• If You’re #TeamNatural, These 22 Photos Will Make You Scream in Frustration

    Don’t even try to touch my hair, this ain’t no petting zoo.

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    1. Trying to comb your hair every morning:

    2. When strangers try to touch your hair without asking:

    This ain’t no petting zoo.

    3. Trying to choose the right hair products to use:

    Which one is better, water based or oil based conditioner? Do I get the regular conditioner or just the leave-in, or both?

    4. When they ask you for your hair routine:

    Uh…wash and dry?

    5. When you hear, “Oh! Your hair is so curly, what do you use?”

    Uh…genes?

    6. When a guy trying to toast you says, “Oh baby, I just lurhv this your natural hair! You’re such a natural beauty”

    Nigga…swerve.

    7. When you finish applying oils to your hair and it starts to drip down your face.

    8. How it feels when your hair starts to break:

    9. You on wash day:

    10. You when you start to research how to take care of your hair:

    11. When someone asks your hair type:

    Human?

    12. When somebody asks when you are making your hair:

    What is your own?

    13. When somebody says taking care of natural hair is cheap and easy:

    Like, just shut up.

    14. Not enough product; hair becomes dry and brittle. Too much product; hair becomes heavy and needs frequent washing.

    What do you want from me?!!

    15. You wake up like this:

    16. When you try to style your hair but it doesn’t quite turn out as you hoped:

    17. How you think you look after styling your hair vs How you actually look:

    18. You almost every morning:

    19. When the shrinkage sets in:

    20. Pre-wash vs Post-wash:

    21. When you’ve spent the whole day styling your hair and they don’t compliment it well:

    22. When you finally find that one product that works for your hair:

    If these struggles are so you, here are 14 more things you will definitely understand too.

    https://zikoko.com/list/natural-hair-problems/

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