It is my natural “hairversary” today i.e 3 years since I did the big chop. Woohoo!!! Gosh it has been such a roller coaster but I am still going strong. Just recently, I made a commitment to consciously grow my hair especially around my edges which don chopped off due to constant braiding and weaves (sigh). I am getting to know my hair more and techniques that work for natural hair. I am also on a mission to grow my hair and retain length.
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Aloted rocking a Bantu knot-out updo.
Self-Styled :) |
I am thankful for natural hair blogs run by
Natural Nigerian,
ilola and
Coilybella (just found her a few days ago) which I
stalk follow consistently. I follow a few African- Americans on Youtube but these girls can like oppress someone with their long flowing natural volumious hair… phew!!! sigh! So it is very comforting to find my fellow Nigerians who are running things. (Not that Nigerians can't grow long volumious hair but for some reason I can't explain I feel the Americans have special hair genes.) You ladies rock. Learning so much from y’all. I was excited to find coilybella's blog as we have similar type of hair (fine-hair)and she blogs specifically for what she does to maintain "our" type of hair.
By the way, NN is organising a natural meet up in Lagos this Nov. So if you are in Lagos please check
her blog for more details. I gather it is not just a meet up specific to natural hair but natural products and natural living as well.
I remember
Vera hosted a radio talk show a while ago about teamnatural vs teamrelaxed. It was so hilarious and some comments from both teams were like wow..ok…slow down. Even though technically I am teamnatural because I have natural hair, personally I don’t see myself as a "conc" teamnatural as it is not a “if you are not for me, you are against me” type thing. I see myself as teamaloted as I do what's best for me :)
Ladies, and men…keep rocking you :)
Thots,
Aloted
PS. conc= concentrated
