So, in light of it being Friday the thirteenth I decided to share
a couple of my hair horror stories. A few little tidbits if you will, from
before my natural hair journey, enjoy!
A few years ago I was at my splits end with my hair (get it
splits end?), it was out of control! The texture was like straw from so much
dying and relaxing and I had no other solution but to smother it in Blue Magic
hair conditioner and relax again once the texture of my real hair started to
come in.
One day I was relaxing my hair in a friend of mines bathroom,
I began sectioning and combing the product through as usual. The box said the
relaxer would take effect in about 20minutes, which was pretty quick in my opinion.
After 20 minutes I washed out my hair, styled and moisturised as I usually did
and went back into the living room to show the finished product to my buddy. At
first everything was ok I turned to show the back and got great responses.
After about five minutes my friend’s mother said to me “Noli...your
hair is on smoking....” I looked at her face to see of she was joking but to my
dismay she was completely serious! I jumped up and grabbed the phone “I'm gonna
call 911 in that case.” I warned jokingly trying to call her bluff “go right
ahead I'm serious”. I RAN to the bathroom and sure enough my hair was FUMING! There
were literally yellow gas clouds coming off of my head! I grabbed a bottle of
conditioner to try and smother the fumes and wrapped my hair in a hot towel. Thank
fully I was not burned and my hair was ok (well if you call crispy hair ok).
I’d like to say that after that day I no longer used
chemical relaxers, however foolishly I did continue until I decided enough was
enough, and started down the natural path!
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With Love
Nol
