Hey Primas,
this post has taken me a while to do. I have had this idea but have been a bit of a lazy blogger. So I'm going to do a blog post about my hair, another Life-log and a special Glo'up addition. STAY TUNED...
and thank for all your support it is really encouraging (almost 1,000 views) probably most are mine but please comment if you like my stuff follow if I get 5 followers I may do a little give-away not just for that but my one year anniversary.
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this natural journey started casually when I started my secondary school education, when I was 11 years old. Prior to this time, I was addicted to perm so much so that I perm my hair behind my mum's back (worst move ever) . Begin young, I didn't understand hair, all I knew was that when I used perm my hair became manageable, silky and I thought it made me beautiful. Since I decided to perm my hair behind my mums back for a primary school prom, my hair became DAMAGE and weak. My mum started to say things like"Donna you have spoilt your hair" and unfortunately she was right. She made the best decision for my hair and forced me on the natural hair journey.
At first it was so difficult, my hair was tough and untameable. This led me to texturising my hair, I was still classed as natural but I wasn't. But then I found Youtube and learnt from people like LizLiz live and Fusion of Cultures who posted their journey and helped me on mine. I started to transition with braids most of my secondary school life I had braids or I did this two cornrow at the front hair style which was my go to hairstyle.
My roots where all fully natural but I had to grow out the texturised ends. This was extremely difficult because I was not allowed to cut my hair so I had to grow out my hair to a point where the "big chop" wasn't super dramatic.
But being the curious child that I am began to chop of my hair slowly, slowly and using Xpression to do a bun to hide this from the Boss(my mother). Weeks after my hair did grow but it was still weak and the end where falling off the shedding was REAL. People will say things like "Donna what happened to your hair?" and would be really mean and not supportive to my journey.
From my prom 4th July 2014 I did my first ever weave! If you want to see pictures I have a whole post on my prom on this blog. After 2 months of that weave I did my big chop and got my fro.
I did go through heat damage because of my leave out but through protective style after protective style, oiling my scalp and giving my hair some TLC I was able to get where I am today.
This journey is so not over it has just began! I will a post going on products I used and all about my hair type and so on.