So...

I am inspired even more now, after months of researching and endless watching of video blogs, I am going to let my hair out and let it run wild with no blow-dry no heat no nuffin' but shampoo, conditioner and moisturiser.

I am so excited about the transition, because I have had my hair covered up for as long as I can remember - i used to be all natural - then relaxer's (damn you to hell Just for Kids and Dark and Lovely!!!) came to fashion in the 90s. My hair was never luxuriously long and thing anyhow, but looking back at my pre-relaxer years I had a good old puff going on. If only I had stuck to that, if only my mum had been strong enough and thought : ''you know what, my baby girl is going to have to live through pain of comb outs and like it!'' Then maybe i would have a puffy mane this side of London to Bora Bora. (I know...bora bora...really?, but its sounds so funny)

Alas - she didnt, I permed my hair straight like every other Dru Hill loving ( <---- click it eeek i forgot how much i loved them) , tracksuit and Gap kagool wearing, tween and it broke off faster than you can say... bora bora?(not so funny)
Its safe to say that I had my hair chopped off a fair amount after that, and under the wise decision of my cousin (who was also my hairdresser at the time) I stopped relaxing my hair to let it grow natural and healthy.

My mum wasn't so sure at first, but when she noticed the damage being done she was all for it. Since I have been under an array of protective styles: pick and drop, kinky, human hair plait/twist extensions, and full head weaves (something I have sported for a good three years now.)

They are all great techniques to help transitioning, and those who THINK they can not deal with their hair or are simply just not ready...moi a case in point.

But I love the idea of letting it all out. I frequently sport kiny twists and curly weaves in the vain hope of fooling myself and others that my natural do is pretty much perfectly the same. Its not and never will be fake, and thats the beauty of it. So I have to embrace it, and more importantly, I'm ready. Naturally Leslie's blog is inspiring, and various youtube videos and black hair blogs show an increasing want of black women trying to take control and shun the costly and unnatural limitations of weaves, perms and relaxers - and show off what other races can never have. It's time for us to show off what we've got no? oooo I love it...

So come december 18th. I will be rocking a natural do...oo ooo ooo ! its the holidays and i'm off work for two weeks - i think its best for me, to get used to it first with people i love around me, supporting me...rather than that annoying person who stalks down the corridor and announces to the world that ''oo you cut your hair?'' no..no it wasnt mine to begin with../ ''Oh right...what?'' then they try to touch it. Nah, i'm not ready to share ...