6. DON'T TOUCH MY HAIR !!

You know what really grinds my gears? I spend all night trying to achieve the perfect puff or fro. My curls be on fleek and edges are LAID, all for someone to come and try to touch and pull on it like "omg can I touch your hair?" "how did you get it to be so curly?". First of all NO NO NO NO, you don't ask someone can you touch their hair while already reaching to do so. Secondly, I'm not a pet don't rub my hair, because if you mess up my curl pattern, that I worked so hard on, I'm not going to be held responsible for the consequences you suffer. By the way, that is also sort of microaggressive...so just don't do it.

7. When your hair is in that 'awkward' stage

The awkward stage is when your hair is at a weird length in its natural non-flat ironed state and it is really hard to style it. It's between not too long and not too short (like mine). It is so difficult to find different hair styles that fit me perfectly. My hair is either too short for the desired hair style or too long for the other. ANNOYING! Then you get stuck wearing the same styles. It's the worst believe me.

8. Weaves, crochet braids, and other forms of fake hair our PROTECTIVE STYLES. We have hair!

So apparently people think we wear weaves and fake hair because we have none...lol That is hilarious. No, we wear them because they are what we call protective hair styles. It means that they protect our hair from heat and chemicals and being constantly manipulated by constant brushing and pulling and twisting. They also help our hair grown because we leave it alone and just make sure it is moisturized and oiled well. I personally don't like to put heat in my hair that much unless I'm doing a length check. I wear protective styles about 85% of the entire year and the growth I have gotten from it is wonderful.

9. SHRINKAGE -__-

So this word is the DEVIL. No seriously. Shrinkage, for those who don't know, is when your hair is coiled very tightly and it gives off the illusion that you have short hair. However, if the hair is stretched out to its max you can see how long it really is. It's like magic. This is a problem for when you want to do certain styles and you hair doesn't want to cooperate with you and stretch out some for this hair style so your fro or you puff looks way smaller than it could be. Different hair types experience shrinkage differently. Yes there are different types of natural hair curl patterns.

10. STOP SHAMING 4B/4C HAIR !!

For those who don't know, these hair types are some of the really diverse hair types but they are shamed because they don't look like societies view of "good hair" type of natural. Because it doesn't have a defined curl pattern people like to call it nappy (rude!). People with this type of hair experience the worst type of hair shrinkage EVER. But seriously if you say you love natural hair call 4b/4c hair nappy and bad hair then you ARE NOT for the natural hair care movement.

So that is all this article was long I know but I really wanted to educated people who didn't know much about natural hair. The numbers of women with natural hair are increasing so why not be a little well versed in certain areas of it.