Nappy Reality

The thing I've learn about not only having natural hair but being a Hair Stylist with a natural hair focus is that you have to be realistic about your natural hair.  Only expected it to preform the way "your" hair is going to preform.  A lot of people have delusional expectation for their hair they see pictures of women with bouncy curl hair and go home buy all these products in hopes that their hair will look like that "cover girl".  Well lets keep it 100 a lot of the time its has everything to do with that persons hair texture then it has to do with a styling product or even a haircut. You have to take hair type,density, face shape and skin tone into consideration when trying to achieve a style. People ask me all the time what do I recommend for them to do with their hair and my advice first and foremost is to get to know your hair.  Get your mind fixated off the images you see on tv and magazines. Come to terms with your hair texture if you don't have long springy curls your curls are not gonna spring. If that hair is tight and kinky love that hair and know that just like your curls won't spring there are things your kinky hair can do that that springy curls can not and vice versa. Then I go into my whole hair care formulas but that neither here nor there. Self acceptance is key and the realization that just people everyones strands are different.