The Curly Hair Club

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Brittany who spent a lot of time fighting with her hair. She straightened it, permed it, curled it, cut it, razored it, highlighted it, blow dried it, wrapped it, rag-curled it, sponge curled it, gelled it, oiled it, curling ironed it, grew it out, chopped it all off, drank cod liver oil in the name of it. Nothing was ever quite right.

And then she tried something brand new: She accepted it. Come to find out, that worked juuuuuuust fine.

So how do you know if you’re in the same Curly Hair Club? I’ve got twenty suggestions to help you decide:

1. Your bobby pins have a one-‘do shelf life. The little bits of magic that you once thought were indestructible stretch out beyond repair after a just one day of wear.

2. You have broken more combs than you could ever count. (And more often than not, the teeth got lost in your hair…)

3. You’re pretty used to hearing, “…hold still, you’ve got a fuzzy, leaf, pine needle?, bush…. tree?! in your hair.”

4. You are frequently asked “is that natural?” Your initial internal response is always, “why would I ELECT to do this to myself?,” but you can’t help but to feel a little bit proud.

5. You only decide that your hair is the perfect length ten minutes before you are scheduled to get your hair cut. Fight or flight. Fight or flight???

6. When you finally do opt to see a new stylist, you wait with bated breath for the …………razor to come out.

7. And if it does, you leap out of the chair like an ember out of a fire.

8. You’re never quite sure how to answer the “can I borrow your brush?” question because, well, you don’t have one.

9. Some weeks, you have to decide whether to buy groceries or to restock your mane essentials.

10. There is no such thing as a “beach-y wave.” Take me to a beach and I’ll prove it to you. (No really, take me to a beach.)

11. By the time your hair finally settles into the style you intended for it, it’s time for a wash. Which, frankly, you don’t do every day,  but never admit to your friends because that’s so #unacceptable.

12. After you shower (and spend hours combing and unknotting), the tub is slipperier than a bowling lane and hairier than the back of a wildebeest.

13. You finally get it. The “look” you’ve been trying to achieve for hours. Or so you thought… and then you see a picture of yourself.

14. You have sacrificed so. many. cotton. shirts. in the name of drying your hair without a terrycloth towel.

15. Blow dryer? I’m sorry, did you mean dignity fryer?????

16. You’ll never understand why delightful scents and functionality are mutually exclusive in the hair product world.

17. The scariest part of spending the night with your special friend is……….the next morning…when he’s trying desperately to determine whether he’s looking at the front or back of your head.

18. You had that middle school phase where you thought that straightening was the way to go, you looked a little bit like a scarecrow/ grease monster, but felt hot-to-trot nevertheless.

19. If you had the super loose, Taylor-Swift-y curls, you had about four celeb styles to go after. If you had the tighter ones, you had…..zero.

20. Even though it’s a love-hate relationship, you’re are a curly girl at heart. If given the chance, you’ll tell anyone that you have a “curly face and a curly personality” and to you, that makes perfect sense.

Where ma’ curly girls at?