Have you ever thought of cutting your hair? How about perming it?
I have spent the past four years natural. I haven’t cut, permed, or changed the state of my hair chemically since I did my big chop. I really love my hair, when it looks the way that I want it to. Yet there are times, like today, when I really don’t feel like messing with it. I have 4a/b hair. What does that mean? Well, it means that I have tightly coiled hair. My hair is shoulder length, but after washing it, it shrinks above my ear. This can be really frustrating because it takes a lot to actually style it.
Actually, I’m sitting here right now trying to figure out what I’ve been doing with my hair for the past four years…Oh how quickly the time flies by.
I think many black women that have transitioned their hair to it’s natural state go through the same thing. We each cope with it in different ways and try to find different ways of handling “the hair crisis.”
Patience…that’s what it takes. The only way to figure out what works for me is to try different things. In the process, I’ll figure out what works and what doesn’t work…
This is what I think of my hair today…uh…
