Let me start off by saying I know better. I know better than to cut my hair with my son's safety scissors. I know better than to keep cutting when I have clearly cut too much off. And I damn sure know better than to cut my hair wet, then dry, then wet, then dry…but, somehow it still happened. I don't know what I was thinking. I just have a trashcan full of my beautiful fuzzy topping and knot you would not believe that are preventing me from twisting this mess up so I can pop a wig on top. So, I am heading to the beauty salon bright and early tomorrow, because I am going to the Velocity Dance Festival tomorrow night and I would like to look nice.
So, learn from my mistakes. Do not cut your hair at home unless you have the proper tools and some knowledge of design and texture. If you are like me, please use the knowledge you have before undertaking any activities. I think people need to go see the hairdresser anyway. Women who get relaxers and color should invest in letting a professional do it. It is worth the money to be able to rip a picture out of a magazine and have someone else do the thinking. The problem is finding someone you can trust to make you look good. Lucky for me, a friend referred me to a hairdresser I have seen once before, so as soon as I finish this business class I have scheduled tomorrow morning, I will head in her direction.
It's a shame really. I was avoiding the cost of the hairdresser and now I have to pay anyway, and I have already cut off way more than I needed to. My girl just laughed when I told her about it, she then went on to remind me of the last time I tried to cut my hair myself, which was amazing to me because I should have learned this last time this was a bad idea. I never cease to amaze myself with the number of times I can repeat the same mistake without taking away the lesson.
We ladies, in our quest for beauty, sometimes ignore clear signs, signals and evidence that we are using the wrong approach to deal with an issue. Whether we fight our natural texture with straighteners, braid it up in impossibly tight weaves, neglect our god given strands, giving preference to unidirectional remy from india, we can be nicer to our hair, and it will be a beautiful result. Challenge yourself, change your concept of beauty, professionalism, and sexiness. Just because I can't fingercomb my hair from roots to tip does not make my hair hard to manage. It is just a different kind of management. The world deserves to see this beauty, and those who would deny me, need to face the fact that I exist naturally in this form. Show em your bush girl!
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Joni Murray
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