Volume 1, Issue 45, January 26, 2010: What Should I Do Next?

I've been bored with my current hairstyle right now. I don't know what to really do with my hair anymore. I'm tyring to grow it out to my waist but I don't know how long that is gonna take. My real hair is about shoulder lenght but I may have to trim my ends, hopefully I don't have breakage. My hair is much more fuller and healthier, I've been co-washing my hair once a week, meaning I only wash my hair with conditioner. I discovered that shampoo strips my hair which is already very delicate, the conditioner is better for my hair type which is 3C/4A. It's a mixture of kinky and curly. I don't really comb my hair tha tmuch anymore, I only comb it when I'm co-washing it in the shower.

I thought about getting another weave. Something long black and waist lenght. I migth braids my hair into long long braids again. I also thought about just wearing my own hair but I'm probably not going to do that until the weather gets warmer. Winter time is the worst season for people with natural hair like mines, with the combination of the cold air, wetness, and snow its hard to keep hair healthy and have a cute style.

Volume 1, Issue 22, November 18, 2009: Makeover for 2010

I want to start the new year fresh. New clothes, new hair, new attittude. I can't wait for 2010. I want to give myself a makeover. Especially with my hair, I want to get a new wig thats longer and possible human hair. I think I'm done with weaves. Wigs are way better. I would rather take it on and off everyday than to have it sewn in for a couple of weeks. I would want something waist lenght, black wavy or straight. I remember seeing this wig at Beauty Island a while back and I tried it on and it looked hot on me. It was waist-lenght, black and the hair was really thick. It was synthetic hair, but it was special, it was some sort of microfiber material made from the wig hair and you could curl it or straighten it.


As far as clothes, I need to buy more Black pieces. I want to buy a nice pair of boots, some dresses, and some slacks and just stuff. I haven't been shopping in so long. I haven't been able to spend money on myself or spoil myself. I want to get my eye brow arched they are looking really bushy, I want them more catlike.

Volume 1, Issue 7 October 13, 2009: I Have Come To Realize That I'm Probably Not Going To Marry Within My Culture Or Race

I always been interested in all types of men. Race isn't a factor or a huge deal breaker for me. I remember when I was little my first crush was a on a White guy and I remember having celeb crushes on NSYNC, The Backstreet Boys, and Leonardo DiCapro(mmmm he looked so smexy in Titanic). I haven't been with a Black guy in over 3-4 years. It's not that I'm not attracted to Black guys or that I don't like them, it just that I've become attracted to other types of guys more so than Black guys.

Another thing is, I find that maybe I intimidate a lot of Black men, because I have natural hair; it's very kinky and I often wear it in a fro. I get a lot of weird and sometimes rude and offensive comments from Black people( mostly Black guys) about my hair. I remember when I wore my afro out last winter. I was with my friends going out on the metro and a Black guy had looked at me strange and he was like "Damn, she taking it way back." Here are some  other comments I have gotten:

- *A guy raises his fist at me* "I'm down for the struggle with you my African queen!"
-" What are you doing to you hair?"
-" Are you going go out like that?"
-"You used to look god with you relaxer."
-"Are you in the Nation or the Panthers now?"
-"Those days are over, no one in that Black power crap anymore."
-"You look like an African booty-stracther."

I've notice with other races of people I always get compliments. When I was with a white guy( see my post Turning Off The Fan So Shit Won't Hit It) he really liked my hair natural. I don't know why this is but the only thing I can say about this is a quote from a good friend of mine, "The exotic is the erotic." Love who you want to love.

Volume 1, Issue 6 October 13, 2009: My Fro Fiasco.

Took out my braids last Friday with the help of my friends( thank you!) and For a couple of days my hair was in its kinky state. My mother was telling me that I should press out my hair to make it manageble so that I can comb out my tangles easier and also so that my afro could be blown out and look more full. So last night, my mom pressed out my hair and it took 2+ hours. My hair was still slighty kinky but it was a little bit more straighter. I was going to wear my afro out today, but when I woke up saw a disaster. My hair seemed to have gotten kinkier overnight; different parts of it were straight and some parts were kinker. Ugh!!!! I threw a fit. I had called my mom and told her and she was at work. Luckliy, I have some lacefronts lying around my house. I needed to go to school and I didn't have a lot of time so I put one on. I've gotten a lot of compliements on my lacefront today but I would have much rather have worn my own hair. Well it looks like I have to go to a Dominican salon anyways, because my hair needs to be managed and the Dominicanas do the baddest rollersets, blowouts and hair striaghting without relaxers.