I am so happy to share my story with you in hopes of inspiring you to start your journey or to encourage you to keep going. It’s such a beautiful and life altering experience.
I actually stumbled upon my natural hair journey in a quest to save my hair. In 2017, I noticed my hair was thinning, especially in my crown area and by October 2018 I was diagnosed with Alopecia.
I depended on my Dermatologist to tell me what to do, but after running a blood test and determining it wasn’t a vitamin deficiency, I was just left with “your hair loss is hereditary”. I couldn’t come to terms with this. I was determined to save my hair and revive my crown area that was thinning more and more each week when I straightened my hair. I researched constantly and many of the resources I found spoke about going “Natural”.
Wearing my natural hair sounded daunting to me because I hadn’t worn my natural hair since I was a child. I was so attached to my straight hair because it made me feel beautiful and presentable. I never realized the damage I was doing to my hair and to my self-confidence.
Although I was attached to my straight hair, I knew I had to do something different, so I decided to transition to Natural in an attempt to save my hair. Transitioning was hard because I didn’t have a curl in sight, and I didn’t have the confidence to wear my natural hair. My natural hair was foreign to me, which made me very uncomfortable when it came to caring for it and styling it. Truth be told I didn’t even know what my curl pattern looked like.
I was faced with the hard truth - I never learned how to care for my coils. I was so attached to my straight hair, and I didn’t even realize it. Society had convinced me that my hair needed to be straight to be accepted and to be beautiful. I was always complimented for my long, straight flowy hair, but when I wore my natural hair, I was made to feel it wasn’t “done” or “acceptable”. I never realized the damage I was allowing to happen to my self-confidence for being who I was naturally.
This journey got me to asking myself hard questions. Why don’t you know how to care for the hair that naturally grows out of your scalp? Why should you be made to feel you need to alter yourself to be accepted? Why has society shunned textured hair?
In answering these questions, I discovered my passion!
Natural Hair and educating women to embrace their hair and understanding their history.
Now that I am years into my natural hair journey, I have not only nursed my hair back to health, but I also embarked on a beautiful self-love and self-discovery. My mission is now to inspire women to embrace their textured hair as an act of self-love and self-acceptance.
