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Quarantine has me killing my hair 😭

So...  I kinda killed my hair… As-salaam alaikum people. It’s been a while. How are you all? Now let’s get into today’s post…   If you remember, I was in Lagos a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, while I was there, I treated my hair amazingly until one day; I was in dire need of washing my hair. You see, there was a ton of residue and stuff on my head, which made my scalp super itchy and made my hair feel heavy. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get shampoo at that time so guess what I did. I washed my hair with laundry detergent. Yes, you read it right. I foolishly saturated my hair with water then applied soap on it. At first, my hair seemed okay but you see, after every wash, I deeply condition my hair and that was before I decided to wash my hair with soap. I also did not moisturize my hair after I brutally harassed it. My hair washing process is usually using a hair treatment for at least 2 hours, shampoo, and then deeply condition before air-drying (zero-heat) and braid...

Feed the fire: Voices!

As-salaam alaikum everyone . I know it has been a while and I'm a very inconsistent blogger, which is no doubt inexcusable but I promise to attempt to be better from today onwards. How have you all been? I’ve had quite an experience that I will explain in the next post I hope. Anyway, the topic of today will be VOICES . With all the incidents around the world, I now see that I’ve been giving myself a bunch of useless and pointless excuses and reasons not to use my voice. Excuse 1: There is no point! Excuse me. What do you mean by “There’s no point!” Every topic has a point no matter how small, big, pointless, impactful it seems. All that matters is the topic’s importance to you.   How does the topic make you feel? Why do you feel that way? Is it something that worries you/ excites you/ saddens you? Ask yourselves these questions and see if it is pointless. Excuse 2: No one will see the point. No one will hear me. No one will listen. No one cares. How can you s...