It has been 1 month since I cut my relaxed hair off, so I wanted to post about the good, the bad, and the ugly! Well, maybe just the good and the bad, lol....there hasn't been any ugly!
The Good:
- Growth- When I cut my hair a month ago, the hair remaining on my head measured at 4 inches. Yesterday, my hair measured at 5.5 inches!
- Cute- Everyone loves my hair everywhere I go!
- Convenient- When I wash my hair, it only takes about an hour- 2 hours to air dry and about 30 minutes under a hooded dryer!
- Working out- My hair used to limit my workout schedule... I couldn't work out right after I washed and roller set it, etc. But now, I think the more I do the bigger and better my hair looks later.
- Cute/ Convenient- Most nights when I go to bed I do not have to do anything. No durags or scarves or anything! So that's convenient and cute...except when I wake up with the flat side-head look lol.
- Skin- Maybe its all in my head, but I feel like my skin is clearer and more radiant. Maybe it has to do with the more natural products I am using on my hair now? I dunno...
- Exciting!- I love change =-)
The Bad:
- Growth- I know you are thinking, "Isn't growth a good thing?" Well, of course it is. However, due to the growth, I am now in the awkward stage where the styles I was starting to get used to don't look right anymore...like the puff. Last month this was my staple. Now, it looks crazy...like a big skunk is sitting on my head!
Limited- Because I am in this in between stage I feel limited in styles. My hair isn't quite long enough to do many of the twist out and up do styles I see on YouTube, but it isn't short enough to rock the puff anymore. Even the curly-fro looks weird at this length.- Shrinkage- I didn't notice the shrinkage so much last month, but now!?!?! Its so frustrating when I wet my hair, style it and roll out...then I walk past a window or a mirror later in the day and I'm like, "That is NOT how I styled my hair this morning!?!" So I start trying to pull it to stretch it out, but without oil or some type of lubricant on my fingers...here comes the frizz!
- Sleeping- I know I said earlier that since cutting my hair it is cuter and more convenient at bedtime...I said MOST nights! But there are many times I am surfing YouTube, and I see a style that I want to try. These styles almost always require the hair to air dry overnight. (i.e. bantu knot outs, flexirods, etc). These things are NOT comfortable to sleep in!
- Protecting Styles at Night- When I do make it through the night to create a new style, my hair is usually awesome that next morning...so awesome that I want to keep it in for a few days. BUT, my hair is too short to use the pineapple method (gathering all the hair in a pony tail at the top of my head) to protect the style from frizzing up or getting flat for the next day.
Using Elastic Hair Comb on old bantu knot out:
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Love you all,
Curlie E
L.O.V.E. your blog! Transitioning is hard, but you can do it! Just stick with it - it definitely gets better. I too am waiting for my hair to grow long enough for the pineapple method!
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