My Hair Confessional

[robot.]

I got a package- it was my Oyin's Juices and berries- my heart skipped a beat.
Then I get a delivery confirmation- my silk scarf is on its way- my palms got sweaty.

I am getting that Junkie, Tyrone itch...I am addicted to getting hair products in the mail....it makes me high.

You was feenin', girl.

I'm becoming a PJ without even realizing it. Within the last week or so, I've gotten two conditioners and one leave-in. And it's not even ordering anything - it's random trips to the store! And they're cheap, so I never think twice about picking it up. Dang drugstore product reviews, mane. *grumble*

 

[robot.]

I don't understand why people think that going natural is "expensive." erplexed It's not like you really need any "special" product, and drugstore stuff is cheap. I can't tell whether it's a myth people actually believe or a reason to not go natural.

In all fairness, I know there are some relaxed ladies that are PJs, too.

 

[robot.]

I want to kick myself because the Black Student Union on my campus had a meeting and discussed "good hair." I heard the naturals and relaxed ladies were going at it.

 

[SND411]

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[SND411]

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[robot.]

Dang, you had to edit twice? Must've been some confession.

 

[robot.]

IDK if I'm just going crazy, or if all the trashy hood videos are just getting to me, but I go through this not-so-nice bus station every once in a while.

One day, I imagined a girl called me out: "Ohh, you think you cute 'cuz you got long hair. Beeyatch!"

Son tried to grab for my ponytail and I flattened her out with the quickness and said something nice and ghetto back, flicking my ponytail, too.

 

[chebaby]

i confess....i plan on putting yarn braids in my hair within the next week or two. i feel bad because i have always been anti fake hair. its yarn i know but its the same thing to me.

 

[chebaby]

I don't understand why people think that going natural is "expensive." erplexed It's not like you really need any "special" product, and drugstore stuff is cheap. I can't tell whether it's a myth people actually believe or a reason to not go natural.

In all fairness, I know there are some relaxed ladies that are PJs, too.

sooooo true. my hair can thrive with shea butter, evco, evoo, black soap and conditioner. it doesnt take much to braid the hair in the winter and wash and go in the summer. whats hard or exspencive about that?
people just always have an exscuse lol.

 

[robot.]

I was anti-fake hair until this year, when I got a weave AND braids. And I hadn't had braids in years, too.

But I found a girl who does really nice senegalese for EIGHTY BUCKS. I gotta find her number again because I loved them when I had them. Why oh why does she have to live in DC...

 

[robot.]

sooooo true. my hair can thrive with shea butter, evco, evoo, black soap and conditioner. it doesnt take much to braid the hair in the winter and wash and go in the summer. whats hard or exspencive about that?
people just always have an exscuse lol.

Right! They ain't fooling nobody. And it's only expensive when you become a PJ... but that's more of a "hobby" than it is about hair.

 

[chebaby]

i was thinking about getting my hair done in DC but i will just do them myself. and if i look a HAM then oh well lmao.

 

[robot.]

I don't have the patience to do them myself - with fake hair, that is. IDK how and takes entirely too long, but at least I could do them myself over a weekend... maybe I should at least learn.

 

[Chaosbutterfly]

I've been on my no-buy challenge for exactly 4 days, and I'm already feeling the burn. Somebody, help me.

 

[robot.]

Go the exchange... maybe you can trade. That's not buying.

 

[Chaosbutterfly]

Go the exchange... maybe you can trade. That's not buying.

Smh, stop enabling mee!!
And that still counts...the challenge is no new products. I can only replenish my staples should they run out.

Besides, I tried....nobody wants what I gots. Or rather, what I'm willing to part with.

 

[robot.]

Dang, man, they thorough. They got your number.

 

[jevetta]

MY confessions
I wish I new how to care for natural hair in high school and beyond. I like nappy hair, just never new what to do to it. My hair would have been the bomb if I knew then what I know now.
I would like it to grow to at least 21 inches, so I could have two big Pocahantes braids to my boobs
some people don't look good with natural hair, wrong texture for their coloring, bone structure etc
My daughter has a hair texture to die for, but I would prefer a jet black color instead of her brown color jeve

 

[Junebug D]

I saw someone with thin (sparse) hair with locs yesterday... it looked awful. The locs weren't particularly big or small either, just medium, average-sized. Makes me frightened to ever loc since I am sparse-haired as well, in the same area in the crown where this woman was too.

 

[SherylsTresses]

My latest natural hair idol is Muffinz05 and I stalk her Fotki every day. I just love her buns and bands.

 

[mrsjohnson75]

My hair is so big and poofy. I luv it

 

[SherylsTresses]

Smh, stop enabling mee!!
And that still counts...the challenge is no new products. I can only replenish my staples should they run out.

Besides, I tried....nobody wants what I gots. Or rather, what I'm willing to part with.

Try going into stores and walk around with your favorite products in your hand but put them back before you make it to the register. It works for me.

 

[robot.]

Try going into stores and walk around with your favorite products in your hand but put them back before you make it to the register. It works for me.

I do this. Something about just having them, even for a little bit, makes me feel good.

 

[lovelyone80]

newbie checking in...some of mine:

1. when i was little i was jealous of my sister's waist length 2b hair. (ooh waves for days!!)

2. i am natural (been natural since Aug 08) and sometimes want to go back to relax when on wash days because it's too hard. but then my hair dries and feels all cottony and I am in love again.

3. sometimes i just want to cut it real low and wear micros for the rest of my life

 

[chebaby]

i confess that these braids are coming out tonight. i feel kinda bad because i just put them in last thursday but i can take it anymore. plus there is a chunky braid out that i want to try for the first time. and if it doesnt come out right i will just throw it in a puff.

 

[Ms. Alainious]

I knew I needed to wash my braids before I left for this business trip...but I was being lazy.

Now my braids itch, and I'm resisting the urge to go to Walmart, buy all the supplies I left at home, do my hair, then take it all back...

 

[lilsparkle825]

some people don't look good with natural hair, wrong texture for their coloring, bone structure etc

so do you mean i'm wrong for being yella with type 4 hair, or that brown-skinned and 3b don't go together? (am i instigating? probably)

back OT:

i really do think everyone should go natural at least once in their adult lives, but at their own timing, of course.

i sometimes think of texlaxing/relaxing when i hit MBL so i will have undeniably long hair instead of it only being when i straighten. when i think about the fact that my hair will never really grow DOWN like some of my hair idols', i realize my fro will just get fuller instead of longer and that bothers me. then i have days like today...where my puff was just so huge and coily...

i want to slap my cousin for putting that relaxer in her 3 y/o daughter's hair. i also want to slap those shiny stiff synthetic tracks out of her head...her first sew-in and it's JACKED because her hairstylist is giving her bad advice (although i seriously doubt she would take mine because, according to her, i have good hair and she doesn't )

i want a FT job partly so i can afford my hair's lavish lifestyle. it's doing just fine with aussie and this pink bonnet dryer, but i SO want some hairveda/QB/aveda and a pibbs.

and although it bothers me that people are as BOLD as to shove their hands in my scalp...i like being weave checked. it means i'm not making up the fact that my hair is healthy and growing.

 

[robot.]

i confess that these braids are coming out tonight. i feel kinda bad because i just put them in last thursday but i can take it anymore. plus there is a chunky braid out that i want to try for the first time. and if it doesnt come out right i will just throw it in a puff.

What kind of braids did you do? How'd they come out?

 

[Skiggle]

When my mother asked me what I wanted
for X-mas.. I told her hair products.. *she thinks
I'm crazy...



I'm counting down the days till Black Friday,
so I can splurge on hair products/accessories...

 

[Bene]

When I'm extra frustrated with my hair, I look at pictures of other people's heads and I feel better because mine doesn't look like that even on a bad day. Sort of like when I'm broke and I see a homeless person I feel thankful that I'm not homeless.