I decided that I was going to take out my nubian twist because my job. Once Muvico but not cinemark because it got bought out. Changed it male hair code policy. For you see now Males are not aloud to have there hair below there coller(that has not changed) But the big killer is they will not allow you to wear you hair up any more. No more putting long weave up in a pony tail. They literally told people either you cut what you have took so long to grow. For a 7 dollar an hour job. Freaking crazy. Or We won’t hire your/ we will fire you. So since I didn’t have another job and always hate looking for another. I decided to simply conform. I took out my nubian twist on the 3/20/09 friday night because I decided that I was going to do a little experiment. I was going to first rinse my nubian twist with water and see what happens. People always tell me that you can’t get braids wet. So I wanted to see what would happen. Will turns out they where wrong. And it actually caused my new growth too curl making it let noticable and making my all around look improve. However since my hair produces oil and oil and water don’t mixed. After I washed it i could feel all the oil buildup on my scalp and it was quite nasty. So I decided I was going to wash my twist. I used just regular panteen shampoo and had to use quite alot of it . To gather a large lather. Once finished I did a awful job rinsing them out. And the end result was that there was shampoo still all over my hair. So instead of washing it I decided just to take it out and get it over with. Plus I was so excited to see two months new growth in light of my 6 month prior growth(the top of my head) 5 month growth ( sides and back) and Four month ( front edges).
So I did. Now the end result was I had alot of new growth. However I was disappointed because I expected more. I actually expected my hair to be long not longer. But now that I had time to miditate on it. I am quite happy with my new growth. So after I took it out. I tryed three hair styles. The first one was that I flat ironed it straight and combed it up causing a very strange looking afro. Look like I was struck be lighting. That was ok but not quite right. Next I simply put gel in it giving me a very nice curl pattern. But my caused my hair alot of shrinkage causing my hair to look quite short. I couldn’t have that. So I decided to either get cornrows or little individuals. I couldn’t decided. So I asked my father what he thought. He said that he never really niced small braids and I should get individuals. Well he persuaded me and I got cornrows. Two hours later I was out of the shop with cornrows. Which at the time I hated. I strormed out of the shop steaming mad that I had just paid 50 dollars to get this crap done. I went to Macdonalds across the street looked in the mirrior and almost wanted to cry my eye balls out. I was so self conscience about the way I looked. I especially hated the fact that they did not braid my hair all the way down(the hang time) They rubber branded them. Which I taught was disrespect at the time as if they where saying my hair was white peoples hair and couldn’t withstand a braid. Which I know isn’t true because I had it done before with out any rubber bands. But whatever.
However when I entered my fathers car ranting about how much I hated it. He looked quite surpised and expressed to me his liking of it. He really liked it. And told me others would as well. He told me the publics approval rating where going to be quite high. He was absolelty right. There was no at least verbal out cry against me. Only compliments about me finally going natural and not putting weave in my hair. I how ever was going to quit my job and sewn in the weave that I bought a week before as soon as it came in the male. But later made a pro and a con list and realized the pros completely out weighed the cons. Actually there was only one pro to putting weave in my hair at this time. And that was to feel good about myself. I realized this was a great fooly for the present time and decided to keep my hair in just the way it is. OK this is my first hair entry. I will however go all the way back to the first picture I took of my hair which was back in october and tell you what my hair looked like and why I got it that way. Alright God bless you all and thanks for reading.
