Month ONE: Antagonistic Views.

Hello Beautiful

You know what, I was going to start this post by SO...but I have decided to get into the habit of writing good grammar because there is nothing that irks me like the misuse of coordinating conjunctions. However, the word so is such a tricky little b.x.t.c.h!! It can be used in so many different ways. Anyways, I digress. I have decided to post my hair journey month by month, this way it doesn't get so overwhelming and I'll admit it, I'm not the best at updating my journal everyday, every month sounds like a decent bargain. To begin with, February was my big chop month, hence I'm going to count it as month one. This month was bitter sweet, it was hard adjusting to my TWA: tiny weeny afro. And my little brother did not miss the opportunity to tell me I looked like a boy every chance he got. What made this month sweet was the support I received from my family, both my mom and aunt loved my short SHORT hair, and this really replaced my bitter sentiments. I had to learn all the basics of natural hair care in this month, I felt like a child who had gone back to nursery school to learn her ABC's. I can really compare the feeling of this month with nursery school, because the more I looked at natural hair blogs, the more I felt so left out. All these women with natural black hair, where in the world had I been? Why had I not discovered this beauty before? I too, wanted to graduate to grade 1. To me, graduating to grade 1 equalled wearing my natural hair in a twist out. But I knew that I was going to work hard for this, that it was going to take time and patience, because in veracity,  the best things in life comes to those who wait. Patience, became my number one object to cultivate. If I was going to go through this journey, I needed to have patient above all things.


Month ONE Pics...After BC- Big Chop.

  (Note: I have no hair on my edges, thanks to years of weaving and wig-ing, but I'm on a mission to grow em back.).

Ok, because I was too uncomfortable with my hair this short, I decided to braid it with Kinky twist, these have become my most favorite protective style, they have the natural hair look and most importantly, I can still Co-wash my hair everyday or three days a week. I also deep condition my hair once a week, the kinky twist makes my hair journey so much easier. Love em'!

I use the Janet collection and they come in different colors! Love it? give it a try! Hate it? Don't bother.

TWA Update: Adventitious Experience.

Hi there!!

So it's been about three months since the last time I was here. A lot of life journey has happened. A lot of hair journey 'stuff' has also happened. If I start am afraid I could go on rambling about "stuff" forever, so am going to simply summarize these past three months then move on to the gritty stuff : hair. I was in Kenya for the past four weeks and dear, oh dear! the humidity killed me and my hair. Literally. Actually as much as I would love to talk about Kenya,(oh I miss it already!) am going to skip ahead and go to another chapter. Ah!, but before i skip a head let me share with you some pictures i took in Mombasa. I had my hair braided in Afro style using kinky braids. The lady obviously did a wonderful job because the comments I received were beyond amazing. Literally.

                                                              Mombasa in Kenya was A.W.E.S.O.M.E.

The past three months my hair journey has been bitter sweet. I wore my TWA for the first time around march, it was trial and error kind of thing. The funny thing is that I wasn't really sure how well or how confident I could pull out the TWA look, but what boosted up my confident was really the support I got from my aunts, especially my mom, family and friends in general. That day, with my first TWA, I felt liberated in a way. A lady I met at Macy's asked me if I was a model and wow! oh wow, was I just taken aback with surprise and smiles. She went on to tell me how much she loved my short hair and how i should keep it that short because it brings out my facial features. I was so alive at that moment, I mean I know am beautiful (not in a cocky over-confident what you are thinking type of way, we are all beautiful) but at that moment the lady's comment really made me embrace my short hair even more....anyways , skip one and a half month a head to Yesterday. Since my big chop on February 4th,the only two occasions I've worn my natural do is that day the lady commented on it, back in March, and yesterday, May 24th. The in between periods I've hidden my TWA in a protective style, kinky braids to be more specific.

Picture of my kinky braids. : Me in Kenya. Time. Of. My. Life!! 

                                                                     Going to the river to get water.

                                                 Lake Victoria. Mfangano Island.

                            Me on a boat going to Mfangano Island. An adventure to remember.


Yesterday I did my first Afro puff! I was really amazed to see how much my hair has grown. All the lies that says black hair doesn't grow, so not true. It grows! My hair can surely attest to this. But of course, with more growth comes more frustrations when it comes to styling and if you're not gifted with the hands to braid like me, the frustrations runs even deeper. Today in particular, after several SEVERAL hours of watching YouTube videos on how to do two strand flat-twist, I finally gave up because my hands can not master the art of braiding. I tried and tried, and as much as I was determined to learn, my disappointment of not being able to do it right,as you can imagine, was greater. So I gave up! (maybe in some near future I'll attempt it again, but for now it's a no no) Ok this post is getting really long so I'll stop here for now, plus I have to figure out if and how am going to wear my TWA tomorrow for church. Omg! I'm excited and scared at the same time, it's going to be the third time am wearing my TWA out! Ha! I actually keep count on how many occasions I've rocked my TWA, but maybe this is going to change soon. I might just say fxck it and rock my kinky coils every single day...oh, I'm still rambling.

I'm truly happy with my natural hair and can't think of any reason why I would want to say I miss the creamy crack. Here's a look back to memory lane...my relaxed days...

No. I don't miss the creamy crack. Can't believe i had it for, well, over 15 years.


Later Chicas.