The Hair Chronicle

First off I thought you all would enjoy these 2 pictures! I had my hair dome in "corn rows"(it hurt so bad!)in Hawaii in 2003 for fun, not as cute with such pale scalp - but my hair has never been so small! The other picture is the after I took the braids out - pretty funny, Seth had to snap a picture before I washed it out!
MY HAIR used to be such a hard thing for me to deal with, only my mom can truly understand because she was there every time I had a breakdown about it! My poor mom wanted so badly to help me, but being someone who has stick straight hair that can hardly hold curl she was definitely lost when it came to my unruly curly hair! I experienced many hard haircuts and being teased about how big my hair was! A kid who sat behind me in a high school class actually asked the teacher if they could change their seat because they could not see past my hair! And another girl asked if my dad was black, my hair was so kinky! So my mom and I tried almost everything to make me happy about my hair! I got pretty good at doing it curly, but I remember the day I came home after having my hair professionally styled straight to show my mom and she actually cried! She was so happy for me! And then when I washed it a couple days later and couldn't get it straight myself she helped me do the best job we could! Now I can do it by myself (Aren't you glad mom?) it just takes awhile!
So this picture is in response to the challenge from Kyra(who by the way has perfect hair, I challenge her to find a bad hair picture of herself - I betcha she can't!) to post my worst hair picture. I think we all got on this because we have all had haircuts we weren't to happy with, mine are due usually to the person who trys to style it after getting it cut! No not me, yes there was a time that I did not know how to do my hair (I will post those pictures later, I have to scan those in - they are before digital!) but I don't know why licensed hair dressers don't know how to style curly hair! It is ridiculous! I've really only had 1 hairdresser who has done a good job, I loved her! I used her for a few years, luckily around the time we got married - she did exactly what I wanted for my wedding! But I no longer live close to where she is(if she is still there)or have the $ to get her service! So I make do with cutting it myself, which I did a few months ago - wasn't so bad if I say so myself! Or going to some cheap place like Fantastic Sam's, yeah I know - not smart! But at least I have learned to not let them style it! Example this picture(I know not having makeup on is not helping this picture either but oh well! LOL!)! This pictures is from a few years ago when I got a cut at Fantastic Sam's. I was in a hurry to get to a birthday party so I made the mistake of letting them try to style it! The lady convinced me she knew how to do it, she started brushing it and blow drying it, and started getting bigger and bigger until I realized she did not know what she was doing! I finally stopped her before it got even bigger(I don't know what she was trying to do, but all I could see was frizz!) and left to go home to wash it and style it myself! But I took a picture before for Seth to see and now you can all enjoy!
Curly hair can be a wonderful thing(as long as you know how to do it) but the trick is keeping it long. Well this last Monday I went to get my haircut at FS's and told the lady I wanted it layered(like usual) - she asked "short or long layers" and I said LONG! Well I now wonder what short layers would have been! When I styled my hair curly afterwards it was so short! Especially in some spots and it looks like a ridiculous curly muffin top!! So for the next few months you'll see me with straight hair, I took a picture of my hair straight for you to see - see the short pieces? Just imagine that curly! ANYWAYS I now have what was called the "Rachel" haircut, you know the one popular in the late 90's from Friends? Yep, that's my hair! Check it out...I'm bringing it back in style! :) It is actually growing on me though, I'm just so glad I can do my hair straight! Hope you have all enjoyed the hair chronicles, I will post the sequel "My younger hair days" when I get them scanned in!