Be inspired- Izehiuwa's Hair!!

Hiya,
I always cannot contain my excitement when I get mails from readers telling my how helpful this blog has been to them, it's always that extra umph I need to write another post! This segment of be inspired features Izehiuwa my first Naturalista to be featured!!

You see, when I started this blog, my thing was I need to let Naija ladies know they can grow their hair!! I'm tired of people starring at my hair like I'm from Mars, I need them to know they too can have healthy hair...it really tugged at me for a while and I am soooo glad that since then this blog has been doing just that, letting people know that Naija hair can grow...I have no bias! My hair might be relaxed but the last impression I try to give is that this blog is only about relaxed hair...being relaxed is a personal style choice I have made but my gospel is the same whether you are relaxed or not your hair can grow with the tips I proffer here..and I am soooo glad that this naturalista has taken those tips on and is getting to know her hair and most importantly Making it work!!

Here is Izehiuiwa's mail to me (posted here with her permission of course ) as she tells her story from how she big chopped her healthy looking relaxed hair became natural and loves this blog :)


Hello Dabs,

My apologies for not getting back to you immediately after your last email. And many thanks for everything. You are doing such a marvellous task.

I just had to gist you about my intimacy session with KCCC (that you helped me purchase. A million THANKS)

 

 

 

But let me give you a brief history of my hair. I had a massive big chop in December, 2012 and I've been rocking my lovely TWA.

When my hair was relaxed, it was very thick and stubborn. Many a time, it broke combs in salons (who didn't heed to my instruction). Every month, I had to relax my hair which became dense again by the 2nd week. Mind you, I have a tender scalp. My hair would not relax but I would have a scalp that was very nicely and crisply burnt. So - called "professional salonists" helped in destroying my hair by combing it so forcefully like they were cutting a tree with cutlass. It got to an extent, I could no longer inflict self induced mental and physical pain on myself. So I cut the permed hair all off leaving like half an inch of natural hair.

 

IZEHIUWA'S RELAXED HAIR BEFORE THE BIG CHOP;

Now that I'm natural, I'm the extreme end of 4C hair. Yup. The very extreme. My hair has absolutely no curl definition. I think I've passed the 'Z' type as my hair is so tightly curled that it sometimes 'bends'. This time, I've drawn the battle line with my hair. I'm gonna tough it out with 'her'. I've been successful so far, but I have not been able to make my hair have curl definition.

Oh yes, I've tried ecostyler, jack5ive and a host of other gels and curl pudding. My hair has simply refused to budge. 'She' just keeps swallowing all the products while laughing at me (the owner of the hair oh).

And then I thought, "shebi KCCC can do more than other gels and curl puddings" according to you tube videos. Hence, I went harassing you for the product. When the product arrived, I danced and announced to who cared to listen that the best natural hair product just fell on my lap (not that most of the people understand sha)

Hmmm, I applied a good amount of KCCC to my hair and immediately I heard "o de shiiiii' meaning 'e no enter'. I didn't give up. I put my hair in a 2 strand twists while shouting and screaming for all the evil spirits in Lekki to relocate to the ice desert of Siberia.

I unravelled the hair the next morning with prayers on my lips; and what did I see ? My hair was just there - still no curl definition.

Do I give up? Do I buy yet another product? Do I blame boko haram for the stubbornness of my extreme 4C hair? No. Instead, I'm madly in love with my hair and I will continue to love, cherish and care for it. I will always love my natural hair no matter how it looks and no matter how it rejects products.

Thanks for indulging.

Have a lovely day.

Izehiuwa


Wow wasn't that just so inspiring!!! She had beautiful hair relaxed, has gone natural and has beautiful hair.... One thing her story highlights is this; the road to beautiful hair is NOT EASY! There are no quick fixes! You just have to make up your mind to get to know your hair, what it likes and does not like, what works and doesn't and learn along the way...no short cuts but the beautiful thing is, once you finally know what works, you are good to go for LIFE! You know you can cut your hair today and have it back to its previous length. I feel bad for people who have chosen teams and rigidly limited themselves within these teams...we can all learn from each other natural or relaxed, hair care is hair care, do it right and your hair will flourish!!
Izehiuwa I wish you all the best, you have already conquered the aspect of accepting your hair the way it is...the rest of the journey to beautiful hair which is knowing what works and what doesn't work for your hair, may have lots of twists and turns but will be sooo worth it in the end!

 

That's all for now ladies, in other news THE SHOP NHCG PAGE IS STOCKED! Check it out to see if there's anything you like and send me an email...I focused more on deep conditioning products this time because our Naija market has little or no options of GOOD deep condtioners for those of you who don't like to concoct like I do, I will leave the sale of oils for now to my friend's at VANITY OILS :)

 

Thanks for stopping by as usual!

 

Xxx

Dabs