#Rasta Girl

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i’m locced in now 🫶🏽🫢

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🎉🥵been awhile hi😘

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[rodstatherasta]

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🌸✨️ (THIS IS AN EXTRA POST: today is special, so I feel like talking a bit more than usual.)

✨️Very few things in this world matter more to me than my hair.✨️

That's not even a hyperbole. There have been multiple points in time where the only reason I chose to stay alive was because I wanted to see how long my hair would grow.

In my culture, hair is a person. It's a physical culmination of everything you've ever been -- a representation of who you are. Scientifically speaking, by every seven years or so each cell in your body has been replaced. But with dreadlocks, that's not necessarily true. Your flesh may be replaced, but you can still have locs attached to your head that are decades old.

Yet, despite knowing all this, I used to throw my hair in the bin.

I used to snip the ends off because some stylist online who sure as hell didn't have any type 4c clients told me to. I would use combs that took portions off me big enough to make a wig and maybe even a little hat to compliment it.

Then again, I haven't necessarily come very far, I only stopped last year. And this post isn't even supposed to be about the past. It's just... I remember my great grandmother told me something as I child that stuck with me for a long time and eventually was the inspiration in the first place as to why I made a change:

The ends of your hair are the most important parts. A story is only as good as how it progresses from the beginning. Hair is like that, except people get it all wrong. They call the ends of your hair the roots and the roots of your hair the end. When you cut your hair, you discard the only physical semblance left of your former selves. Unless you are truly ready to lose them, you should keep that in mind.

Anywho, with that in mind, 'soon as I graduated highschool I decided I wanted to start mini braiding. Basically I do really tiny three strand twists three times a year (4 month intervals.)

(The reason I chose this instead of locs was because I don't really want to carry my past around forever (rastas in my culture literally just never cut their hair💀). Instead, I'd rather hang on to my past until it decides on its own that its time to go and therefore falls out naturally.)

The mini braids do take equally as much (if not more) maintence than locs though. I only came here babbling because tomorrow is actually when I'm redoing my hair for the second time this year. It will be about three days before I'm finished.

Oh well, wish me luck! (Or don't.)

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[sturrk0pf]

such a lonely girl🩷🎀

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