The Big Chop.

One morning I woke up and randomly just thought that I wanted to cut my hair all off. When I went and told my mom she was all for it, and thought that it was a good idea. I got to a point where putting all of these harmful chemicals in my hair, and actually maintaining it started to get overwhelming. I didn't tell any of my friends, because I knew they would think it was a bad idea. Instead, I just went to my hairstylist and said "Mae I want to cut it all off" Her facial expression was priceless, she said "I LOVE the idea, I think you would look gorgeous!" I sat in the chair, and she started chopping it all off. At one point I felt like crying because I was just thinking.. "what in the hell were you thinking Essence?!" then I got over it. I looked in the mirror and fell in love with the new haircut. Cutting my hair off was the easy part, finding good natural hair products and actually getting accustomed to having very short hair was the  hard part. That was the beginning of the natural hair journey...