My whole life, I've wanted beautiful, wavy, or curly hair. Any kind of texture, really.
Growing up, I had stereotypical Asian, pin-straight hair. Unfortunately, although it was mostly straight, I had issues with frizzies popping up around the crown of my head. (I blame puberty.) No matter which countless hairstyles I tried, my hair was always, in my eyes, boring. I made some very questionable choices to try to make it interesting.
Look at the choppy cut, and how flat my hair was! Not to mention the unnecessarily large sweatshirt. Eventually, I tried to embrace the straightness and focused on combatting frizz. I even tried Japanese straightening perms for a couple years. It's an arduous process, involving treating your hair with a chemical straightening keratin product, straightening your hair with a flat iron, and then deactivating the straightener with another product. It served its purposed fairly well, but it was a bit pricey, especially as my hair was fairly long most of my life.
Over the last couple of years, my hair has become increasingly frizzy, and started to have a slight bend where it hit the nape of my neck. It also started having a slight bend at the ends.
This picture is from September 2014. Because it was very frustrating, I ended up straightening my hair, or occasionally curling it. You can imagine the kind of heat damage my hair suffered from. The following October, I chopped off 8 inches of hair to donate. My hair was much more manageable, and actually tended tombe less frizzy! It lasted a while until June, when my hair became much more frizzy than before (as if that was possible!), so I did some digging on Pinterest. I started learning about hair types, and realized that I may not be meant to have pin-straight hair. I tried scrunching my hair for the first time that summer. I was thrilled to realized that I might have some texture in my hair that I had been trying to suppress for the longest time. As I did more and more research, I tried diffusing my hair. It didn't quite work out the way I wanted it to, but it's still a work in process.
Here's what happened the first time I tried to diffuse my hair. If it was curlier, I might be able to pull off a Tori Kelly-esque style. I've found out that my hair is probably a 2B. Unfortunately, it still takes a LOT of coaxing, and I've yet to figure how to best style it.
On this blog, I'll be mainly writing about my adventures in learning what the best products for my hair type are, and establishing a good routine. I hope you'll stick around for the ride!
