Sometime around 2018/19, I was a a regular hair bearer, just like you. All I knew about hair was loosing my braids every two months, rushing to the salon to relax my hair for every Ghana weaving I wanted to make and for every time I felt my hair was strong enough.

I didn't care about taking care of my hair and merely thought manipulating my hair with heat products was a way of showing "hair love".
My hair trauma started 2021 when I decided to dye my hair to a golden color

A few months in, I encountered the greatest shed of my life. I remember one time in class, my classmate, Maurice, touched my hair in admiration and strands of golden hair came falling short. I was ashamed and waved it off as a mere loose strand.
But deep down I knew it was a big problem for me.

A friend of mine, Rita, recommended I cut my hair. I was very skeptical about it, I mean, I've gone three years too far, to start afresh. But considering my options, coupled with the fact that some parts were longer than the other and some had more thickness at the scalp than the other, I had no other option but to cut it.

That singular step changed my life. My friend who was the my motivation for cutting the hair was also a naturalista, so she gave me a few tips on how I can be managing it and the products to apply every day.
However, after a month, I noticed my hair shrank a lot and I knew I didn't have rubber hair from birth so I began reading up on the different hair types, natural products that was proven to work well for different hair types and of course how to manage hair breakage and split ends.

Through meticulous trial and error, I discovered strategies that not only elevated my hair growth but also helped me fix my initial speculations of people with natural, which was " that they are suffering themselvess carrying virgin hairs while they can just relax it".
My mindset immediately changed because once I started the journey, it definately wasn't difficult. I was just the one ignoring the basic things I should do to my hair. I immediately found out that even the very good relaxed hair has resigned to some hair care routine to be able to maintain theirs. In other words, good and healthy hair is not limited to virgin hairs only!