5 Frustrating Things About Natural Hair

Natural hair is convenient, unique, great, easy to style, and versatile yada yada yada, not all the time! There are times when having your hair in its natural state can be downright annoying and frustrating.

Here are some picks for the top most frustrating things that us naturalista’s have to deal with sometimes on a daily basis with our hair.

1. Single Strand knots – You have done everything, moisturize seal, moisturize seal, trim moisturize seal all in that order, and still as you examine your hair there are millions of these little knots that will just not go away.

There is nothing more frustrating than thinking you are doing everything right and noticing something that may indicate that you are doing something wrong.

There are many ‘solutions’ for single strand knots all over the blogs and forums, one thing holds true if you wear your hair in its kinky* curly state the more likely these knots will occur. The only solution that may successfully work is keeping your hair stretched, moisturized and prayer!

2. You can never accomplish a great hair style twice – You wake up in the morning hit the bathroom and allow your creative juices to flow. Suddenly you have created the coolest flyest style ever and your only hope is that you can replicate it at some future date.

Two weeks go by and you try it again, but it doesn’t look quite the same as it did the last time. You don’t know if it’s the products, your creative juices have suddenly diminished, Venus is no longer aligned with Mars or your fingers aren’t working; who knows!

But no matter what you do there is no replicating that same style that you were able to accomplish just a few days ago. What gives? If this ever happens to you the best bet is to embrace the differences that may come about and rock the style anyway!

3. Hair that refuses to dry – You have somewhere important to go to and you have decided to prep your hair the night before, a wet set of sorts with some of your favorite rollers hoping your hair will dry over night.

In the morning there is only one hour left before your event and you have purposefully left your hair for the final finishing touches to your outfit. The only problem is your hair is still wet and your plan of having a head full of beautiful dry bouncy curls will now have to be turned into a wet sleek up do.

Tip: don’t trust your hair; give yourself enough time before your event to have it dry fully. Once you determine the exact formula and what it takes to dry in certain sets then predicting what your hair will do will become easier.

4. Breakouts form using products that your hair absolutely loves – This one can be very frustrating because it’s like taking from Peter to feed Paul, there is no winning. The only compromise is to try to keep your hair out of your face or find products that keep your hair and face happy.

5. Shrinkage – Shrinkage is the natural state of natural hair so it shouldn’t so much of a problem right? Except that that YOU know your hair is long but nobody else does because it shrinks to a two inch TWA every single time! You worked hard for your length and you want to show it off.

Shrinkage can be your best friend or your worst enemy sometimes it’s better to embrace at least some of the shrinkage than try to fight it, however it is frustrating to see how long your hair actually is but not ever be able to show the length.

It helps to stretch the hair using the banding method, twists, braids, buns or blowing out the roots if you choose to. If not you can stretch your hair using your fingers from time to time in the mirror just to satisfy your curiosity on how much growth you have achieved.

What frustrates you about your natural hair?