Diary of an Honest Naturalista: Week 57

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So I heard this big rave about using banana as a natural deep conditioning treatment from a fellow naturalista I met in another ministry at work. She talked about how it made her hair soft and fluffy, that the tongue of my hair strands began to water at the fact that it had never received such mouth-watering treatment before.

I then swore to myself that one weekend will not pass me by without experiencing this luxurious deep conditioning treatment.

I made sure I bought a whole bunch of bananas, on my way back from work on Friday, so I could have some left over to eat.

So the much awaited day came, and I blended my banana to form a paste. I applied it all over my hair, and covered my hair, and left my sister’s house to go home. About four hours later, after I had settled down at home, I proceeded to wash my hair.

Using warm water, I started washing the paste out. Believe it or not, they refused to come out. They stuck to my hair, almost like gum. I didn’t know whether to start crying, because it definitely wasn’t a laughing matter.
I switched from warm water to cold water, but there was no difference. The best I could do was remove the slimy paste bit by bit.

After about forty five minutes, I couldn’t hold it again, trickles of tear drops came down my cheeks, but I tried not to be too much of a cry baby, and refused to wail. Why do my experiments always end up in epic fails?

Believe it or not, it took me about two hours to wash the whole banana mess off my hair.

I didn’t remember the person who recommended this treatment to me ever telling me it was going to be like this. So I decided to call her, and confront her for not being honest.

“Toyin…” I started.

“Hi Anna. You don’t sound good. Are you okay?” She could definitely sense something wrong.

“I’m not okay o. I just spent two hours rinsing off banana paste off my hair.”

“Whaaaat?”

“Don’t say what. You are the one who told me about banana DC, but you never told me I would be applying gum to my hair.”

“Ohh, sorryyy.” She started to apologise.

“Why sorry?” I retorted. Why was she apologizing, or was there a conspiracy theory going on?

“I forgot to tell you, Anna. You are supposed to get the Igbo banana, not the Yoruba one.”

What Greek was this girl speaking?

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What does Igbo and Yoruba have to do with natural hair? Are we talking about Nigeria’ss unity here? “Toyin, what are you talking about?”

“Yea. Yoruba banana is that short, slim, curvy, and much sweeter one, while Igbo banana is the fat, hard, bigger, one. You are supposed to use the Igbo banana for DC.”

Whaaaatttt??? And she didn’t think to tell me when she was raving about banana DC. Mehn, I aint trying no banana DC on my hair again, whether Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Edo, Idoma, or whatever.

Another natural hair fail in my hair pocket.

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