Afro To Pixie Cut, @Thelondoncurl'S Hair Journey

Hello there beautiful people, my name, is davina a k' of the London curls and I am so happy to say that I am new ambassador for the cut life. So obviously it's nice to get to know each other a little bit better. So, let's have a little chat. Let me tell you a little bit about me and my newly short hair. So this is my hair. I haven't had short hair for a very long time, so I'm new to this whole cut life journey and I first went natural when I was sixteen seventeen, so I stopped to relax my hair when I was sixteen and then I finally cut off went through the Whole transitioning thing when I was seventeen and the reason that I first had my hair relaxed in the first place, was because when I was younger, let me tell you absolutely: no one knew what to do with my hair, so my dad is my Julian. My mum is English and I grew up with my mum and my grandparents and yeah. No one knew what to do, because they've all got very straight hair, not that you can see too well here, but when I was younger particularly my hair was incredibly like tight. Very very thick, you know tough, like my Geryon hair as little Wayne so kindly put many a year ago, but yeah my hair was very difficult to manage and because of that, my hair got really matted. So as a child like for about four years during primary school, so I guess that's what Americans would call elementary school, I'm kind of new to the American lingo so bear with me and yeah. My hair was just a bramble. It was just a mess. You couldn't get a comb through it and it was just it was a really horrible time. I guess because I wasn't bullied luckily, but I was that awkward child that warm homemade clothes had awful awful hair and just generally looked like a ragamuffin, so yeah not the best time, but it obviously has built my confidence in other ways. So that's why I'm a bit of a sarcastic soul, because if you're having people making jokes out of you, it's very quick. You have to be quick to laugh at yourself and also make jokes with others so yeah anyway. So as soon as I turned ten, I believe I was taken to a hairdressers in East London, and so most other hairdressers have said. No, we can't do it, they knew how long it would take and they just weren't willing to do it. Most people were saying that I'd have to shave it off and what's crazy is at the time that seemed like the worst most scary idea to me ever so I cried. I was like no, no, no! No, so I kept this bramble. This mess that made my hair look like that big, but so many years, because I just I didn't want to have it changed then. Finally, I got taken to a hairdresser in East, London and, after think, four or five hours of just brushing brushing brushing my hair was just nothing. There were no knots, thank goodness, and it was kind of tebab and then it was very, very quickly relaxed. It was like enough, this isn't happening again, let's relax it, so I had it relaxed all through secondary school or high school, as you put it and yeah. I think at that point I kind of decided like I wanted to conform. I just wanted to have the long straight hair, like I saw in the music videos like I like the fact that my hair was easy for me to manage and I was able to grow it quite long. So I had long relaxed hair, but there's something in me that always wanted to embrace myself my natural hair etcetera. So it got to the age of about sixteen. I just decided life just cut my hair into a bob, and I decided I just wear it out and I had a boyfriend at the time. I'M a teacher by the way. So I can give you a teacher's response to this: don't have a boyfriend until you're old enough. Ladies and gentlemen, it's just enjoy your childhood, but that's that's another story for another time anyway, yeah yeah. He wasn't that supportive. He hated when my regrowth was coming through and it was like my hair wasn't lying flat. He he would openly say, didn't like it when I first had my hair cut and I wasn't with him anymore, but my friends, I had some close friends at the time that openly said that they didn't like my hair, so it was. It was never assured as this it was in like a small afro like if I'd stretched, it would probably be down to here, but you know how like natural hair shrinks. So there's a little effort and I just covered it. I had it waves. I had it's like straightened and yeah it just wanted it gone. I didn't want to have it out, because I felt really self-conscious and I really really regretted that so I went through uni first of uni, I was all about the weave life. My hair was sent to parting long black hair. That was the going to look for me throughout the first year of the university and and then I think it was yeah. It was the summer that summer, after of my after my first year of uni, that I just thought this is ridiculous, like I spent so long growing, my hair out of being relaxed, it is natural and I'm not even embracing my natural hair. So I started to just have my hair natural most of the time I I loved braids. You can't stop me from having braids. Last year I had faux locs havana twist braids, so many different protective styles, I'm all about the protective style life, but I think there's difference between having it straightened all the time for me and having it in braids, because I really felt like I wasn't embracing my Hair in its natural state, if that makes any sense, so I really started to embrace my hair and then two years ago about two years ago, so I'm 23 I'm going to be 24 next month and yeah two years ago, when I was doing my teacher training, So I'm at a secondary school teacher, so I teach 11 to 16 17 18 year-olds, and I just me and my friend we started a blog, the London cows. Since then. It'S just been me, that's been running it, but I just loved having curly head. I think, because of my experiences of having like my hair, being matted as a child, one of the reasons why it was so important for me to have this blog was because I wanted to make sure that mums in particular, so who have mixed-race children or who Are white and just don't have a clue what to do with afro hair they have somewhere to go, they could watch video they'd understand how to do it because it is an embarrassing situation. I know my mum didn't feel that she could talk to anyone about it and because of that, like the lack of conversation, it meant that obviously my hair was just a mess, so it's always better to like have something there to just give some guidance. So that was really important to me, but yeah I mean I, it boosted my confidence to go for my child. That was just yeah a bit of a mess. The one put at the back of the school photo to having people contacting me saying how much I love my hair was an amazing thing, but hair has never been like, and now I'm older. I can see that hair. It'S like it grows that that's the main thing I'm trying to think of a more articulate way of putting it, but it's if that simple hair grows, and I think that, because of that, I didn't see a problem with shaving my hair, especially for the reason why I did shave my hair, so I shaved my hair off on New Year's Eve because yeah, my as I said, I grew up with my grandparents and my grandmother we found out in August will have terminal cancer, so she had terminal cancer cause her bowels and it Spread across her torso and there was my treating it and for that very reason, obviously my world was shattered, but on top of that, the thing that really bothered me was the fact that she constantly would ask us. Is my hair going to fall out now? She didn't understand that that's a side effect of chemotherapy, but it really it got to my head that, like this woman, has been socialized to the point by society's made, her feel that the her life isn't as important or her health isn't as important as having hair. So society tells us that women should have long hair. If you don't have long hair, then this there's a problem and that got to me - and I knew from that point on that. I wanted to shave my hair for her because we were told originally that she would last a year, so it was always a plan for New Year's Eve. I was gon na shave, my hair off, and so that I could show her that it's not that important and we just want to spend our time with you like yeah, but unfortunately, and last year was a bad year September. We lost my granddad and then 14 days after we lost my grandmother and yeah. I was a mess but trying to make a positive out of an extremely negative, devastating situation. I decided that I wanted to go ahead and still shave my hair, but to actually raise money for a charity that supports elderly people in the UK. So I did that, and this picture came out. I'M hoping that there's a picture. That'S gon na come up at this point, but this picture came out and they cut like shared it and it just popped off as soon as they cut my shared. It was just like Bing Bing Bing on my Instagram and yeah. It was an interesting experience because, unfortunately, a lot of people didn't read about it, didn't know that I raised 1,600 pounds for an amazing charity and instead left pretty ignorant comments, some of which I'll share with you. So I think one of the best ones was. I want to slap her another insightful piece of information. Was she went from Alicia Keys to Alisha Burch? That was a really sweet one, and yet just generally people just being like. Why would you shave such beautiful hair - and it's just like ladies? This is me for me to you from someone that has gone from having all four hair when I was a child, and that made me feel subordinate to other people to someone that had long straight hair but felt like. I never truly loves myself to someone that had a big afro and then people saying oh, it makes you beautiful, like hair. Isn'T that serious, like hair colors? This is my hair since shaving it I've done things with it that I never thought possible like since saving it. A month ago, I've gone from short black hair to blonde hair. Now, peach hair, I'm going to be dyeing it next week, like the things that you can do with your hair. It'S unbelievable, especially when you've got short hair because it is so new. You can do things you hair, that my afro would not have been able to cope with at all. So honestly, don't feel like you should hold back from it. Spero mounting with your hair, cutting your hair because since doing it one thing that people have said whether it be negative or positive. One thing that people have said is: they can see my face now and I'm not hiding behind an iPhone I'm here, and it really makes a massive difference to your confidence to know. There'S nothing to hide behind here. I am. What you see is what you get, and that is what I have loved about cutting my hair. I feel, like my confidence, is through the roof. I feel like I can experiment with colors and just experiment in general because to just cut your hair in the first place. It'S such a major thing that once you do it, everything else just seems peasy and I just I'm loving it. So, yes, that is how I came to cut my hair. I will be sharing my journey with you via the cut life and buying my own YouTube and Instagram under the London pearls. I'Ve told you twice: okay, yes, I I hope you enjoyed this video. If you found it useful, we've found it informative and I will be, of course sharing with you my color transformations just me as I grow my hair, because I don't have any plans to regrow it just yet, but obviously maybe in the future. Who knows but thank you for watching, and I will see you soon. Bye