The second Big Chop!

FRUSTRATED. INTERNET, DON'T TEST ME. Especially when I just used a horrible new hair product! >8O(

posted on Mar 24, 2010 by SarahLibbzMSU

Wow. The site just completely erased this long blog I was working on. Smh. I'll just update tomorrow. Wayy too frustrated right now. With my hair AND the internet. It was a product review too and I hate the product so much I may just leave it at this: stick to Baby Buttercreme and don't downgrade, especially not to Belle Butters. Trust me. It's worth EVERY PENNY.

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Enlightened! ...again! :)

posted on Mar 24, 2010 by SarahLibbzMSU

Okay. I was SO confused as to why my hair would not stay in 2 strand twists. It is to the length where I can do them now! Yay! There littlr though lol. Anyways, so what I found out was that yes, my hair is VERY coarse, but since my curls are medium sized, I cannot even BEGIN to think about twisting my hair wet because it imply won't stay. It's hard finding information on my type of hair. Naturallycurly.com, PLEASE make some articles on hair that is coarse but not kinky! Me and a whole lot of other girls would benefit! So back to my point, I have to let my hair dry completely and shrink up to it's maximum curliness before my strands will wrap around each other. Solution is simple: Dry twists! :) They still end up fluffy with a big curl at the end, but I LOVE them because they always end up looking like those unicorn lollipops you get at the fair <3 So, I found a limitation I have with my hair, but that's good. I'm learning! My experience is so different this time around because I have chosen to completely stop ALL heat styling and my hair is acting completely different on me. It's like a different head of hair lol.

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PROUD OF MYSELF! :) An early reflection. A shorter wrap up will follow on Monday <3

posted on Mar 23, 2010 by SarahLibbzMSU

WHOAH! So I'm really just realizing that my haircut looks fabulous, and I'm so happy because I DID IT MYSELF! I have to pat myself on the back. I've never really cut hair before, aside from giving my friend a trim once (lol).
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Going natural is something that I am proud of, and throughout this process, I have started to realize even more little things I can be proud of. By deciding to embrace a new part of me, I have really started to have this self love and self worth that was never there before. Not that I didn't love ME, but I just felt that something was missing. My friends and family have noticed a change in my moods, and my boyfriend can't stop talking about how radiant my personality is. I truly feel that straightening my hair was covering a part of me up. I was "hiding" under lengths of blown out, flat ironed locks that I proudly flaunted. I thought of my long straightened hair as a sign of beauty, and received many compliments on how beautiful it was. But what I now realize is that, on some level, all of the compliments just made me feel worse. My hair wasn't naturally straight. And when people said how amazing it looked, it made me feel like my true self wasn't good enough. Every trip to the salon just reinforced the idea that the way God made me was somehow second rate. So straightening ceased to be a hair styling "option" for me and became a necessity. I think this is the reality a lot of curly haired girls go through.
It's amazing to me how much this blog has done. Like today, I just came back from class, plopped onto the futon, and opened my laptop, not expecting to have an epiphany about where my journey all started, and why it's so important to me. I didn't expect to have the confidence to say all these things publicly for all my transitioning sister to read. However, I think the point of the Grow Out Challenge is for us to share not only tips and tricks, but to share our experiences. I know I am in college, the official time to "Find Myself" but whether we realize it or not, ALL of us here on this blog are finding a new part of ourselves and learning to call it beautiful. That is SO significant. How many commercials do we see with natural haired girls? Not many. How any of us were brought up thinking our natural hair was beautiful? Dare I say only a few? How many of us wished for looser, silkier hair as a kid, or cried when a comment was said about how we look? These experiences are universal among us transitioners. It is BIG that because I am now choosing to embrace myself, I have made a choice that will someday help my kids to embrace themselves.
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When people see you natural, the may make fun, deny you opportunities, or exclude you, but at the end of the day, they are ACKNOWLEDGING the fact that you have made a conscious decision to be confident in YOU.

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Progress...

posted on Mar 23, 2010 by SarahLibbzMSU

looking healthy...and fluffy lol. NO PRODUCT today! feels so free :)

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Decisions, Decisions...

posted on Mar 23, 2010 by SarahLibbzMSU

Wow. I never really understood what people meant about having trouble accepting their natural hair until now. I have to go to an awards banquet for my boyfriend's pre-law fraternity on Sunday as his date and frankly, I'm concerned that going there natural is going to do a little more than raise some brows. He is also the president of the African-American Student Association at his college and is facing elections very soon to keep his position for next year, and I can't help but feel that me being natural will somehow change peoples views of him. He assures me that he absolutely loves my natural hair every time I see him, but I'm not sure his colleagues will feel the same. This is really a test for me. I feel that if I can make it through this, me and my newly natural mane can make it through anything! I'll post pics on Monday morning, then a reflection of my journey this month on Wednesday. Happy Transitioning, ladies. Be strong!

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