New beginnings

Hi friends

I have two things to tell you, two very awesome things - which do I start with first? The good news or the good news? Lol. After many conversations with myself and my boyfriend about cutting my hair I finally did it, yes, you heard me, I made friends with the scissor man and took a chunk of what they call a crown, right off and I can say it felt 'guuuuuuuud, real guud.' Ok, I didn't actually cut the hair myself (Thiza, that would be a disaster) my cousin took my little sister and I to a local barber elokshini where she got her hair cut. Honestly I don't think I would have gone through with it if they hadn't come with me.

I'll be honest, seconds after I heard the buzzing sound of the clippers, I wanted to jump out of my chair and  run like Forest. I can still hear the buzzing sound of the clippers in my ear, that sound is enough to scare anybody - makes sense why kids don't like getting their hair cut.

So I put on my brave face and told the barber to go for it, I just wanted to chop off the relaxed hair and leave the natural hair growing underneath that so I can start afresh, my hair was starting to annoy me, moer bezingakhuli, they just stopped growing, so I figured, zindala and mazihambe, they just had to go.

Literally 15min later I was done and looked like a different person, I reminded myself of a 9 year old me, when the 's-curl and ladies cut' ruled my life, thanks to my dear father, who thought both those hairstyles were cooler than cool - arg shame they probably were.

 I'm surprised I didn't cry (I'm such a crier) or get emotional, it was such an easy decision to make in the end. You know in those make-over shows where people want to change their look and that requires them cutting their hair? And then when it's time to do so, they ball their eyes out crying? Far from it for mna. Ok, maybe for me it wasn't that deep, afterall my hair only reached my jawline, and it just refused to go beyond that.

I love my short little natural hairs, so cute how they just curl themselves up, such shy little things my natural hair hehehe... Feels so good to know that I won't have to sleep with 'iqhiya'(doekie.) That thing is such a nightmare; how it will constantly wake you up at night because it shifts from the front of your head to the back - I won't get started on eziya ze silk(fake), which just slip off seconds after you've put it on. Relaxed hair is cool  but is  lot of admin sometimes. I will relax my hair again, once my natural hair grows to a length that I'm comfortable with, but for now I want to enjoy the lightness of my head, the emancipation and the comfort of having short hair. I plan on getting it braided soon to fasten the pace yokukhula until I can get it to  that soft cotton-wool- like texture where I can plait it at night before going to bed etc etc.

The other awesome thing I wanted to tell you was that my agency sms'd  about a TV ad audition that I had to go to this morning. The ad is for Liberty life which they've now kept as just 'Liberty' I think they are in the process of re-branding. Anyway I went for the audition before going to work, and there were about fifteen people there gunning for the 3 roles, we all got the scripts on the day so we had to jack those words into our heads for the audition, we were only allowed to use the scripts as a guide (obviously) and guess what I nailed it! I got the gig along with two other guys. Whooop Whoop. Hopefully this opens more doors. Thank you lord.

My new look