My natural hair journey

Natural Hair Journey

I decided to stop relaxing my hair in April 2013.

It has been almost 14 months of having natural hair.

I big chopped in my 10^th month of transitioning which was February 2014.

A series of events had happened before then which led to this decision. After going through this hell hole that I thought I would never get out of I decided to cut my hair.

This was a milestone and of big significance because after that I decided I would never go back to that situation as much as I’d never go back to the creamy crack.

LOL I know it sounds like a big mystery but I do have a flare for the dramatics.

Anyway, back to my lovely hair journey, I fell in love with natural hair way before I started transitioning.

I had had a lot of ill luck with my hair since I actually started growing it at 14.

Between 14 (2006) and 16 (2009) my hair was natural but in and out of braids.

By then I had no idea about hair care so my hair broke bitterly.  I rarely washed my hair when it was out of braids and never at all whilst in braids, I left my braids in for over two months, I never conditioned my hair well ( I just loaded it with grease and that  was it), I never slept with a silk wrap and consequently my hair was stunted at the back and I wondered why! (bummer right?)

All this abuse went on until 2012 August.

This is when I discovered hair blogs, vlogs and everything.

This is after my hair had been damaged badly by the humid Malaysian heat for 2 years.

My back hair was gone and I had had enough.

That is when I began to read about black hair care and I discovered natural oils, deep conditioning and protective styling among many others.

I first tried olive oil and boy did my hair thrive. In 6 weeks my hair had already grown 2 inches from sealing with olive oil.

From then on my hair got better as I discovered L.O.C method, natural deep conditioners, henna , ACV, air drying and finally transitioning.

My biggest natural hair gurus were Solange and Janelle Monae.

Having found hair gurus my goal and will were as strong as steel.

I knew that I had to create a strong hair regimen and get a staple that I would stick with as long as my follicles let my hair grow.

That is when I discovers techniques of effective moisturizing which were; L.O.C method, baggy method, co-wash, deep conditioning and spritzing hair.

For protecting hair I discovers, silk wrap, protective hair styling and using heat protectants in case you needed to style hair using heat.

All this techniques cooked up something new, passionate and creative inside me.

A world of new possibilities of sorts.

That is when I began to go crazy with mixing my own natural hair portions, I became a crazy hair junky (guilty J ) and I also began having dreams of becoming the first ever green hair salon with all natural products in Uganda.

Yes my imagination was running wild and for a good cause.

Going natural was definitely my calling and from then on I knew I would never go back and thus that is where my journey successfully commences and continues…