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Okay so I’ll be pretty frank: I have been lazier than the word “lazy” lately, especially with my hair. I am on break from school so that automatically attracts temporal laziness ;). Last semester was pretty much brutal, but by God’s grace I came out successful which I am grateful for. Because of how stressful the past semester was, the break that I am presently privileged to indulge in is very much needed for replenishment.
Now onto the hair. As earlier stated, I have been un-apologetically lazy! When school’s in session, I am constantly figuring out when to wash and style my hair for upcoming weeks, so that it doesn’t conflict with study time, etc. But now, it is totally like whatever (lol). I am glad that I don’t HAVE to put my hair washing and styling routine on my calendar (which I do or else I am a tad screwed). Truly, I kind of still do even during this break. It is however, now less demanding of a necessity. Nevertheless, I understand that keeping curly hair intact in certain styles can be slightly dangerous and cause a bit of a scare. A scare? I’ll explain, please continue reading 🙂
For ladies: do you ever wear “protective styles” such as cornrows, or any other preservative hairstyles? If so, do you ever find that when you leave that style in for a long period of time and loosen the style your hair sheds a lot, especially after you comb it? Does it ever scare you? Hmm, so I myself wear cornrows as a preservative hairstyle quite frequently. I often leave the braids in for at least 2 weeks and then loosen the style to wear the hair “out” as the braids create a crinkly/curly style that I like. In fact, the picture above is a perfect example. If you can look closely, I actually wasn’t finished taking the cornrows out, I still had a few more on the right side of my head.
Anyway, I kept this particular set of cornrows in my hair for 2 weeks. But, I hadn’t washed my hair for at least 3 weeks due to the stresses of prepping for final exams. While detangling my hair after washing it, there was A LOT of shedded hair that resulted from combing my hair. I wasn’t too afraid as I had experienced this before. The first time that happened, I was scared. I thought I was going bald (lol). I mean it wasn’t THAT extreme but at the time it seemed so (lol). I later read on a website that “We shed an average of 50-100 hairs per day. Under normal conditions new hairs grow to replace each hair that has been shed, keeping the average number of growing hairs about the same at all times.” Therefore after not combing my hair for 2 weeks or more, ALL the 50-100 hairs that were supposed to shed DAILY had been trapped in the cornrows and so as I combed, all the hairs were finally being released. Interesting huh? I thought so.
I have been thinking about wearing my hair in less “preservative” styles as cornrows, but that would require me to adapt a new method of styling my hair in such that I would not feel compelled to style it every bless-ed morning before leaving the house when school resumes. Nonetheless, I am testing out some techniques. I’ll update 😉
I hope ya’ found this post somewhat intriguing.
For my College students, I hope you’ve been getting some much needed relaxation!
God bless all,
Charity