#celebratingmycrown #mycrown #crownday #crowndayeveryday #thecrownact Mom didn’t let me get a perm growing up. I got my first perm in college trying to be like my friends. Thankfully hairstylists would tell me I only need one once “every six months”. A decade later I realized I didn’t need one at all and would just get blowouts. Finally one day I decided to wash it and just—go. It was frightening but I decided to go out into the world as God made me and my hair. It was the most liberating feeling. Yet why is this STILL an issue? The brainwashing of what “good hair is” still exists. Beauty is a state of being. I am my hair. I can’t say it isn’t. To accept my hair is to accept me. It grows from my scalp! How dare I or anyone deny the importance of its existence. For those who have lost theirs you truly are not your hair! That’s different. Let’s make that the distinction. If you have hair don’t deny your crown its glory. The grass always looks greener on the other side when in actuality the grass is greener WHERE YOU WATER IT! Next: showing up for contract meetings with Caucasians then showing up in client offices, courtrooms- yes, even law offices with my natural hair. This is who I am—beauty, intelligence and love walking with radiant hair full of vitality and the strength of my ancestors. It took me decades to finally unapologetic accept myself as I was created. If I decide to straighten it now it’s not to look like “them” or come out of a phase I’m going through but to just show and enjoy just how real my “shrinkage” is. My hair is versatile, ever evolving, curly & coily plus wavy in a few places by God’s design. I love and embrace it all. You think you just see a big curly Afro when you see it in its “rested” state! I challenge you to look again. There’s length, depth, wisdom of the ages and the life of God in this hair. My hair is good hair! It’s healthy and ever-growing! This post is for anyone having a not so perfect hair day. We all have them but just don’t post them. Enjoy the journey! Be grateful every time you run your fingers through your curls/coils/strands! People just don’t realize the courage & confidence it takes for us to own our CROWNS!👑 https://www.instagram.com/p/CWTYatwrXYX/?utm_medium=tumblr