First of all…congratulations on making the decision to go natural! 👏🏽 Going natural isn’t an easy task and comes with many challenges. Nevertheless, going natural is so worth it for the overall health of your hair. Not to mention that being natural has a way of helping to renovate a deep level of […]
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Dear Newly Natural Me,
How does 7 to 10 days between washes become 2 weeks? Girl. Let’s not repeat that fiasco. Bad habits are easy to fall into and hard to break. Laziness is a prime example.
This week’s throwback is to one of my very first blogger awards! Since then, my art has become my main pursuit and my music has become a welcome hobby. ¡Todavía estoy aprendo español!
Three Things About Me:
- I hate bananas–the cold mushy texture, the afterthought of a flavor. I rebuke it. Give me fried plantain any day! I can’t remember ever liking bananas, but I do remember many a standoff as a child refusing to eat my “fruits”.
- I’m an aspiring music producer. I’ve had an on-again off-again love affair with the piano since preschool. Today, I’m pursuing a career in music production.
- “I’m currently learning Spanish”…has been a perennial saying of mine for the past two years.
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Google Plus is dead and my current leave-in conditioner is Creme of Nature Moisture Recovery Leave-in Milk. Time’s have changed since this natural hair tag!
I’ve been tagged! *runs around in circles freaking out* Shout out to Yeka over at MyYeka for creating the tag and for nominating me. Thank you, lady! Y’all check out her site. Keep reading for my answers.
6 years, this week! Here’s a throwback to my Year 5 retrospective.
18 months after going natural, a woman complemented me on my first ever twist out. I was over the moon all day. You couldn’t tell me nothin! I was ready to rock twist outs every single day, but of course my second try was nowhere near as bomb, and the travails of free hair checked […]
via 5 Years Natural a Photo Retrospective — Pursuit of Natural
Skills management provides some structure and formalization to the learning process when you are a self-taught artist. It is a self-assessment technique that you can return to again and again as you develop and it will help you find answers to the question “How do I get better?”
Because not everything you might think to study is actually relevant to your goals as an artist, it’s important to understand those goals and the steps that will help you develop with those goals in mind. Here, I’ll briefly outline how skills management helps to do that.
So, I recently discovered my ends covered in product buildup, which is highly unusual. When I identified the issue, it turned out to be a combination of being heavy handed with a new, heavier product and exercising more, which meant my usual wash regimen was not keeping up. Sometimes the problem is that I’m doing too much. Other times, not enough. From washing to trimming, here’s a shareable graphic with a few signs to look for when you need to do more or less with your natural hair.
Are you on Pinterest? I am! Follow pursuitofnatural over there for more art and beauty. ❤
Dear Newly Natural Me,
Can you please learn to cornrow? It will break the space-time continuum, considering your first attempt isn’t for another year, but it’ll be worth it. In fact, here: watch this tutorial by Breanna Rutter and thank me later.
I’ve decided to write about art and illustration for a spell. I hope you don’t mind. I’m going to talk about the discipline behind the discipline mostly. If you want to quickly dive into some tutorials, I keep a repository of great tutorials from around the web on my Google Plus collection “Art Better”. And for quick tips & references I have an “Art Better” Pinterest board.
If you want to stick with becoming a better artist over the long haul, though, study, research, and self-assessment are, in my experience, the core of what will support your efforts. Especially, when you are teaching yourself art. These are skills that have helped me develop my craft with efficiency and purpose. Here are some tips to get you started on honing these skills.
I love visualizations! This is just a shareable graphic on some styling hacks to reduce tension. Are you on Pinterest? I am! Follow pursuitofnatural over there. And if you like this post, take a second to like this post. ❤
