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Missmonie - October Updates

Missmonie - October Updates
I'm here to share my natural hair journey. I'm trying different syles/products so be sure to check in for updates!!

**Sometimes I get super busy with work, life etc, etc....so forgive me if I don't respond to messages or comments.....but I will eventually :-)

I cut away the last bit of my relaxer on April 13, 2007 after transitioning for 17 months. I was so excited to finally see my true hair texture. And I absolutely love it! I've gotten mixed reactions. Some love it....some hate it and people on the street always have questions which inspires me because I know that the natural hair revolution is growing :-)

I did a monologue in a college play about hair....and now it has so much more meaning to me. I believe the author is Paulette Caldwell:

"I want to know my hair again, to own it, to delight in it again, to recall my earliest mirrored reflection when there was no beginning and I first knew that the person who laughed at me and cried with me and stuck out her tongue at me was me. I want to know my hair again, the way I knew it before I knew that my hair is me, before I lost the right to me, before I knew that the burden of beauty—or lack of it—for an entire race of people could be tied up with my hair and me.

I want to know my hair again, the way I knew it before I knew Sambo and Dick, Buckwheat and Jane, Prissy and Miz Scarlett. Before I knew that my hair could be wrong—the wrong color, the wrong texture, the wrong amount of curl or straight. Before hot combs and thick grease and smelly-burning lye, all guaranteed to transform me, to silken the coarse, [resistant] wool that represents me. I want to know once more the time before I denatured, denuded, denigrated, and denied my hair and me, before I knew enough to worry about edges and kitchens and burrows and knots, when I was still a friend of water—the rain’s dancing drops of water, a swimming hole’s splashing water, a hot, muggy day’s misty invisible water, my own salty, sweaty, perspiring water.

When will I cherish my hair again, the way my grandmother cherished it, when fascinated by its beauty, with hands carrying centuries-old secrets of adornment and craftswomanship, she plaited it, twisted it, cornrowed it, finger-curled it, olive-oiled it, on the growing moon cut and shaped it, and wove it like fine strands of gold inlaid with semiprecious stones, coral and ivory, telling with my hair a lost-found story of the people she carried inside her?"


--Last relaxer: 11/05
--Texture: 4a
--Current length: about 12-13 inches (just about BSL when stretched) but the shrinkage is fierce!
--Goal: Healthy hair that's around 15 inches long. Is it possible???
--Websites that I like: www.karensbodybeautiful.com
www.naturallycurly.com

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Since:
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Gender:
Female gender
Age:
32
Tags:
natural hair, curly, ouidad
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Married
Sexual orientation:
Straight
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Non-smoker
Education:
Grad/professional school
Ethnicity:
Black/African descent
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