Show myself the love: Curls

I've decided to start a new series of blogs which are titled, "Show myself the love".  So many of us put in so much energy caring for others, weather it be at work, or people closer to us such as family or friends.  We strive to reach higher, hoping to be accepted and judging ourselves, usually harshly, along the way.  "I should have done this differently", "I wish I had a flat stomach like hers", "why didn't he notice my new dress?" "I did that speech horribly" and the list goes on.

We're our worst enemy and most of us don't realize how much we can really bring ourselves down.  I say enough!  These blogs will be dedicated to bring ourselves up!  Don't look to the outside world to boost you up, look inside yourself and remind yourself how amazing you truly are.  Though don't get me wrong, revel in those random compliments others give you, try to see what they see and know that it's true.

In this series I will post a picture of something I love about myself and I encourage you to think of something you love about yourself as well even if it's the same thing and please, leave it as a comment.

I love my curls, I take a shower, put a bit of gel on my hair and BAM! I've got body, I've got bounce!  I don't have to spend hours with a curling iron or damage my hair with perming chemicals.  I can leave it down or throw it up with a few delicate curls left around my face.  And if I happen to want to use a curling iron to get more styled curls I don't have to worry about them falling out by the end of the day.  Yes, I love my curly hair!  What do you love about yourself?

Just for a little extra fun, and because I love random fact, here's some info on hair:
1. Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body.  In fact, if the average man never shaved his beard it would grow to over 30 feet during his lifetime, longer than a killer whale.

2. Every day the average person loses 50-100 strands of hair. Unless you’re already bald, chances are good that you’re shedding pretty heavily on a daily basis. Your hair loss will vary in accordance with the season (growing faster in summer than in winter and fast by day than night), pregnancy, illness, diet and age.

3. Women’s hair is about half the diameter of men’s hair. While it might sound strange, it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that men’s hair should be coarser than that of women. Hair diameter also varies on average between races, making hair plugs on some men look especially obvious.

4. One human hair can support 3.5 ounces. That’s about the weight of two full size candy bars, and with hundreds of thousands of hairs on the human head, makes the tale of Rapunzel much more plausible.

5. There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee. Humans are not quite the naked apes that we’re made out to be. We have lots of hair, but on most of us it’s not obvious as a majority of the hairs are too fine or light to be seen.

6. The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average. While you lose a few hairs each day, your hairs actually have a pretty long life providing they aren’t subject to any trauma. Your hairs will likely get to see several different haircuts, styles, and even possibly decades before they fall out on their own.

7. You must lose over 50% of your scalp hairs before it is apparent to anyone. You lose hundreds of hairs a day but you’ll have to lose a lot more before you or anyone else will notice. Half of the hairs on your pretty little head will have to disappear before your impending baldness will become obvious to all those around you.

8. Pulling out 1 grey hair does NOT cause 7 to grow back. What it will do however is cause damage to the root preventing any other hairs to grow back.

Now it's your turn, tell me what you love about yourself. :)


Most info gotten from 10 Cool facts to know about Hair/Nails