I Chopped My Hair OFF!!..... Now What??

 About a year ago I found myself living in an area that some affectionately call "the middle of nowhere,"

About a week after the cut

Texas. Just so we're on the same page, let me start off my telling you a bit of history. Since I was about ten I had been getting my hair relaxed. For those who don't know a relaxer is a chemical applied to the hair that will loosen the curls that you have thus making it straight. A perm, is applied to straight hair to make it curly. ... Anyway, so since I was three feet tall (I haven't grown much either apparently).. I have had these chemicals applied to my hair about twice a year. It was a ritual, and most importantly, once I moved out of my parent's house, I had to either learn how to apply it myself, to find someone who knew how too. I never applied it myself, let's just get that out there lol I would never trust myself, and would probably end up wasting the product by rinsing it out too early or missing hair sections, or worse burning my hair off! So, basically every time that I moved to a new location, I had to hunt down a hair dresser that could manage my hair. I have tried several along the way, but I have found that no one does a better job with my hair than Dominicans. I can honestly say that I have learned a lot of my Spanish from sitting in these establishments overhearing ...well, not really... they all just talk loud for everyone to hear lol. And i'm sure they thought I couldn't understand, but I took Spanish in high school, AND I grew up in Miami. ....

With Leave in Conditioner (still wet)

So I had a salon back home by my mom's house, I had two in Orlando (which both relocated somewhere I have yet to find my last year there) and in Texas... I HAD NONE!! Zip, ZERO!!!!! Sorry, No Dominican's here!!! So, I did what anyone would do! YOUTUBE!!! I looked up how to style my hair and take care of it naturally but realized that my hair was anything but natural, it literally was all chemically treated. So got a hair cut. At first it was awkward, because I didn't know what to do with it. Then I just decided to gel it - That was cute.

Straightened! a year of growth

Then I decided gel is bad, let my try a leave in conditioner. That was cute, until my hair dried and a was a fro! Then, I decided that my hair needed some good TLC, so I changed my diet, added some supplements, avoided any products that weren't water based and...slowly....My hair grew back!!!! I am proud to say that one year later, my hair is longer than it was before I cut it! Woot Woot!! So now what? Cut it? Grow it longer? How long? Add a bang? Dye it?