My imperfections…..

If its one thing I hate

If there is one thing I hate doing, it is my hair! Because it course and always dry and the fact that I am letting it grow out makes it more irritating. But life goes on….

I have been trying something new. New to me anyways, I went and got some rollers. I haven’t used rollers since I was a child. So I was trying to see what I could do to make my hair grow out healthy and undamaged. The first thing I made it up in mind to do was to cut back on the caffeine… I was going overboard on the Dr. Peppers =) Then, I thought to myself, if I could not curl it almost everyday that would really help a big deal too. I had already bought some satin head scarves that would stay on your head all night without coming off, with the draw string for my daughter and I. So, going out and buying rollers and going back to what I know should take some of the dryness out. I figured if I do a deep conditioner on it at least once a week that would really strengthen it as well. Last but not least, keep my ends clipped at least every 6 weeks. So, this is my first week. I clip my ends….. I have rolled my hair twice and I haven’t did the deep conditioner yet but, that’s coming up this weekend. =) So, I am praying that my hair grows long and healthy.

Hair Beating 101

I have always gotten my hair cut every since I was young. My hair use to be very long, it was down my back  right at my buttocks! What happen? I cut it and got the whoopin of a lifetime.  Seriously, my mother mislead me on. I blame it on her.(LOL) I was very young about 7 or 8 I thinking or maybe a bit older…. Anyways, she was combing my hair and she said to me…”your hair is so long and pretty, i bet you would never cut your hair” I guess she was thinking about like when I got older and all grown that I would admire my hair and never cut it. Well, did she have her work cut out for her!

I didn’t respond to that statement. So, the next day after school while my mother was still at work, I took a pair of scissors and stood in front of the mirror that was attached to the armour in the living room and I cut the back two ponytails clean off! My hair was in four pony tails. Two at the top and two at the back. (YEAH) I took my other to pony tails down and took combed all what I had left to one ponytail at the back. My mother should have notice something because I was too young to comb my own hair. After she came home we went to Brookshires and I was just skipping down the aisle. As I skip my one back pony tail would flop up. She never notice anything up until this point because my hair was long at the front and the one pony tail was covering where I had chopped it off. So, as I was skipping she yelled in the grocery store “Girl, you done cut your hair!” I knew at that point in my life that I was on sinking sand from there! What in the world was I thinking?

So, from that point on one, I got my hair cut in to a mushroom style. Back then, the mushroom was the bomb! But, I never let my hair grow any further than that. I keep chopping at it.  Lesson from Hair Beating 101 was not learned! So, now that I am grown, been that way for some time now. I think about my mother all the time. She was as sweet as pie, she really didn’t want to whoop me but she had to! I don’t blame her. =) LOL

So, I am struggling with my hair now…. I am taking care of myself and being more attentive to what my body needs. I have started taking my vitamins and I am really geared in the right direction. So, you will see my and experience my road in growing out my hair!  Here’s pictures of what it really looks like…..

 Now, it is in this in-between stage. I really have been having a hard time with managing it. I want to get some weave then the next day I don’t. I want to get braids and then the next day I change my mind again. I can’t make my mind up so, I think I am going to work on getting it strengthen and healthy then go from there.  If you have any suggestions on what I need to do, I want to hear from you. HELP my imperfections!