Felt like I was taking a big risk, especially living on a humid island. But we did it!! 🥹

I almost didn’t wear my natural hair even though I’ve been natural for over a decade because the hair stylist I hired badly messed up my hair. I managed to salvage it at the last minute and moved forward with wearing my natural hair. Very grateful I still felt and looked like myself on my special day. :)

Growing up, I don’t think I ever left my natural hair out for more than a month past the age of 10 (I’m 19 now). I was always doing “protective styles” that were probably damaging my hair more than anything since I left them in for too long. It didn’t help when you constantly have your hair being told it’s not “good” hair. It got to a point where I was starting to become pretty upset, so for the past two months or so I’ve decided to snap myself out of it and start trying to style my natural hair. I’ve only done two styles lol (I’m lazy af), but I’m living for these mini coils. Both my mom and brother are loc’d up and keep trying to convince me to join them but I got commitment issues lmaoo. Anyway, this is my first post on Reddit and I just thought I’d share. Happy coiling!

I cut all my relaxed hair off in 2020. Until now I was wearing clip ons but this is just my hair and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

I have 4C hair, and I decided to switch things up! After blow-drying, I styled it into a side twist—and I’m absolutely loving the look.

How do you style your 4C hair after blow-drying? I’m open to trying more ideas!

I wish I had pink flowers or holly or something to try with this, but I don't. This was kind of an accident, I was messing with my hair in the middle of the night trying to cheer myself up and remoisturize, but I kind of like it? 🦆? A thing I like about 4c hair is that an updo almost always works, even if my hair is secretly half done and I was too tired to do it properly 😅 I included the mildly incriminating back of my head, but I don't mind it, my hair doesn't have to be perfect to be presentable. 🐻

I hate the idea that afros aren’t meant to be worn for nice events. It’s not normalized to wear afros for elegant occasions such as prom, weddings, black tie events, ect.

Our hair truly is magic.

So I think I’m going to become a “blow dry” natural! This week I blow dried (as in a blowout) my hair and put in flexi rods and I’m LOVING it! I like it better in person but this is the first time in a while I’ve felt like I have great hair. It’s only the 3rd day but I think this may be my go to style. I may do a longer post asking for advice and giving my hair background.

I just took out my locs about 2 weeks ago now. I was nursing my hair back to health. Since the curls were pretty dry after removing my locs. Here are some photos I took today, so you guys can see where we are. I did have to cut about 2-3 inches off hair isn’t as long as I’m used to, but I still love it.

Yall. 😒 in the moment I didn’t say anything, just have him a look. I was working with two patients at the moment and was speechless.

I later grabbed him and was like yeah, not cool. You never touch a black womens hair, so don’t touch me again.

He proceeded to tell me how he didn’t grow up around many black people. Huh? People like this really exist. I’ve been at this job for months and had Senegalese twists, then twists with my natural hair, so today was the first time I rocked a wash n go.

Have you experienced this?

I blow dried my hair and it shrunk like crazy in this 88° high humidity but I'm still happy with it. I used chrysanthemums, hydrangeas, wax flowers, and larkspur. Happy Juneteenth! 💛🌻

Ignore the dirty ass mirror thx ☺️

slide one is today, slide 2 was Monday, slide 3 was Friday.

i know i usually post myself on here smiling but aint nothing to smile about today...aside from the current political state of the country (and world) already making me feel like 😐 I GOT PULLED OVER FOR GOING LITERALLY THE SAME SPEED AS EVERYONE ELSE and it ruined my day (even more). but anyways yeah this is a new hair style i tried and it's cute i think.

Just a reminder for all, it’s okay to wear your natural hair for fancy occasions. Unfortunately we’ve been told otherwise in order to fit into certain standards and speaking from my own experiences it’s exhausting and also expensive to feel like you need to get a fresh new style for a special occasion. If that’s what you want to do that’s totally fine but also you don’t have to! Rock them curls! 🫶🏾

When I started seriously taking care of my hair, this sub helped tremendously and constantly seeing my hair type in this sub was very good for me. I want to reciprocate that too by sharing my type 4 hair. One of the biggest ways to learn to love your natural hair is to ensure you’re also watching people who love and embrace their own hair too. It’s been the biggest turning point for me.

Type 4 hair is beautiful always, despite what society may say sometimes. Embracing it has made me feel more feminine than I’ve ever felt in my life.

It's not neat, but it was quick and easy to do and I thought it still looked cute despite that.