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i normally keep it 100% fashion and hair around here because well, that’s what the blog is all about. but since i’ve been having so much fun offline, i decided to share a little bit more about my life. i’m a very private person outside of my sisters and close girlfriends whom i treat like my sisters, so sharing things about my personal life besides work or blogging is a bit unusual and rare for me.
but you guys have been following and supporting me for a while now and i thought it would be a bit different to add a little twist to the blog by talking a little more about my personal life. though, full disclosure here! i could freak out over this decision in a day, month or whenever and delete all evidence to said twisting!
i hated you for a long time, and why shrinkage, why did i do that? i ask this rhetorically because i now realize that it was you who helped to keep my hair moisturized and you who helped me – less my desire to admit it – GROW my hair. there! i said it, now you can go gloat in your glory – your much deserved glory. you often get a bad rap from curly and kinky haired girls, and i wasn’t helping the situation because i was drinking the shrinkage haterade too – but now i realize the error in my shrinkage hater ways. shrinkage, i want to have [click to continue…]
i’ve shed numerous tears for my hair and the pain that it once caused me i caused myself by being in denial about my hair and ignorant of its care.
i remember it like it was yesterday. there i was, standing in the shower and had been for a while. my knees and legs ached from barely standing and balancing on the slippery ceramic of my tub as i worked to keep my balance amidst a half inch thick layer of multiple “moisturizing” conditioners; my cold, wet body shivering from the water that had once been a comfortable 80 degrees and filled the bathroom with a relaxing steam had now turned to an ice storm falling rapidly over my face, neck and back inducing waves of shivers which ran up and down my body second after second.
in one hand my fingers tightly gripped a useless denman – the brush that all those “other naturals” said i should buy. in the other a wide tooth comb that i worked in a now less than gentle and full of frustration-filled, angst tug as i tried to remove its teeth that had somehow gotten stuck on the right side of my head deep down in my tangled and brittle kinks. [click to continue…]
it’s always so cool to read “about me” profiles in the third person, but then, i’d have to make this sound so formal and impersonal…and that’s just not my style. i’m often posed questions about the blog, thus i decided to answer some of the most frequently asked questions that i receive. and after almost three years of blogging, i finally reveal my whole self. no more photos of just the back of my head.
why did you start kisforkinky?
i am some what of a natural-haired geek, label and ingredient reader and shoe lover. so of course that means that i needed to start a blog, right?
and I want to take a pair of the sharpest, cleanest cutting, clippers to my head any moment now. i’m having a bad hair day week. one of those weeks when you want to slap on a wig or shave your head bald – when those are the only two options that will seem to satisfy you.
“but naturals don’t have bad hair days, right?”
who ever said naturals didn’t have bad hair days?! who keeps spreading these lies?? people ask me that all the time. we do! we are not aliens or super cool, afro wearing chics who have NO days when our hair is ugly.
i can’t seem to do anything right with my hair. it’s super frizzy, past the point of “workable”, it’s super flat, super “needs a color job”, super big, super shrinking and just a super pain in the ask. [click to continue…]
you see those curls? they are fresh out of the shower, no product applied curls.*
i love ‘em, but let me tell you a little something, let me share a little not so much of a secret (or big deal for that matter) with you: my hair looses it’s curls at the drop of a dime.
yes, it does, darlings.
i can wash my hair, my spirals popping and bouncing, but once i pass a hand, comb or any other foreign object over them, my hair does what it does best. it poofs. be gone gina. martin, anyone?
when i count ‘em up, i’m the only natural girl in the crowd of my friends that i hang out with regularly; my home girls that i hang with on a consistent basis.
I was not planning to press my hair AT ALL this year. But I need to get my ends trimmed badly as you can see in the pic above. So I pressed it out in preparation for a trim I’m getting this week. Today I washed my hair again – trying to continue on my [...]
I really loved the bun I featured in this post, and wanted to try it out. I did it on a whim on Thursday and have been re-braiding everyday ever since. I think I’ve worn it out this weekend so I’m going to retire it for a while, but I really like this style. It [...]
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my serious shrinkage face
