Within the black community, the way men and women wear their hair has arisen as an issue. It just happens to be important, whether there are other more life-threatening issues out there. Our hair says a lot about us, or supposedly it does. To me, it says a lot, but not everything.

I went natural about 14 months ago. There has been a "natural revolution" with hundreds of Black women going back to their natural roots from having a perm/relaxer, and I wanted to hop on the bandwagon. Check out youtube if you don't believe me. Besides that, I rock an afro, twists, braids occasionally, extensions, and in the beginning I even wore wigs (honesty is the best policy)! I cut off more than 12 inches of relaxed hair to go natural, and it was a freeing experience.

Even after being natural for so long, learning to love what I was born with, it's still a struggle to look at my lack of curl pattern, beautiful as it may be, and see it as better than curlier types. But it's a misconception that's been there forever and I'm fighting it.

There is no such a thing as good hair. It doesn't exist. We're just finding another reason to hate ourselves.