So here is the thing this was not done because I had some kind of epiphany, in fact it was the exact opposite I went natural purely out of vanity. I was always changing my hair and I was really getting tired of my straight hair, also I was girl who always had long thick hair, but my hair was really damaged and I was no longer that girl with the long straight hair. I think in 2010 is when I cut all my hair off unknowingly and when i saw that the back of my hair no longer took to relaxers and I saw how curly it was I was very much interested in this curly hair wave. But as life would have it I went back to relaxers. I knew about natural hair but to be honest I was ignorant on all of it. Though I loved girls with curls I thought that those with no defined curl pattern to have ugly hair. But when I finally decided to transition in 2012 I honestly swore I was going to have nice Shirley temple curls, clearly I was really full of myself and well youtube didn't help. The summer of 2013 I was struggling with two textures and it just wasn't working. So I cut the relaxed ends off and man was my hair short, it was the shortest it was in a long time since it took so long to grow out from the last time I cut it all off. The struggle became real and not only that I started to learn about natural hair. I started to learn about my culture I also came to realize man was I extremely ignorant and well a product of society. Why I went natural may have started out as pure vanity wanting nice ringlets but now that I am older I realize there is more to natural hair than just having curls and sorry but my epiphany came later. Better late than never.
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