Well, if you’re in the hunt for a new job or want to keep your current one, and your potential or current employer tells you you’ll need to undergo drug screening beware: peeing in a cup may not suffice these days. Instead, you may have to give them a lock of your hair.
OK… that sucks.
Recently, that’s the situation one of my cNappymeNow.com members found herself subjected to and posted that she needed our support because she just had a lock of her hair cut for an employment drug screening.
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This is my friend. I'll just call her "TryinitNatural." She has lovely coal black hair with just a little scattered gray. I angled her flat twists back to just behind her ears. Then I gathered all the hair into a ponytail and twisted the loose hair. I strategically placed several latch hooked kinky strands near the base of the ponytail for volume and then braided all of the hair together and tucked the ends under. This is the finished do. She can dress it up with different types of barrettes as she pleases.
About six weeks ago, a friend of mine, (I’ll just call her “Tryinit Natural“) asked me to do her hair because she couldn’t get an appointment with her beautician. Not a problem. She’s been wearing a latch hook style for quite awhile and also relying on sew-ins and the flat iron for several years as well. Unfortunately, these styling methods have been taking quite a toll on her hair in the form of relentless breakage that fuels her dependence on keeping her hair covered up. On a few occasions, I’ve tried to get her interested in ditching the weaves, but she always seemed to rebuff my suggestions so I just let it go. Well this time around, the plan was to redo the latch hook, but I suggested we just to an elegant cornrow and donut style and she agreed.
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And without further ado…enjoy!
Lawd hammercy… Now ain’t that the truff!
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Believe it or not, I went on a 4th of July riverboat cruise to watch fireworks. It was misting rain and very, very humid all day. On the cruise my hair was wringing wet to the touch. I got home around midnight and tied it up and took these pics late Sunday evening. My hair looks amazing even after being out in that type of weather all day long the previous day!
I don’t know about y’all, but I’m just not ready for the dog days of summer. The older I get the less I have the patience or tolerance for extreme heat. I prefer temperatures in the lower to mid eighties; anything more just seems to sap my energy.
That said, I really, really, really needed a quick do that I didn’t have to fuss with for a week at a time. That’s what I have with this updo. Fashioned from flat twists in my hair line and two strand twists, I just pull them all up in the back and secure with a butterfly clip. At my temples I made finger twists. They’re sooo cute. I like them because they soften the style up. Also, if they don’t make it through the night (which they don’t sometimes) all I have to do is wet them, pull them loose, apply some moisturizer and make new coils. Takes just a couple of minutes and I’m good to go.
If I tie my head up every night, my hair usually holds up for seven days — from Sunday to Sunday. After one week, I assess my hair and refresh as necessary which includes taking down individual twists, finger detangling, deshedding, remoisturizing and retwisting. In week two, I wash my hair, and take down all my twists one at a time to detangle, deshed, moisturize and retwist, and I’m good to go with a clean scalp and hair for another two weeks.
Here’s what it looks like from all angles.
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