In Between Blues!

Do you truly feel like you are going crazy when it comes to your hair? Sure your hair is chemicl free, but it is short. It's no longer a twa (teeny wheeny afro), you can twist it and braid it, but your twist and braided styles are lacking umph. You keep looking for inspiration and what you find is that your hair is to short to do (feel in the blank!) You are frustrated and you just wish you could pull your hair into a pony-tail or a sleek bun and melt your troubles away. Your hair is too short for this though, sure you can fit your hair into 2 or 3 pony-tails, but you feel that style is just too elementry. You keep hearing that if you just hang on and keep your hair in a protective style you will finally get the length you desire. You say how am I supposed to keep twist and braids in my hair when I cant stand looking at the for more than a day. You break down and get a weave, a wig or some fake hair braids, but they itch, the cost, their too tight, you don't want to spend 8 plus hours sitting their getting braids. The fake hair is not your style and wasn't the point of going natural to rock your own natural hair. Your sitting here right now with your head under a wrap or a head scarf asking yourself what in the world am I going to do with my hair?

When your hair was shorter you were forced to just rock that fro, but now you have been warned that you need to keep that hair braided. You have noticed that when you wear twist-outs, or braid-outs you enjoy the style. The problem is these styles only seem to last for one day and isn't it too much manipulation( ie, anti protection ) to style your hair in twist every night only to take them down?

What about the trusty afro-puff? If you wear this style every day will it be bad for your hair? If you can never wear your hair out loose what it the point?

What if your hair is just too short for a quote on quote protective style suits your mood?

You tried to spice it up with cornrows and flat-twist only to discover that just like all Black folk don't have rhythm, they can't all braid.

So What do you do now?

Well I propose that you break the rules! Thats right, break the rules before you break down in tears, tear out your hair, cut it all off, relax it or burn the mess out of it with a flamming hot tool.

Which rules should you break? Which ever rules are necessary to achieve your style. What about the damages you say? Just do your best to care for your hair, moisturize, wash, condition, handle your hair gently and say a prayer and rock the styles that make you happy.

By stepping back from the stress of being ocd and preforming your sacred growth ritual you may notice that your hair just may grow to the level you desire right under your noise. You may just be able to have your cake and eat it too!

CLM