For most of my life I have been fighting with my hair. I come from Asian and African American background so you can imagine how my hair is. As a child I had very long straight "thick" hair. Around my early teen years in middle school I cut it to shoulder length. After that my hair had changed completely. It was thicker and started to get curly. I could never tame it so I was forced to wear it in pony tails all of the time. I have tried product after product trying to find something for my hair so it could at least look "decent". Wash-and-go styles never worked because my hair would get so thick and frizzy by mid-day. It wasn't a cute look at all. Around high school I was beyond fed up with my curly mop of hair so I decided to get perms and presses. They worked but never for a long time and the main results was that my hair was getting more and more damaged plus I was coloring my hair almost every other month. At that time I didn't care about damaging my hair, I thought "I have so much of it, I won't miss it".
None of my friends had hair like mines; as a matter of fact I didn't have any friends that were bi-racial. Living in the south it is kind of rare to see a mixed child. Although I am kind of noticing seeing more, which makes me smile inside and out. :-) So of course I went to straight hair because I wanted to be normal and like everybody else (I know that sounds so sad). One thing I must say is that going to get your hair done every other week is expensive!! I was getting charged by the length and I am a college student now...I don't have that kind of money to be spending every week! I just layed off the salon visits a little bit and went back to find something to do with my "natural" hair. Surprisingly I came across Organics’ Twist and Lock Gel and it was a life saver for me!! It held my curls and didn't let it frizz up at all. Plus even though it is gel, it didn't leave my hair hard or flakey. I actually still use this product every now and then.
So I started to get more interested in my hair. I looked up blogs, websites everything and none of them really set out or had information about "my type" of hair. I don't actually label my hair (3c, 4c, etc.). I just know that my hair has a wavy-curly thing going on. Most websites that I came across about natural hair for girls of mixed race were for girls that were mixed with African American and Caucasian. None for Asian and African American girls. None whatsoever. There are many websites for natural African American hair like Curly Nikki and College Curlies which are great but my hair isn't exactly. I do find there tips and recipes though. LOVE College Curlies' Shea Butter Mix!! But anywho, that's what gave me the idea to start a blog. Not for a specific type of curl but for ALL curls!!
For most of my life I have been fighting with my hair. I come from Asian and African American background so you can imagine how my hair is. As a child I had very long straight "thick" hair. Around my early teen years in middle school I cut it to shoulder length. After that my hair had changed completely. It was thicker and started to get curly. I could never tame it so I was forced to wear it in pony tails all of the time. I have tried product after product trying to find something for my hair so it could at least look "decent". Wash-and-go styles never worked because my hair would get so thick and frizzy by mid-day. It wasn't a cute look at all. Around high school I was beyond fed up with my curly mop of hair so I decided to get perms and presses. They worked but never for a long time and the main results was that my hair was getting more and more damaged plus I was coloring my hair almost every other month. At that time I didn't care about damaging my hair, I thought "I have so much of it, I won't miss it". 
None of my friends had hair like mines; as a matter of fact I didn't have any friends that were bi-racial. Living in the south it is kind of rare to see a mixed child. Although I am kind of noticing seeing more, which makes me smile inside and out. :-) So of course I went to straight hair because I wanted to be normal and like everybody else (I know that sounds so sad). One thing I must say is that going to get your hair done every other week is expensive!! I was getting charged by the length and I am a college student now...I don't have that kind of money to be spending every week! I just layed off the salon visits a little bit and went back to find something to do with my "natural" hair. Surprisingly I came across Organics’ Twist and Lock Gel and it was a life saver for me!! It held my curls and didn't let it frizz up at all. Plus even though it is gel, it didn't leave my hair hard or flakey. I actually still use this product every now and then. 
So I started to get more interested in my hair. I looked up blogs, websites everything and none of them really set out or had information about "my type" of hair. I don't actually label my hair (3c, 4c, etc.). I just know that my hair has a wavy-curly thing going on. Most websites that I came across about natural hair for girls of mixed race were for girls that were mixed with African American and Caucasian. None for Asian and African American girls. None whatsoever. There are many websites for natural African American hair like Curly Nikki and College Curlies which are great but my hair isn't exactly. I do find there tips and recipes though. LOVE College Curlies' Shea Butter Mix!! But anywho, that's what gave me the idea to start a blog. Not for a specific type of curl but for ALL curls!!
