After a gazillion years of straightening my hair and a couple of weeks of wearing hair extensions, I decided to go back to my roots.

To the salon I went for a haircut that left me with approximately 1/4 of an inch of hair. I was prepared to be traumatized afterward. But, I feel okay. I’m a bit concerned about how others (family, etc.) might react. Still, it was a good choice. Now I get to figure out how to manage my hair in its natural texture. My hair will also get the opportunity to recover from years of damage due to chemical relaxers and a decade of coloring my prematurely gray hair. (I started going gray at 24.) Oddly enough, this hair cut made me realize that I didn’t/don’t even have that much gray hair!