The Reasons

I love my hair because it loves humidity; it puffs up like some egotistical man at the slightest taste of water. I still remember those days when I was permed and would get PISSED when I knew it would rain the day I had to be out and about. Now frizz is my friend. How cool is that?

I love that when I'm fed up with my hair and want to do something ill-advised and drastic, I need do no more than make the slightest of changes to my styling and I fall in love with the naps all over again.

I love that when I go out, women and men alike will glance at me and proceed to perform covert operations with their eyes for the rest of the night. I even like the ones that look at me and suck their teeth or narrow their eyes like...how dare she make me touch my own hair and see if it's as soft as hers looks? I want a t-shirt that reads - FALL BACK BITCHES, I GOT THESE NAPS HONESTLY.

I love when my hair refuses to be tamed and flows outward...proud and unapologetic. I look like a lioness.

No...I am one.

Yeah I know it has been many moons since I updated. But it was mostly due to the fact that I fell into a real low-maintenance groove with the nap grooming. I mean damn, how many twistouts can one display? However, I know some of you are interested in the length and overall health of the naps, so I'll be back when I'm feeling more energetic to show you some hazy webcam pics (hey, don't like that? get me a digital cam, mfs!)

I shall return...eventually. :)

Nappy Subterfuge

So I'm at chillin at the relative's house and a friend walks in, joking as usual. He reaches for my naps and says, "You've got this one little patch of good hair in the back!" Of course this sets everyone a-giggling...damn coons. In the midst of this, he plunges his fingers into my hair and massages my scalp (I didn't protest as I'm a big fan of those!) At the time I was a bit too blitzed to get upset and take him to task. I resolved to get in his ass at a later time.

Which I did. I called him up and asked him what was up with the clownage, to which he responded, "Oh you know I had a motive..." Then it dawned on me. 'Twas just an excuse for him to molest my naps. Which he did. Shit, I still violated. Heehee. But I forgave him...can't be mad at a man that loves the natural ladies. No matter how twisted!

So yeah I have no pics to show because my hair looks pretty much the same. Oh, but I did try a slightly different method for creating twistouts. I've been making the twists a LOT bigger, which stretches the hair more; awesome because over time my hair has become SUPER curlykinky with awesome amounts of shrinkage. If my hair is freshly washed then I let it air dry, work some shea butter through a while then begin to twist. If it's dry then I dampen it with my spray bottle, do the shea butter thing and set to work.

The other day on a whim I added a small amount of conditioner before my shea butter application and proceeded to twist. Man, my twistout turned out so damn soft and stayed that way all day. Talk about hand-in-fro disease! I wouldn't suggest doing the conditioner thing every single time you do your twistouts though between washes, since this could cause buildup and make the hair look dull. Once is good if your going to work the twistout the whole week, which I do, letting the twistout slowly morph into a chunky fro and then a puff or two lil afro puffs.

I've got my routine down pat, which makes for boring updates, but low-maintenance heaven for me!

I'll try to come back with some pics...eventually.

Fro Power!

I just realized I've been officially relaxer-free for 2 years.

For a minute it seemed as if my hair wasn't growing, but after taking a look back at some pics from just a couple of months ago I realized it's growing at a pretty nice pace. Kewl! My fro is getting wider and wider...yeehaw! I can't wait to see what it looks like at the two-year mark.

It's funny how you see so many posts on NP.com about negative comments some natural women have received about their hair. Um...I must be very sheltered because I get nothing but love when I go out and about. But maybe I have gotten some dirty looks and I'm just in denial about it lol.

Aint it funny how when you don't give a damn about your appearance you get the most attention? 'S like, Friday night the menfolks saw some shit that I definitely didn't. And some dude at the club was all up in my naps, admiring and whatnot. Asked me could he touch the fro.

I let him. Hell at least he asked!

I haven't been doing much to the hair, save for the twists/twistout/chunky fro cycle. I think my hair likes the lack of manipulation. Here's a pic of the fro at present

My camera is umm...incapacitated at the moment, so there will be no pictorial updates for a while. But if something spectacular happens with the naps I'll be sure to come and holla!