OCB: One Classy Broad

Took one of the twists out. It was way at the edge in the back of my head so I thought maybe just maybe the hair would be short enough for me to just take it out and let it be. I forgot that my hair has grown a bit. I’ll have the lady redo it when I come back from Maryland. It feels so much better now. She did a good job not being too tight everywhere else, my head feels great. It feels like how it felt weeks after having the braids, and it has only been days. That one twist in the back was just so damn tight it was just too painful, and the area around it was pretty red. I’d rather have some hair stickin’ out that I’ll need to bobby pin than just lose my hair. 

“Women of other ethnicities, their hair falls by nature. It drops, and drapes, and hangs loosely. But a Black woman’s hair rises by nature. It blossoms against the current of life. At its best, it swirls and spins like the earth, or the sun – a supernova of sublimity and strength. And like any other heavenly body, a Black woman’s natural hair demands nothing less than orbit: total praise from every physical thing within her influence, all revolving around her omnipotence – instinctively, humbly, and altogether. Whether dynamically drifting, or stationary and rooted, every living thing that finds itself before a Black woman’s natural hair is designed to stare and wonder.”

randomactsoftash:

I don’t know who wrote/said this, but I LOVE it! This kept me motivated when I was transitioning. :)

(via jammgirl)

Tried my hand at making my own hair oil

Melted some Extra Virgin coconut oil, added some rosemary oil and peppermint oil. Mixed it up. Put it in a little tub thingy and stuck it in the fridge. I’m hoping there’s enough coconut oil so that the whole thing will just solidify, but even if it doesn’t it’s still good. 

Braids tomorrow!

Nervous. I just spent the last hour looking up products I should use. Thinking I may buy some Jamaican Black Castor Oil, but I’ll ask my aunt (she’s a hair stylist) first to see what her opinion is.

I hope I like these braids. I also hope it doesn’t take alllllll daaaaay. Also, I hope this woman is good at what she does. I’m paying her 60, and I’m worried that’s cheap and you know what they say…”you get what you pay for”.