There is one thing that I have not done in my entire hair journey, that’s to wear my natural black hair color. This is because I have always had a fascination with hair color; brown, golden, blond, orange, you name it, I’ve considered it. When I was relaxed I also had this fascination but after the hair meltdown of 07 when most of my relaxed hair fell out the week following an ill advised cinnamon red box color incident, I curbed my appetite.
I discovered first hand why you absolutely must never color relaxed hair. But when I finally allowed my natural hair to grow the world of color was again opened to me and barely two weeks after my big chop, I got myself my first set of highlights. Oh the wonder! Curls popped and best of all my hair didn’t melt off overnight (as long as I kept up with the protein treatments of course).
In spite of this I still have a slight mistrust of hair color. You may have noticed that I have never in fact colored all my hair. I always choose instead to highlight small sections, particularly near the top, so that when my hair is down gives one the impression that more of my hair is colored than it really is.
Anyway, having established my hair growth rate last year as 4 inches, this year the original plan was to see if I could increase it by way of supplements but you may already know how that went down. Truthfully though I don’t feel as though I’m actively chasing length any more (surely my hair is long enough?) so tracking my growth rate doesn’t seem all that important.
Even though I only just highlighted my hair a short while ago, I thought it was time I rediscovered my black unadorned hair in all it’s glory. I was planning to do a henna/indigo to color but even though I already have 3 packages of henna, for the life of me I couldn’t find indigo in any of the local Asian shops in my area. I was not willing to patiently wait for Amazon to deliver so it was time to unleash good ole Bigen powder color.
I used two boxes of Bigen. A mix of black and oriental black both of which I’m pretty sure are way darker than my off black natural hair color, but I figure that some of the brashness will wear off as time goes on. I guess that my regular henna treatments will also soften the color too over time so I don’t mind.
I am pleased with the results.
I am attending the Afro hair and beauty event this weekend, actually I am driving to London today. I have racked my brains as to what is an ‘appropriate’ hairstyle for a hair show, especially one that I hear that Afrobella will be attending but having considered the merits of straight, curly or natural texture, I decided what the hell, I haven’t straightened it for a minute so that that’s what I’m doing!
In any case I’ve got a natural hair show (natural hair week) to attend in July so I suppose that I can wear it natural and curly for that event instead. See that’s the problem with being natural, to many choices of how to wear your hair! π
So anyway, I colored, blew out and flat ironed. Nothing y’all haven’t seen before . . .