It’s with a heavy heart that I write this. Poor some extra virgin olive oil out for my niece’s hair. About six weeks ago she came over with straight hair. I just thought she got her hair flat ironed. Yesterday, she showed up with very, silky straight hair. Today, we were watching a movie together, and she was propped up on a pillow on the sofa, and I was sitting right behind her. There was a very familiar smell wafting up from her hair that made me raise a brow. I just kept looking at the top of her head, and I sniffed at her hair. Then it clicked, so I touched her hair, and asked her if she’d gotten a r.elaxer.
She turned around quickly and said, “I thought I told you that a long time ago that I got a chemical fire cream.” Now, I’m surprised at my reaction, cause I flicked her hair out of my hand and replied, “No, you didn’t tell me that you’d gotten a r.elaxer. I knew it was flat ironed. You never said you had a r.elaxer.”
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Categories: Nappy Family and Friends · Nappy Niece
Ok… first things first. My apologies for not posting anything since April. Lots and lots of stuff on my plate right now and most recently my 2nd laptop finally died so getting ANY kinda online time is a huge challenge right now.
That said, I’ve got plenty of hair stuff to write about, so much so, that it’s hard to know where to start. But I think the biggest thing is that about two months ago, I finally did the deed. I colored my hair. If you’re a member on either my hair board cNappymeNow.com on NP, you may be a bit familiar with how I feel about my gray hair — in short, I hate it. Mostly because it looks like lint. Nothing at all attractive about scattered gray, nappy hair that looks like lint. Nope…uh uh. If it were closer to being all gray perhaps I’d like it better. But as of this moment in time, and for quite a while now, I’ve just been wanting it gone.
Didn’t color it earlier was cause, well, I really didn’t want to deal with the maintenance of it all, plus, there’s always the chance that color can damage your hair. But one day, I looked in the mirror and said enough and purchased a color called Brazen Bronze.
Ha! The word BRAZEN should have been the first clue. Boy did it turn out brazen. To top it all off, me and my friend had no clue what we were doing, exactly, and we ended spending too much time applying it to the front and didn’t work it through to the back. So when all was said and done, the back was much darker than the front. The back is actually the way I wanted my hair to look all over.
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Categories: Nappy Hair, My Style · Random Nappy Thoughts and Experiences · Twists
