Let Me Pick Your Afro Baby
Washing Sade’s hair is always a back breaking task that leaves me exhausted. Luckily, we only wash it every three – four weeks when she is between twists.
This morning, after I got my mind right, we washed & blew dry her afro in preparation for her appointment to get fresh kinky twists before the start of school.
When I was done blowing it out, she was amazed to see how long her hair had grown. So was I because she has an AWESOME afro.
I tried to convince her to rock the afro to school for a week but she refused. She said that most of the Black girls at her school work relaxers & that she one of the very few girls that wore natural hairstyles.
I told her that she had a leg up on them because she was working with nature & nothing can beat that. She was like whatever; I still want a hot press not a perm but a hot press.
Just maybe for her birthday next year, I will soften my position on hair straightening. Just maybe she will get that hot press.
Tell Sade there are many women out here loving her natural hair!!
She is gorgeous!
And where is the pick after the twists!
Tell Sade to stall as long as she can before experimenting with chemicals. I got my first perm at fourteen (behind my mother’s back) and now I have been trying for years to get it as healthy as it was in it’s natural state. ):
Great pics of Sade. I was wondering how she was doing and it appears she is doing fantastic. I light press would be nice and a great gift from her big bruddah. LOL.