Dear Owner,
At first, you may have doubts about keeping me in my original state. This is understandable, as you have for a long while been used to applying relaxers to make me straight, or covering me up with artificial braids and weaves. But if you’ve truly made up your mind to keep your afro identity, you must accept me as normal (a normal hair type with its unique characteristics), and stop bothering about your looks.
On being too difficult to maintain, I wouldn’t respond with the nothing-good-comes-easy cliché. However, if you could relax, and fix hair extensions, and relax again, repeating what I consider a never ending cycle of hiding my true identity, then you have already been trained in the way of giving time and effort to beauty. I only offer you a different type of cycle, only thing is the hair is hundred percent yours.
Then the hearsays about how costly it is to maintain me. Much ado about maintenance! How much does it cost to run the relax-fix-relax-fix cycle? Let’s just say you’re a newbie who is short of ideas on what to do with your afro hair. No my dear newbie, there’s a lot to learn about me, one of which is, I like water –combing me dry is a recipe for great pain. So moisturise with water before combing out. The choice of style –to twist, weave, fro out, or lock –is yours to decide. By now I know you are looking at lots of places for inspiration, bear in mind they should be realistic and comfortable.
Alas, about my health and looks. I do enjoy oils and kinds of butter, aloes and avocados, eggs and bananas, mayonnaise to mention but a few. What you should not fail to consider is, I get my nutrition from what you eat too. If you feed well and live well, it will show in your hair too.
Finally, stop fiddling with me. Stop complaining about how long or how thick I am, in comparison to the pictures you see on social media on the perfect ways afro should look. Simply enjoy my uniqueness.
Sincerely,
Your Black Mass of Afro
