WHY SELF-LOVE IS YOUR GREATEST GIFT.
Hey you, I know you're probably preparing to take your last couple of finals. But I wanted to talk through something that I think is important to a lot of young women. Our hair. I think as women we all have those bad hair day stories along with stories about days our hair made us feel like Yonce. lol But I wanted to talk about hair on a more serious note. I want you to know how beautiful you are regardless of what your hair looks like. I think it is common to equate hair with beauty. I think society can sometimes make us feel like if we don't have a certain hair type, that we aren't beautiful. When I was a little girl. I had a head full of big, sandy brown curls. And I hated them. I hated them because in my mind they weren't beautiful. In my mind my hair needed to look different. So I went ahead and got a relaxer and I dyed that sandy brown color to a a dark dark dark black. What I realized queens is that nothing changed about me. I was still the same person..just with different hair. I did all of this when I was about 13. And it took me 6 more years, a couple difficult life experiences and countless false attempts to go natural to actually learn to love the gabby with sandy brown curls and dimples. Here's how this relates to you. I want you to know that no matter what you do with your hair. You are still beautiful. You are beautiful with curls, with locks, with weave, with braids, with whatever makes you feel like fabulosity. The point is that how you feel about yourself should be bigger than what you look like and bigger than what people may think about you. I want you to know that your journey to the purest, most genuine self love doesn't have to look like a fairytale. You don't need a prince to come save you and your worth does not decrease based on a person or even societies inability to see it. You are worthy at all times. Morning, noon, and night. Your light will ALWAYS shine, even if there are people in this world not capable of handling the glare. You are magical in every way, shape or form and when you finally decide to love all of you queen........... You will truly understand why life happens the way that it does. Why some people are temporary while others are forever, You will come to understand how important it is to get right back up after you fall. You are in charge of it all. Your hair. Your heart. And your happiness queen. Cultivate your love. As always. Stay Strong!