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So, the new year rolled in and as usual I was feeling the urge to splurge.....ON HAIR COLOR!!! Those who know me well also know that in my relaxer days, the one thing that remained constant in my life was my love affair with a color bottle. From jet black to chestnut brown to romantic auburn to raging red to bubbly blonde....no shade was off limits! Highlights, lowlights or full on color swap...I really never had an issue with giving something new a try. Especially as the seasons would change, I would get the overwhelming drive to make a change with them. It sort of became a signature for me...color.
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After my conversion to growin' the 'fro, I was much more focused on figuring out how to care for this new life force that had taken over my head!! But once I had acheived some length (or in my case VOLUME), I decided that I wanted to try to bring some color back to my life. My off-black tresses didn't really express who I was, in my opinion. So, it was time for phase two of my experiment.
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After trying henna (and loving it) I decided that I wanted more color than what pure henna over black hair would give me. The color bottle was CALLING! I had made up my mind on it, but I found it facinating what other Naturalistas had to say about whether a Natural who picks up a bottle of Lightest Blonde is really staying true to the game! Some believed that the entire point of being natural was to allow whatever was on your head simply "be"....color included. The discussions got a bit heated here and there. It is really interesting to me the ways we will find to draw lines amongst ourselves...even when we don't have to!
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~by Enrico Donati~
I Corinthians 12:12-13 " For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit."
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Just do you! The sooner you get to it the better! There is no carbon copy way to be yourself. There is no formula. One of the biggest criticisms of Christianity is that we are brainwashed robots who have sold our identities to claim a Savior....WHAT?! That is SO off base! On the contrary, it is the freedom that Christ gives that brings out the best and the brightest in our personalities. It allows us to blossom into who we were always meant to be. In the same way, going natural should release you. It should give you a freedom and confidence in who you are...who you were always meant to be! This can be interpreted in twists, locs, braids, 'fros, updos, blowouts, threading...and yes, COLOR! As long as the statement is true to you, it can bring vibrancy and life everywhere you walk.
