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!