“Look At Me Now!”

Have you ever thought about what your hair says about you?

One of the things I love about being a Black woman is the versatility of our hair. Our hair comes in so many different natural colors, textures, and lengths. I was born with dark brown, coarse, and very THICK hair. When I was a little girl, I HATED getting my hair washed and combed. It would hurt so bad due to how much hair there was and how thick it was. I have vivid memories of going to my aunt’s house to get my hair washed and styled and she would comment on how thick my hair was and how tired it made her to comb it out haha. My mother chose to relax my hair around the age of 8 due to this fact.

Let me distinguish between a relaxer and a perm. This isn’t me throwing any kind of shade, but Black people don’t necessarily get perms. A perm is a chemical hair procedure that tightens the curls. A relaxer does just the complete opposite. It is a chemical hair procedure that actually loosens the curl pattern and straightens the hair. A relaxer affects the hair on the head, but when the hair continues to grow, the new growth will be of the same texture the person naturally has. So basically, if you want to continue to have straight hair you would have to apply a relaxer to your hair multiple times a year, but you would apply the product to just the new growth to make it straight like the rest of the hair. There wouldn’t be a need to relax the hair that was already relaxed. Are you following me?? Lol.

I feel that many of us Black women grew up receiving relaxers to loosen our curl pattern and straighten our hair. I’m not going to go into theories as to how this phenomenon came to be. But lately, many Black women have been “going natural.” What that means is that they have chosen to no longer apply the chemical relaxer to their hair and opted for their natural curl pattern to thrive. I went natural October 2018. My hairstyle leading up to that was straight hair on top of my head and the sides and back of my head were shaved low. I would style the top of my hair how I saw fit – straight, weave, color, braids, WHATEVER! I started to freely wear my natural hair May 2019. Now, I love my short haircut and my curls!

But of course, I still want to embrace the versatility of my hair as a Black woman. So, what did I do? Even though my short haircut is my all-time favorite hairstyle I’ve had as an adult, and I have all intentions to keep that hairstyle, I went and got my hair braided! I now have various braids that fall down to the middle of my back and I can style them however I want. It gives me the ability to “switch it up a little” and I love that because I miss that.

Black women can wear their hair in soooo many ways! Straightened, curly, short, long, braided, colored, weaved, loc’d, all of the above. We can keep a hairstyle in for a few days, weeks, or even months. If we don’t like the current style, we can comb or cut it out and start over with something else. But let me not forget about our Black men and their ability to style their hair differently.

We have seen many Black men wear their hair in cornrows, with a nice fade, bald, or loc’d up. But we probably don’t think too much about how or why they made the decision to style their hair in that way. New Man SMP in Atlanta provides men with another option. Let me not act like sometimes our age, genetics, or life, in general, don’t have a negative effect on our hair. New Man SMP offers the world’s leading hair loss solution, helping change the lives of men suffering from hair loss. They should be your go-to business for scalp micropigmentation in Atlanta!

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Your hair can be a representation of you – how you’re feeling, how you carry yourself, and what type of person you are. Your hair can say a lot about you. What do you want yours to say?!

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” — John 3:16, NKJV.

Moni Jay, Off the Record