SLAY THAT NATURAL HAIR GIRL

By L.R. YORK

This awesome guide on growing your hair naturally, this book is to help those who are dealing with hair breakage, alopecia, stress hair loss, and any type of hair condition. We talk about in this book different experiences hair routines and hair treatments that could be used to help with hair grow

• Language: English
• Publisher: Beauty
• Release date: Apr 2, 2024
• ISBN: 9798869348494

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INTRODUCTION

Hello to all; this book is about being your natural self, loving yourself, and growing that natural, beautiful hair without any chemicals, dyes, or straighteners, just natural beauty. I put this book together to help people understand the different techniques and types of hair besides the ones they know about and hear about daily. There are all types of ways of growing your hair; it also depends on where you live and what continent you live on. A lot of people don’t talk about the frustrations of growing your hair back after having cancer and having to do chemo or even if stress-related or health issues, alopecia, hypothyroid, or hyperthyroidism. There are all kinds of reasons why your hair falls out; gut health is terrible, and not in good health. In this book, we’re going to get down and dirty, and we’re going to talk about growing your hair naturally and long, beautiful, thick, and strong even after you have had a battle with an illness that can ruin your hair.

I believe firmly in everything I’m talking about in this book, all by experience. I’m not done yet; learning and experiencing it myself and growing my hair to where it is halfway down my back in 2023. It is beautiful, long, and strong, and I feel that every woman out there can learn the secrets, tips, and tricks to grow their hair naturally and beautifully, so I hope you enjoy this book.

Chapter 1

OUR HAIR

As women, we love our hair; our hair makes us confident and feel beautiful and irresistible to men. We adore our hair; it makes us happy. We love to style it with cute buns, ponytails on the top and cut bangs in the front that go past our eyelashes and eyes. But when we start having hair and health issues with our hair, it brings us down. We begin to lose confidence. Because our hair helps shape our face from around an oval face to a square face. Our hair even helps to shape our eyes, nose, and lips; hair makes you look different. With boy cute, elegant, crazy styles, relaxed style, shortcuts, and what everything makes you.

All women frat about their hair: I’m talking about going back in history; a woman’s hair has been significant throughout time. Looking at the shape of hairstyles over time, from Greek to Roman, TV shows show our hair put up in curly and rolls pinned to our heads. Little swirls to women wearing their hair in big curls, or even the hairstyles in the 50s and the ‘60s to the 70s with afros and dreads to the ‘80s with sideburns and to now. Hair has always been a trending thing and has always been part of style along with clothes. You wake up and style your hair based on your clothes or mood.

And it’s not just women because even men do not want to go bald early in life. They don’t like to go bald at all; they desire to have a good head of hair to make them look younger because everybody knows when a man starts balding, they feel that they’re getting old. Men spend just as much time in the bathroom with their hair as women. Everybody relates to hair loss as a sign of you getting older. Just like people associated with getting older with wrinkled skin, inability to lose weight, baggy skin, fat that won’t go away, or that droops down from the body because of loss of muscle tone. Everybody Associates their hair and the hair’s thinning with bald spots to getting older. If there is no health issue going on. But there is more to it than just that.

As I was growing up as a black- American woman, everybody knows that Black American women have the most struggle with keeping their hair long and keeping their hair healthy; it’s always a constant problem. I am not saying that any other ethnicity has hair loss and issues, but black-American people, in my opinion, have it the most. Sitting around with my grandma, who always talked about when she used to have long hair, she was always trying different remedies to solve her hair problem. She’ll hear something on TV, and the first thing she’ll do is go and order it. My grandma even took it upon herself to make her hair concoctions. Because she was a book reader and grew up in those days when they didn’t have TVs, they had radios and barely any entertainment; they had to entertain themselves the most by running around in the woods or reading books. My grandma always sat back and read books.

She told me when she was a kid that all she loved to do was sit back and read, and I noticed after she had passed away and we were going through the things that she had a lot of books on herbal remedies. I kept some of the books, but some of the books I donated were very old books. And I’m sure she was always reading up on herbs for hair loss and other things she was dealing with. But I know she used to love having long hair; when the kids and I would go over there to see her, she always used to fuss over their hair, telling them that they shouldn’t put so much of this in it or that or so much hairspray or moose and or gel because it was going to pull out their hair. And she loved their long, pretty hair because my kids are mixed; they are Black and Hispanic. My grandma didn’t quite understand that they had a beautiful hair texture. They didn’t have to worry about it falling out because of the mix. They couldn’t stand their hair; they have that beautiful type of golden-brown hair that’s naturally curling, not too tight of curls like with most Black-American women; with 4C hair type, they have really tight curls, which a lot of black people would call nappy are a lot of people back in the day used to use those word your hair was nappy. But they have loose types of curls, requiring a lot of cream and hair gel. Their type of hair would puff out or freeze out; my grandma did not understand that.

I used to look at my grandma and think she was worrying too much, but my grandma always told me your hair is your power. It makes you confident and beautiful; it helps to bring joy to your life, and I never understood that ‘I thought, oh my goodness, it is just hair. My grandma was always so concerned with hair, especially as she started to get older. She lived until she was about 89 years old. And I remember in the last months of going to see her, I would braid her hair and tell her I said Grandma, your hair is growing. We always went to her nursing home because, at that time, she could not continue to live by herself in her apartment, so she went into a nursing home voluntarily. And I would go there with the kids to visit and braid her hair; I would do some cornrows in her hair. And she enjoyed it, and at the end, my grandma’s hair got down to maybe the base of her neck. I can remember braiding it up, and she was getting frustrated and told somebody she needed the braids out so she could wash it. I think one of the family members visited her and took the braids out. But she was happy and delighted her hair was growing again.

My grandma made a joke at the time and said oh, it’s funny when I am getting ready to die, then my hair wants to grow. But when I was living, it never did anything but fall out. I didn’t think it was funny, but my grandma was like that; she always faced things head-on and was such a strong woman. But then I understood why she was always going on about her hair at that time. I was in college for the last time. I have gone through college all my life, ever since I was 18 years old, and the previous college I went to was for occupational therapy. During the time that I was going to that college for two years to get my associate degree as an occupational therapy assistant, it was hell on wheels. I did not understand why the people in that school, the way the teachers were, and everything was really out of control. I’m not particularly eager to point the finger at racism all the time for every situation when things go wrong or when things happen badly. Still, some discrimination was going on