My hair started falling out.. 😭 Story time

This is a vulnerability post for me, as most black women I have had many up’s and down’s on my hair journey. However, over the past 6-8 years my hair has been much more on the up side with a few breakage issues here and there I was able to recover from. Now however I seen to have reached another setback moment, an issue I never thought I would have. Thinning hair! 🥺

I have always prioritize my real hair and preferred to wear it as opposed to wear sewing in, wigs, braids. I hit my stride with my then relaxed hair and there were no issues I couldn’t deal with. Then out of nowhere I decided I wanted to wear my hair curly and needed to go natural 🤯. I also started to realize the kind of chemicals I was putting on my head and wanted to be safer. This was big for me since I always said I would never leave the creamy crack alone and here I was leaving it alone. I have been natural since about 2017

So I hit my next chapter with my hair and went natural. My hair was pretty long so I didn’t do the big chop. Instead I grew my relaxer out and cut off dead weight every hair appointment. This worked for a while until I believe I became mostly natural and I started to lost it. I didn’t know how to work with my natural hair, it was just to much, to time consuming,to unruly,need to much products, needed to be washed a lot more then my relaxed hair and my shrinkage was unreal. Ponytails were my best friend.

Fast forward ⏩ it took some time, practice, and finding hair products that work for me but I started to hit my stride with my natural hair as well. The only issue with I still am trying to figure out is my hair dryness and maintaining it’s moisture. Even when I was relaxed dryness was an issue along with my inconsistency.

Now to my issue which has only been a recent discovery over the pass 6 months. My hair is slowly but surely thinning out. I had already been experiencing dry, brittle hair which led to extreme tangling which led to breakage. Then I noticed a small balding spot around my hair line 😥. At first I thought maybe I’m just going crazy because my hair line has always been low and edges too long for baby hair. Until my hair dresser noticed it too 😱.

Since then my hair has continued on a downward spiral. I noticed a lot of hair shedding, my curls becoming increasingly looser, and hair I used to have to section off into 8-10 sections to wash I only needed about 4.

Im not 100 percent sure but I have been experiencing an increase in health issues, weight gain, chest pains, anxiety, chronic migraines and the big one which I think has been the culprit of my hair loss, my on going struggle with anemia aka low iron (I haven’t been living my best health life).

Now here I am trying to figure out this next chapter in my hair journey. I’m truly lost as I never i had to fix my hair issues from an internal position. If anyone has any tips, suggestions or thoughts please feel free to share. If you have gone through something similar please comment below ⬇️.#naturalhairjourney #embracevulnerability #Hair #hairloss #unfiltered #Lemon8 #haircareroutine #healthylifestyle2024 #lemon8diarychallenge #haircare