Rocking That Glamorous Look with Your Natural Hair

While most women get easily fascinated about the thick texture of their natural hair, others are often turned off by that. For such women, the remedy is some perm or relaxer cream to get that relaxed texture instead. This is because they just cannot stand the re-growths.

I remember a few months back, whenever I attempted going natural with my hair, my friend will do all she could to find some fault with it, especially after doing her best to get me put on some weave or to braid my hair with some attachment. If I still insisted on going with my afro, she would convince me into either blow drying and flat ironing my hair which, for some reason, worked wonders to straighten and smoothen my hair but the trade off was loss of volume.

And that’s exactly what happens when you abuse your hair with chemical substances. Take for instance, the perm. Once it begins to give way for the natural thickness of the hair to take its natural place, the top-most layer of your hair (the affected one) also begins to wither.

For some women, the immediate response is a touch-up relaxing, which further kills the new growths.  Gradually, it ends up becoming a vicious cycle that you can hardly break away from. This is why you see some women having extreme difficulty not interfering with the natural state of their hair.

Genetically, most African women have full thick, luxurious and voluminous hair – the afro.  However, following years of chemical abuse, that thickness completely withers away.

They often relax their hair and treat their scalps to a daily greasing with whatever hair oil with the hope that they will experience longer, thicker hair growth. Some even accompany such hair treatment with a routine scalp massage. Unfortunately, for the most part, most of them end up with thinner hair.

The problem here is that these women are confused about what their look would be like if they went natural. They are also afraid that they might not be able to maintain a cute or professional look once their hair becomes completely natural – that thick afro-textured hair look.

If you find yourself in this category of women, you need not worry. You can still rock that glamorous look with your afro. Simply start rocking your unprocessed hair now because that is what identifies you as an African woman firmly grounded in her roots.

The truth of the matter is that it is extremely less expensive to go natural than to continue rocking that fake look. Once natural with your hair, you will have no reason to worry about the latest hairdo in the city and you will be able to save some cash and not have to spend US$100 on some Jamaican hair to braid twists on your head. With your thick afro, you have no need to worry. It becomes very easy to twist your natural afro to give you that look.

Why put yourself through the stress? Nowadays in Monrovia, fees for braiding, weaving or even styling hair at the various beauty salons are soaring on a daily basis. Most Monrovia-based salons, these days, charge a minimum of US$40 to US$50 to weave short hair and US$20 to US$30 for long hair.

And besides that, you will be compelled to go through the tedious experience of sitting for hours in line before getting served.