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HAIR June 27, 2022

Growing My Hair: Things that helped me grow my hair significantly

My Locs have grown so much in the last 1-2 years and I thought to share here, things that I think really helped. I love writing about hair because it’s our crowing glory… no matter how it looks. I decided a while ago to love my hair how it looked but I didn’t like the fact that I was putting so much effort into it but instead of flourishing, it was actually breaking off. I also really really like the look of long hair, no matter how much I loved my afro, I desired to have naturally long hair now out of my scalp and now that it does, I won’t sit up about it. Hair also has a way of affecting our esteem, confidence and how we show up in the world. So very quickly here are things that I believe have helped my hair grow so much: TLDR …

Travelling with Natural Hair?

In this new phase of trying to take care of my hair, I’m looking back to see what I did right with my hair, what to continue to do and what to stop doing!!! Taking care of your Hair in a new location can be a chore. You don’t know if your hair will corporate with the weather or not, the accessibility of the products you like, hairstylists, Activities you will do, cos even some kind of WATER. Can be bad for your hair. Well, I am not about to miss out of a great opportunity cos of my Hair!!! Whenever I’m going to travel locally or internationally, the things I do are: Research the place. What’s the weather there like? % of black people that live there, where will I be staying, activities I might get to do. Etc. Pack hair staples in mini bottles and try to find…

My thin and Fine Natural Hair Journey

When I was about 6/7 years old, I came home from the hairdresser’s place crying… I mean wailing like I just lost a puppy. Why? My hairdo was too tight… I almost couldn’t think. It was the famous thread or Kiko hairstyle which we all hated but were forced to do when we were younger. My dad asked what was wrong with me and I told him it was the hair. The thread was too tight around the hair. Being a good dad, he told me to get scissors so he could help me take out the thread. I happily found a razor blade instead. My dear father then proceeded to take out the hairstyle by cutting the thread off… what was unknown to me was that he cut off all the hair threaded with my hair. I was just happy to be relieved. I went to bed. I resumed…