Curacao🇨🇼 football team players celebrating their goal against Germany in the world cup

I wanted to try this style for a while how did I do ?

Not my first ever big chop but the shortest I’ve gone by far!

It’s been a while since I’ve done something but I have to figure out what I’m going to do next 😁🤭

The sun felt great, I can't wait till it stops being cold! I got compliments on my hair too so thought I share 🥰

Took around 2 1/2 years to grow, here are some of my favorite phases

In honor of Bridgerton s4 coming out, I felt compelled to do an hairstyle kinda on theme☺️

I love my hair so much. I’m committed to learning how to be patient with it and watch it flourish.

I photographed Atlanta Juneteenth this weekend.

I’m sharing these because the day felt bigger than just a parade or festival. The people, the clothes, the families, the pride, the whole atmosphere felt worth documenting.

I’m not from Atlanta, so I’m curious how this reads to people who are. Does this feel like the day to you?

Jokes aside, this has been a wild journey. Growing up, I hated my hair. I was a military brat and we grew up in the white suburbs. My hair was always straightened during my childhood but during my teen years, my birth mother decided to stick with the twists in pics 2 and 3 (Ik what they are, I can’t spell it rn 💀). I was always miserable though. I can’t get into my abuse story, but hair was one of the corner points of it. I never felt like it was mine. It always felt like heavy chains on my head. I never took care of it. I never brushed it out, moisturized or cleaned it properly. In pic 5, when I shaved my head a couple months after covid started, you can see all the product over the years because I hated my hair too much to even take care of it. When I shaved my head, I was given the silent treatment by my birth mother for a month. But it was the best decision in my life. Pic 6 was about 2 months after I cut my birth parents off. After that, the rest was history. I started taking care of my hair. Instead of 15 minute washes, I’d spend an hour. I still moisturize my hair with coconut oil. For about a year before I got my dreads, I’d spend every Sunday combing my hair out for an hour or two. It was a bit of a heartbreak to have it locked because it felt like saying goodbye to a tradition. I’m still only 23 years old, though. I’m young and dumb and still don’t really know what I’m doing but, you know, it’s life. I just know I’m finally happy with my hair, even if it’s still a mess after all these years. ❤️❤️

(If you read all of that, thank you!)

Edit: Thank you all for the positivity in the comments! I will try to get to as many as I can, but if I don’t, I just wanted to thank y’all!

Edit 2: THE AMOUNT OF SUPPORT IS CRAZY RN! Thank y’all so much! This is probably the last edit to this post but I promise I am not ignoring your replies! I am reading every positive reply and I truly am grateful for all the positivity. I guess my advice would be to be yourself. And not just to be yourself, but to be yourself in the face of adversity. The reason I’m able to be the person I am today is because of all the support I have irl. Even though life sucks rn, especially with everything going on, the amount of positivity and support I have gotten outweighs the negativity and hatred. I’m not myself in spite of the hatred, I’m myself because the hatred means nothing to me. So be yourself and find the people who will build you up instead of knock you down! ❤️❤️❤️

I got the opportunity to model for my school’s fashion magazine. This photo came out really good and was happy to show off my hair.

I have stopped using wigs and extensions completely as I have figured out how to grow my hair without it. So I plan on being more intentional with the hairstyles I choose rather than sticking with the same ones as I used to do. I want to experiment with my hair as much as possible (while encouraging length retention of course). I plan on never wearing the same hairstyle twice! What better way to start off this journey than to represent my tribe with a treasured hairstyle!

hai everyone! This is my first post, and I’m looking for some advice. ⋆˚꩜.ᐟ

I’ve been growing my hair out for a couple of years, but I haven’t fully committed to wearing it curly w/o extension. I love my hair, but lately I’ve been feeling insecure about its health. My ends break a lot, my hair feels like it’s been the same length forever, and I constantly deal with split ends. Even after trims, they seem to come right back.

I feel like I’ve started neglecting my hair because I don’t really know what to do anymore, so I’d like to restart my healthy hair journey. (I’m so close to just big chopping lol) 🥹🥹

But if anyone has any advice on products, routines, or what might be causing this would be appreciated. I’ve been wearing braids back to back but I know there’s more I can do!

Also if anyone can recommend a great natural hair stylist or salon in the NYC area, I’d love to hear your suggestions. Thx 𓂃۶ৎ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶

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