{"id":24006,"date":"2026-10-01T09:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=24006"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:53:14","slug":"the-blessing-and-curse-of-curls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2026\/10\/01\/the-blessing-and-curse-of-curls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blessing and Curse of Curls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hey my peeps!! Side note before I start ranting but is it just me or my mind goes completely blank when it comes to these things. Like trust, I have plenty to talk about, but when it comes time to write a blog I have no idea what to do. Sooooooo. Yeah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now back to the topic I chose for this week, let me rant to you about my hair. If you haven\u2019t noticed, I have curly hair, and this wad on my head is both a blessing and a darn curse. \u2018Cause tell me why my hair decides to look glorious on my lazy days, but whenever there is an event I need it looking tame, it goes haywire. Like\u2013 Brother, what!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another point is the fact I\u2019m the only one in my family with them. (And yes mine are real. I have had people ask\u2013 like my uncle. \ud83d\ude44) So for most of my life I had no clue on how to treat them right. When I was little my mom would just sit me down and brush them out. Up until like the 7th grade I went everywhere with a big puff ball on my head. I will say, I am happy I never really straighten my hair, only like once a blue moon. Which I hate anyways because I look funky and my little baby curls stick up like nobody\u2019s business.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now the thing with treating your curls right and living with people who only have straight hair, was that I didn\u2019t have any guidance. I had to either go with the flow, experiment or watch a YouTube video. Fun fact: YouTube videos on how to wash, style and blow dry your hair is very boring to me. They weren\u2019t just boring, they were also not helpful. Why? Because they had a different type of curl than I had, so what worked for them\u2013didn\u2019t work for me. Also I\u2019m lazy and I don\u2019t have the patience to twist every single curl on my head or sit down and diffuse my hair for 45 minutes to an hour. Cause boo that is sooooo boring, and don\u2019t get me started with how expensive hair products are, like bruh. I did eventually find a routine that works for me by watching videos for tips and experimenting. (And I do love my hair, some days it’s just more difficult to love them than others)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My last point of annoyance is finding someone who knows how to cut my hair. I only bring this up because I tried a new girl once since my normal lady was having a baby, and the new girl messed my hair up. She didn\u2019t mess them up that bad and it was fine because it grew back, but for a while I had to go out with a bob. It wasn\u2019t pretty. See I told the girl I wanted it to lay about mid boob (yes this was shorter than I had ever gone but not too short). So she happily agreed and got started. First she brushed my hair out (this was new to me but i trusted her), then cut my hair the length I wanted dry (i was like ok this is different), then she washed my hair, cut it again wet (at this point I knew it was going to be shorter than i asked so I fought my tears and said it\u2019s ok. It\u2019s only hair), and when it dried my curls sat on top of my shoulders. Y\u2019all it was bad. I mean really bad. But hey it\u2019s ok cause at least I didn\u2019t cry in front of her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And yeah that\u2019s the end of my hair journey right now, so I hope you liked it and thanks for reading. Peace and Love.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey my peeps!! Side note before I start ranting but is it just me or my mind goes completely blank when it comes to these things. Like trust, I have plenty to talk about, but when it comes time to write a blog I have no idea what to do. Sooooooo. Yeah.\u00a0 Now back to … Continue reading “The Blessing and Curse of Curls”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24007,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24006\/revisions\/24007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}