4 Lessons that Will Make or Break Your Hair Journey

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Your natural hair journey is a personal one. Everyone’s path is different and your journey will be as positive or negative as you want it to be. Attitude is everything. If you are seeing this as a lifestyle

change, you will make it through with flying colors. Having a negative perspective and attitude will only cause you to concentrate on your failures. In order to achieve greatness during your journey, there are valuable lessons to learn early.

BE PATIENT

Patience is your key to success. If you don’t have patience you will not make it alive in general and you definitely won’t last on your natural hair journey. Expecting to know what to do with your transitioning hair is dangerous, as most of us are still in relaxed hair mode and the two textures couldn’t be more different! Reading about different techniques and products are essential.

Also, it takes time to find the right routine to achieve healthy hair so if length is your main objective, then trying every hair growing notion (Monistat, inversion method, bull semen) will have you frustrated, broke, and potentially hindering your growth. Take the time to learn and understand your hair, what it needs, and which products it responds well to. Nothing great is mastered within a few days so expect the same from your natural hair.

EVERY CURL IS DIFFERENT

Everyone does not have the same texture, live in the same climate, or have the same genes. We are all unique and within that uniqueness we may have some similarities, but there are so many contributing factors to hair texture that it’s common for biological sisters to not share the same curl pattern, porosity level, strand width, and density.

Learning what your hair needs will require trial and error, and if you choose to follow bloggers or vloggers to learn their favorite products or techniques, be certain you have similar hair textures and that you live in similar climates. Drier climates require different products than climates with a higher humidity. Someone living with alopecia will have very different concerns than someone with psoriasis.

The verdict is still out on whether you need to know your curl pattern to take care of your hair, but knowing your hair’s porosity is definitely important. Knowledge of ingredients and various products is important as well. The only way to do either is to listen to how your hair responds to different techniques and products.

Source: kinkycurlycoilme