Relaxed & Short

My relaxed hair, dyed a darker brown than my natural colour.

I liked this hairstyle at the time but looking back, it looks really stiff and there's something a bit dodgy or witchy about it but maybe that's just my face.

I am really bad with getting back to the salon for treatment and for oiling my hair so it eventually ends up like an extremely dry afro sponge that looks like it could fall apart.


First time I relaxed my hair back in secondary school I didn't tell the lady how much it burned like hot hell and when she asked I'd say it was fine. I thought if I said it burned, she would wash it away and it wouldn't relax my hair properly. My scalp was a bloody, itchy mess. But my hair was straight!

My friend Tony would say "don't scratch it, pat it with the palm of your hand like this *pat pat*!"

I also had never brushed straight hair before so in an early morning haze I dug the hairbrush right into my scalp and tore downwards. The pain. A hamster could have learned faster but it took me a while to break that pattern of pain.

Second here is my natural hair colour.

Last two: Black and most definitely witchy.