Newborn me!
The best shape my hair has ever been!
Coming from a multi-racial background, it is hard to identify with the many different facets of your culture and heritage. Growing up around mostly white people doesn't help. My mother is white and did NOT know how to take care of my hair, so she did the only thing she knew how, just cut it into a TWA!
I can't believe I posted this pic!
Check out my military discounted glasses! LOL!
I always wanted to have long, blonde hair and I came to HATE my hair. I believe part of it had to do with my mother cutting my hair really short every time it grew to a certain length. Of course, on top of that, I had to wear earrings and "girl" clothes otherwise I would be mistaken for a boy!
When I was 13, my mother decided to finally stop torturing me and give me a relaxer! Well, I was loving it until my hair started to break off! My mother had NO idea how to put a relaxer in! She left it in too long and had me sleeping in hard rollers every night! WRONG!!!!! So at the back of my head near the top my hair was always breaking off!!! My hair NEVER grew!
By the time I was 16, my hair was "TORE UP!" My daily regime would be to wash my hair! (Yes, every day!) I then would proceed to try to blow dry it out straight! Like my cousins' hair! Then I would curl it with a HOT curling iron! I never realized I was curling the hair right out of my head! All I knew was that I was fighting with nature every step of the way!
Growing up in a mostly white neighborhood while approaching puberty DID NOT help at all! The "ethnic" side of my family (my father's side) I never saw so I had no guidance as far as my hair was concerned. I just copied the way my cousin's did their hair.
The way my hair looked directly affected the way I viewed myself. I just wanted straight hair like everyone else in my family! It is so sad to me to look back on my adolescent period. If I could just go back in time and shake some sense into that 16yr old girl, I would have saved 11 years of pain and humiliation.
The journey isn't over yet........please continue!
