Unbeweavable

I get it now.  I understand why women get weave....it is so convenient!  My love affair with weave ended last night...we made it almost two months, but I must say I am happy to be back to me....all natural - except for, well that is a blog that I will save for tomorrow.

For the last two months I have been able to wash and go with my hair...it was pure bliss.  Normally the process of washing and styling my hair takes anywhere from 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 hours....it depends on how thorough I am...and most times I shoot for the 2 1/2 time frame and that is not good for my hair.  Back to the story of parting with the weave. 

I really hadn't planned on taking it out last night, but yesterday afternoon while walking back from the Financial Aid office on campus with my dear friend Tomyra, I noticed that my braids were loosing up....I am the kind of person that when I notice one little problem, it is all that I can think about....so by 6pm last night I was making the first cut of string.  Now first let me say that the process of taking it out by myself was a booger...at one point I thought that I might just start cutting my hair just to get the weave out!  It took me 1 1/2 hours to take it down.  To help demonstrate the process of doing my hair I took a few pictures along the way.








Weave after two months of wear and tear.











The next step in the process - "perm" as we brown girls say

 - but a relaxer or straightener.  It took me about 15 minutes to get it all in

and since I have SUPER thick hair I leave it in for 40 minutes.

I have to have it straight!





After shampooing, conditioning, blow drying, flat ironing.



After the bestie spent a couple of hours flat ironing and after a night (4 1/2 hours) of sleeping on it.







So this process took me about 6 hours to complete....some days being a brown girl, with thick brown girl hair is work!  Maybe one day weave and I will meet again, but for now I'm on my own.

Ah the joys of being a LBG ;)