1. When the hairdresser takes forever to start
2. Then she finally starts after keeping you waiting for a long time but you still know you’ll be spending the whole day
3. When someone else comes to join her and they start pulling your hair in two different directions
4. And your hair hurts a lot and you have to hold back the tears
5. So you stylishly feel around and you realise you still have a long way to go.
6. Then when you finally think you have have two plaits left, she splits It into ten plaits
7. But you finally finish and remember that the hair has to be dipped in boiling water
8. Then you look in the mirror and see your amazing braids
Perhaps it was worth the struggle.
9. Then the tightness and soreness sets in
10. Then random people start to touch your hair
11. And you have to keep telling people not to touch
12. And your braids start to fall out
13. And then it’s time to take them out
14. Then you start to miss them
The irony.
