About

20 y/o attending art school majoring in Drawing and Painting and a minor in Animation

Ethnically Ghanaian, nationally Canadian

This site is dedicated to my lock journey and locks in general :) Feel free to submit!

My hair journey

Whenever I make a “drastic” change to my hair. People’s initial reaction is that they hate it. This is a fact.

It even goes back to sixth grade…….

Hair timeline:

6th grade: I relax my hair for the very first time. I feel older sophisticated and cuter, cause that’s what all the other little black girls were doing, and with my 6th grade mentality, if everyone else is doing it, then I should too, right? Pffft. Came to class with my hair all straightened. Boy in my class tells me he hates it during recess.

6th- 11th grade: I sport the relaxed jet straight hair for 5.5 years. All these years I had straight ass hair, almost forgetting completely what my natural hair looked like. Most of the black girls in my school carry relaxed hair. Almost all of them. I start to hate my relaxed hair more and more. Not only was my hair breaking from the chemicals and looking like shit, but relaxing hair is quite pricey, and honestly you are just paying someone to damage your hair. And if you don’t keep relaxed hair properly, it can honestly look like crap, and the gaps in between getting my hair relaxed  were getting bigger.

Grade 11- 2 year Uni: During high school I became seriously ill and had to undergo major surgery during grade 11. I was put on all sorts of medications, the medications plus the fact that I wasn’t really healthy completely destroyed my hair. Once I was healthy enough and about to return to school, I cut my hair because it was so damaged, and honestly after all that I had been through I needed a fresh start. I began to sport natural afro hair for the next 3.5 years. The initial reactions, were that I looked like a boy, it would take forever to grow my hair back, I miss your long straight hair, you need to wear earrings so that you don’t look like a boy, my hair is nappy, blah blah blah. And you would think the rude comments wouldn’t stop right? As the years have passed since high school you know how many compliments I have gotten on my thick afro natural nappy hair??? People on the bus, in malls, complimenting how much they liked it, they were all strangers. I’m not even over exaggerating this. People friggin’ loved my afro.

2nd Year of Uni: My lock journey begins, I cut  my fro off and get dreads. People tell me how they miss my old style, dislike my new, same old story. I predict in about 4 - 6 months, and once they’ve surpassed their baby stage I’ll be hearing I love your dreads, and I’m not even trying to sound cocky. This always happens. I don’t know why people hate change so much. But I’m ready for the challenge and the journey that dreading my hair has given me, I don’t care how much I’ve spent to get them done. I’m never going to return to that relaxed chemical hair lifestyle.

I invite all of you to submit and share your hair/dread journey, I’ll be posting them here.