Tag: i relaxed my natural hair

I'll always remember sitting on the ground between my mother’s legs while she intensely pulled inside my hair. Like a kid, the discomfort was intolerable, and my mother didn't have persistence in my mane, who understood no master. Every day, she tugged, brushed, and combed my voluminous curls, trying her better to tame them into orderly braids on my small mind. As she made plans in my first Breaking of the bread, taking me towards the local Dominican beauty salon to obtain my first relaxer was towards the top of her to-do list. I'd never known such shiny and smooth tresses. Your hair that increased from my scalp was always characterised as “difficult” and “unruly,” which new hair was restricted to Disney princesses, celebrities, and also the fancy women I saw in the pub. I treasured the...