My hair is thick and has a 3c curl pattern I believe. I have difficulty giving it definition, but it’s all a great learning experience.
I’m IN LOVE with my curl pattern. I love all natural hair, but I’m really proud of mine. 🙂
I’m having memorable moments all the time with this hair, but overall I think my most memorable moment would have to be me recently chopping off all of my heat damage myself. I just got so fed up with the different textures and just wanted to be all natural, but I should have left that to a professional….
When my hair was a little bit longer I loved to wear buns. Just recently I was wearing the box braids and then the Senegalese twists. I currently switch off between perm-rod sets and other curling tools.
As sad as it is, perfect strangers and fellow naturalista’s are 100,000,000x more supportive than my loved ones. It’s so unbelievably refreshing when I see a beautiful natural and she compliments my hair and I compliment hers. It helps fuel my fire to prove those who don’t like it wrong. It’s a movement that I will always be a part of supporting.
Okay so I fully wash my hair with the TRESemme Naturals shampoo and conditioner like once a month and if it’s not time for that I just co-wash with the conditioner. I leave a little bit of the conditioner in and then I put the Kinky Curly Knot Today all through my hair by just raking it all through with my fingers. Then I use my new Shea butter mixture that I just got hip to. It’s just pure unrefined Shea butter from my local beauty store and mixed it with a different combination of oils that I bought from a natural oil bar. You can use any type of oils that you prefer to make the mixture and mix it to a consistency that you like most. After putting those products in my hair, I just style my hair whichever way I felt like doing for that day. Super simple. I mean I still have a million different products in a basket on my shelf of course.
I definitely give all praises to Whitney of Naptural85 on YouTube. She gave me the courage and all the help I needed to be natural. I watched her religiously and swore by her tutorials. If I ever meet her one day I just want to give her the biggest hug and will probably cry. She’s just been that great of an influence in my life and I am grateful to have found her during my aimless research on how to handle my hair. It doesn’t even matter that we don’t have the same curl pattern, she’s the bomb.com. I also loved watching Taren of Taren916 on YouTube every now and then just because I was praying my curl pattern turned out like hers.
I just want my fellow natural that are going through this tough journey to know that there is a humongous community supporting you, so don’t get discouraged. There will be times where you question your decision, but trust in what God gave you. He didn’t make a mistake when he gave you your beautiful locs and it’s time we embrace it fully. Your hair is unique and lovely, so rock it.
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