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My name is Vicki. I'm old, which in this case means I've entered my twenties. I've fallen in love again. I find humor in almost everything.
When I grow up, I want to create my own clothes and own a boutique.
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Jan 3rd at 6PM / via: thekeri / op: thekeri / 17 notes
thekeri: Hi, kids! Today’s Truthful Tuesday is about my hair. For those interested in jargony jargon from jargonland, I washed my hair yesterday and did bantu knots with my usual two-strand twists, and the result – ultra-coiled ringlets! Whoa! – looks a lot like what my hair will probably look like once I finally cut off the relaxed ends. And you know what? I fucking hate it. I am ten months into transitioning from relaxed to natural hair, and I have remembered why I aborted my last attempt at this: I like having straight hair. I think it suits me. The natural state of my hair requires just as much time and upkeep as my relaxed hair did when I wasn’t a slacker about it (although it’s far healthier now - bonus!). I don’t know how much of this is a product of me really loving my once-straight hair and how much of it is my simply being used to it. I just know that no matter how many natural hair videos I watch and blogs and websites I read, I can’t see myself ever really loving what I’ve got. For years, I’ve gotten yelled at from all sorts of hair-related extremes. (“Embrace your natural texture so the whites don’t keep you down!!!11” “You can’t be taken seriously in a professional environment without straight hair!” “I am your mother, and I am telling you that you need a perm to handle your kind of hair!” – Okay, I’ll stop.) I’ve also talked to many, many reasonable people who are super-supportive of my transitioning and who don’t immediately jump to racially charged yelling. It’s nice. Point is, it’s got nothing to do with any of that. I know that I am not my hair. But liking my hair would be nice. It’ll work out fine! Honestly most of the haircare tips on YouTube for natural hair are overblown so they have shit to keep doing videos on.I really need to make a natural hair blog.

thekeri:

Hi, kids! Today’s Truthful Tuesday is about my hair.

For those interested in jargony jargon from jargonland, I washed my hair yesterday and did bantu knots with my usual two-strand twists, and the result – ultra-coiled ringlets! Whoa! – looks a lot like what my hair will probably look like once I finally cut off the relaxed ends.

And you know what?

I fucking hate it.

I am ten months into transitioning from relaxed to natural hair, and I have remembered why I aborted my last attempt at this: I like having straight hair. I think it suits me. The natural state of my hair requires just as much time and upkeep as my relaxed hair did when I wasn’t a slacker about it (although it’s far healthier now - bonus!).

I don’t know how much of this is a product of me really loving my once-straight hair and how much of it is my simply being used to it. I just know that no matter how many natural hair videos I watch and blogs and websites I read, I can’t see myself ever really loving what I’ve got.

For years, I’ve gotten yelled at from all sorts of hair-related extremes. (“Embrace your natural texture so the whites don’t keep you down!!!11” “You can’t be taken seriously in a professional environment without straight hair!”
“I am your mother, and I am telling you that you need a perm to handle your kind of hair!” – Okay, I’ll stop.) I’ve also talked to many, many reasonable people who are super-supportive of my transitioning and who don’t immediately jump to racially charged yelling. It’s nice.

Point is, it’s got nothing to do with any of that.

I know that I am not my hair.

But liking my hair would be nice.

It’ll work out fine! Honestly most of the haircare tips on YouTube for natural hair are overblown so they have shit to keep doing videos on.


I really need to make a natural hair blog.


  1. karmajesus reblogged this from thekeri and added:
    It’ll work out fine! Honestly most of...haircare tips on YouTube for
  2. coyotesqrl said: Here are my worth-just-about-nothing thoughts…you and your hair look super-cute in this picture.
  3. anarchyandscotch said: Yeah, I didn’t read this. Hearting it because you’re pretty.
  4. fallingdeep said: Just keep in mind that nothing is permanent when it comes to hair except for (probably) baldness.
  5. thekeri posted this