Tale of Growth & Celebration!

Yes, I know... it's been a while since you've heard from me. I've been going through it with my hair. To date it's been 10 months since I big chopped. However, at my 6 month anniversary I had begun to think about what to do with my hair since I knew that I had some length. I wanted to do a length check, touch up my color, straighten my hair and clip the ends. I discussed with other natural divas, looked through hair magazines, and made an hair appointment with my hair dresser. But, I still felt uncertain. Then I saw a picture of Frenchie Davis...

Damn you Frenchie!!! Some of you may know Frenchie Davis from Fox's American Idol or NBC's The Voice. She is a curvaceous plus size woman like myself with a beautiful face and Caesar haircut. For those of you who are not familiar, a Caesar is a very low hair cut. She is practically bald. Frenchie is definitely sassy, strong, confident and beautiful. I see her and think "I don't need hair. I can definitely rock that!". I spent three weeks debating and discussing this hair option with my closest friends. They all looked at me like I was crazy however, they all eventually came around and said if anyone could pull it off it off it was definitely me. But even still I continued to give it some thought. After all getting a Caesar is a BIG change.

Due to my own uncertainty it took me 8 weeks, yes... 2 months to actually go to my hair stylist to have whatever done. I woke up that morning still undecided thinking "Do I cut it all off or just color it, straighten it and clip the ends?" I had so much anxiety that I was 45 minutes early for my appointment so that I could look at more hair magazines while I waited. Let me just say that my GOD is awesome. When I walked into the salon there sat Momma Charmaine. Momma Charmaine is the mother of one of my very close friends that I went to high school with. She had just come from under the dryer and was waiting for her turn in my stylist chair. I immediately confided in her telling her how undecided I was. She said "Nicole, just straighten it and clip the ends. If after 2 weeks you don't like it cut it all off. That way you'll never wonder what it looked like after growing it out all this time." Is that what it took? Someone to break something so simple down for me? So of course that's what I did. Needless to say that I still have all of my hair on my head.

It’s hard to believe that I will be 1 year natural in two months.  Trust me, I have my good days and my bad days.  All and all I am enjoying this journey!  Thanks for reading The Tales of a Diva one Natural – The Good, The Bad, and the oh so Fabulous!  Until we meet again…

Stay Beautiful!

-Nic