“You Bloggin or Nah?!?”

Yes! The answer if finally…YES! If I had a dollar for every time my family/friends asked me for an update on CocoaBrownCurlsXo I would have enough money to buy a lifetime supply of both Devacurl and every fabulous line SheaMoisture has to offer! A repetitive question that could make me rich, but a well deserved repetitive question to say the least.

 

In 2011 I made what seemed to be the simple decision to embrace my natural curls. What I wasn’t aware of at the time was all of the mental and emotional changes that would come with that. See, natural hair isn’t just something to “do” for me. Over the years talking natural hair, embracing my natural beauty, and helping others to do the same has become this extreme passion that I never knew I had.  I have always known that I was a passionate person, and when my focus is put in the right place that passion certainly shines through. My love and passion for happy healthy hair is one that my family and friends saw in me many years ago when I started this journey. I’ve heard many times before that when I talk curls, when I coach someone on becoming natural, when I’m roaming the aisles of Ulta there is this passion in me like they have never seen before. So naturally (total pun intended) the next step would be for me to begin blogging all of my passionate journey right?!? Wrong! Let me let you all in on a little secret, I don’t like the pressure! It’s one thing to get caught up in the moment (or 45) when I’m in the hair care aisle of target getting stopped and questioned by a mom who needs help with her daughters curls. It’s a TOTALLY different ballgame when you have to put that passion and advice on paper or video for the whole world (hopefully) to see. Let’s just say I’ve had everything from writer’s block to a SERIOUS case of camera aversion, which might I add is the WORST case scenario when you have the desire to have a successful natural hair blog and youtube channel.

I feel for myself, but mostly I feel for all of the people who have patiently believed in me over the years. I feel for the people that have watched me time and time again in my element and just scratched their heads and wondered why I didn’t work harder to start this blog. Trust me when I say it was never lack of effort. No one really talks about how hard it is to blog consistently, and all of the effort that goes in behind the scenes. It was never intended to just be about “hair”. My passion, my journey, has always included my love of all things curls, love, and life. So to those of you who had to painfully wait, and push me daily despite my constant excuses of exhaustion and camera aversion I hope you find yourself reading this blog first. I want to say thank you for never giving up on me. Thank you for all of your ideas and your constant input hoping that one day it will spark what I needed to go at this with everything I have. Thank you for standing in that Ulta aisle with me for an hour as I read every ingredient and hesitate between yet another deep conditioner decision. Thank you for seeing that this is my passion, and helping me to see that this is truly my space, that I have all right to be here, that I can rock this shit! Now watch me, cuz yea…I’m blogging! Xo