Hey Yall,

So this week I took my braids and I felt like my hair hasn’t grown lol…

I looked at the pictures from when I cut my hair back in July and now and it looks the same. I was wondering why it hasnt grown but an outside source a.k.a one of my friends told me that my hair looks like it has grown. She said that she could see the difference between the roots and color of my hair. You can see that its starting to be mostly black and not the color.. I cant tell.. But hey, thats just me. Look at my before and after pics and you decide for yourself.. Lol.

Side note… Boy the wonders that makeup does for a face.. Now I didnt wake up like this (as Beyonce has these women lying to themselves in the morning.. lol) but i do feel flawless lol.

Any who back to the subject at hand..

Since my hair hasnt grown that much, I was wondering what I should do with my hair because I don’t necessarily want to get braids right now (because it takes a long time to do lol).

Below is a photo from Naturally curly.com…If only it was so easy to achieve a style that looks like this. Ideally, this is ho I would want to wear my hair (but as you can see from the photos above, I have yet to achieve this look..lol) I have watched many youtube tutorials and I have yet to master the wash and go for the little hair I do have.. Haha.

As you read in my previous post, the military has many different guideline when it comes to hair. It makes it difficult to express who you are as a person in regards to your hair and your personal style. Not to say I am a stylish person lol.. But I do like to dibble and dabble with different looks from time to time and spice up my look! Take the picture below for example, when i am on leave I do things that are completely not authorized. This hairstyle would completely be considered to be eccentric. Why? Well because it doesn’t look like the other styles that they have prescribed us to conform to such as hair above the collar or a tight bun.. Its eccentric because it looks faddish! Who knew wearing a mohawk would be a fad! I would say it would be more so of a trend if they allowed it (well within reason). Because we all know when you give people an inch they want to take a mile. If they would allow this style within reason.. people would take it to the extreme by putting color there or wearing it tall and spiky. Making this style not tasteful.

 

Below is another style I had. I was not on leave I just felt the color and the style complemented me. But i guess I was wrong lol. People were like is that hair orange! You know that is not authorized. Why would you get that? Like I said in my previous post, they write in the regulations that the color has to complement your complexion. Well what I see and what others see can be completely different. When the rules are so vague who is right and who is wrong!

My point is.. That sometimes it sucks to be apart of an organization. Why does it suck because conformity sucks. You somehow lose who you are along the way and every time you open your mouth something military related comes out and its almost like you become a robot.. In someways that can be good. But people fail to realize that life outside the military is just that YOU ARE OUTSIDE OF THE MILITARY lol meaning once uncle Sam is done with you, all you have left is what it WAS like when you were in the military and you have a hard time conforming to the outside world because anyone that is not like us disgusts us lmbo.

THIS IS WHY!

I pride myself on being a commercial Marine. Now I can walk and talk like the rest of them.. Hell I maybe even better than some of them but I do make it a point to try to be myself. It starts with the hair on down. That is a little piece of me that can ground me and make me feel normal like the rest of the women in the world that wake up and have the epiphany that they to want to be a red head lol!

Have a blessed week!