August 14, 2022
If there is one thing that I want to keep, that is my long hair. It gives me confidence and carefree. I feel like it's my best asset and I feel comfortable in it.
I remembered someone who became part of my life in the past mentioned that the first part of a lady he looks at is her hair. I wondered why. As he said, he likes women with beautiful hair. If he's walking in the street and encounters a lady, either she is facing back or front, it's the hair he first noticed. Not her face, not her clothes. I wondered if that was the reason why he liked me. But I guess it wasn't because we met through text messages and that's how our story started.
When I was younger, my mother used to cut my hair as it saved her from going to a salon. She liked putting bangs to cover my forehead and cutting short the remaining to lay straight behind my head. At first, I liked it, but as years passed, I became fed up with it and I also wanted to experience going to a salon. Unfortunately, I never experienced that when I was young.
When I got to secondary school, I felt like I was free. Free from having bangs and short hair. I got a chance to keep my hair long and seldom cut it. I loved it as I can make any style of it. I can put it in a ponytail, curly, braid it, or just lay my natural waves down at the back. But most of the time, my hair was always tied up.
When I stepped out of college, I hated my wavy thick long hair, especially when hair rebonding and relaxing became viral in our country. A copycat also wants to try it. So I saved money and made my hair fixed in a salon. It became straighter and lighter.
I liked it at first, but not the consequences later. I started to lose hair and it became thinner. Stress at work was one of the factors, along with the chemicals used in rebonding that seemed to damage my hair. I felt regretful seeing my hair thinner than before. That's when I started to keep it natural and away from hazardous hair chemicals.
When I worked abroad, I felt sad when my best asset needed to be cut. It was cut very short and I felt like a long strand of confidence was taken out of me.
Choosing the best shampoo and conditioner is often hard, as it is sometimes sensitive to strong chemicals. It easily gets frizzy when the wrong one is applied and more strands are falling after each shower.
Patiently, I waited for it to grow long again as I am more confident in it. It took a long time to establish the right hair care routine. And I stick to products that most suited my hair as I don't want it to be damaged again.
This has been my longest hair ever. Its length reached below my waist. Along with the advantages of having long hair, are, of course, the disadvantages. Oftentimes, I find it hard to manage, especially when I don't have enough time to regularly do my hair care routine. The washing time changed when I got here, as I needed to wash it at night, not day.
Drying it takes a lot of time, and often covers the time I am supposed to write blogs. Due to regularly washing it at night, I sometimes sleep with wet hair when I am too lazy to dry it. Thus, adding more hair loss and the end part of it becomes dry. It easily gets tangled when tying it at work. And I often find it hard to sleep with the possibility that it might cover my face.
I was thinking about going to a salon a few months ago, but I was worried that it might get worse if the wrong hands handled it. So this afternoon while facing the mirror, the thought of cutting my hair crossed my mind. It always slipped my mind due to busyness, so I opted to do it right away when I remembered it.
I thought of cutting it short, but then I have no good scissors so I opted to only cut a small portion of it. Dubiously, using the small scissor at home, I cut probably 4-5 inches of length of my hair. It wasn't that long, but I felt sad about it.
And here it is, still long though, lol. The cut part may be short, but it seemed long for me who cared for it for a long time. Although growing it is just easy, still, it's like a precious thing that has been eliminated from my assets.
After cutting my hair, I treated myself to fast food. Sunday is my cheat day anyway. I found a wide area where I spent a few hours eating my late lunch while connecting to the mall's free wifi.
Then I just spent the rest of the day slacking at the park's pavilion.
My Sunday has been boring again. I said to myself that I want to go on a trip, but as Sunday falls, I always get lazy to set off alone. Maybe next time when Autumn comes, as the weather will be more perfect.
Back to the topic, how do you take care of your hair? Do you feel bad when it's cut short? What do you think is the best asset in your body?
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Happy Sunday 😊.
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Naranasan ko lang mahaba ang buhok until college pero nung nag work na ko lagpas balikat nalang buhok ko kasi hassle na pag nilalagyan nang headcap...never ko din na try magpa rebond kasi manipis na masyado ang buhok ko para sa ganyan