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What an awesome article on natural hair. Their stories, their experiences are a lot of people’s story, a lot of people experiences and it truly resonated with me. I had yearned to go natural for years before I actually did and I should say return to natural because we are born with our hair in it’s natural state. However, I was in Corporate America in the financial industry living in between Maryland and Virginia and it was a rarity if at all to see women with natural hair in certain positions. It was a time when I was torn between the embedded theology of what I had to look like in Corporate America and my true self screaming to get out. I finally decided that I simply could not take it anymore and harmoniously with other occurences in my life I moved to New Jersey, a more liberal area to step into myself at the time, chose to be self-employed and freed myself from the bondage of perms, hair appointments that wasted my entire Saturday mornings, denial of being spontaneous etc, etc. At that time there were no sista twist or starting to lock while still holding on to permed length hair until your locks reached a desirable length,so I took the plunge and cut off my down the back pony-tail, that was truly mines, to half inch twists of new growth. I was fourty years old , now locked and on an uncertain journey. An older woman at the time who had been free in her locked hair for years told me that I would learn patience on my journey of getting through the first stages of my short locks. I had no idea what she mean’t and shrugged it off as some unuseful philosophy of hers. Twelve years later with locks down my back I can truly share that locking can teach you patience if you are listening and for me a sector of my freedom to wave its flag as my locks.
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Hey synolve,
What an awesome article on natural hair. Their stories, their experiences are a lot of people’s story, a lot of people experiences and it truly resonated with me. I had yearned to go natural for years before I actually did and I should say return to natural because we are born with our hair in it’s natural state. However, I was in Corporate America in the financial industry living in between Maryland and Virginia and it was a rarity if at all to see women with natural hair in certain positions. It was a time when I was torn between the embedded theology of what I had to look like in Corporate America and my true self screaming to get out. I finally decided that I simply could not take it anymore and harmoniously with other occurences in my life I moved to New Jersey, a more liberal area to step into myself at the time, chose to be self-employed and freed myself from the bondage of perms, hair appointments that wasted my entire Saturday mornings, denial of being spontaneous etc, etc. At that time there were no sista twist or starting to lock while still holding on to permed length hair until your locks reached a desirable length,so I took the plunge and cut off my down the back pony-tail, that was truly mines, to half inch twists of new growth. I was fourty years old , now locked and on an uncertain journey. An older woman at the time who had been free in her locked hair for years told me that I would learn patience on my journey of getting through the first stages of my short locks. I had no idea what she mean’t and shrugged it off as some unuseful philosophy of hers. Twelve years later with locks down my back I can truly share that locking can teach you patience if you are listening and for me a sector of my freedom to wave its flag as my locks.
Namaste”
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