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1. When your parents start looking for your wedding venue the minute you start walking.

Can you just let me suck breast first?
2. When they buy toy car for your brother but buy you kitchen set.

I didn’t come to this life to cook plis
3. When they are sharing chores, this is your list while your brother’s list only has wash car on it.

4. This is the summary of the sex talk your mum gave you when you started your period

Just like that.
5. You can’t make any small mistake in your parents’ house without hearing is this how you’ll do it in your husband’s house.

Small mistake o
6. How your parents reacted when your brother managed to make noodles for the first time.

And it wasn’t even sweet sef
7. How they react when you make Jollof Rice, Asun, Fried Chicken but forget to fry Plantain to add

That’s how you’ll go and disgrace us in your husband’s house
8. How your parents reacted when your brother brought home a female friend

YOU’RE THE TRUE SON OF YOUR FATHER.
9. How they reacted the first time a boy just used side eye to look at you

If I see that boy again.
10. Once your mum noticed you were growing breasts these are the kind of clothes she started buying for you

You won’t disgrace me.
11. Meanwhile at school all the boys forgot where your eyes were located

Abi do you want Amadioha to punish you?
12. Going to buy bread down the street and before you even lock your gate one Emeka has come to profess his love to you.

I’m not interested please.
13. When a guy who was just toasting you starts abusing because you said you weren’t interested

So confused.
14. When you hear that a boy in school is telling everyone you slept with him because you shook his hand one time

But how?
15. When your parents spent your entire childhood chasing you away from boys now they’re asking you for husband.

As if they sell husband in the market.
16. When your parents’ reply to anything you do is ‘But when will you marry?’

Matriculation? When will you marry Graduation? When will you marry? NYSC? When will you marry? It never really ends, does it?
17. Ever had the sex talk with your Nigerian parents? This is probably how it went.
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/
1. When you’re about to spend two year’s salary on rent and you start wondering who was chasing you from your parent’s house

2. But then you remember how you can go out at 2 in the morning to play Ludo and your mother won’t dash you slap when you come home

3. When your house turns to viewing centre anytime Premier League is on

4. And all those times your yeye friends think they can turn your house to hook up centre anytime they get new babes

5. Those rough times when you’e eaten Indomie for the 32nd time in one week and life is just tiring you

6. But you finally secure one damsel that just wants to use starch and banga to spoil you and you’re ready to just throw ring at her

7. But you see the price of baby stroller by mistake and you have to add another five years to the time you’ll be ready to marry
1. So you wake up one morning and realize your clothes don’t fit anymore.

Wait, what’s happening?
2. Then you realize you’re getting fat. Very fat!

Hay God!
3. So you run out to buy work out clothes so you can join fitfam.

I must fit into my beautiful clothes!
4. You even spend your small savings on a pair of Nike sneakers, because this fitfam life has to be perfect.

Fitfam is not a joke.
5. You decide to start with jogging every morning.

I can even meet some fine boys sef.
6. But after jogging down the stairs, your legs are already complaining.

My back! My legs!
7. But you remember all the clothes you have to give out if you don’t slim down.

Not gonna happen!
8. So you manage to get outside your gate looking like:

Who sent me message?
9. You now see some hot babes jogging effortlessly.

Are these ones human sha?
10. And no hot boy is even looking at you, except old men.

Urgh who are these men?
11. After 20 minutes, you manage to crawl back home like:

Tired. So tired.
12. Your legs won’t even let you stand up to do anything.

Kuku kill me.
13. That’s when you decide this fitfam life is not for you.

It’s not my type they are looking for.
1. When you hear they dropped 300k for only prom.

Ahn ahn! Only you?
2. When they’re complaining that their holiday in The Bahamas was boring.

Nawa oh!
3. Meanwhile, you spent the holidays washing plates in the village.

Anyway, this life is turn by turn sha!
4. When they say they’re on a budget because they have ‘only’ 30k in their account.

This one doesn’t know anything.
5. When they buy something of N100 with N1000, and they tell the hawker to keep the change.

I’m so going back to collect that change!
6. When you go to their house and they treat you like royalty.

This is heaven on earth!
7. But you don’t want to go home , so your parents have to come to carry you from their house like:

Give me one more day now!
8. Their reaction when you talk about ‘jumping’ danfo.

“What is a danfo?”
9. When they come to your house and your parents start forming nice.

But you people are always wicked to me now.
10. When they buy 10k jeans in Yaba, and they tell you it’s cheap.

They have scammed this one o!
11. Their reaction when you baff up and wear your ‘designer’ kacks.

“Are those knock off yeezys girl?”
12. You, when their parents come to the hostel and start shouting that the room doesn’t have AC.

But there is fan now!
13. When they buy you plenty clothes from jand.

Oshey friendship mi!
14. How they react when you ask them about their problems in life.

We already know ma!
15. Their reaction when you tell them you’re always broke.

Just look at this one.
16. When they ask you to come and hang out at one posh restaurant you can’t even pronounce.

I’m not on seat abeg!
1. The second set of alphabets you ever learned.

The good days!
2. When you have to go to Madrasah every other day of the week.

Can’t I just play with my friends?
3. When they share cabin biscuits and sweets at Madrasah.

Yass!
4. When your parents make you leave the house for Jumah 2 hours earlier.

Na wa o! We’re not the Imams of the mosque na.
5. When the sermon gets really boring.

I’m sleep abeg.
6. Your parents, when they catch you sleeping during the sermon.

Don’t be stupid.
7. When the older people at the mosque chase you and your friends to the back for being too playful.

Someone can’t play with you people again.
8. When you get home and they ask you what you learnt from the sermon.

It’s not good to tell lies…
9. You, when you realise you have to attend Asalatu on Sundays.

Stress.
10. When you have to leave your house early on Sunday because Asalatu starts at 8am.

Someone can’t even sleep on Sunday again.
11. When the Imam says there’s special prayer after the program.

All these prayers never do una?
12. When you have to attend Tahajjud and you’ll have to stay up all night.

But I want to sleep na.
13. When you realise you don’t have to fast all through Ramadan.

Awesome!
14. How you and your squad turn up on Eid day.

It’s lit!
1. Realizing those bowls of eba and slices of pizza have started taking you away from the road to FitFam.

This food will not eat itself please.
2. Staying calm and minding your business until Lagos traffic made you insult everybody around you.

Lagos traffic is not for the meek.
3. Getting tired on the first day of work after resolving to be more diligent at the office.

Can we have another public holiday next week please?
4. Skipping the first Friday/Sunday service of the year even though you planned to be more religious throughout the year.

Shebi God will understand now.
5. Already getting curved by a potential bae and it’s not even February yet.

Perhaps I will be alone forever?
6. Getting too drunk on 1st of January after resolving to quit alcohol.

This life is per head abeg.
7. Resetting all the 5 alarms that woke you up every morning of the past year.

5 more minutes of sleep please.
8. When you have already given up on having a tidy room for the rest of the year.

I can’t kill myself abeg.
9. When fuel scarcity and inflation are already preventing you from that good life you planned on having.

Hay God!
10. When you’re already too broke to start meeting your savings goals.

Cries in empty bank account.
How many of your resolutions have you kept or failed at? Let us know.

1. When your parents start looking for your wedding venue the minute you start walking.

2. When they buy toy car for your brother but buy you kitchen set.

3. When they are sharing chores, this is your list while your brother’s list only has wash car on it.

4. This is the summary of the sex talk your mum gave you when you started your period

5. You can’t make any small mistake in your parents’ house without hearing is this how you’ll do it in your husband’s house.

6. How your parents reacted when your brother managed to make noodles for the first time.

7. How they react when you make Jollof Rice, Asun, Fried Chicken but forget to fry Plantain to add

8. How your parents reacted when your brother brought home a female friend

9. How they reacted the first time a boy just used side eye to look at you

10. Once your mum noticed you were growing breasts these are the kind of clothes she started buying for you

11. Meanwhile at school all the boys forgot where your eyes were located

12. Going to buy bread down the street and before you even lock your gate one Emeka has come to profess his love to you.

13. When a guy who was just toasting you starts abusing because you said you weren’t interested

14. When you hear that a boy in school is telling everyone you slept with him because you shook his hand one time

15. When your parents spent your entire childhood chasing you away from boys now they’re asking you for husband.

16. When your parents’ reply to anything you do is ‘But when will you marry?’

17. Ever had the sex talk with your Nigerian parents? This is probably how it went.

1. Trying to comb your hair every morning:

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

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

4. When they ask you for your hair routine:

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

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

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:

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

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

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

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.

1. When you’re about to spend two year’s salary on rent and you start wondering who was chasing you from your parent’s house

2. But then you remember how you can go out at 2 in the morning to play Ludo and your mother won’t dash you slap when you come home

3. When your house turns to viewing centre anytime Premier League is on

4. And all those times your yeye friends think they can turn your house to hook up centre anytime they get new babes

5. Those rough times when you’e eaten Indomie for the 32nd time in one week and life is just tiring you

6. But you finally secure one damsel that just wants to use starch and banga to spoil you and you’re ready to just throw ring at her

7. But you see the price of baby stroller by mistake and you have to add another five years to the time you’ll be ready to marry

1. So you wake up one morning and realize your clothes don’t fit anymore.

2. Then you realize you’re getting fat. Very fat!

3. So you run out to buy work out clothes so you can join fitfam.

4. You even spend your small savings on a pair of Nike sneakers, because this fitfam life has to be perfect.

5. You decide to start with jogging every morning.

6. But after jogging down the stairs, your legs are already complaining.

7. But you remember all the clothes you have to give out if you don’t slim down.

8. So you manage to get outside your gate looking like:

9. You now see some hot babes jogging effortlessly.

10. And no hot boy is even looking at you, except old men.

11. After 20 minutes, you manage to crawl back home like:

12. Your legs won’t even let you stand up to do anything.

13. That’s when you decide this fitfam life is not for you.

1. When you hear they dropped 300k for only prom.

2. When they’re complaining that their holiday in The Bahamas was boring.

3. Meanwhile, you spent the holidays washing plates in the village.

4. When they say they’re on a budget because they have ‘only’ 30k in their account.

5. When they buy something of N100 with N1000, and they tell the hawker to keep the change.

6. When you go to their house and they treat you like royalty.

7. But you don’t want to go home , so your parents have to come to carry you from their house like:

8. Their reaction when you talk about ‘jumping’ danfo.

9. When they come to your house and your parents start forming nice.

10. When they buy 10k jeans in Yaba, and they tell you it’s cheap.

11. Their reaction when you baff up and wear your ‘designer’ kacks.

12. You, when their parents come to the hostel and start shouting that the room doesn’t have AC.

13. When they buy you plenty clothes from jand.

14. How they react when you ask them about their problems in life.

15. Their reaction when you tell them you’re always broke.

16. When they ask you to come and hang out at one posh restaurant you can’t even pronounce.

1. The second set of alphabets you ever learned.

2. When you have to go to Madrasah every other day of the week.

3. When they share cabin biscuits and sweets at Madrasah.

4. When your parents make you leave the house for Jumah 2 hours earlier.