“a woman’s hair is her crown”
There are many stories about my natural hair. if you stick around long enough, I promise to let you in on EVERY single one of them!
Do you wanna know about how I went natural?
When I came to the US in 2011, my hair was relaxed but I had it in a sew-in and had a leave out. Hold up! Lemme explain...you know the type of weave where you leave your hair out in the front? YES, that one! That’s exactly what I wore in the winter.
Coming all the way from hot humid, Lagos Nigeria to the cold midwest and experiencing my first winter ever - let’s just say, my hair did not like it. My “leave out” broke off. And so I chopped off my hair - actually, I did a Mohawk.
I decided to grow out the Mohawk, that was my way of transitioning. And so I transitioned for months. I later discovered youtube and was enchanted by the self-love and confidence exuded by these natural haired women on youtube. I WAS HOOKED! There was something about these magical black women that I wanted for myself.
“I'm black too! What is missing?”
IT’S THE HAIR! it’s our Black Natural Hair!
That was all the motivation I needed to do the big chop! I started to transition and 6 months later, I did the big chop.
March, 2013 - Luchi was re-born.
Are you natural? What's your natural hair story?
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