They say that hindsight is better than foresight. If I listed every bad hair decision that I've made in my life it would fill this entire blog. Watching this movie about time travel made me think. Knowing what I know now and if I could go back and correct the mistakes I made with my hair, how would my life be different? The first event that came to mind was my first relaxer. For me, it was my entrée into womanhood. I was barely a teenager at the time and getting relaxer meant I was growing up, but I wonder how my life would be different had I never relaxed my hair. How would my life be different had I not believed the stylists telling me to trim every 6-8 weeks, telling me my hair would fall out if I stopped getting relaxers and all the other myths. What if I knew all the flat ironing, highlighting and dying was wrecking my hair? I guess if I could go back in time knowing all that I know now, the moment I most want to change is getting my first relaxer.
If you could turn back the hands of time, step into a time machine and change the history of your hair, what moment would you most want to change?
If i could go back in time i would go
ReplyDeleteback to the age 9. At that time my hair was about waist length, and i absolutely hateD to get my hair washed and combed. I would never let my mom touch my hair, and with 3 years of bad haircare my hair just started to break of till finally my mom took me to a hair salon and the women cut off a couple of inches my hair was up to my ears :'(.. But it grew pretty face it got to colarbone length in about a year But for years it wouldnt past that length. Now that i started taking care of it just recently.. Lets see bout the ending of last year i been retaining length and im armpitlength nd more inches to come ;-)
I would go back like 6 yrs ago when I was natural, my hair was long but I didn't understand how to de-tangle it so I started pressing my hair which led me to cut it so pressing wouldn't take so long and then I permed it cause the people pressing my hair didn't know what they were doing. I hated my my hair permed and had so forgot how to take care of permed hair so I didn't do a good job with that either and had to re-grow my hair natural again. Big headache.
ReplyDeleteI'd go back to the first time my hair was pressed within an inch of its life. SMH One Easter, in an assembly line of cousins, my hair was pressed so straight. I was about 6, but I remember my mother almost died...she was so upset.
ReplyDeleteAfter that, my hair texture was different. I know now that it was super heat damage...but it turned into a love/hate thing with my "bad" hair! Wow.
If I could go back, I'd jump out of the press line and stick to my "grease" and water ponytails! ;-)
Hm, you know I should def. put this on my blog, but here goes: I had a bad childhood, and my mother was crazy. One day, for no reason really, she took me to her friend who was a hair dresser and told him to cut all my hair off. It was shoulderlength and relaxed, and I had been wearing it in a CUTE bantu knot-out. Well he was told to give me the Halle Berry. Eventually it grew back after an ugly period of constantly looking rough and too short and unstiled and droopy because I'd put conditioner in it every day to keep it from getting frizzy, and every now and then my mother would relax it. That was years ago. When I think back on it I want to kick myself, because that would have been the PERFECT time to go natural! But really, my parents would have tortured me about it, and I would not have had access to the things I need to take care of it. But still.. I could have had a decade of natural curls grown out by now!
ReplyDeleteI would go back to the first day I believed that straight hair was better and tell myself that my hair is beautifully divine. :-)
ReplyDeletewhen i first went natural i kept using the blow dryer every week. it didn't do much damage thankfully but it left my hair dry as a mutha!
ReplyDeleteI would have never gotten micros. Those braids ruined my edges! Seven years have passed and I still have a bald spot.
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