My Hair Journey

Hi guys! It is only fair that my first blog post be about what I am going through at this very moment: transitioning from VERY damaged hair to naturally curly. This is one of the hardest things I have done thus far in my life (i'm a little dramatic just fyi) but I am proud of myself for not giving up. I am Dominican and have naturally brown curly hair that (use to) weigh the rest of my body down. Up until Freshmen Year in High School my hair was very long and I almost always had it straightened because the curls were too much for me to handle. Sophomore year the day after my Sweet 15, I cut 16 inches off my long luscious hair into a very short bob. That was great but my hair was SO thick I looked like dora :( My hair grew quickly but I became addicted to cutting and was constantly cutting inches off whenever I was bored (I really should have found a hobby!) Meanwhile I was still blowdrying and flat ironing my hair WEEKLY.

Fast foward a couple years, I graduated High School in 2011 and remained cutting and straightening. December 2013 I got really bored apparently and cut my hair into a pixie. That is the shortest my hair has ever been but I do not regret it. A pixie cut is something I had been contemplating and obsessing on Pinterest for a year and woke up one morning and did it. But guess what I kept doing after the pixie cut though??? You guessed it...Straightening my hair!

I got bored again with black hair and got ombre this year in March. Yes all the heat was damaging but bleaching my hair was the last straw.  After two bleaching sessions a couple weeks apart my hair was screaming for help. Early June 2015 I bought some essential hair products, washed my hair on June 12th determine not to put it in rollers. It's been almost two months and I've been rocking my natural hair.Now I know two months does not seem like a lot but for me it has felt like an eternity. Embracing my natural hair has not been easy. I still love my hair straight and am slowly learning to love my curls again. I have good hair days and REALLY bad hair days but thats ok, I'm going with the flow;)