During my 19 years of life, I’ve had many people compliment me or say to me that I should consider myself lucky to have so much hair, or that it’s really pretty and never chop it off. Over time when I tell people I contemplated cutting my hair, no matter what length it is at the time, I’ve gotten used to people asking, “Why would you want to do that to all this beautiful hair?”
I am here to tell you although I may enjoy it thick hair is a pain to live with, and here are eleven reasons why:
1. If you want to look nice for a day you either have to shower the night before or set an alarm to wake up before everyone else.
Most of my friends think I kid around when I say this, but it’s really true. Showering the night before saves you time and not having to wake up early, but doing it the morning of gives you the chance to tame it and not have it be a giant puffball. But most days you can never win.
2. Constantly switching between tied up or all down because it weighs so much.
This is no joke. From headaches due to having it up all the time means leaving it down, and leaving it down can lead to a frizzy, tangly rat's nest. With this, you can't seem to catch a break.
3. Having at LEAST three ponytails on you because one snaps while tying it.
This occurs on a weekly to bi-weekly basis and hurts if it breaks mid-tie. It will continue to happen for the rest of your life.
4. Also, it is considered a feat to get it all in ONE hair tie.
In which case you’re probably blessed with some magic skill and number 3 doesn’t happen to you as frequently.
5. Dying your hair requires more than one box.
If you’re like me and like dying all your hair, one box of dye will never cut it. You have too much of a wild mane for such a small amount.
6. Brushing your hair takes forever or doesn’t happen at all.
There’s so much hair that your brush gets caught or it breaks while you comb out your massive tangles. It’s that simple.
7. “Why don’t you style your hair more?”
I would still be styling it if I started when I woke up. Thick hair has a mind of its own and will refuse to work with you a majority of the time.
8. Bobby pins are your best friend or your worst enemy.
They either work for you and don’t bend when you try to put them in your hair or they get lost and you find them on your pillow the next morning. There is no in-between.
9. You shed so much you should carry a mini broom and dustpan in your bag.
You find so many strands in completely random and (sometimes) awkward places it is no longer a laughing matter. And even if you clean it all up you continue to shed no matter what.
10. Any trip to the salon for a haircut/thinning looks like five people got something done, but in reality, it was just you.
Yes, really. It looks like Chewbacca pulled out chunks of his fur by the time you’re done in the chair.
11. Blow-drying your hair feels like an Olympic sport.
With all the different angles and twists you have to do it is a hard fought battle. And sometimes the hard fought battle ends in defeat because your hair never dries completely.
We already put our hair through a lot no matter the style, type, or color. For those of us with thick hair, we know our lot in life is that our hair will always be giving us trouble and rarely will our hair ever work with us instead of against us.
