A LOT OF HAIRDRESSERS WON'T MAKE HEAVEN.

This one won't, for sure.

Mar 14, 2023

After carrying all-back up and down for months, I decided to change, because it was contradicting my soft girl aesthetic. I woke up feeling very energetic last week Saturday, and I decided to get my hair done. I already had my eyes on the French curl braids, so I called Yesira my go-to hairdresser, but she told me she wasn't around, she was in Abeokuta for her brother's wedding, I been dey eye that her brother before, but we gather dey. I sha told her to bring amala for me, I no fit lose in two ways. After the call with Yesira, I started looking for alternative, because I knew it within myself that if I didn't get that hair done on Saturday, it's gone niyen.

I finally found one salon in my area that looked standard, the building wasn't bad, and the interior was giving too. A dark, robust woman in a small pink top that barely covered her stomach was chewing gum loudly beside me as I waited, maybe that should've been the first red flag and I should have left, but no, I sat there, munching on a granola bar and reading Tomi Adeyemi's children of blood and bone, wonderful book, by the way.

Around twenty minutes later, one of the girls there came to me and asked if I was getting braids or locs, I told her French curl braids, and she said okay, that she'll start now. As i no get 45k for braids, to avoid embarrassment, i asked her how much I'd pay, I already brought my own attachment, so i wasn't expecting it to be expensive, but when this girl told me 2k, my heart did gbim gbim, ah ye ye. I brought out my phone to show her pictures, in case she didn't know what I was talking about.

“I know how to make it very well, anty. It won't be my first time.” She said it with so much confidence, I just had to belive her. That's how she started o. In my mind, I was already thinking of the beautiful hairstyles I'd be able to get for cheap cheap prices in this salon, it's over for all of them, purr.

After the first few braids, I started having second thoughts. Why are the braids sticking out? When it's not kiko I'm doing? Ah ye ye.

I kid you not, the braids kept sticking out like this.

I decided not to suffer in silence, I asked her why the braids were sticking out, this babe told me she wasn't using the normal method, that the method she was using is the best. I said okay, like a mumu, and I let her keep traumatising my scalp. Na Yesira cause all this one sha. The babe finally finished after hours, when I looked in the mirror, my whole life flashed in front of me, because wetin be this? The babe stood there, obviously admiring her work, but I believe she was just a schadenfreude, deriving pleasure from my own pain.

As soon as I got back home, I grabbed the nearest mirror and after a lot of courage, I glanced at my reflection. Fuck sheettt!

My soft girl aesthetic don spoil finish.

I tried so many different things to make it look better, but no, nothing! It's been one week now, and I'm currently taking it out, I wanted to be mad at Yesira, but she brought party jollof for me, plus, I still have my eyes on her brother , he fit get divorced tomorrow, so Yesira will put in a good word for me. But that hairdresser babe won't make heaven.

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