Being blessed to be the only girl, and the baby of 5 brothers, you can only imagine how the journey with my hair went! I love my mother, lord knows I do, but momma couldn't do hair worth a fart (LOL). Since I was the baby and the only girl after 5 boys, I think momma was in a state of shock with having to actually "do" hair now after all the boys. As seen, my hair was nice and curly when I was a precious infant, but the genes kicked in and kicked my momma in the butt! My hair went from the "awww her hair is so soft and curly" to " dang her hair is nappy!". I can remember going to the hair dresser, my mother’s friend who seemed old enough to be my grandmother, to get my hair pressed and seeing the PCJ and Pink Oil Moisturizer commercials on TV, and wanting my hair like the girls on TV. I also remember getting my hair done on a Saturday morning and getting yelled at, whooped and sometimes even going to the hairdresser again, because somewhere between me getting my hair done at 9 am and playing outside until that evening, my hair was "TOE UP!" Yep I said toe up! And we all know momma was not about to go to church with her baby girl looking a mess!
My mother did her best but to ease the stress of dealing with my hair, that was now past my shoulders and was think and course, but she got tired of having to re-press my hair (so did I! Momma scared me with the hot comb on the stove!) every other day, after it was professionally done. So around the 2nd grade, I was 7 years old, she introduced me to the "Creamy Hair Crack", which she calls her saving grace!
Tragedy strikes!!!! My beautiful hair that was long and past my shoulders began to slowly break off. In 4th grade, I wanted to do my hair myself and didn't want "momma" doing it anymore. I was still addicted to the crack and we meet up every 4-5 weeks, but I wanted my hair to do something’s that were just not possible. I remember getting frustrated because my mother said I had to wait another week to get my "hit" and I literally cut the "beady beads" out of my head! Yes, I cut the hair at the nape of my neck off because it would lay right! Crack will make you do some crazy stuff!
Between 5th and 6th grade, my past the shoulder length hair now had more of a asymmetrical style going on, and trust it wasn't cut like that! The back was to my shoulders, the right side was at the bottom of my ear and the left side was lost between the top and bottom of my ear. My ends were always splitting and I had graduated up from going to the hair dresser to get my fix, to going to the store and buying my own fix! Have you ever heard someone say "the longer it stays in the straighter your hair will be"? We I did and I took that literally! I began purchasing SUPER relaxers and letting them stay in for 25-30 minutes. Yep, I pushed through the burn. Sometimes my head would be full of sores, but my hair was silky straight and look fly......for about 3 days. Then it looked dull, dry and brittle. I grew up during the era of the "FAN". Ya'll remember that? The fan was the hotness! You would put your hair up in that ponytail, bump just the ends, fan it out and put those hair pens or clips on the sides! MAN!!!!!!!!!!! Just had a flashback! LOL! But when I got to high school, the wrap was it! |
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