u/Illustrious_End_543

the lady from the other salon showed me the red spots where my scalp was already irritated AFTER 2 DAYS. Imagine what would have happened had I left them in longer. Today my scalp was itchy and even painful when putting my shirt on. So good that I trusted my intuition.

Mind you, I went to a salon specialised in fine and thin hair or so they said, who works together with Vogue and all, and is on national TV. So I guess we can never know. It's can be just one big advertisement and you have to be very careful to have anything done to your already more fragile hair in hopes of improving it. To find the right stylist etc. I should have done more research.

And honestly, I am HAPPY I got my old hair back. It's just me and it's time that I start accepting it and loving it the way it is. I've been struggling with some new fake person coming into my life trying to get my (romantic) attention as well, and it's like everything inside me is so done with fake things, extra hair, fake people you name it I'm done with it. So it's like another symbolic step for me towards self acceptance and self love.

Yesterday, put in hair extensions once again. At some fancy salon. And yes they did better than last one, but still they will tell me nothing shows of those microbeads they put in. Filmed the back of my head yesterday, only one pluck of my hair has to be out of place and yes the beads show. Of course they do, it's only normal because there needs to be enough hair to cover them.

Once again, I feel bad and panicky, now I just feel insecure about the next thing, not about my natural hair but about the extensions showing. I just don't have enough hair on the top of my head to cover all of it.

I decided to ditch them as soon as possible - if I could, I would just rip them out right now - and just accept myself. This sub is a godsend, makes me realise there are so many more of us with the same hair type and I am not alone, we are all beautiful.