March 28, 2010

Kinky Curly Coily Me!

For the past 2 weeks my cousin and I have been discussing going natural with our hair.

Meaning, we would no longer put chemical relaxers in our hair and we would allow our hair to grow out naturally. Chemical relaxers can damage your hair and it has done so to my hair.

After watching hundreds of YouTube videos by brave women who decided to go natural and cut off all their relaxed hair, my cousin and I were inspired.
Friday night we got together and ate some food and drank some Nuvo and made the decision to do the BIG CHOP!

She cut off my hair and I cut off hers!

Now why did I do this? Why was I so concerned about no longer using relaxers? Why didn't I just wear a weave or braids?

I want to learn my hair. I have no idea "who" my hair is!

I really don't.

I have no idea how often it prefers to be washed. I would go a month without washing my hair because it was always in sew in weaves and didn't want to ruin the texture of the hair.
I have no idea how much moisturizing it needs. When you wear a sew in weave, your hair is concealed underneath, so I often just rubbed grease on my scalp every so often, but had no real understanding of whether or not to do it more or at all.

Cutting off all my hair was liberating. During my hair journe I will spend time learning what it needs and how to manage it.

My goals are to have my hair grow long, thick, and healthy with no relaxers! I can't wait for the years to pass and I watch my hair transform into this!

10 comments:

Rhonda Gales said...

I love the new do. Not every woman can wear their hair that short, it fits you.

Crazy Shenanigans-JMO said...

Wow! Making that big of a cut is a big change! I think it looks awesome!

Jenell : BlakIzBeautyful said...

Thanks Gals.

I love my new do!

Veronica said...
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Veronica said...

you look SOOOOO cute!


congrats! I cut mine off in Feb! I had grown mine out for 18 months tho..so straightened, I'm about a bob length.

I decided to stop because I wasnt really getting relaxers anyway. i was getting them like twice a year just because...I decided i'd save myself the 95 dollars at the salon and just not do it anymore.

p.s. Black hair needs to be moisturised nearly everyday

Barbara said...

Bravo and congrats!! I LOVE the cut. Being natural is such an enlightening and empowering process. Your journey is going to be an exciting one, mine sure is. I have had so much fun with my hair since making the decision to go natural. Its so true that many of us have no idea "who our hair is" or what the heck it looks like or how to care for it... and we have very few professional stylists who know either, which is the saddest thing EVER!

Congrats again to you and your cousin... what a beautiful thing to do together =)

Mizrepresent said...

Wow! I just wanted to say i am so proud, envious and inspired by you. I have been growing my hair natural for about 6 months, but no big cut yet. So when i seen what you have accomplished i am even more confident about my decision. Go girl! Love it!

Anonymous said...

The gods manufactured the tactic of the Holocaust to accomplish the goals they planned.
I am of the opinion the gods would have interviened in its absence, illustrating their claims of being good, and established "old world" dictatorship control at the dawn of mankind's mass moral deterioration. Purely speculation, I conceed, and a total waste of time which distracts from important work we are all responsible for, but even without the Holocaust the gods would have manufactured something that would allow them to manage their culpability and justify their lack of divine intervention. After all, we all abide by their chronology.
A good example of societal decay and how the gods manage their culpability is birth defects. In the past the gods occassionally punished people by divinely creating birth defects in the womb. Now, with the advent of biotechnology, they tempt the mother with "earning" and compell her to take a substance in utero which deforms the fetus, dispelling the gods of blame and future obligation to the victim. Incidentally, they use liberal policies to pay for these individuals, ensuring a lifetime wasted, for they have no hope for progress. Too often in the past they were mercifully killed and brought back without this handicap, allowing them opportunity to resume their journey of ascention into heaven.
The gods are washing their hands of culpability.
The gods are washing their hands of Planet Earth.

Another feature which the Gods offer as a clue is very foreboading and ominous. Mt. Zion is a mountain to the north of Diablo (the eye of The Beast) and one which has a working quarry at its base. Consistant with the decay we experience in society, Mt. Zion is being eaten away, slowly stripped of its resources, until one day paradise will be gone forever.

Whimsical management=Unstable pathology:::
*Tuscon-waffles
*2006 Hawaii-Jewelry
*Ivan/Wilma-SCUBA
*Haiti-slaves
*Chile-crappy fruit
I'm sure you got some excuse. Just like Mustang Ranch.
You've compromised your integrity so hard you no longer deserve the label "gods".

The gods used the Italians to ruin life in the 20th century.
The gods used the Italians to ruin life in A.D..
"The West Bank, where the end of the world will begin."
And they were reincarnated into the ghetto to be punished as crack babies and in drive-by shootings, ironically poetic justice for inflicting these horrors on their hated enemies.
On their brothers.

i don't care if you did escape the last Big Bang.
The last 10,000,000,000 Big Bangs.
I would systematically exterminate your kind for exploiting me like you did.
You would be clone hosted so I could kill you over and over.
I would burn you at the stake so often you would beg me to let you die.
"You deserved it." Considering how you pushed me into all my offenses I suspect it was no different in a prior life.
Fuck you.

They share that some have expressed their concern about their behavior:::They destroyed my life they and are doing to much and have crossed the line.
I'm sure they got some excuse.
They did shit like poker, Eminem and Mustang Ranch for a reason.

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