Welcome!

Hello everyone, 

Welcome to my blog. I've been natural for about 5years now. I cannot remember the exact day of my big chop. It was important but it wasn't something i chose to dwell on. I just wanted to move forward with being the new me. I recall feeling so liberated. However, my mother didn't speak to me for about 2 weeks and then she forced me to get it softened.  I never felt I really needed it. I was forced to hide my hair under wigs when going to school and around family. Because my whole life my hair had been straight and long, what would people think? Right! LoL.

It didn't bother me much though. It was about more than just hair. I wanted to find my natural beauty. And the easiest way to do that was to strip everything away until there was only me. Once i found that, i knew that i would never need another person's validation. I would never need to hear how beautiful i was nor  would i have to question it. I also didn't need to flat iron my hair every morning. But surprisingly, people were much more intrigued with me being natural. Men i didn't even know started to treat me with a certain level of respect as if they knew i had found something in myself.

 It was a good time for me. Until i got to that point every  newly natural eventually gets to. I realized i had no idea what to do with my hair. It started to bore me and i looked the same all the time. I couldn't use any of my old products and it seemed as if it was taking ages to grow. Of course i later learned that my hair was in fact growing and it was just shrinkage. There are far more products out there now for natural hair than 10 even 5 years ago. Growing dreads or staying bald is no longer our only option. However, even though the world is starting to embrace us, we must first embrace ourselves. This is precisely the purpose of this blog. To continue to embrace hair and to help you embrace yours.Thanks for reading. Until next time darlings!

P.S. here's a little time line of my hair since my big chop.