Living with natural curly hair

Let’s get one fact straight; Styled curly hair are nothing like natural curly hair. Yes styled curly hair have the curl of the curly hair but not the stiffness or the rigidness of the natural curly hair.

Not gonna lie, natural curly hair is hard to live with. I hated my hair when I was little. I could not bear them. I would get a haircut as soon as they grow an inch taller. The reason for my hate was the firmness of my hair.

If you were to feel my hair, you would feel like you’re touching a scrubbing tool brush or something similar. Once my hair grow tall, they become sticky and all sorts of dirt starts sticking into them.

I used to get so annoyed and wash my hair all the time to keep them soft and fresh. But a small trip later they would always return to their “natural” state of stickiness.

But, that’s not all there to it. People ask you questions. Yes, weird questions. Like;

“Is that a wig?”, “ No, these are my hair”.

“Can I touch your hair?”, “Sure” *Pulls on my hair* *Ouch* “Sorry, just checking”.

And some other questions like:

“Were you born in Africa?”, “No”, “Were your parents African?” *Facepalm*

And one time when I stopped caring about the size of my hair and they grew to a size of an actual Afro, then all sorts of crazy broke free around me wherever I go. People would randomly start touching my hair and would pull on them out of nowhere. Like, come on, seriously?

(I was trying to find and include a photo here of when I had this afro but I seem to have lost it)

With time I learned to live with them and learned that they’re not that bad, Infact I’m pretty lucky to have curly hair. According to the telegraph.co.uk and few other statistic research, only 15% of the people in Europe have natural curly hair and even less in the United States and other parts of the planet.

So, yeah, I don’t exactly hate my hair now but I also don’t love them. I take good care of them and they seem to be “stable” at the moment.