As a black girl (woman, female, whatever society wants to call us), you know that changing up your look is not always as easy as it sounds. When I say “your look” I’m obviously talking about hair (it’s the one thing we naturally obsess about the most)
Why is it is so hard? Well for one our natural hair isn’t always on the same page as we are. Whether it’s length, curl pattern, style, or color, what we want and what we get can be very different from time to time.
Sometimes we settle or accept our hair for what it is. Other times we say “peace out hair I’ll see you when you want to act right.” In my case I’m allowing my hair to go on vacation for a year while I try out wild styles that I never got to experience before, all thanks to synthetic wigs.
This weekend I’m going out of town and I decided to really get wild and let out my inner slay or inner bey. [Insert blonde wigs]. Yes that’s right I’m going blonde —words that I never thought I would say.
I’ve watched close to 100 wig YouTube videos of black women wearing blonde wigs.. some good, some bad. It took awhile before I decided to order it but I finally just went for it and ordered two wigs— One curly and one straight. Why? One for going out in the day and one for the night time slay.
When I received my two wigs in the mail, I excitedly tried on Outre Penny in DR30, and was kind of thrown off by the color. I couldn’t tell if i liked it on my skin complexion or not but I knew I would still wear it. Outre Paris in DR30 however was a whole other story.
When I took this wig out of the box I immediately thought, on a scale of 1 to ratchet, how ratchet will this look on me? My cousin couldn’t help her self and automatically started laughing when she saw the wig on me. I told her she could have it because there is no possible way I could pull off this hair color.
A million thoughts started running through my head:
What will people think of me??
That I’m a ratchet? That I’m trying to be white? Black women aren’t supposed to wear blonde, or wigs, or fake hair. Why can’t they just love themselves the way they are? This is the problem with black women nowadays..
My thoughts continued on and on but then I stopped thinking and picked up the wig again. I tried on the wig and I told my cousin that I like it but I don’t know if it fits me. She told me to test it out one day to see if I like it.
Today I fixed the wig up, and made it look a little more natural –you know black girl magic(plucked the part, added foundation to the part, used dry shampoo to take away the shine, brushed it out).
Tomorrow I will test the wig out while I run my last minute errands before my trip, This weekend I will wear the blonde wigs.
Why?
Because I want to.
Life is too short to sit around wondering and caring about what other people think. If you like it, that’s all that matters. Forget what everyone else says. Wear the blonde wig girl.
My only fear when it comes to wearing wigs (especially this blonde one) is that it could possibly slip off while I’m around a ton of people and then next thing I know, I’m on worldstarhiphop.com
I pray to God that won’t happen. But, I’ll be back to tell you all how it goes, hopefully I’ll be the first to let you know, and not the people of the internet.
Until next time,
love shannon ashley
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