let me book this space.will comment later

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Sowi na ah. Smborry cn not joke again. [/q

You can joke all the jokes you want to. Just felt you shouldn't have quoted the libg story. Have a nice day....

PLS USE IGBO LEAF AND SPERM ON IT N THANK ME LATER

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Aya. Sowi.

Gej till 2019

sorry

op I no gree, shummerize am abeg

Hmn

Lols if being natural could be this difficult, I has better stayed where I am.
Thanks for sharing this tho

Naijasinglegirl:
Sorry I don't know how to attach photos between paragraphs on Nairaland. Complete post is at http://www.naijasinglegirl.com

Lol... you have to be patient too. when I started my own natural hair journey a lil over a year ago ( I just transitioned until all my relaxed tips broke off them selves. maybe I trimmed once or twice) I settled for wigs. I would weave my hair every ten days and wear wigs on it.
My hair doesn't have the best texture Buh its growing and I don't do any of those deep conditioning $h!t. I wash with dudu osun, use coconut oil and ori. For the dandruff you can use Apple Cider vinegar rinse fortnightly. Your spray bottle( water and coconut oil mix) should be the best thing that happened to you since sliced bread.

Naijasinglegirl:
Warning: This post is long but an interesting read all the same.

As at last year, my relaxed hair was bra length long. My routine was pretty easy. I had a relaxer every 3 months, I washed my hair once in 3 months, never deep-conditioned, used soulmate hair cream and my signature style was a bun. Days I wore my hair out, I was the object of admiration. Everyone wanted to know my 'secret formula' on why it was bouncy, long and fine textured.

It all started when I stumbled on some flattering photos of girls rocking their natural hair on Instagram. I was blown away.
Please note the first time I ever had a relaxer in my life was the
year before I got into the university. Before then, I grew my natural
hair four times (past shoulder length at one point) but my parents
always had me cut my hair for one reason or the other.
My mom was my personal stylist. On days she took me to the salon, people never believed my hair was fully natural. In essence, my natural hair texture was soft, wavy-patterned and very manageable.

So you see, it was only natural I assumed if I cut my relaxed hair and join TeamNatural (no pun intended), my hair was still going to look amazing. During my transition period, those who knew me in reality begged me not to cut my hair so I was confused. Some days, i told people I was only stretching my relaxer while I told others I was transitioning.
During this period, my hair
experienced massive breakage and if there's is one thing I can't stand, it's unhealthy hair! I was combing my hair one evening when I suddenly grabbed a scissors and instructed my sister to cut off my 5months post relaxed hair. She thought I was joking until I ran the scissors from my forehead to my nape. That was the beginning of my natural hair journey.
My friend in diaspora told me so long ori (shea butter) was still in abundance in Lagos and water was free, my hair was going to be just fine.
I went to bed after my big chop and when I woke up the next morning, not only was a combination of shrunken natural hair with early morning face an eyesore, my hair was dry, hard and brittle. Same thing happened every other night. Experts online said it was because I was not sleeping with a satin scarf.
The day I tied a scarf, my hair was dry as usual in the morning and I found the scarf under the bed when I was sweeping. I never woke up to find the scarf on my head no matter how tight I tied it. On the other hand, those satin caps that makes one look like a prophetess are rare to find. Each time I enter a random shop to request for it, the bush sales girl either gives me a shower cap, a lacy net, a hair net or she just stares at me like I asked for snow.
Day time is no different, once the water I spray on my hair dries, the hair revolts by becoming 10 times drier. AC-rooms are currently off limits for me.
As for my cheap wigs aka protective styles, it wasn't long before they began deteriorating...
I resorted to braids.
The first time I went to braid my hair. I tied a scarf while I negotiated with the hair dresser. When we eventually agreed on N4000 for tiny braids, I gave her the money to help me buy attachments while I watched her baby. As soon as she left, I took off the scarf and ran my fingers through my hair.
Good Lord!
Honestly, if I were in her shoes, I wouldn't touch my hair with a 9 foot pole. The hair was so dry that I was certain it needed drones to braid my hair. I had to steal water from her baby's feeding bottle to soften my hair. As usual, my hair got worse as soon as the moisture evaporated even after I sealed it with stolen pear's baby's oil.
When the woman returned to see me without my scarf, she stood by the door and said if that's the thing I expect her to dig her hands, she won't collect anything less than N5000 even if I were her sister. I'm not even going to mention the unbearable pain I felt each time she parted and tugged my hair. I had to beg her to forget I asked for tiny braids and make big braids. (I'm sure naturals reading this are mad I'm not using the word 'install'. Sorry!)

Talk about INSTALLING braids, they no longer come out as neatly as they used to be when I was retouched. My braids currently defies gravity, making it look like I have horns and the only way to counter this is to pack them into a bun all the time. (How do I fix this?)

Once, I tried that thing they call bantu knots and by the next morning, my hair was looking like rat ate some portion with patches everywhere.
My hair has simply refused to look anything like the photos I see on Instagram.
And when natural hair girls talk about twistouts, fingercolling etc. I'm just in my seat like

What are these ones saying.

I don't even know if my hair is type3, type2, type1 or A4. All I know is my natural hair is type-comb-breaking.
To worsen matters, I can't afford all
these fancy products other girls are putting in their hair.

Except,

Ecostyler: I applied ecostyler gel on my way out one afternoon and as I walked past a shop with mirrored doors, no one told me to run back home to wear my wig. My hair frizzled, dried and tangled badly when I was washed out the gel.

Edge Control: I've never been able to achieve that perfect instagram hairline. Each time I apply edge control, my hairline automatically turns white making it look like I applied an excess of sure deodorant on my forehead.

D&L Leave in: Excellent detangler for a natural on a budget. It feels great and alters my hair texture for one hour or so. After this, my hair gets very dry except I keep applying.


Organic Mayonnaise: Honestly, I don't know what this thing does for me though I use it every month. I just added it to my collection so my products won't appear scanty. It was cheap too. LoL


Virgin Olive Oil: I used to have one among the crew but it finished recently. My pastor gave it to me during crossover service in church and despite the fact that it was anointed, my hair was still dry!


Coconut Oil: Homemade. My family is starved of coconut rice because of my hair. This is where all the coconuts we buy ends up.


Water: All thanks to water, I've rocked my natural hair out from my house to VI which is quite a distance. I stored it in a smaller bottle where I sprayed subtly at Gbagdaba and at CMS when the traffic lasted too long. I also sprayed it at my host's office when he went out briefly. Water is great but the terrible itch that comes with it is not beans oh. My scalp is dandruff prone which makes it very sensitive to water especially when I am wearing braids. Once, I had to excuse my date at silverbird cinema so I could take off my wig and scratch my head peacefully in the toilet.
I no longer use water since I got the leave-in.

ORI: This is the only product that works perfectly for my hair. It just had to be local ori of all things! The cheapest hair product! Na wa o. Does this mean my hair is ajepako?


Have I also mentioned my hair grows like that of Jimmy Neutron of cartoon network, making it look like I have three heads because my bigchop was not properly done. Now I keep doing minichops weekly and microminichops daily. I even have a tiny handy scissor in my wallet to rid myself of straying hair strands.

Talk about home remedies to make my hair more instagrammable. What has this hair not eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner from groceries to junk food?

I have mixed ori with egg white and milk.
I have mixed hot ori with coconut oil and olive oil. Do you know a mixture of these 3 is equal to castor oil?
I have mixed coconut oil with coconut milk.
I also get tempted to beat an egg on my head in anger whenever I open the fridge.
A popular natural hair blogger rinsed her hair with beer and when a commenter asked if malt was fine, she said yes. That's how this hair drank Guinness Malt for dinner that day. I even mixed mine with peak milk. Very soon the hair will say it wants Orijin.
The other day someone said my hair was smelling like salad. This was due to the amount of fresh mayonnaise I used as conditioner.
I have also used the juice from ugwu leaves to rinse this hair. (Vitamins treatment)
I did the famous sugar solution rinse. God blinded soldier ants to my hair that night.
It's left for me to rinse my hair with maggi water or chicken stock. That's protein treatment right?

My mom is having her last laugh cos she was against me cutting the hair.
Been asking her how she managed my hair when I was much younger but she has refused to bulge although I'm still on the lookout for the famous cocosheen of the 90's
I'm definitely going to return to TeamRelaxed but that will be when my hair is long enough to pack into a bun.
In the interim, how can I make this hair more 'manageable and instagrammable? Please don't mention any expensive product. I'm currently waiting for the price of bentonite clay, cantu and custard to drop so I can buy them. One of the reasons I went natural was to save money now the reverse is the case. I'm considering a texturiser. Is it advisable or is what I'm going through just a phase every natural girl passes through?

Why not have a skin cut,aka mallam,aka gorimapa¿

nawaoo, barb am nah.
Thank God i'ma nigguh.
*sighs*

Men, I de ya shoes too... I have done all the tricks in the book, I got to 10 months, I applied relaxer... now I don start again. my only saving grace is I know how to do 'bantu knot', so I just knot and go...

U need a leave in conditioner. It makes ur natural hair very easy to maintain. Like the one I use , u spray a Lil water on ur hair before application. U can do dat every day. It's abt 1k but I've used it for 3mnths now. It's called soft textures.

@op, u wicked ooo... Do u mean i shuld read all dat? Mehn ain't gat tym 4 stories...

ginawest:
dis gal z so funny....especially d part where u gave it hair malt n milk..

well,use Igbo(dat leafy stuff dat pipu smoke)....it works very very well buh b very careful wen buying it o.

There's indian hemp hair cream for that. She can try it if that's ur suggestion

OP, I love ur write ups. Comedy, Drama and action all mashed up.
You wouldn't be the first to just wake up one morning and decide to cut her hair and go all natural. I'm seeing lots of that lately.

As a guy, I dunno if its the same spirit that enters a guy, with normal Caesars to go for a 'Phyno'tipic mohawk, that also affects some ladies.

Anyways, check my signature for experienced advice.
This is normally not my fort, but she is experienced in such cases.

Ciao and happy 'debugging' of your new 'hardware'!!!



Glossary for the confused
Debugging: Problem solving involved in the creation or use of a new item/process/hardware/software
Hardware: in this case, a new hairdo
Phynotipic: Some bad ass mohawk sported by a guy named Phyno
Phyno: Seriously?!...ask Google. I get only 2MB

Na wao. Women and wahala.

All this because she wan appear for Instagram.

ginawest:
dis gal z so funny....especially d part where u gave it hair malt n milk..

well,use Igbo(dat leafy stuff dat pipu smoke)....it works very very well buh b very careful wen buying it o.

DId u jst say E-GBO??.. 'We use a lot of things in common..' Let's get to know each oda

#Team Afro Anywhere, Anyday, Anytime #.

are you still single

Lwkm

I also have very stubborn comb-breaking type of hair and going natural is the last thing I'd to to my hair. NSG should just save herself the headache and use a relaxed already.

All the long talk just for hair. Glad I didn't read it. Ladies please stop self obsessing. Shabi Basket mouth dan tell una, we no dey look any from ur neck go up, na from ur neck go down. Ur hair does not attract us or turn us on. If anything its a freaking turn off. Relax and condition once in 3 months. Niggas how many times una dey wash una hair.

Now am scared, I just cut my hair a week ago and I don dey hear am

i feel your pain
but the truth still remain THAT NATURAL HAIR IS THE BEST THING THAT CAN EVER HAPPEN TO YOU
PLEASE NOTE THAT RELAXER HAVE A STRONG LINK WITH ULTERIOR CANCER AND BREAST CANCER DUE TO THE HEAVY PRESENCE OF FREE RADICAL, THAT ARE BEEN Absorb by the body.
it good to look natural but remember looking natural have advantage and disadvantage
u just experience one of it disadvantage which is hair breakage.
please know yourself and your hair once you decide to go natural u will be different,
you re Nigerian, you are African, so please stop trying to look like d white or Indians dey are created with a different types of hair,
now first thing i will like you to start doing is plaiting
yes you have to plait your hair to help it overcome all hash process it has being thru
and restore it strength and type back
second stop to wash your with all those synthetic composition
try natural substance like lemon + baking soda
it destroy any hair disease
for moisturizing and conditioning
you can add honey to your combination
as a researcher , chemist and a stylish i have some Indian combination that can make your hair WOW in it natural way
pm me if you desire to know
how ever please go plait your hair to restore it strength and type

Can't try this.

Looool! I've done every research I can on this TeamNatural girls/hair and am very sure it's not for me. See headache every day when you can just relax and deep condition every three month.


I sha like the look of Adichie Chimamanda's hair. Maybe you can find her secret and stylist

oo

Use texturizer kit preferably organic, it does nt retouch d hair bt straightens it nd still preserve ur natural hair nd also makes it softer lye a relaxed hair