw a pentagram or six pointed star inside the smaller circle so it touches all corners. You may draw symbols of protection at this point inside the circle as you wish. 

        Engrave pentagram/hexagram on candles with pin/pointy object. Light candles and place one on each pointy corner of the ‘gram.   

        Place sigil paper in center. 

        Place stone and whatever you’re using to bind it in dead center of sigil paper. 

        Invoke elements/deities/powers that be.

        Read verse/prayer/rhyme aloud anywhere between 3 and 13 times depending on urgency. Visualize the power infusing into the stone and cord/wire. I like to visualize a ray of light shooting from each one of my chakras and intersecting into the stone. You may do as ya please. 

        Bind the stone in the cord/wire securely.

        Wear it. Carry it. Hang it. Do what you please. You’re the proud owner of a protection amulet now. 

        Thank elements/deities/powers that be for their aid and bid them farewell.

        Open circle. 

        Dispose candles.

There. You, my little birdie, are now protected from all the bogeymen and their mother.