For as long as I could remember, I had been getting a perm. My aunt was a licensed beautician so I got my hair washed and styled weekly and every six weeks or so I would get a perm. My hair was a little past my shoulders and was always deemed healthy. After college, I got a job teaching and somehow I got introduced to sew-ins. I was always against weave for some reason but baby, when I got that first sew-in you couldn't tell me anything! I was hooked!
So from about 2012 until 2014 I kept a sew-in. Every six to eight weeks, I would take my weave out, wash and deep condition my hair, and put some weave back in.
In 2012, I got married and moved to the dreadfully cold state of Iowa. I absolutely hated it out there. It was cold. I was too far away from home. I missed my beauticians. But I was in love, so I threw up the deuces to Georgia. It took me awhile to find someone to do my hair out there. There are a lack of PROFESSIONAL Black beauticians out there. That's another story for a later blog chile. Needless to say, I finally found someone that I was pleased with.
For some reason in early 2014, I decided to take my weave out and wash and straighten my own hair. When I did I was surprised to see that only about an inch of my hair was straight. Everything else was completely natural. Now I didn't know what in the hell I was supposed to do with that mess on my head. I was freaking out. Seriously. My hair was standing all on top of my head. So I used what I had until I could go to Sally's and figure out what to do with my hair.
This is when I found Shea Moisture products. Every natural I came in contact with online used it, so I figured I should use it too. I picked up some Raw Shea Butter Extra-Moisture Transitioning Milk and some Coconut & Hibiscus Curl Enhancing Smoothie. I think I was using some shampoo and conditioner by Moroccan Oil. At this time I didn't know anything about hair porosity, hair, type, the importance of deep conditioning, the time it took to do natural hair, sulfate free shampoos, natural ingredients, etc. All I knew was that I had to go to work that Monday and I needed my head to look presentable. I tried a twist out, but that shit was a disaster. My poor straight ends looked a hot mess. There was a white film on my hair and at that time I didn't have the sense to know what that really meant for me and my hair. I purchased some foam by Motions and I tried to do a flexi rod set. That came out halfway decent so that's what I rocked that week. But let me tell you--flexi rods are hell to sleep in. I didn't know that at the time but I found out. Now I went crazy when I bought flexi rods. I mainly used the blue flexi rods. I also tried using the grey flexi rods and the orange flexi rods.
Now the white film that the smoothie left on my hair bothered me each time that I used it. So finally I had to start digging and doing some research on what I was supposed to do with my natural hair. I wasn't interested in doing a big chop. Well my chop wouldn't have been so big but I just wasn't a fan of cutting my hair like that. Back to the white film. I finally realized that no matter how clean my hair was that the smoothie would leave this white film and this product just did not work for me. Now I had to figure out what was going to work for this hair of mine. This was the beginning of something major for me...
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