Saturday, December 8, 2012

Natural hair and rain

One day last week, I was really happy about how my knot out came out. It was puffed just right and felt good about good going to work. I walk out the door and it's raining. The car (of course) is parked across the street. I immediately went back to my "relaxer brain" and went back into the house. Cant find my umbrella. I have a hat but it won't fit my head full of hair. (It fit when I bought it but my hair was also flat ironed at the time). Glance at my watch and I literally don't have time to really think about this. Just run to the car and deal. I mean -my hair is in its natural state. My hair needs moisture. Rain is water which is moisture, right? The rain will just make my hair puff out more than it is but that's ok. I'm not worried about it. So I sprinted for the car, got in, took a quick look in the mirror and sped off. Then I had the thought -natural hair and rain.  How do women that have been natural for a long time deal with rain? Do they at all? I just watched a Youtube vid (gotta love Youtube and the many women posting videos of their journey. I'm truly grateful) of a female who said that she had flat ironed her hair, it looked great and she left. She got to school and it turned into a huge puff ball. She said it looked like a disaster. I personally thought it looked great but it wasn't my hair so it's all good. Some women say that the rain and cold weather will not affect natural hair as long as the hair is well moisturized. I'm thinking that it just depends on the person's hair. Just like the first lesson I learned last week: everybody's hair is different. BTW -the day I ran out in the rain, by 11a, my hair was a little more puffy and bigger than it was when I left but I liked it. Will that happen all the time? Not sure but I will just accept it. #naturalhairrocks

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