liljoy
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My Hair Story Started Like This.
Starting at a very young age(about 8 years old) I notice that most people in my family had that long silky hair, and most of them are natural( from my mother side) so I wanted hair like that, but my hair didn't look nothing like everybody else in my family I wanted hair like my cousins, just like this:
But my hair looked like this:
Oops I mean like this:
So when i was about 14 I insisted so much in getting my hair relaxed, so it finally happened I had that silky hair I always wanted, I was in love with my hair
As much as I liked my hair, I didn't like the fact that I had to get it relaxed every 3 month, I couldn't leave it wet, I had to spend a lot of money just to maintain it looking good, and all whole bunch of other things that I wasn't happy with, so I started contemplating the idea of going natural, at the time I didn't remember how my hair really felt and looked when I was a lilgirl, it was a lilbit scary for me, I though about transitioning but knowing me I knew I wasn't gonna be able to deal with two different texture.
And one day after coming from work I did my first BIG SHOP that was in 2008!!!!
And this was my first hair style:
This was a couple of day after the Big Chop
And about 6 month after BC:
And a year later I decided to straighten my hair for the first time ton check my growth:
I never had my hair another color but black, so since I didn't had relaxer in my hair anymore, I started playing with colors:
Here u can see how the bleach made my curls looser, I had very hight curls before bleaching:
I wanted my hair Lighter so I went lighter:
But because of this I ended up with bleach damage, and then my curls looked horrible just like this:
As u can see, my ends were straight just like if i had then relaxed and in order for me to get my curls looking good I made another mistake, I started using a curling iron.
It looked like that:
So now not only I had bleach damage but also heat damage I don't think it gets worse than that.
So I decided to BC again for the second time.
As u can see I cut all the heat and bleach damage I had, so in about 2 years I BC twice.
Then I played with even more color, a reddish blonde:
now this is the funny part, I always like the phony pony, or however u want to called them but I never found my color, so I was like,there so many in black, I think I should dye my hair black again, anyway I had it black before so, here I come again and dye it black, now this was a day before going to my country, don't laugh at what u are about to see:
I hated this it was horrible, my hair was hard the color was like blue, OMG what have I done? i said to my self, but I couldn't do much I was leaving next day so I bought my draw string pony and it looked ok:
The pony looked good but my hair was a mess:
And for some reason a few week after being there the my hair was turning green, and brown and a whole bunch of different colors:
I don't know if being in the water for long periods of time had anything to do with it, I was going to the river everyday, all I knew was that I had to do something about my hair, AGAIN..
So I bleach it again, u might be thinking is she crazy?
I'm not but I didn't like the black color on me anymore and I though it was already messed up so what did I had to loose?
I bleach it about 2 days before coming back to US, and that's when I started using the sambumbio my grandmother made as a DC, now when I got back home I cut my hair again, I don't consider this a BC even thought it was about 3 inches or so, but I got rid of the end that were kind of straight and damage. This is the day I got back from DR:
now my hair look like this:
This is my growth so far up till 12/30/10
Now the plan is not to have anymore BC,lol and grow my hair as long as it can, I'll be updating with pictures and detail info of what ever it is I'll be doing.
Starting at a very young age(about 8 years old) I notice that most people in my family had that long silky hair, and most of them are natural( from my mother side) so I wanted hair like that, but my hair didn't look nothing like everybody else in my family I wanted hair like my cousins, just like this:
But my hair looked like this:
Oops I mean like this:
So when i was about 14 I insisted so much in getting my hair relaxed, so it finally happened I had that silky hair I always wanted, I was in love with my hair
As much as I liked my hair, I didn't like the fact that I had to get it relaxed every 3 month, I couldn't leave it wet, I had to spend a lot of money just to maintain it looking good, and all whole bunch of other things that I wasn't happy with, so I started contemplating the idea of going natural, at the time I didn't remember how my hair really felt and looked when I was a lilgirl, it was a lilbit scary for me, I though about transitioning but knowing me I knew I wasn't gonna be able to deal with two different texture.
And one day after coming from work I did my first BIG SHOP that was in 2008!!!!
And this was my first hair style:
This was a couple of day after the Big Chop
And about 6 month after BC:
And a year later I decided to straighten my hair for the first time ton check my growth:
I never had my hair another color but black, so since I didn't had relaxer in my hair anymore, I started playing with colors:
Here u can see how the bleach made my curls looser, I had very hight curls before bleaching:
I wanted my hair Lighter so I went lighter:
But because of this I ended up with bleach damage, and then my curls looked horrible just like this:
As u can see, my ends were straight just like if i had then relaxed and in order for me to get my curls looking good I made another mistake, I started using a curling iron.
It looked like that:
So now not only I had bleach damage but also heat damage I don't think it gets worse than that.
So I decided to BC again for the second time.
As u can see I cut all the heat and bleach damage I had, so in about 2 years I BC twice.
Then I played with even more color, a reddish blonde:
now this is the funny part, I always like the phony pony, or however u want to called them but I never found my color, so I was like,there so many in black, I think I should dye my hair black again, anyway I had it black before so, here I come again and dye it black, now this was a day before going to my country, don't laugh at what u are about to see:
I hated this it was horrible, my hair was hard the color was like blue, OMG what have I done? i said to my self, but I couldn't do much I was leaving next day so I bought my draw string pony and it looked ok:
The pony looked good but my hair was a mess:
And for some reason a few week after being there the my hair was turning green, and brown and a whole bunch of different colors:
I don't know if being in the water for long periods of time had anything to do with it, I was going to the river everyday, all I knew was that I had to do something about my hair, AGAIN..
So I bleach it again, u might be thinking is she crazy?
I'm not but I didn't like the black color on me anymore and I though it was already messed up so what did I had to loose?
I bleach it about 2 days before coming back to US, and that's when I started using the sambumbio my grandmother made as a DC, now when I got back home I cut my hair again, I don't consider this a BC even thought it was about 3 inches or so, but I got rid of the end that were kind of straight and damage. This is the day I got back from DR:
now my hair look like this:
This is my growth so far up till 12/30/10
Now the plan is not to have anymore BC,lol and grow my hair as long as it can, I'll be updating with pictures and detail info of what ever it is I'll be doing.
You about to make me go out and buy a blond wig girl. lol
