MY HAIR

I started off with an Afro, braids, permed hair, added ugly bangs, braids, cut out my perm and now I have an Afro again.

Why did I damage my beautiful hair, with perm?

Because that’s what I thought was beautiful.

Nappy hair is not beautiful

According to most black people.

White people want curly hair, and black people want straight hair.

Why can’t we be thankful for what we have?

I permed my hair for almost 6 years and I’m glad I stopped.

Combing through nappy hair is IMPOSSIBLE.

But I rather try and do that, then have breaking, and damaged hair.

I permed my hair all the time, maybe 5x a year. I was always swimming, so chlorine made my hair drier, which also made it not last as long.

Having permed hair made life difficult, because if I wanted to go swimming, I had to put on a swim cap, so I didn’t wet my hair. Even though the water still sometimes came in.I had to worry about my hair, because I paid so much for it to get straight, and if I jumped into water, my roots would start to get curly.

This is what was beautiful in my eyes.

People always complimented my hair, ‘saying it looked so nice’.

I always was excited to perm my hair, but I was always scared.

I knew how much my hair grew, which meant my roots were thick!

I would always cry, perming my hair.

The tail comb would always break and my hair would get PULLED.

If I itched my scalp before my perm, it would BURN.

I learned that I had to tap my head, but not so hard to irritate it.

I went to a white hairdresser one time, to perm my hair, and she burnt my whole head with the perm. She had to rinse it out earlier than the time. Which meant it wasn’t done properly.

That perm last maybe a month, because it was horrible!

I never went to a white person again.

They don’t know how to manage black hair.

I was tired of the perm in 2018, so I decided I would not perm my hair anymore. Little did I know the perm was still in my hair. My roots have grown out, but my ends were completely straight, and dead.I washed my hair one day and tried drying it just with a towel. When I was all ready to comb my hair out, my hair was in 10,000 knots. All my ends were tangled up together and I couldn’t comb it out at all! I decided I didn’t have time to untangle it. I felt like I was untangling my headphone knots, and I hate that, but this was worse.

I went and got the scissors and snipped off all my straight ends. I didn’t care,I wanted to be natural again. I cut off all the ends, and looked in the mirror after. The haircut I just gave myself looked horrible! It was so uneven. I showed my mom, and she laughed. She helped me fix it.

I went to my hairdresser the following month, and she thought I was getting a perm, but she was actually shaping my hair, and cutting out more of the perm. I felt as though I was bald headed. My hair has never been this short!

I thought it was cute, but I really didn’t like it. I went back to the hairdresser a few months later, and my hair was long enough for her to put extensions. I got my hair braided, to hide my ugly trim I did to myself.

I have been natural since September 3rd 2018 , and I couldn’t be any more happy. All the perm grew out and now I have Nappy Naps which are nice and curly. I don’t usually keep my hair out, only because it is still a pain to manage and comb.

This is why I put my hair in protective hairstyles like braids. It makes it way more easier to manage and gives me more time in the mornings. I don’t have to worry how to do my hair, because it is braided already. Cutting my hair and going back natural is one of the best choices I’ve ever made.

Natural hair is beautiful!