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San Diego, Ca, United States
I love God & my family. Some of my hobbies include; natural hair, music, fashion, and did I mention natural hair. I am the ultimate girlie girl; I love dressing up, doing hair, makeup, fashion and SHOES. I value family, life, embrace self acceptance and cherish the things God give me to steward. I am optimistic and also a skeptic. It cost absolutely nothing to be positive or negative, I choose to be positive. This blog will incorporate a mixture of things that I am most passionate about. The main focus is hair but I will throw other things in there every once in a while. Please feel free to comment and ask questions, I LOVE QUESTIONS! Since going natural I have been glued to my laptop, I enjoy networking with other naturals who share the same love and respect for natural hair. My goal is to reach waist length hair by Aug 23, 2013. Thank you for stopping by Peace & blessings. Happy growing!!!!

Saturday, November 27, 2010

BC & Transitioning vs Self Esteem &other peoples opinion

I notice a lot of naturals make their decisions to go natural but along the journey they allow others and their opinions to interfere with their experience or their personal low self esteem get in their way of reaping the full benefits of being natural.

 Part of going natural is the freedom of finding beauty  internally even when you don't feel it externally. I have had the best experience ever doing what I did for ME. Queens let me tell you, it seemed like my world thought, I was insane ranting and raving about being natural and its benefits when i first took interest in going natural, my friends didn't believe me when I said I would BC and it didn't matter because this wasn't for them to believe it was for me to prove to myself; I knew I needed to find the more of me, there was more to my natural beauty than wearing someone else hair to feel secure. When I finally BC'd  I texted them all pix of my hair on the ground, than of my face, they couldn't believe I did it. When I look back  I remember  feeling extremely uncomfortable with my hair as short as it was, but I was getting so much compliments that  I knew it was an internal battle I had with myself.  I see pix  of my hair then and think,  "i looked a hot mess w/ twa" 
but you know what?  I went through it despite of how unattractive I felt because there was way more to my beauty than my hair.  I wanted to reap the full  benefits,  think about it; you will NEVER have your hair that short again, why not enjoy the ride and all the phases? when I look back at my pix I can say I did it from beginning to end .There are naturals who transitioned a long time, who follow my journey they, and tell me me how much they wished they would have BCd and didn't take the cowardly way out and transition. Now they will never know how it feels.

Out of all the natural ladies I am one that really took A LOT out of the experience of going natural. I love to see others gain these same benefits. For those of you battling the same issues I did, don't think about it and just go for it, in the long run you will be glad you did. 
Just a thought Peace & Blessings

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