Dont Mess up a Good thing- 2023

November 2020- No heat healthy hair

Just when I finally got to my hair goals, after cutting off the remainder of my perm, my natural hair and curls were popping by August

April 2021- no Heat healthy hair

2020. I was very consistent with my hair routine, using little to no heat, and doing a lot of natural hair protective styles for the year 2020 to the majority of 2021 until August 2021. It went downhill from here! I got extremely lazy and started going to the shop to get my hair done. I was getting my hair done every month or every other month. Each time I went I would get my hair washed, and the majority of styles I wanted required blown-out hair. The blow dryers at the salons are high quality and baby, that heat was straight from hell! On top of that, I was not doing my usual biweekly hair routine that my hair had grown to love. My deep conditioning went from every two weeks to sometimes once every 3 months. I went from a whole year of no heat to using high-heated blow dryers and silk presses on the regular.

July 2022- Using Heat

It is safe to say that I fell in love with seeing the length and thickness progress of my hair and I did that ULTIMATE natural hair no-no with abandoning my hair routine and getting highly manipulated hairstyles. Tight ponytails, leave out sew-ins, flat ironing my hair too much, glue-ins, and all. Ladies if you love your hair like I did and when you start to see that length and grow confidence please don't do as I did. Yes, the styles are cute, but your ultimate goal should be to fall in love with what you are blessed with. I got severe heat damage and my hair and curls went from popping to thinning hair and the hair of the front half of my hair was completely bone straight. I couldn't do my cute twist-outs or rock my natural curls in an updo like I used to do. I was so hurt. I started thinking of a plan. I thought I could revert it, so in the year 2023, I was dedicated to doing better and putting my hair back up. I started to incorporate my hair routine and put my hair up for the year. For most of this year, I rocked braids, closure sew-ins, and wigs. I started to see a little progress with my hair getting back thicker at the roots. I know I needed my ends trimmed so I got my final silk press in July 2023.

July 2023 -Severe front heat damage

I was so hurt by the results. My ends were so thin my length was disappearing and you could see through them. But still, I thought I could revert! And I was wrong. Once it started to get colder, I knew exactly what I had to do, and that was to start completely over.

November 2023- Trying hold on to heat damange length

As much as I tried to avoid it, and how disappointed I was, I made my decision to start fresh and cut off my heat damage. In December 2023 I did my big chop to remove all my heat damage. Thankfully, by me rocking braids and closure sew-ins for most of the year. My roots were strong and thick so when I cut off my heat damage, my curls were back to popping and I was so happy to see them back!

So here I am again, chapter 1 of my new page. This time around I will be documenting and

December 2023- Getting my big chop

sharing my progress and routine with you all. If you are interested in being a part of a natural hair community, following along my journey to grow my hair and also would like to learn how to take care of natural hair, join me on my private Facebook group page as we share our stories, motivate, celebrate wins and inspire each other.

I will be starting a hair challenge, where I will share my hair routine, all products used, treatments and tracking growth along the way.

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