The first time I got my hair coloured, it was also relaxed and I was a teenager who knew nothing about looking after my hair. It broke and shed, and I shed many tears.
It was chemicals on top of chemicals, and I wasn’t equipped with any of the knowledge of how to care for Afro hair. When I decided I wanted to colour my hair in my twenties, my hair was no longer relaxed and I was so much more aware of exactly what I was doing to my hair, the potential damage that could occur and how to navigate it.
