Mah hurrrr
I am gonna write a post about my hair. Yep. Nothing politicized - tho I'll prolly go into why I don't like it when people politicize my hair - just talk.
Mah hair is so soft! Even when I wash it or get it wet it's soft! That has never happened before! At least, not that I've remembered. I'm really proud of how I'm taking care of my hair given that I pretty much used to always hate it. I couldn't style it, it felt brittle and would break and I didn't like the caustic burns on my scalp from the perms. I didn't like how it would stick out everywhere when I was between perms and since I was growing up my mother did my perms (to this day I still don't have the faintest clue how to do a perm. I do know I will have one on hand if I were locked in a safe, it can go through metal!) so I didn't have much say over what to do with my head, or at least that's how I felt. Plus, I didn't know what I was doing anyways, I'm not really well schooled on beauty stuff. I never did hair on the stoop, learn hair tricks (even now, I pretty much know "Slap falls in my head, call it a day") or any of that stuff. I still want to dye the front part of my hair blue! (Nothin wrong wit dat) So I feel very accomplished in that my hair feels well kempt with products I picked out and bought, research I've done and so on and so forth. I don't use a billion products, to be honest. Just a coconut oil shampoo & conditioner set I wash with about once every two weeks or so with a No Flakes oil to put in my hair once every few nights and that's pretty much it. I only sleep with a night cap on the nights I put the oil in because my pillow will turn into a BP oil spill otherwise. When I do straighten it with a flat iron (just learned how to use one :D), I spray my hair with cocoa butter oil to protect it while straightening...which, considering all the products I use, is probably why my hair smell like sugar cookies after I straighten it.
I only want to straighten it because I'm not abandoning my falls for nothin. Nope. My natural hair is too curly to put falls in and not look crazy. Plus my hair is still transitioning (in oppose to "the big chop") so it makes my hair do odd things while it's growing out it's natural curls so it's super curly/frizzy at the bottom and straight at the top. I'm not going natural because I see the evils of perms (besides the burns) but because I don't like perms. They hurt, that stuff can go through metal and I don't care for them. All I want is to just do what I want with my hair, whether I wanna look like a total floofball or not. Nothing political. I don't look down on girls who get perms because that's their choice, I couldn't care less. I think both natural and straight hair look great, it's just the mentalities behind them that can be bothersome.
And it seems my hair is def. growing faster now that I stopped getting perms. There's already parts of my hair that is pure natural, all the permed hair broke off already. This is, like, around the crown and the temple. I can tell because when I wash my hair, these areas have absolutely no straight hair, it's all curly from top to bottom. And, yes, I do stare in the mirror going "boing boing boing", it's my hair, I do as I like, lolz. I may lop off whatever is remaining right before the Afro-Punk Festival but I dunno. I want my hair to grow out and be at a decent length before I do that.