It is the rainy season guys!

and you know what that means!

Your hair goes like THIS!

But I think I got something done right!

I tried out a salon

and had them give me a haircut

as well as a deep conditioning treatment

I actually went to the salon yesterday

and it went something like this...

It's officially time to get my hair done!

Let's do this!

But this is my hair!

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My hair!

Got all fixed up!

I am so happy!!!!

I want to start taking care of my hair.

I want to be pretty

and I want to be healthy

and I want to look like a wonderful person

who knows how to take care of themself!

Because up until now

I haven't really done that!

Recently since I moved to Japan

I've gotten really stressed out about my hair

Ughhh, the rainy season's terrible!

My hair just like lost...everything!

I would condition the ends everyday

and try to put oils into it

and all it was doing was getting greasy and fried.

It looked like a grilled cheese sandwich

like pieces were just coming off of my head.

and I was like,

"What am I supposed to do with my hairrrr"

So to give you a basic idea,

As far as I can remember, my hair has always been "relaxed"

with that chemical perm with basically

breaks the bonds in your hair, takes the curl out, and makes it straight

but because it breaks the bonds in your hair

it is breaking your hair

therefore your hair is falling off

and it doesn't really grow, it's not really healthy.

It's straight but it's like,

you're sacrificing straightness of hair

and trying to fit in, for the sake of

having healthy hair.

It's not that good!

I got a relaxed in February

4 months ago

and since then I have not relaxed my hair.

I had a keratin treatment

two months after that

and then after that I just

♪ LeT iT gO~!!♪

and it looked....terrible!!

It just got really matted and greasy

and curly wiggly

and confused

you go to school and everyone's got

beautiful, straight hair that's taken care of

and mine's just like, not curly or straight.

It was just like...bird's nest...alpaca.

So anyway~!!

Yesterday I decided to bite the bullet

and I got my hair done in Tokyo!

There is a hair salon called The Room 806

and the guys there really fixed me up!

They're amazing actually!

They call themselves like an ethnic hair salon

or black hair salon but basically

they cater to anyone!

There were a lot of people who were 1/2 black

there was a woman from Croatia...

everyone speaks Japanese and English it's ridiculous!

But yeah, they did my hair

and it looked really good!

Right now, I just woke up

so that's what it looks like

but I had it cut

and I didn't get a relaxer

I didn't get any other crazy processes

I just had a conditioning treatment done

and then a blow out

and he flat-ironed it, and this is the result!

I can hear it hitting my head

MOVEMENT!!!

It's aliveeeee!!!

I mean, it's dead, but it doesn't look dead anymore.

That's all that matters!!!

I'm going to look at it a little longer...

I wanted to show you guys because I'm not sure what i'm doing

I'm pretty sure I don't want to use relaxers

or if I do, I want to back off of them

I don't want to use them at all

but I also DON"T want to go curly natural yet

just because of the field that I work in

and the stuff that I do

having a lot of hair that I don't know how to manage yet

that's not the journey that I'm on quite yet

but I do know that I don't want to do relaxers.

and maybe just do like keratin treatments

and get blowouts like this

because this looks amazing!

My mom's hair, she stopped doing relaxers all together

but her hair's really long, her hair's like

Double that... like there's my moms...

and her hair has the weight to help bring it down.

It's really lucious, full, healthy hair

I've just gotta get that way, you know?

I'll get there!

Here's like...my hair.

A little bit more straight

and then back up towards the roots

you can see it get's kind of wiggly

it get's kind wiggly in here

and then it gets straight...

Here's my hair once the sun get's to it

and then here

here's my hair as it grows in a little bit

It's like BOINGY BOINGY! Kinda curly!

It's not even as curly as it gets but

It still has movement

still has life

I have no idea where my hair journey's going

but if I can, the most healthy thing

my personal, most healthy version of my hair

if I can get it healthy

that's my number one priority over all.

I'm not sure how this is going to go but

I can't even remember my own hair.

Like, how it really is without any perms

or without any chemical processes added

I FORGOT MY OWN HAIR!!!

But if I can, from now on

I want to make my hair more beautiful

and more healthy, that would be amazing!

What do you think?

I love it~!

This is my first Tokyo salon experience

and it's my first...

salon result that I really really like

and I think it looks amazing!

This is like, so good!

It's already poofy because of the rainy season

But who cares about that!

It looks great right???

So happy!!