RubySlippers
July 5th, 2012, 05:41 AM
I wonder has this happened to anyone else?
About two weeks ago after many years of wondering about the no shampoo "myth" (as I thought of it), and after lurking here for some time, I took the plunge and had my last, extremely clarifying, shampoo.
I switched to baking soda and vinegar, and started bbb-ing, massaging, stretching washes (I was already nearly at a week between washes so that was easy), keeping my hair up on a simple bun with spin pins and oiling with coconut oil. Also, I have cut out heat. All with the aim of getting to waist length with a blunt hemline. I don't have a time frame, I have no idea!
Anyway, the weirdest thing happened... and maybe I'm not the only one to find this:
Last night I washed my hair and watched as it dried "imperfectly". I am a long time straightener/ serumer/ blowdryer/ do anything as long as my hair doesn't look like it would naturally -er. I have deeply believed, for years, that straight glossy hair is beautiful, and curly ringlets are beautiful, and frizz free somewhere-in-the-middle waves are beautiful. But that my hair would only be beautiful if I could make it fit into one of those categories.
Last night my hair dried in a messy wave (I think I'll need to re-type it in a short while!) with baby hair fluff "indicators" sticking out both temples in wispy curls, and in a very unexpected Zen moment I realised that my natural hair is beautiful, not in spite of the imperfections but *because* of them.
Call me crazy, but let me try to explain. (I'll use noses to illustrate) Anyone can have a nose job to get a "perfect" nose, and generally a "perfect" nose will look good on most people. But ask a surgeon for a "quirk" put into a "perfect" nose and I bet he can't do it without making you look mad! So the imperfections are a gift, and generally a gift that you can't get any way other than naturally.
Maybe that makes no sense, it's usually pretty impossible to share a revelation - that's why it's a revelation! But I thought I'd try.
Henceforth I am thankful for my baby fluff and messy waves
About two weeks ago after many years of wondering about the no shampoo "myth" (as I thought of it), and after lurking here for some time, I took the plunge and had my last, extremely clarifying, shampoo.
I switched to baking soda and vinegar, and started bbb-ing, massaging, stretching washes (I was already nearly at a week between washes so that was easy), keeping my hair up on a simple bun with spin pins and oiling with coconut oil. Also, I have cut out heat. All with the aim of getting to waist length with a blunt hemline. I don't have a time frame, I have no idea!
Anyway, the weirdest thing happened... and maybe I'm not the only one to find this:
Last night I washed my hair and watched as it dried "imperfectly". I am a long time straightener/ serumer/ blowdryer/ do anything as long as my hair doesn't look like it would naturally -er. I have deeply believed, for years, that straight glossy hair is beautiful, and curly ringlets are beautiful, and frizz free somewhere-in-the-middle waves are beautiful. But that my hair would only be beautiful if I could make it fit into one of those categories.
Last night my hair dried in a messy wave (I think I'll need to re-type it in a short while!) with baby hair fluff "indicators" sticking out both temples in wispy curls, and in a very unexpected Zen moment I realised that my natural hair is beautiful, not in spite of the imperfections but *because* of them.
Call me crazy, but let me try to explain. (I'll use noses to illustrate) Anyone can have a nose job to get a "perfect" nose, and generally a "perfect" nose will look good on most people. But ask a surgeon for a "quirk" put into a "perfect" nose and I bet he can't do it without making you look mad! So the imperfections are a gift, and generally a gift that you can't get any way other than naturally.
Maybe that makes no sense, it's usually pretty impossible to share a revelation - that's why it's a revelation! But I thought I'd try.
Henceforth I am thankful for my baby fluff and messy waves