View Single Post Old 02-25-2012, 01:24 PM   #17 Join Date: Feb
2009 Posts: 60  What?! Your hair is stunning! And it's super
long. I would kill for that much pretty hair. Lol. But it just
looks like you may need some gel if you want your hair to not
mat/shrink/tangle as much. You don't have to gel it down to
where it doesn't move, but that will at least help it from
shrinking up. I know my hair is fine-textured, so gel helps it
by giving it weight and hold. Also, I know that my curls act
weird when I wear braids/twists or flat iron too much back to
back... it's like they forget how to behave. You are beautiful
and so is your hair! I know I went through the same thing when I
first went natural, but I eventually stopped caring what people
thought because I knew that my hair looked good and was healthy.
Maybe you need to move to an area where there are more people
who *look* like you - I think it will help tremendously with you
feeling "ugly" when you wear a fro. I had to get over that too.
I never wanted to go o