My hair history

What can be said about my hair history, it’s been a haze and for the most part confusing. I’ve changed it up like I have multiple personalities - granted that may be slightly true. It’s been fun and I’ve always loved that about it. I do what I want with it and still keep in the spirit of being carefree. Once it starts being strained, I’ll have to start reconsidering my favorite past time. So without further adieu my hair through the years.

This was me back in pre-school. I had a cute little afro going for me, let’s try not gush over how cute I am.

Here I was just shy of 18 and damn, my afro was the bomb dot com. I remember how effortless my routine was and I blew caution to the wind. I remember that on this day I did a quick wash and go. I also remember my aunt chastising me for not combing my hair

My love for blonde hair (peroxide and all the fixings) began with my matric dance in November 2011. I just went for it and frankly I loved every second of. Eventually it was known as my signature look. Even when I let my hair grow out into naturally around June 2012 I still packed on the blonde.
             


After my mohawk which was bleached I did two big mistakes. I dyed
my hair back to black and then I relaxed it. Enter crunchy, dry, brittle hair. So logic told me to shave it off and in November 2012 I had a chiskop. Scary, but my CONFIDENCE grew by 3000%.












            After cutting my hair my main                 focus was just letting it grow                   out. I did box braids. I hated                 the weight but I kept them for 2             months because of pure                         aesthetics. I really liked how                   chilled I was about my hair in                                                                  2013.

I think relaxing my hair was a weird decision. I just did it because honestly I grew tired of natural hair. I had it all throughout high school and I just wondered what my hair would be like if I just committed to keeping it relaxed. So far it’s been goods. It not been without its setbacks but I have grown because of it.

February hair goals

The month of February is a month of celebration. There is love in the air and cupid is throwing his arrows to the lovers out there. As much as I would love to celebrate my hair in all its glory and show off its length, unfortunately I can’t do that. After the fun summer days of straight hair in December and the twist disaster of January, this month calls for more sensible decisions. For this month I want to focus on protective styling exclusively (I literally don’t want to see my ends what so ever). This will also help concentrate my efforts into other aspects of my hair journey.
 As of late it has come to my attention that I have been negligent of my hair. I’ve thrown caution to the wind and have been so lazed. I have to say that at times I was oblivious to the fact that this is a hair journey and not a destination. For the month of February there are three goals that I want to achieve for my hair.
Firstly, I want go back to sealing my hair every night (-_- I know neglecting this was a cardinal sin).  I want start steaming my hair again and I also want to recommit myself to the inversion method combined with the greenhouse method. When I was more committed to these hair practices my hair flourished and it was my crown and glory.
The beauty about a hair journey is that making a couple mistakes aren’t the end all for your hair. There is still plenty of time for recovery and there is leeway to learn from the errors that were made, it’s actually a lot like love.