Bottoms Up To Being Au Natural!

I decided to take off my weave this week. Which means going to the salon, getting my hair pulled, the knots in my afro combed out and voila! Au natural me! For a couple of months at least.

While sitting at the Salon doing the girly-girl thing, I realised that there is something about women and doing their hair and nails that is almost magical. Finding a hairdresser is a nightmare. It’s almost like relationships, sometimes you have to go through a million bad relationships to find a good one. And well...my hairstylists might not be ideal but they sort of work with what I’ve got, and that’s all I need. Maybe next time I decide to start dating I should look for a guy who works with what I’ve got. Don’t ask what I mean, I don’t know!

Anyhow, the fake hair is gone and I look a couple of years younger than normal. Which means that if I normally look like I’m twenty-two I now look like I’m twenty. My eyes look huge and my cheeks chubbier! Cute? Really? And then I realised, people actually think I am as plastic on the inside as I look on the outside. I wonder if the weaveless me will inspire people to see a deeper more intense Simamile. Hell, I could conduct a study!

Talking about au natural...shaving your armpits is strongly advised. Seriously! I know it’s winter and it’s cold, but ladies...imagine if you have to take off your tops for whatever reason and you are hairy all over. Hmmm...okay, I promise that I’ll shave today. Promise!

Someone thought to get me a make-up bag as thank you gift. A shiny, gold make-up bag. They see me everyday and I don’t wear make-up (I’m not as plastic as I look). I now have a shiny (I don’t like shiny things either) make-up bag. I of course said thank you, my mamma raised me right. But seriously, all I kept thinking when I saw this bag was, “is this chick for real?” Advice to anyone who cares: the gift should match the personality, and the personality the gift. In other words, if you don’t know what I’ll like, a gift voucher is a great idea. In fact, gift vouchers were invented for people like me! 

From the au-natural Hippie in Stilettos, there are a few things that are unforgivable. You can have bad hair days, buy rubbish gifts, don’t shave your armpits... but please whatever you do take a shower/bath daily and please, oh please, use deodorant, no one should be allowed in public without applying deodorant before leaving their home!