Curly Hair Issue Rough Draft

1. How would you describe your hair?
Some people would describe my
hair as “Disney Princess Hair”. If my
younger self knew that one day her
frizzy, unruly hair would one day
be considered “perfect” - she would not
believe you!
I sometimes stumbled across comments
online from people who say that my hair
is curled with a curling iron/tong. It’s crazy
to read how there are strangers out there
who wholeheartedly believe that I fake this
everyday. It’s quite absurd, but I take their
skepticism as compliments.
If I had to describe my hair in one world, it
would be nourished.
One day, I could not straighten my hair
and had to go to school with wet hair. It air
dried and curls started to emerge.
I heard some boys whispering behind me
in class, talking about my hair, so I got a hall
pass and went to the restroom to see what
they were talking about. I looked at myself
in the mirror and thought, “this is me, this is
who I am supposed to look like”.
4. What do you love about your hair?
What I love about my hair is how it makes
other curly girls feel. So many of them hate
what grows out of their heads. And some
of them see me and think, my hair can look
like that!
I spent the last decade healing my hair
from damage that was caused by chronic
straightening and bleaching. I hated being
a WOC growing up so I tried to white-wash
myself. The day I started to embrace my
South Asian identity was also the day I
started my natural hair journey.
2. If you believe in the curl
classification system, what is
your pattern classified under?
(2a,3b, 4c, ect) Do you
know your porosity?
I have 3A curls with low
porosity.
3. Have you always
embraced your natural
hair?
I have not always embraced
my natural hair. I would
wash my hair at night and
then blow fry it straight. Then I
would wake up for school and go over
my fairly straighten hair with a hair
straightening iron. I did this everyday
for from the age of 13 to 16.
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