For the past six years, I have been altering my curl pattern: keratin, Brazilian blow out, and at home relaxers. At the time it was all great. I was getting those long beach waves I’d seen in Allure or Vogue. I felt like I needed to be something I wasn’t in order to “fit in” and feel sexy and confident.
When you’re in middle school, your body is awkwardly changing, your face doesn’t fit the rest of the picture, you have braces, and your curly hair just doesn’t cut it. Throughout high school, I styled my hair constantly. I saw the curl permanently change from beautiful tight ringlets to looser and looser curls, eventually turning into awkwardly straight/curly hair.
I didn’t understand how beautiful my old curls were.
Since attending Cinta Aveda, I’ve been trying to transition to my old curls again, returning to my roots. With all these style gurus around me, I got to ask them a million questions about how to get a curl back again!
I’ve been emptying my pockets on products for my poor hair, and I’ve finally found a certain routine that gets them to ringlet again. They are coming back to life!
Yes, there are days when I feel like I want to flat iron my hair, making it picture perfect and obtaining a certain look. But mostly, I feel like myself again–fully myself.
As a word of advice, embrace what’s yours.
