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September 2004
Over four years! Amazing!
I still don't really do much with my hair. I don't think I've put curls in it at all this year. It's quite long now, so I usually wear it up. Still dealing with these darn hot flashes .... err.... I mean power surges... and I just can't stand all that hair on my neck and cheeks. So I don't let it hang loose very often anymore. Do hot flashes ever end? If anyone can answer that question, PLEASE let me know!!
My hair regimen hasn't changed. Weekly shampoo and herbal rinse, followed by moisturizer while it's still soaking wet. I let it air dry and then moisturize again after it's dry. That's about it.
I do have a few of things I want to show you, though... so I took some pictures for that purpose.
3 YRS. 6 MOS.
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| January 2004 Just washed it, and my daughter thought this would make a good picture for the web site. |
3 YRS. 7 MOS.
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Me in my L.B. Soc™. This thing is great for bedtime (it
stays on), and I also wear it when I'm housecleaning to keep the
dust out of my hair. You can get one for yourself at |
 Here I pulled the top of my hair up into a ponytail and secured it. I don't know what you call the thing I secured it with. It's made of bone and holds the hair with a stick that goes through holes on each end. (I'm not very good at describing things, am I?) |
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July 2004. My fourth nappy anniversary!
These pictures aren't that great. One's too dark and the other
is too light. The one on the left is how I wear my hair 99% of the time.
It's neat, it's easy, and it's not hanging around my face &
neck. |
4 YRS. 1 MO.
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August 2004
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4 YRS. 2 MOS.
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September 2004 Some people are product junkies (you know who you are). I'm
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CREAMY CRACK DAMAGE!! I just had to show you this. If you still don't believe that the creamy crack is bad bad bad for your hair, this should change your mind. Bear with me a minute while I explain. You know how whenever people see a Black woman with long hair, they always think it's a weave or a wig? Have you ever stopped to wonder why we automatically assume that our hair (in general) won't grow long? Well here's why.. creamy crack. Permanent relaxers. Perms. Straighteners. Texturizers. Even jheri curls. Call it whatever you want, but you know what I'm talking about. It's very seldom that you see a Black woman who uses this garbage and still has long healthy hair. Why? Because the stuff keeps our hair dry and causes constant, unyielding breakage. Case in point: In the last part of 1999 and again in the early part of 2000, I burned a spot in the top of my head -- the same spot twice -- with the creamy crack. I'm sure you've gone through it. We always get burned with that stuff... sometimes little small burns that are easily overlooked (but they still do their damage), and sometimes pretty good-sized burns that you have to nurse back to health. Well I burned a small spot in the top front of my head twice, and it has now been 4 years since I used that stuff, and in the picture below you can see the permanent damage that it did to my scalp. The lock on the left grew out of a healthy area of my scalp, but right next to it you see the lock on the right that grew out of the previously-burned area. Not even an inch apart, you can see how the creamy crack stunted the growth in that part of my scalp. I've never cut it (other than cutting the relaxed hair off the ends... the same as I did all over my head)... it just grows veeerrrrrrryyy slowly in that area. This is why our hair isn't usually very long (and why we spend so much money on wigs, weaves, ponytails, and all that fake stuff). The damaged area actually has effected 4 or 5 locks right in the front, but I only pulled one down to show you the extreme difference.
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Break the creamy crack addiction! Grow your own hair! |
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