I Love My Kinky Coily "4C" Hair...

I don't subscribe to the whole typing system as a definite point of reference for my hair because my 4C hair may not be like another person's 4C hair.  So I don't take the typing system, or it's backlash personally.  Because no two heads of hair are the same.  Heck, I have several different textures on my own head, it'd be crazy to try to seek out an individual with my same exact hair type.  It gets to a point where you want to just say, C'mon!!!!!!!  Let's be realistic.

I confess, I've searched "4C hair videos on the YT and immediately felt like, "Uh-uh, that's not how my hair is."  Then I start to kind of go back and forth with myself like, maybe I'm not really 4C, but 4A...but then I look back at my coils and "BAM"  those coils in the crown of my head are definitely 4C.
To compare my sentiment to a more tangible aspect.  Take the "plus-sized" and "Big Girl" references.  These are general references like "4C" for ladies of a certain frame and weight class, but it's a vague classification for a variety of women...size 8 to infinity...Just saying.  So my 4C coils may not be as tiny or plump as another natural beauties coils, but they are tight coils...so they are 4C. 

SO  MY POINT IS...I love my kinky coily hair.  I even did my first wash-n-go Sunday, and I realize I have 3C, 4A, 4B, and 4C hair textures on my head.  It is very easy for me to distinguish my 4C hair texture from my 3C, 4A, and 4B textures...and vice versa.  Each class has characteristics all their own.  That's what's so unique and wonderful about our hair. Ha! I love it!!!  I think it's sad that some ladies do not accept the texture of hair that grows from their scalps.  And I think it's sadder that society still has this stigma against courser kinky coi1y hair as "less desirable" than looser curl textures and straight hair.  Well, no one has to love our afro-textured tresses, I love it enough for all of us ; )

 

Senegalese Twist...Mission Impossibly Long

It took me from 11/28/11 to 12/21/11 to twist my hair!!!  And I took my twists out on 01/08/12.  LOL, that's a shame right?!  I know.  Y'all just don't know how busy and tired I've been.  I attended My aunts 70th birthday extravaganza in New Jersey the first weekend in Dec, and I work retail part-time so from Thanksgiving Eve to New Years Eve I have no off time,  it's a crazy time of year--the holiday season.  So, hey, I did good to get it done at all.  My twists were very long, unintentionally.  I used the thinning method so that the ends would be tapered and thinner, and it took 5 packs of the jumbo braid 100% Kanekalon hair, which I cut in half.  The twists ended up being waist length, I was afraid to wear it down in public--didn't want anyone to pull on it-you know people are rude. :)  So I mostly wore them up in a bun or ponytail, or down in a braid.  These twists were so much fun, and I got a lot of compliments even though I would see young ladies who had theirs done professionally and be thinking, don't stand too closely beside me (LOL) because their twists looked so much more polished than mine...but they were my first attempt at Senegalese twists.  I had them done professionally by Africans in Florence, SC and I paid over $200 for them, so all it cost me for these was $22--the cost of 7 packs of hair--which I only used 5 packs.  I think it was an alright trade.  Without further a-do, here are some pictures: