Hair we go!

When curiousity begins to tickle your consciousness  and ask ” So what does it look like?  What does it feel like?”

When that chemical burn from that last perm causes your scalp to scab and you wonder “Why and I doing this?”  

When you are patting your scalp afraid to scratch it because you have a “touch up” scheduled….

When it no longer makes sense that you have to straighten your hair to be beautiful…

I am here to remind you that you dont have to anymore.  You never did.  Reclaim your right to your Nappy, Coily, Natty, Curly self.  That part of you never left  it wont ever leave, it’s waiting for you simply to accept it.

If you’ve ever permanently relaxed your hair  ancticipating that it would make you more beautiful, then you know that the  a real-axer is not merely a choice.  If you’ve ever eyed your “new growth” with resentment. Then you have experienced the  hidden factors at work. If you’ve ever felt like you were some how less than because your hair didn’t flow like the girls in the videos then you know somone or something is sending you this vibe.

When  nations of generations of women stand up and make the same choice in an attempt to achieve one definition, one style one interpretation of beauty then it ceasees to be  choice and becomes a mandate.   When groups of women who’ve never met, dont speak the same language and dont even live in the same hemisphere much less the same town collectively engage in one singular act in hopes of beautifying themselves it is no longer a singular decision it is a collective consciousness.

I believe it is everyone woman’s Divine right to choose whatever is best for her in EVERY circumstance, but I will not subscribe to the notion that millions of women around the world “choose” to relaxer their naps,  curls , kinks, coils of their own free will.   It is no longer a choice it is a message that we are fed via multiple sources that something is wrong with our hair and the relaxer is the only way to fix it.