Embracing Your Natural Hair and Building Confidence 

With the number of women gradually coming into the natural hair community, the topic of embracing your natural hair becomes crucial. 

Let's get straight to what embracing your natural hair entails. 

Embracing Your Natural Hair: What Does it Mean?

In simple terms, it means accepting your natural hair and every characteristic of it as beautiful.  Embracing your natural hair is a first step towards building a deep form of self-confidence and self-love. How? 

Why is Embracing Your Natural Hair Important?

In recent times,  there seems to be a “standard for beauty” in almost every aspect of life. 

For looks, depending on your location, it could be a skinny lady with a certain complexion or a lady with wider hips and slimmer waist. 

In the hair industry, straightened hair seems to be the gold standard. Now, this may not be exact in your location, but with deep observation, you can tell what standard is prominent around you. 

Imagine where the standard is, straight, silky long hair, and you have coily, seemingly short hair, that some may describe as “rough looking”. Would it be easy to fit in? For some girlies, they don't care, for others, it'll be a huge struggle to fit in.

With the majority tilting towards the “gold standard of hair beauty” it is important that you create YOUR standard, for YOU. This will make you stand out. 

You know that feeling you get when someone gives you a lovely compliment about your dress or your makeup. Now imagine getting that feeling every day when you rock your beautiful hair. 

Embracing Your Natural Hair Builds Confidence

We’ll define confidence as a rich boldness and self-assurance in your hair choices. 

Sis, hair is a natural gift we have to feel beautiful. The first step to accepting your beauty is feeling confident in the hair that grows out of your head. 

When you love your hair, and nurture it, in return you see it thrive. 

As you put in effort and see results, naturally your confidence increases. Gradually, you want to flaunt this thriving  “baby” of yours. 

You try out unique styles on your hair, you use the perfect accessories to make it POP, and the compliments just keep pouring in ☺️. The feeling is exciting. 

But you can only experience this if you put in the work. So how can you do that?

6 Tips to Embrace Your Natural Hair

1. Have a positive mindset towards your hair

Now we don't want to sound all motivational, but say this: “my hair is beautiful, in every size and texture”, “I'll embrace shrinkage, TWAs, every unique quality that my hair comes with”. 

A positive mindset is a step in the right direction to embracing your natural hair.

2. Take time to learn about your hair

Porosity, hair typing, haircare routine, protective styling, and more. Take your time to learn these things about your hair. 

When you put the effort to learn about your hair, you gain knowledge on how to treat it better, you put in the work and embracing it just gets easier. 

3. Don't compare your hair with others

Unnecessary comparison will dampen your zeal, and it'll make you undermine how far you've come and how hard you've worked to get your hair to its current state. 

So, when you see a beautiful natural hair queen, feel free to admire her crown, but don't forget you wear a unique crown as well. 

4. Build a consistent haircare regimen or routine 

Your hair care routine should include washing, deep conditioning, moisturizing, protective styling, regular trims and good hair practices. These actions accumulate over time to give you the desired result you want from your natural hair.

5. Groom your hair neatly

Now, this tip is for the girlies who think natural hair is “rough looking”.  The beauty of natural hair is in the uniqueness of its texture. With the right parts, right styling products, your “rough-looking” hair can turn out to be a head-turning masterpiece. 

So, style your hair simply yet nicely, and you'll be amazed at how transformed it looks.  Check out this article on natural hairstyles to rock every day based on different hair lengths.

6. Embrace your natural hair through the power of community

Ever heard the saying: there's power in numbers? 

Well, a great way to boost your confidence and rock your natural hair is by surrounding yourself with women who have similar hair interests as you do. 

Join The HairTalk community and experience the benefits of having a supportive community as you embrace your natural crown.

Wrapping up 

Embracing your natural hair might seem daunting at first, but we promise it's a life-changing decision that'll positively impact your confidence and build your self-image. 

Keep up the good practices and remember to flaunt your hair with pride. You’ve got this, girlie!

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