Painkillers. Check! Phone battery full to listen to music, tweet, browse and ping the
pain away. Check! Mentally and physically prepared. Check! Well, you
might be wondering what I’m going on and on about abi? It’s the torture
every woman who braids her hair goes through. It's worse at times when you can't use your phone as planned as your hands are busy dividing the hair (Xpression Ultra Braid) for the braider to braid or the braiding lady outsources two other braiding ladies and they are on top
of your head, gossiping while forgetting it’s your hair they are pulling
when they start hi-5ing each other. After 3 hours or 4 hours of all that, the hair will go through fire and hot water as a means of getting the hair trimmed. Finally, they pull your hair back, and dab a hot
towel on your scalp. You leave the hair dresser's place with your eyes looking all Chinese
from the pulling, your hairline slowly fading and you want to kill
someone.
Getting
one’s hair braided is really not a fun experience it takes a whole
lot of time, if you are not so patient and without the ability to stand much pain and also the stress of taking the braids out after it has stayed it tenor then you should seek other alternatives, like me. Because of this rigorous process, i decided to stay off braids. For the past 7years I have been either on sewed in weaves or on my natural hair never braids.
Just this week i finally got my hair braided (*gasp*, I know a bunch of you who know me are like, whaaaaat???) Yes o! wanted to take a break from combing hair for a change. I have gone through the fire and brimstone part, So now that I have my braids done, I'm looking forward to exploring new and interesting ways of styling and rocking it with pride.
Season's Greetings peeps!
India Arie
India Arie