by LERATO MANYOZO
“Add volume” PHOTO/Flickr/B.L. Ochman
They say once you go black, you never go back. For me, turns out, it’s a much bigger story. I say, once you go virgin – Brazilian, Peruvian, Indian, Malaysian or Cambodian – you won’t go back! Virgin hair that is! And I am quite sure that a lot of my weave changing, long-tress loving sisters agree with me on this one. Designer hair, as I like to call the expensive, top quality, untreated tresses, can be highly addictive. The minute you pat the soft, silky strands or remove the heat curlers and shake your full, shiny, bouncy locks, you will be hooked for life.
And, before you know it, you are scouring the Internet for the latest ombré hair and top quality lace partings, and meeting up with friends in dark alleyways to connect with the ‘madams’ who smuggle in and sell good quality hair at a cheaper price. If you are like me and the rest of the hair lot, you are soon keeping secret weave stashes bought at such a high amount of money that your other half would cringe, or worse faint, if they knew that you were spending so ridiculously on your hair!
As if being a hair scavenger is not enough, you automatically become a weave judge too. With your new ‘weave expert’ status, the minute you walk into a room, you know immediately which of the girls there is rocking a bone straight Indian, a cheap Brazilian knock-off, or the luxurious Peruvian that you’ve been saving up to get. Needless to say, the synthetic hair users are frowned upon in horror and disbelief.
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