Miss_Jetsetter
Well-Known Member
Hi everyone! This is my first post on LHCF so I'm rather excited. I've been reading all the new posts as well as archives for around the last two months so I would just like to give a collective thank you for all of the great advice and tips that I gotten--on this board alone!
Although I have always had a decent amount of hair growing up (past my shoulders quite thick) when I was 16, I was diagnosed with juvenille rhuemetoid athritis and the meds sent my hair into a straight LIMBO! Gone were the thick and soft stands of hair I had. It just got really thin, you know?
I guess you can say that my hair never really recovered from my being sick for that 5 months or so in my teens. I kind of just let it be. Then when I was 19 years old, I got a job as a flight attendant for a private airline that flew around celebrities and many sport teams. The airlines are very heavy about your personal appearance being "tight" so I decided to use weave as a "supplement" to give my hair that nice polished look that the airline liked. Nothing fancy, just very natural looking. I also didn't glue, I sewed in all over. My friend who did my hair really worked wonders because no one EVER believed that I was wearing a weave when I told them(they literally had to feel the tracks and they'd be like wow!)
Anyway, this started becoming very addictive for me to the point where I would be taking my weave out Sunday morning and putting a fresh one in that night. I would always try to maintain it the best that I could. But the lack of care that I was giving to my natural hair underneath was just shamefully ridiculous.
Well, I'll just put it like this ladies-- In September I decided that was it--no more weave. And I am now 25! So that's like almost six years of torment to my precious hair! I hate to sound like a recovering addict but I felt so fake wearing all of that weave all these years and I just wanted to be me, ya know?
So I went to my sisters trusted stylist and he took me in and helped me. My hair was waaay past my shoulders but needless to say it wasn't in the best condition. He chopped off a few inches so here I am... Weaveless for close to 5 months now! I will admit that I have been having trouble controlling breakage, but honestly say that is why I am on this board so much. To find solutions and suggestions to common hair problems. I know that with some patience and guidance I will get to where I need to be. Sorry this is so long, but that you for taking the time out to read. I look foward to talking with you ladies!
Although I have always had a decent amount of hair growing up (past my shoulders quite thick) when I was 16, I was diagnosed with juvenille rhuemetoid athritis and the meds sent my hair into a straight LIMBO! Gone were the thick and soft stands of hair I had. It just got really thin, you know?
I guess you can say that my hair never really recovered from my being sick for that 5 months or so in my teens. I kind of just let it be. Then when I was 19 years old, I got a job as a flight attendant for a private airline that flew around celebrities and many sport teams. The airlines are very heavy about your personal appearance being "tight" so I decided to use weave as a "supplement" to give my hair that nice polished look that the airline liked. Nothing fancy, just very natural looking. I also didn't glue, I sewed in all over. My friend who did my hair really worked wonders because no one EVER believed that I was wearing a weave when I told them(they literally had to feel the tracks and they'd be like wow!)
Anyway, this started becoming very addictive for me to the point where I would be taking my weave out Sunday morning and putting a fresh one in that night. I would always try to maintain it the best that I could. But the lack of care that I was giving to my natural hair underneath was just shamefully ridiculous.
Well, I'll just put it like this ladies-- In September I decided that was it--no more weave. And I am now 25! So that's like almost six years of torment to my precious hair! I hate to sound like a recovering addict but I felt so fake wearing all of that weave all these years and I just wanted to be me, ya know?
So I went to my sisters trusted stylist and he took me in and helped me. My hair was waaay past my shoulders but needless to say it wasn't in the best condition. He chopped off a few inches so here I am... Weaveless for close to 5 months now! I will admit that I have been having trouble controlling breakage, but honestly say that is why I am on this board so much. To find solutions and suggestions to common hair problems. I know that with some patience and guidance I will get to where I need to be. Sorry this is so long, but that you for taking the time out to read. I look foward to talking with you ladies!
