ME!!

This blog will mainly be focusing on natural hair care and and my personal Natural Hair Journey, but it will also be covering various topics like beauty tips and tricks and product reviews.



 Let me start of by introducing myself..My name is Autumn and I am a 22 year old mother and  I have a wonderful 3 year old son named Liam. Ive been natural for 1 year and a half, but I recently had to do my 2nd BC (big chop) this past August because of severe HEAT DAMAGE! :(.. but that is a whole notha post..lol.. But even though I had a major setback I am still enjoying every last bit of my journey.

My reason for going natural is probably not the most popular reason but it happened pretty much by accident and I never had any intention of stopping my use of relaxers. Anyways on April 5, 2011 I was surfing Youtube eating some honey bunches of oats lol in my pjs looking for Beyonce's song Crazy In Love. So when the results came up I just clicked on the first one I saw without reading the whole title and what I clicked on wasn't Beyonce's song but it was a song called "Crazy In Love" by a woman name Alicia James. Pictures of her 2 year natural hair journey were  displaying as her song played. I got half way through her video and I was sold. Her hair was beautifulll! Curly, full and long. Everything my hair wasn't.But don't get me wrong my hair was healthy and it had length but it  was so FLAT and BORING.  I needed my hair to look like hers ASAP. So I spent the next  4 hours looking up the natural hair journeys of different users and doing some research of my own. Then I did the unthinkable, I walked in the bathroom grabbed a pair of scissors and cut off all my hair ALL OF IT!.. I left my self with one inch of hair and then I said OMG what did I do. My BF is gonna kill me smh. But I just told myself this  is what I wanted and its just  hair it will grow back. I knew I could of just transitioned but I didn't want the hassle of dealing with two diff. textures. But anyways thats pretty much how it happened for me. You can already tell im a impulsive person I see something i want and gonna try to get it right on the spot.lol smh. Since that day I never looked back.

 

  One thing I do want to say about this blog is that I think what will set it apart from a lot of other natural hair blogs is that im not a self proclaimed expert on natural hair or am I a licensed cosmetologist and you wont see too many articles about hair care on this blog. There are thousands of sites where you can easily find out "How to do a twist out" or How to properly moisturize hair"  But this blog is a place where I can share what I have learned and what works for me and share my hair journey in hopes that someone can be inspired to go natural. I'm still learning and even when I think I have a technique down someone on Youtube shows me a better way. You will see my fails and my triumphs and I welcome help, personal stories and photos along the way from all my readers.

So on that note thats my beginnings all wrapped up in a nutshell. #TEAMNATURAL:)

5th Grade Picture Day-1 day after I got my very first relaxer!

During my relaxed days My hair length shorted drasically over the years to to over processing

 

My Baby Liam

 

 And Last but defiantly not Least This is Alicia James and the video that inspired me to go natural :)