tired of the natural hair.

I am writing for the working girl with Afro hair who just wants to be able to manage their hair in different styles confidently by themselves at home but also have professionals they see from time to time. The conversation surrounding the proper way to care for afro hair and the styles we should be wearing are so overwhelming, and unless you are really into hair care, you probably are looking for a simple routine that fits nicely into your lifestyle and elevates your looks, matches your outfit.

This was my dilemma a few months ago when I started to think about my future children and how I would take care of their hair. I was 30 and didn't even own a comb nor did I find doing my hair at home pleasant, so I visited all sorts of salons, did the whole blended banana and tea tree oil, black soap, shea butter thing but like most girls doing this my hair was so hard and was so super dry. Then one morning I had an epiphany, why is it that out of the billions of people in the world, black women with afro hair are literally the one's who shower daily but leave out washing their hair/scalp. The wisdom passed down to us was not to wash out hair frequently.

At the time, I was in an incubator program building a skincare brand but this information was so eye-opening and so I did some market research into the hair care business and realised how afro haired women did not have access to affordable hydrating products that are aimed at helping us be the type of people who wash their hair multiple times a week like other people in the world.

Since then, I have been doing my own research into the proper way to care for afro hair. This blog is for me to document my thoughts and process to share with other women who maybe also want to change their relationship with their hair and hopefully be an inspiration to the daughter, niece and granddaughter about how to properly care for our hair. Why is it only our hair that has to be hidden for it to be tidy? why are we the only women more comfortable in hair that isn't ours? I love wigs but I love my curls too and I want my daughter to exist in a world where she grew up washing her hair daily, wore her curls to school and wasn't dealing with being confused about how to manage the hair that grows out of her own head.