Personal Narrative: How Hair Changed My Life

It all started one week into my junior year. All my life I have loved to do hair, my mother was never very good at doing it, so from a young age I would do my own hair. I remember days where I would show up with half of my hair in a ponytail because my mom “put it in too tight.” Days would go by where I threw fits when she would try and do it for me, but one day she didn’t. Then days after that, still nothing. I was pretty sure that she had given up on trying to do it! “Yes!” I thought to myself, “I finally get to do it myself!” I knew my mother had good intentions when she would try and do it, but it just hurt! On my 7th birthday I remember getting a really big box for my birthday, I couldn’t wait to open it! After cake and ice cream my mom finally let me open it. I was so excited. I opened it up and looked inside and all I saw was a big Barbie head. I had no idea what I …show more content…
By the time I was 10 I had two younger sisters who I could do their hair. (They hated it, but I loved it!) I thought I was so amazing at, but in reality I wasn’t very good. I did a whole lot of ponytails and braids. Anyway, as years passed I got better. When I was 14 my mom told me that I could go to a salon and dye my hair. I was so excited! I think I probably spent like three or four days looking on the internet how I wanted to do it. I went to the salon that weekend and I got highlights. I was so excited to go to school Monday with my new hair, because I thought it was so cool. I remember from that young of an age that, that was what I wanted to do when I grow up. Just three years and I’m finally doing what I love. I started to do my cosmetology program right after my junior year ended. I was so excited to start. I’ve learned so many amazing things while going to school, not all about hair. I’ve learned hard work, and practice make you the best. No matter how good you are, someone is always going to be better than you, and you will be better than