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Do Over: New hair journey

Whether we like it or not, hair has been a fixation with most women, black, white, yellow, red. Great hair can form the foundation of a good day filled with confidence, while a bad head can do the exact opposite. From as far as i can remember my hair has formed part of my beauty routine. I've had it short, and long (underwhelmingly so coz the first time i could tie my relaxed hair in a puff has been in recent years), it has been cut into a boxcut, had s- curl done on it to name but a few of the many styles it has gone through. The last time i cut my hair short was 2007 when i was still a student at university, after years of abuse and a receding hairline i had to save my hair. I managed to grow it out in it natural state and had fun with the funky hairsytyles that came with it. One thing that irked me about the hair was that the length remained stagnant. I envied one friend of mine's natural hair which grew effortlessly and was so soft  compare to my coarse wiry, shrinky hair. Fast foward to the time started working in 2009, the funky look i wore at varsity had no place in my formal work enviroment and so off i went to relax. A year into my relaxed hair i came across a natural hair blog by a lady in Botswana, which i could relate to better than all the other blog i had come across as she talked about familiar products i could easily access even in my small town. I began implementing the hair care routine in my relaxed hair. Lo and behold!!!  my relaxed hair which has never all my various relaxed hair years grown over 7 cm began thriving to a point that i could even tie a decent Kim Kadarshian puff right on the top of my head. Enter nostalgia late 2013, i began to think since i knew how to care for my relaxed hair i could do so with my natural hair. All these thought came to a fruition after consulting with my sister who now wants to be my partner in crime, and checking up with my boyfriend   (well i asked him from a scientific angle haha,) i think he does not care whether its short or long or trees :-D, i wen off and cut my hair. I pledge to take care of it the best way i know how. Im not really into the many terms and methods used in the many natural hair blogs partly because im lazy but i will try to implement them once my hair sprouts out. The minute i find a concoction that works for my hair im downright sticking to it...
 



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new cut, natural hair do over

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