The Top 5 Things I Want To Accomplish This Year With My Natural Hair

From knowing past mistakes and failures of your hair journey, you will be able to go back to the drawing board and create a new regimen to follow to continue on to healthy hair.

There are so many goals that can be accomplished within a hair journey, but let’s make this one personal. At the beginning of each year, I would read my diary entries from the previous year to gain inspiration, tips, and a direction I would need to go to set my goals for the new year.

I found that getting a sew-in weave* was the absolute worst experience, flat ironing my hair made me unhappy (lots of heat damage), and not eating healthy/drinking water really took a terrible toll on my hair.

So with knowing those instances and learning of some helpful tips from the hair diary of 2015, I have taken the time to come up with some new goals for my hair. Here are my 5 hair goals to accomplish in 2016 to continue on my healthy hair journey:

No new products

This is going to be so hard for me! I definitely know what works for my hair by simply reading the product label or even using a product on the first try.

However, I enjoy doing product reviews and I love switching up my products for different looks during different seasons.

However, going into my 3rd year of being a naturalista and being further along in my healthy hair journey, I’m buckling down on my products and will use the same regimen that has worked for me for a year.

This will definitely be a challenge for me, but this will save me lots of money from purchasing numerous products that I don’t need.

Have hairspirations

What exactly are hairspirations? They are hair inspirations of your favorite women and men to follow because of their hair tips, hair styles, and of course their hair.

You may call them your hair idols or hair gurus. No matter where you are in your hair journey, you follow them to continue to keep you inspired about your own hair.

At one point in my hair journey, I had printouts of women with voluminous curls and huge Afros on my wall that would keep me inspired. However, having these women on my wall really didn’t do much for me nor my hair journey.

So I decided to look deeper into where I wanted my hair to be in 3 months-6 months-a year. I found hairspirations who have hair texture, density, and porosity like mine.

I wanted to see the styles that would give the illusion of volume (fine hair problems) and jot down notes on how to retain length.

For my hairspirations, I decided to subscribe to MissCharmsie and DiscoCurls for having similar hair texture and density as mine, YoursNaturally for her styling options for shorter hair and valuable information to care for natural hair from damaged curls, and Millicent Swift for her intricate styling options that are broken down to easily understand them.

Choose hairspirations that will keep you inspired about your own hair and will give your specific information pertaining to your own hair.

Play with my hair more

I’m not talking about HIHS (hand-in-hair-syndrome). For most of my hair journey, I have worn protective styles either by using my own natural hair or using extensions*.

I do know what works for my hair, in terms of styles and products but I have not had the chance to really play with ‘out’ styles.

I would love to learn how to do 3-strand twist outs, voluminous perm rod sets, and of course the wash n go.

I want to wear my hair in it’s absolute natural state, instead of stretching my hair for every style that I do. This will allow me to be more confident in my hair and will help me to love my curls even more!

Attend natural hair meetups, events, and shows

I definitely want to do this! This will continue to keep me inspired about my own hair and just be in an atmosphere of “hair love.”

I have heard of natural hair meetups before, but have not had the chance to attend one. I see so many Instagram pictures of naturalistas meeting with hair gurus for a ‘lift me and my hair up’ event or naturalistas getting together for coffee just because of their hair and I find that so enlightening and would love to be part of that movement.

Finally, who wouldn’t want to see a fun and colorful hair show? I have see lots of movies with hair competitions and hair shows and would pay to have a front row seat.

If you know the mistakes you faced with your hair, you will be able to plan for goals and inspirations for the next year I know it worked for me! Good luck this year!