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To My #1 Hair Fan

My #1 hair fan is my husband Reign. He has many nicknames, but Reign is the coolest one. ;-) He always takes time out to post comments on HG (although most are random, lol). As a matter of fact, he posted the very 1st comment on HG. He's always stuck by my hair decisions & supported me. I know in some case, significant others can be just as bad as the naysayers, but not my Reign.

He's watched me go through so many adventures with my hair. I've known him for almost 11 years, but I'm mostly referring to the last 4.5 years when I got more serious about my hair. At the end of the day, I'm still his K.D. After we moved to the D.C. area I (his hometown) in '07, I held on to my weave. I would get so tickled when he said my weaves looked "glamorous". He even taught me how to sew in weaves. You see, I didn't know how to sew in weave, but I knew it had to be like actual sewing. So I bought the weave, needle, and thread & he demonstrated how to sew in the hair track. That's love! LOL. Basically, I wore weaves because I'd given up trying to grow my hair very long. I was used to it getting to a certain point & then my hair breaking off. Usually somewhere around the shoulders...

Here's me w/ a weave in the summer of '06.

I would cut the weave sometimes to make it shorter....

After a month, I thought I'd try wearing my own hair out since I'd been donning a weave (half-weave really to give that illusion of "real hair") for about 3 years. I sewed the hair in faithfully every month no matter how much I missed wearing my real hair. It felt good to wear my own hair again though. And just like that my weave stage was over.

Dec. '06 w/ no weave.

Twistout!

Bored with my hair, I colored it in June '07...

...and along came the breakage. Enough to make me cut my hair into a bob in August. By the time my birthday came along (Aug. 10th), I was on a mission to obtain & maintain healthy hair after finding sites like BHM & LHCF. I started thinking "Man, I can do this!". There were so many beautiful heads of hair on both sites...They really gave me the inspiration I needed to grow my own hair.

Since then, I've been growing my hair & taking better care of it. I've stumbled along the way & made mistakes (still making them), but that's how I learned. :-) I was scraping apl by the summer of 2010...#longback  He was the 1st person to congratulate me when I reached apl.

He even submitted a hairstyle pic last year for Hairstyle Appreciation Day. :-)

Then we moved to Houston and I found out I was preggie. That's when I wondered if this was the right time to transition to natural. I decided it was. What other time would I not be relaxing my hair for this long?? I told him my plans and he was very supportive....Shocked, but supportive. He may not have agreed, but he supported me-which is the most important thing. In my defense, I did try to 'prepare' him for the day when I would go natural wayyyy back when I started taking better care of my hair. Because of my love for big, curly hair, I knew going natural was inevitable. I just didn't know when I would have the courage to do it! So last fall I started small chopping my hair....I had to do this so I knew I couldn't back out of going natural. The small chops motivated me even more. ;-)

 

And then out of the blue on a random Thursday evening (Jan 20th), I big chopped! Initially, I was going to big chop much later, but hey when I cut my hair into that wack hairstyle (remember?) I knew it was time, lol.

Yep, he must love me. :-) Through all of my hair adventures, he's encourages me, listens to me rant & rave when I didn't reach a hair goal, gives me most of the counter space for my hair products, celebrates my hair achievements with me, and is my ready listening ear when I just wanna talk hair. Thank you for all you've been to me & all you continue to be. I love you Reign.

Does your significant other support your hair decisions? 

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Tomiko Big Chops!

Tomiko Fraser Hines, model & actress, did the big chop recently and posted videos on Youtube! Felicia Leatherwood, well-known natural hairstylist in the entertainment industry, did the haircut on her and it looks fantastic! I stick to doing my own hair, but I think I'd let Felicia work her magic on my hair. As you can see, she does great work. I posted Tomiko's photo on HairGurl not too long ago. Twix asked me (i know i'm late) to link her Twitter page and here it is: @GoddessTomiko & check out her site, Tomiko's Goddess Gathering. :-) Here's Felicia's twitter also: @LovingYourHair and here's her site as well: Loving Your Hair With Natural Care. Both ladies are such an inspiration to natural hair!

Check out this other cute video she did with her husband Chris after the bc. They are so cute together! I love the fact that he loves her natural hair. The part where he's trying to play in her hair is classic. lol, My husband is ALWAYS doing that to my hair and he messes it up! What is it about a woman's big chop, that makes a man want to mess up her hair?! I'll never understand, lol. Even though we have short hair, it still takes time to get it just so. #naturalhair

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Did Vanessa Williams Big Chop?

I saw her on TV One's Way Black When a couple of days ago. They were doing a New Jack City reunion. I quickly snapped these pics while she was on. (Sidenote: Her skin is flawless!) I remember her having locs for a long time, but I had no idea she cut her hair short. It looks like a bc, but I could be wrong. Does anyone know if she bc'ed? Either way, her hair looks beautiful!

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1 Month Natural!

Yesterday marked my 1st official month natural!(4 weeks) I guess it will be really official on February 20th because I bc'ed on Jan. 20th. Oh well...I was excited when I realized 4 weeks had passed. I didn't think about that until I after I finished the video. lol! Let me know what you think!

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