How Can I ever learn to love these naps?

[Rei]

pookaloo83 where are you getting these awesome photos from!? which tumblr?

 

[pookaloo83]

@pookaloo83 where are you getting these awesome photos from!? which tumblr?

@Rei "natural hair rocks". I go on there daily. I get alot of my styles from there.

When I get on my own laptop I'll post the link. I don't know it by heart.

ETA: http://blkgirlsrock.tumblr.com/

 

[Solitude]

@Nonie - I think it is the length. (I'm sure the beauty/sex appeal of these women and their iconic imagery affects my judgment as well, but I have always loved these women's fros since I was little girl.) I do like that last pic of Florida Evans, even though that big ole laugh on her face made me chuckle .

I like all of the pics you posted in #114 as well, but I still have that iconic image of the combed-out fro etched in my mind as the ideal fro.

 

[southerncitygirl]

here's some real talk girlie.....you are not likely to really fall inl.ove with your hair until you get past sl cause shrinkage is a mutha and the longer your hair gets the more styles you can do. be patient and realize that tehre is a learning curve with handling and loving your natural hair. don't feel guilty for feeling this way cause many of us have on some level.

 

[3CurlyQs]

(((OP))), I love your hair too! It looks soft and fluffy and reminds me of my own hair after I had gotten over the shock of a BC I didn't ask for that took me from SL to TWA (about 5+ inches down the drain at the hands of a SHS), I went through a few days of trying out different products as leave-ins, that my friend sent me...and among them was S Curl. It was then that I discovered my holy grail, and I couldn't get enough of the fluffy soft cloud my hair formed. I see the same in your hair, albeit yours isn't shaped into a dome, but it's there alright.

Here are pics of my hair at that time:

Every night I would plait it in as big plaits as I could get it in, and then put on a baggy. In the morning it'd comb out with such ease and it'd just form the afro because the wetness would make it coil.

I don't like WNGs. I never did them coz just the thought of them spelled tangles and problems. I wish you lived near me, I'd help you see the beauty I see.

If your regimen is tedious, then it is understandable why you'd be fed up. @pookaloo83 made a good point about putting the hair away. I enjoyed my TWA stage but I am as lazy as they come. And after a while I didn't feel like styling my hair day in, day out. So I put braids in. I'm fortunate because I can do my own extension braids and the benefit of extensions was I could whip them into a style in a jiffy or just do nothing and not look crazy. I did redo one at a time as needed and thus maintain my hair and I'd trim the ends when I thought of it. Being in braids also meant I could forget about my hair. And in that time, it grew so that I could sport a puff further back on my head:

What is your regimen? I have the laziest regimen there is and so my hair never feels like a chore. Perhaps having a simple regimen can help? I keep leaving my PC while typing this so I don't know if this is redundant question, but if it hasn't been asked and you haven't done so yet, OP can you share your regimen?

Thanks Nonie! I just got a new style idea!