While the beauty market is making bank on "express treatments" (a 20-minute manicure at the office, a blowout that takes less than an hour), I prefer to avoid salons at all costs and take the long route instead. For me, walking into a salon has now become an anxiety attack. Will the stylists run in horror when they see how thick my hair is? Or worse: will they try to style my hair without knowing a thing about natural hair?
At the end of the day, I have found that I'm my best hairstylist. And it saves me the hundreds of dollars that salons charge to deal with my "coarse" hair. I actually enjoy the time I spend with my strands on a Sunday — 80 percent of the time. It minimizes the amount of time I spend styling before work, so I can always hit snooze. Plus, my hair actually looks better as the days pass by.
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