12 : 30 am
listening to : choke - i dont know how but they found me
woah... personal entry... don't usually do those lol...
anyways, ever since around i wanna say march ish?? i've been trying to get better at taking care of growing my hair out.
as a black fem my hair's been part of my identity for forever. well.... sort of. i'll tell you my hairs always been a thing. I used to wear it in a fro from like pre-k until about i wanna say 2nd grade (yes i still measure things by school year despite having been out of school for a full year now leave me alone.) and when second grade came around that's when the PERMS CAME. and like, obviously. very damaging. and painful. and i remembered when i was a kid my older sisters would always tease me for my 'over the top' reactions to getting my hair permed and flat ironed but that shit fucking HURT man.
and then. there was the jerry curl phase. thankfully very short lived but to get there i got a fucking CHEMICAL BURN ON MY SCALP that only recently healed. mind you i was like nine when i got that shit done. hell. hellfire on all the adults in my life.
after that i'd kind of left my hair alone since i was now in the primary care of my brother who did not know how to do hair. he'd take me to get braids every so often or my sisters would plait my hair or straighten it for special events and stuff like that.
when i moved with my mom my hair was kind of my own responsibility. i was around 12 and had never been taught how to actually do anything with it (mind you this shit is still damaged as fuck at this point) so the main thing i'd do was just. basic ponytail. everyone knows the suburban black girl ponytail. an absolute travesty.
but on my 14th birthday is when i said no more. i wanted one thing for my birthday and that was to chop all my hair off and get locs. and let me tell you i was absolutely ecstatic with the change. i know a lot of people talk about the "ugly stage" of their locs but i believed in no such thing. i think the main stigma of the "ugly phase" in locs is usually with other fems and it's cause they don't like short hair. but me? oh baby i was LOVING IT.
all my life i was never allowed to get my hair cut. i think it was obvious from a young age i'd been more boyish (my mom even said something about it when i showed excitement about finally being able to get my hair cut) and so i guess to combat that i was never really allowed to get my hair cut. and youd think because of that my hair would be pretty long. but no. because i was never taught how to properly care for it, on top of all the chemicals in my head, ON TOP of never having gotten even a TRIM my hair was pretty much fuckin dead. like dude. it was shoulder length from the ages of 10 to when i chopped it off.
and i loved my locs. at every stage. but ESPESCIALLY on the date april 2nd 2022. because despite not yet being the agreed upon age of 16 where i would be allowed to make anymore major changes I DYED MY HAIR. not even a lot for real it was a little red patch my sister helped me do cause she was dying her hair and i was like "woah.... i can be like knives chau...." and so then i dyed my hair like knives chau.
AND THEN IT ONLY WENT DOWNHILL FROM THERE LOL i've dyed my hair more times than i can reasonably count dude. it's fucking nuts. if you would consult the graph
AND THAT'S NOT ALL OF THEM just the ones i really liked. i've done some of the colors their more than once like i've had shadow hair like three seperate times lol. i don't dye it when major changes happen though no longer a thing i do because that shit gets expensive and i can't shoplift as easily anymore.
anyways. after all that one day in april 2024 right before my senior prom i went fucking nuts and straight up chopped all my hair off. very hastily. with kitchen scissors. this was near the time of The Great Purge that i've mentioned in my about me where i took all my room decorations down. and also quit my job on a random sunday. and no one had any concern for my mental health. it'd be funny if it wasn't a little worrying.
i needed a refresh though. my locs were thouroughly bleached to hell and back bro. i was using SPLAT BOX BLEACH. AND NOT EVEN THE BLEACH KIT. JUST THE BLEACH THAT WOULD COME IN THE COLOR KIT. and i wasnt even really taking care of my hair either so my shit was DYINGGGG LMAO. i cut off all the still bleached parts in around late july last year when i moved in with my girlfriend. keeping with the need to change my hair during big changes.
when i decided i wanted to take better care of my hair i knew i had to control myself when it came to color and all that. i didn't think bleach was like the absolute devil or anything but i wanted to make sure my hair was being properly cared for before i started messing with bleach and things of that matter espescially since i always color my hair myself at home.
i've only gotten my hair professionally colored ONCE out of like the 20 times ive gotten it colored and that was for my 16th birthday. it was pretty cute.
anyways, since i wanted to slow down i didn't bleach or dye my hair for like a good while i wanna say about a year. i know i didn't dye it again until after it was a year after i first cut my locs cause it was late april. and then i was like im sick of boring black hair i hate black hair on me it doesnt fit me at ALL i need a change.
so then i dyed it! cute auburn look with a neat skunk stripe totally cute. except not even really cause i was such a pussy with the bleach it barely even lifted!!! and it was really fuckin patchy and only looked actually red in certain lighting
anyways, ive been such a good boy that i decided to treat myself and dye my hair again! so i went over to my girlfriend's today and i redyed my hair! i've been wanting to for a while. i liked the dark auburn but i've been wanting more of a true ginger. i've dyed my hair ginger more times than i can count lol, my favorite was when i layered this neat pink over the ginger and it faded to this really gorgeous kind of strawberry blonde look
very cutesie very sugoi. i've also been wanting light roots for a while i've been obsessed with kelis's hair and i wanted that for myself. so i GOT IT FOR MYSELF MOTHERFUCKER. here's a shitty webcam selfie cause all the ones i take on my phone suck. im hayley williamsing it up right now and im obsessed with it i love. AND I USED PROPER BLEACH THIS TIME LIKE DEVELOPER AND EVERYTHING truly moving up in the world.
i feel like everytime i dye my hair though the bleach seeps into my moms brain and not mine because she's like "you put bleach in your hair???" and it's like... yes. because my hair is jet black. i cannot get color in it if i don't bleach it we go through this everytime.
cause like last time i dyed my hair i think i said this but im too lazy to go back and read, i didn't properly bleach the red parts of my hair which is why they came out like that (and also like the entire back of my head was black but dgaf bitches) so i was sure to properly bleach it this time. the problem with the way i would previously do my hair was just slapping bleach on top of bleach. the part i DID properly bleach (my little skunk stripe) i left ALONE this time. because i didn't wanna overprocess my hair. which is what fucked me up last time.
anyways. my hair's def wayyy drier now so i'm gonna be making sure i pack that moisture back in in my upcoming washdays.
haha speaking of while she was washing my hair my girlfriend was continuously getting frustrated because i quote "IT JUST WONT GET WET" and it was even funnier because it eventually did get wet obvi but then i got outta the shower, shook my head a little like a dog and poof! back to the fro. it was like i'd only lightly misted my hair. safe to say she was pretty taken aback by that one lol.
but yeah gonna work on making sure i get to moisturizing n shit. like i oil my hair daily and i use tons of deep conditioner and shit like that. im still getting the hang of having a somewhat proper hair care routine and it's a bit rough n tumble but it's been working pretty far. when i picked my hair out today and saw just how much new growth i had in only three months i was kinda taken aback but my hairs always grown pretty fast since i cut it back in 2020.
my mom's always on and on about it getting long enough to where i don't have to just wear my fro out but the thing is i like my fro. and i dont want my hair to get longer in the way she wants it to i just want it to get BIGGER i couldnt give less of a fuck about hang time n all that. i want big erykah badu hair. I DONT CARE IF IT WASNT HER REAL HAIR THIS IS MY ULTIMATE GOAL