👩🏾‍🦱 AFRO 👩🏾‍🦱

I’ve been working on my impulse control when it comes to my hair — like cutting it shorter on a whim to cope with restlessness, brushing it too harshly to vent my impatience, or experimenting with strong chemical products to change its color.

After 7 years, my toxic parent mode is less active, so reaching a certain length has taken a back seat.

I need to develop more rest, patience, and playfulness (outside of coloring my hair) to maintain what I have and pamper it.

Most of the bleached parts are almost completely grown out now, and the box dye I used after that is still in about half of my hair. I’m not entirely sure yet what I want to do with my natural hair color.

So, I think for the coming year, I’ll take another break from dyeing my hair.

Maybe after the warmer seasons, if I go back to wearing my natural hair, I might use a color mask.

From what I understand, those are semi-permanent and can help create a more even look with a shade close to my natural color — probably something like espresso brown.

Because I’ve managed to stick to a hair dye break, I want to explore ways to reward it.

I’m thinking in the direction of soothing my scalp, a nice-smelling hair mask and/or hair supplements — temporarily, since doing that monthly would be outside my budget.

And if my hair happens to grow as a sign of more patience, rest, and integrated playfulness, that would be a nice outward reward as well.