Starting Over... AGAIN

A few months ago I was loving my hair and everything about it. Unfortunately, I was also applying heat on a regular basis. Because of this my hair suffered extreme breakage in the back. Since February, I've been doing everything I can to nurse my hair back to its once healthy state--the results didn't come fast enough for me so I went ahead and cut it off. Even though the breakage was only in the back, it felt wrong having so little hair in the back and so much everywhere else, so I cut off a good five to six inches, bringing my hair to a short bob.

I'm in the process of getting used to having short hair again, but I do love that all of the terribly split ends and damaged hair are gone!



I'm living and learning. You can find more pictures of this cut on my new Fotki Page.

Natural Sista... Literally.

I have been talking to my little sister, Dallas, about natural hair ever since I went natural back in 06. When I first approached her about maybe giving it a try, she immediately shot me down.

Brie: Dallas, you know I really love my natural hair, I think you should give it a try.

Dallas: No.

Brie: Why not?

Dallas: My hair is too thick. I'm not doing it so don't ask me about it anymore.

Brie: Alrighty then.

Growing up, Dallas had beautiful, THICK, LONG hair. She opted for a short cut once out of high school and kept that style all through college. Dallas graduated in December and since then, she's been hinting at going natural. She began asking me more and more questions about being natural that I answered as best I could without imposing my views on her. I directed her to sites that spoke on natural hair care and told her about products that aided in keeping natural hair at its best.

When she discontinued relaxing her hair, I had the feeling that she was seriously considering going natural. And like a person not wanting to make any quick moves in the presence of a bear--all the while trying to encourage it to look the other way, I kept my opinions to myself, and hoped that she would get there on her own.

And today she did! Her boyfriend, Cory, tweeted the pictures of her Big Chop!

Here is the before:


And the after:


I absolutely adore it!! My initial reaction to the picture was that the cut went so well with her facial structure. And I noticed that she got her brows done too. When I mentioned this to her, she happily told me that her cut and brows were only $20.00! If you go anywhere else in Atlanta besides a barbershop and get a cut and brows done, you're paying $60.00 at the least.

Per Dallas, her initial reaction was that she loved the cut so much that she might just keep it at that length instead of growing it out. I'm sure she will change her mind on that once she gets some more length and can start experimenting with it, though.

I'm just excited that she's happy about it and I look forward to seeing where her natural hair journey takes her!