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FroLOve: African Butterfly (The Shrunken fro & How To)



 
 Say hi to AB of The Kink And I who understands shrinkage and works beautifully well with it. 
AB Says... 
  
 
Ab's shrunken fro in February 2013
I’m in the TWA (Teeny Weeny Afro) phase and I’m only beginning to experiment with hairstyles. Almost all the time, I wear a shrunken fro- mostly because I’m lazy about styling. 

December 2012
The Technique
  •     Spritz hair with water & glycerine (I skip this step if I just washed my hair)
  •       Apply generous amounts of leave-in conditioner
  •       Lightly seal with olive oil.
  •       With a wide-toothed comb, I gently detangle my hair from ends to roots
  •      Then I use my afro pick to fluff the hair out a little bit and to tease it where necessary
  •      Pat and go.
Length check

 Maintain The Fro to Avoid Knotting
The downside to this style is that it is so easy for your hair to tangle!
So, before bed, I finger detangle and put my hair into chunky twists, as big as I can manage at this length, which is usually between 15-20 twists. By the next morning, all I need do is undo the twists, lightly spritz with water & glycerine only, comb & pat. The twists make a great difference than choosing to just sleep like that- with the fro out. My hair is less knotty and I don’t need to spend as much time combing.

 
Ready for bed
The Result

NatM Says...
Natural hair is something, right?! I think the most important products for this style are: Water, glycerine and olive oil. I think that the water and the glycerine are important for styling (shrinkage) and keeping the fro moisturized. Olive Oil on the other hand should be for sealing and keeping the strands away from each other to reduce knotting.
Her hair looks healthy and it is definitely growing so shrinkage is not such a monster. All we need is the right technique and products to out smart it.
 I will be trying this style the moment I settle down but I will include one tool- the blow dryer. I don't think I am strong enough to leave my house with damp hair. Bad things have always followed that move :).

Natural in Nigeria and the wahala that comes...

by 
Chizor of Oomphitsnatural

I recently went for a birthday party with a friend of  mine and on getting there, I met his cousin (mind you, I have seen this girl before). She said hello with a funny look on her face, took her cousin aside and asked if I was the pretty girl that used to hang out with them o_0.  He said yes and she was like "What happened to her? She looks really ugly" . As if that was not enough, she came to me and told me to put a relaxer in my hair and that I "look funny and ugly "(for my mind sha, I beat the girl to nonsense).
On hearing this, I felt bad and depressed through out the whole party (even as I dress I still come dey look round, dey believe say the other girls with Brazilian hair and Darling Yaki fine pass me.)
When I got home, I went straight to my bathroom and peeped into the mirror,  what I saw was an ugly girl with very short hair  instead of the pretty girl that loved to rock her  TWA.
Waking up in the morning, I looked at  myself in the mirror again and said aloud "You are beautiful" . That helped to boost my esteem (Praise The Lord!)
Going natural.... I was not prepared for the mighty wave of emotions and bad belle people.I am learning and still learning everyday, but so far, concerning my natural short hair,  these are the major things I have learnt:

* Don't expect too much from your hair: Learn to love what you've got. You might not have Tracee Ellis Ross ringlets or Viola's tight curls, but always remember that what comes out of your scalp is just as beautiful.

* Acceptance and Confidence: These two go hand in hand . If you don't accept the way you look, you won't wear your new look with confidence.Going natural means having lots and lots and lots of confidence because all the bad belle people will call you names and say mean things like "you are very ugly"
Someone once said to me:  "See as you be like witch...." (how she take know how witch look like?) "...no man will talk to you oh...you too resemble boy...see your mighty Rihanna" (a.k.a Akpan)
Some will even go as far as quoting  the Bible for you:
1 Corinthians 11:15
  "But that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering."
1 Corinthians 11:6
 "For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head."
Others  will go to the extent of buying you a relaxer (you send them, abi you beg them?)
When these hypocrites come close to you with their serpentine tongue do what I always do:
a) Sing LMFAO's "I'm sexy and I know it"
b) Sing Christina Aguilera's "I am beautiful no matter what they say words can't bring me down..." or
c) Tell them the story of Samson: Yes, he was weak when his hair was chopped off (just the way my emotions are making me weak..)  but the hair did not even grow more than 2 inches long when he brought the laughing philistines down...(just the way I am going to bring this laughing bad belle people down with my fly natural fro soon)
Finally, just because you are feeling down with your TWA does not give you the right -yes I said RIGHT- to dress anyhow. You'll  simply  be giving them room to laugh at you oh. So, make it your own!
Like I always say "accessorize your confidence"
Now go out and have a grand ol' natural time............
XOXO








NatMane : Thanks for sharing your story with us Chizee! Yesterday, I met a Natural Sister who was clueless to the fact that natural Nigerian women have to deal with name calling and finger pointing 0_o. Not just at home but also at work and on the streets. At the last Lagos hair meetup I attended in Lagos, more than three ladies told me that they were prohibited from wearing their hair in certain styles (because it was natural) and from tying head wraps to work. I was shocked. In Africa, Nigeria fa!! Head wraps are a part of our culture and kinky hair is what we are born with!! If I can't get acceptance in my own family, amongst my  friends, in my country, in my own continent, then where on earth am I supposed to feel comfortable!! 
Enough of the rant...I'll throway salute to all my  Sisters who are transitioning and those who wear their fro's with confidence...CARRY GO!! Keep rocking what God gave you with pride. Till next  time...Peace,Heart& Natural!!

Hungry Aba Gal - Yagazie Emezi: BRACELET GIVEAWAY!!!!!!!

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Yagazie : Yes people! I am giving away ish for FREE and all you have to do is write, draw or create anything. First prize will be FIVE fat bracelets each of a different print...
Click on link above to read more.

Gbo Gbo Bigzzz Girlsssss!!!

by Sisi Yemmie of GISTDOTCOM
Girls wont kill us these dayss....Everyone sha wants to be biggzzzz....Abeg who has heard of this new craziness called Brazillian hair oh? and Indian one ma? what of malaysian? high 5 jare if you are very conversant with these things that have become like a virus especially in 9ja girls. Dem no go let pezin hear word again!. Ahn Ahn! If you dont have money, you go suffer. Who say money no good?bring am make i woze am! Is it an easy sometin to look like Beyonce,, Ciara, ati be be lo?tell me?! Well these hair people finally showed us the secret to their long natural looking hair pieces abi na extension dem dey call am. You see ehn...when I was ignorant, i would spend the better part of my day trying to figure out how a black girl like me will have long mammy water hair. Wetin I do? I go just dey wonder.But we thank God! Breeze don blow and fowl yansh don open. I now know that I can resemble all these celebrities one kind if i combine lace hair and brazillian hair!Some people sef will do the lace hair n resemble ojuju, na wah oh....


Naija girlss....kai! Do you know you can be walking on the road and one kobo legged girl will just say ' excuse me, is it brazillian you are wearing?'...lol...she knows its is not brazillian, she just wan mumu you n bring you down. And you sef ode will say, 'oh no, its darling yaki'...Na dat one dey pain me pass. The koboleg will now say ' oh...i thot it was brazillian, so i wanted to ask where you bought it cos my friend told me that mine was a rip off, u wont believe i paid 120k for this hair!'....hmmm....she don loyal you be that! In just ONE sentence, she told you kpe you no reach, say levels pass levels, and she be BIGGGSSSS what? BiIIIGGGGSS Girls!

Nne and Nna's, gone are the days when you will do darling yaki, yaki flip up, sensational, yaki mirelle, and be feeling cool with yourself. If you want to know your levels for society now na by your hair. If you're not rocking brazillian yet, my dear, na u sabi. All these kain oppresion can make people commit armed robbery and aristocracy! Ehen now. You want to be bigs, and your boyfriend still dey 200 level mechanical, wetin you go do? na to enter igboro go find one old monkey wey senior your papa. The man will be arranging you and you will be sorting him in return. Well that option is for girls wey know say, nuttin nuttin i must be bigggsss.

The other option is to starve. If your allawi was kuku 20 k per month, you will sha make sure you save 15k out of it. Dont ask me what you will eat oh...all those girls i know them. They will visit Angelina today chop rice dia. Go to tope tomorrow and swallow eba dia,borrow money from Imabong and then after 5 months, money don complete and they r now what? Biggggsssss. Thank you! What happened to the good old days? I remember VIVIDLY, how me I like to economise on my hair. No be 400 naira pere for darling yaki? thats if i dont even price it down to 350 pa pa. And i will make sure the one i buy is very full so that one pack will b enuf for my head (i kuku thank God i have small skull ). And if the hair dresser finish d one pack before she finish my hair , na she sabi! Because I always warn them before they start my hair kpe, me oh, na one pack i dey use oh. If they say hair wey no full no dey fine, i go say na scanty hair dey fit me pass. I don ya were ni? abi na winch i chop? But that was in the past. These days, we gats shed our ayetoro mentality and become biggs naw. Slowly but surely.

Have you noticed something kpe, when people don fix this hair they will be feeling like they r more than themselves?as in their mind go dey totori dem? and it will be like they are walking on air. have u noticed?I notice all these little things jor. Its hard not to. Infact, i have studied the hair sotay....one glance is all I need to tell u boya its indian, peruvian, malaysian, brazillian or Aba hair (darling yaki dem dem).lol. But last time I checked, other hair extensions like pro 10 (price of two mtn 1500 recharge cards) were still in vogue. From nowhere this sudden tornado of Brazillian hair just took over 9ja. I still dont understand how. I f you want to die of oppression go to Lagos! at least for warri dem never jasi too much.

Brazillian hair is not the only thing oh. BB nko?infact, without that one, 'they' say you are a nobody! People no dey collect phone number again oh, na BB Pin,. If u no get and you are a girl in 9ja, your self esteem go drop! Ahhhhh...9ja girls can oppress. And you know ehn, when you hold BB, you no fit keep am inside handbag - what is worrying you?? you gats flaunt it naw...its not easy naw....c'mon naw! You will hold it n use it to point, touch, and gesticulate. One of my friends wrote on my wall (remember our topic on facebook manners?) and she said, send me your BB pin jor, mine is. blah blah blah. Wetin she dey try do so? She dey try make me look stupid. Olorun maje!!! I cant tell you how i replied her, but one thing is for sure, she will NEVER try it again.lol

I overhead this chic saying she cant even date a guy that doesnt use a Blackberry. E gbami! So blackberry naim dem go chop? She defended it by saying she wants somebody with status and that BB is relationship friendly. Na wah oh. Eyin guys, mo sorry gaaan! Una dey try. So BB now rates a guy? only in 9ja! Only! If you are even trying to be something in life n ur girlfriend just dey bug u up and down say all her friends r using BB and Brazillian hair what will you do? BB the cheapest is nothing less than 30 k, Brazillian hair nko? nutting less than 50 k..Lace hair is the killer...nutting less than 70k. how u wan do? All these girls, please take it easy oh. We understand kpe you must be bigs, but na small small.

Even me sef that im doing this tatafo...i shall not be found wanting. Before the end of 2010, I must be what? BIGGGSS.....Gbo gbo bigsss girls...I hail oh!!!! 

ps. If you want to be biggs, contact me cos i don dey sell d hair now sef :))))



Thankyou Sisi Yemmie...we don hear you o...lol

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