Cultured in Media

If you remember from this post , then you remember when I chopped off all of the heat damaged hair that I was suffering from. I started my natural hair journey in 2010 and become completely natural in 2012. My hair reached all the way to near waist length but I always had to chop away hair due to heat damage, or because the ends were breaking constantly. Last year, Sept 1st 2015, I decided to cut off ALL of the heat damaged and color in my hair. It left me with ear length (lol) hair. I mean, I couldn't do anything with it, but I found ways to make it work. Now in Sept 2016, I am almost near where I started with healthier strands. My hair is so thick, even, and healthy that I now hate to even mess with it. So here is the long awaited one-year before and after. To view my complete hair journey from the beginning, click here . Before: September 2015 After: September 2016 Comparison chart: Sept 2015 - Sept 2016

Follow my  instagram  for daily hair pics.  My hair has had its struggles through the years; some good, some bad, and some just ooogly (ugly). But through it all, it has been a learning experience as I continue to get a full grasp of this hair of mine. As a kid, I had a decent amount of hair and would get it pressed a few times,which would let my hair reach mid-back. That was until a friend of the family put a perm in my hair and then the process started from then - a downward spiral that I never fully recovered. As of right now, I cannot find any pictures of my high school years, but I did find a few from those "awkward" years after high school. I used to fry, dye, blow-dry, cut, wear bonding glue to attach weaves, and everything else you could possible imagine, I did. I didn't really care about my hair because it looked cute and healthy to me. Little did I know at the time that I was damaging my hair to the extremes with perming, then blow-drying, then color...