Growing up, I dreaded getting my hair done. Every two weeks on a Sunday, my grandmother would always do my hair for the upcoming school week. She would wash it in the morning, let it air dry all day and then by evening when it was all knotted, she would comb it. Starting to comb my ridiculously tangled kinky hair from the roots in order to detangle it hurt me to the core. I cried and try to pull away […]
You might be wondering why exactly did I set the fire alarm off and I assure you that I did not do it intentionally. On a beautiful sunny day in California, I decided to wash and blow-dry my hair. Being a black woman with unprocessed hair, this takes a while but on this particular day, I wanted to try something new. I had seen a tutorial about achieving great curls with a diffuser so I bought one and decided to […]
