DID I JUST BIG CHOP MY HAIR??
Hey guys what up? Happy new year! I know it's been a long time coming, but you girls back, and I promise not to stay away for so long! I have so much to share with you guys, so much has been going on and changing.
I think I may have big chopped guys! Ok so I've been transitioning my hair for about two years now I have had much success with retaining my length as well as growing out my permed and damaged ends. Now we all dread the critical task, we must all do at some point in the journey. TRIMMING our ends.
Nevertheless, I have cut my ends periodically. Only because I knew that I need to do so to reach the ultimate goal of having my natural locs. Every time I did trim it was maybe 1 centimeter at a time. I was never really wanting to get rid of my hang time. Chile, I was trying to be a 2017 Pocahontas. When I did trim my hair, I was so self-conscious about it so I would hide behind my protective styles maybe a sew in or some faux locs. So I never really saw the shorter length and never actually go the chance to embrace my hair at those lengths I hide for a few months and buy then it would be grown back.
I had been saying that I would cut the ends because it was time and that would be the only means to an end. So I washed my hair with apple cider vinegar and blew it out with the dryer. Took the hair shears and went in yall. I was just supposed to do a lite trim like a dusting. I saw the healthy thick hair against stringy straight hair. It was like no you must go. Plus I had some damage that had to go through my hair journey I have been trying to nurse it back to life. I seemed to like it was working, but after two years I was over it. So it had to go as well!
I may have got one of two things sick and tired and ready to just do it, or I was scissor happy. Whichever the two I cut all of the damage and permed ends of. I had taken about 2 inches that I had left completely off. The crazy thing about it was that I didn't even notice what I had done til a week later on my next wash day. I had the curls coming in already I had about 75% natural hair. Which I pulled my hair up and my brother was like curls for days. I looked in the mirror, and there was not one straight strand of hair.
This moment was significant for me because for the first time I saw and knew how beautiful I was. all my life they said that my hair was nappy, I had Beattie beads, and it wouldn't grow. I wasn't like the other girls. They were right about one part I wasn't like the other girls I am beautiful in my own right!
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