I just came back from my jobs Holiday luncheon. This is the time you seat around and watch all your co-workers make a pig out of themselves. I wasn’t looking forward to going at first; you know how that goes? I was very upset that:
1. The luncheon started at 11am.
2. We didn’t have alcoholic drinks available!
3. After the luncheon we had to go back to work!
Thank goodness I rode with two of my “Cool Ass” co-workers Efua and Tanisha, because I knew we would talk about our job and the crazy people we work with on the way to the luncheon. But to my great surprise our conversation turned into a positive and uplifting conversation about being a woman and what that means. We talked about natural herbs and how they can help a woman’s body etc… These are the type of conversations that most men would love to be privy to! I felt so much empowerment and sisterhood from our conversation! What most women don’t understand and realize is that this is a form of bonding and possible networking.
Today I learned that Tanisha stop using hair relaxers for the past two years and this has inspired her to learn more about black women’s natural hair and the techniques to having bone straight hair. The picture below is one of Tanisha's client’s daughter and her “NATURAL HAIR“! I wonderd who’s that little girl in the picture because she is so adorable! As black women we are very critical of our own hair and we are DOUBLE TIMES as critical of other women’s hair! You know this is true! I also learned from Tanisha that the transformation from premed hair to natural hair isn’t a very easy process to do in the beginning.
Once you make your mind up about really doing it, you have to understand a few simple things. Once your hair is pressed out you must keep up the maintenance and wrapping your hair at night is essential to making sure your hair stays straight. Many of the hair products you normally use are for processed hair, you wouldn’t use all the same products if you want to go natural. Believe it or not what you eat is also important to your hair and it‘s growth.
I didn’t want Tanisha to stop talking, I felt like I was learning for the first time how to manage my hair in a different and natural way. I asked Tanisha if I could do my very first personal article about natural hair and techniques featuring her? Not only did Tanisha agree but she also promised to have more before and after pictures of some of her clients. So be on the lookout for this article!
Of course I watched Chris Rock’s movie “Good Hair” and I found it to be very funny and real however there was one part in the movie that really pissed me off! Do you remember when Chris Rock was to talking to the scientist about the amount of acid that is used in each plastic bucket of a perm black women uses? The scientist asked Chris, “Why would black women do that” and Chris Rock said because “They want to be white“. I wanted to grab his ass out of that television set and pimp slap him a few times! Damn Chris Rock, is that really what you think of all black women? It was at that time I wondered if most black women watching this movie caught that as well. After watching the movie I started thinking about only one thing: “Have I become addicted to the creamy crack“? Like most black women the perm helps me to manage my hair. Doing without it, I don’t even want to think about it. But hmmmmmm, could I really go natural?
One of the beautiful things about being a black woman is our hair, if we not happy with our own hair we can just add more! It’s just not a black women's thing anymore! Most of my good friends of all races are wearing braids, ponytails, tracks, sewed in and clip on etc….. BOY HAVE TIMES CHANGED!
Thank you Tanisha for allowing me to share your story and leading me to my natural way!
