Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like. ~Author Unknown
I have hair issues. Everyone does. Or some people do and others don’t. I was born with kinky, curly hair. Hair that requires work to look nice: Work that I don’t necessarily want to do, it depends on the year, my style, where I am at with my look.
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| Dixie Peach Varnette Honeywood |
In my story, I have a mother that really wasn’t all that much into hair either. When I was little, she didn’t care that I cried when she tugged on my head and hair to comb it. And I had those funny looking braids and a very tender scalp. Hence, her plan was to relax and keep my hair short. Like her. But she wasn’t consistent and lacked family support (because we were overseas). It was a nightmare of a mess.
Fast forward to being a grownup and not having any strong hair skills. For a while I did the natural thing, still keeping my hair braided. Simple, it worked in college.
I learned to deep condition my hair with olive oil in a sauna, making it very healthy. But it was time consuming, the braids.
Oh! and I tried wearing braids, the cornrow/ weave ones (the fake ones). I thought someone put a rug on my head – hated it. It was awful. All she did was tug on my head, of course I didn't like it, I have hair tugging issues. I mean the worst $300.00 dollar mistake I ever made. I don’t understand that one, how women go around with rugs on their heads.
I have straightened my hair with a relaxer. And kept it short. And it worked. For a long time.
Then I wanted something different, but I don’t like a lot of hair fiddling. I found a relaxer that left my hair curly and ringlet like. And I loved it. I felt the straight hair was too severe and got tired of it. Why couldn’t I have that beautiful mixed race curly spirally hair? But I was happy with the new curly look. I had to use curl stuff to make the curls, but for the first time, I felt happy with my hair. It wasn’t too difficult to style, so it met my needs and I thought it suited me.
Alas and alack, my hair got dry, and brittle and needed care and I had to find products I could afford and liked. Thus began a whole new chapter in my life.
Since I don’t wear makeup, I take decent care of my hair.
There is the leave-in conditioner, the curl crème and the anti frizz stuff. And sometimes the combination works and sometimes I have to tweek it.
The great thing about my hair is painting it. Doing representations of it in my work. I love making squiggley lines to depict my curly hair. That is fun. That is what I love about my hair and my identity.
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| self portrait acrylic on canvas panel 2011 |
They say people with straight hair want curly and vice versa.
I am just trying to be happy with who I am and how I am on this planet right now. So I am figuring it out.
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