2016 saw the year of rediscovery for myself, and while I lost alot of my self. I also found alot of it as well.

African, Brittle and Hard. Simply put.

But this is far from true. I grew up in a culture that perpetuates the very standard of beauty. Telling me what to find attractive and what not to- But the truth is that we are all beautiful. And we all have our own standards of beauty. God made us so perfectly unique that we wont like the same things, I mean someone has to appreciate aspects of the world that you dont.

But this is real life, right?

We live in  world were straight is the standard, where white is the standard. And as much as we want to deny that, its very true. Where my hair is unprofessional in its natural form.Very easy to fall into the cycles of wig after wig, relaxer after relaxer and braids after braids. After changing my perspective last year I realised that my hair was only, brittle, hard and african because I had allowed that. Black hair can be soft, long flowing, lucious and african With a little care. Sometimes It's very easy to think about all the politics.

But I digress. The real intention of this post is a simple hair style.


Section your hair.



Braid your hair.




Crochet your hair.




Cover your hair.






All done.

Hope you find this as cute as I do. Took 2 Hours. 70 precrochet hair.

Signed,
          21 and Christian.

(As It stands on this day my hair is 14cm, healthy, lucious and african.)