1. Freedom My Natural hair Journey Month 4 and counting!!!!

2. My hair was very thin with a lot of breakage. At this point the front of my hair was breaking off and my hair color was green due to bleaching my hair and later adding a black rinse. I put heat to my hair on the regular and it was far from being healthy…

3. Sept ’09 Major breakage…My hair was very damaged

4. … so I began rock to sew-ins, quick weave and sometimes ill just glue in pieces to my scalp, failing to realize what I was doing to my hair…I didn’t care because the weave covered all the breakage and unhealthy hair.

5. Undecided about going natural and the big chop I continued to wear weaves however I did avoid relaxing my hair…. Feb 2010 Looking great for CIAA WKND!!!

6. ...I feared I wouldn’t be accepted with the natural look, and I wouldn’t stand out with natural hairstyles such as afros etc., it was so hard to build the confidence to walk away from my security blanket which were relaxers and weaves….

8. The Big Chop June “10 I still had perm in the front of my hair and two bald spots on the sides of my head due to the micros lol!!!! however I rocked my twa with the up most confidence….

10. I slowly began to fall in love with my hair, it was still the beginning so I couldn’t quite figure out how to wear it and what products to use. Within weeks I began to learn my hair, I spent plenty of time in the mirror trying to figure out the stlyes to wear and how to rock it…

14. My hair grows super fast with the help of shea butter, virgin oil and water!!!! My products of choice are Organix shea butter shampoo and conditioner, Cantu leave in conditioner with Shea butter and I do a hot oil treatment with virgin oil and Queen Helene hot oil treatment once every two weeks!

16. Month 3: August ’10 FroHawk with dry twist out in middle

17. Sept. 28, 2010 Happy Bday to me The Left side and the back of my hair is braided up and the front and right side of my hair was a dry twist out