CNN iReport

Within the black community, the way men and women wear their hair has arisen as an issue. It just happens to be important, whether there are other more life-threatening issues out there. Our hair says a lot about us, or supposedly it does. To me, it says a lot, but not everything.

I went natural about 14 months ago. There has been a "natural revolution" with hundreds of Black women going back to their natural roots from having a perm/relaxer, and I wanted to hop on the bandwagon. Check out youtube if you don't believe me. Besides that, I rock an afro, twists, braids occasionally, extensions, and in the beginning I even wore wigs (honesty is the best policy)! I cut off more than 12 inches of relaxed hair to go natural, and it was a freeing experience.

Even after being natural for so long, learning to love what I was born with, it's still a struggle to look at my lack of curl pattern, beautiful as it may be, and see it as better than curlier types. But it's a misconception that's been there forever and I'm fighting it.

There is no such a thing as good hair. It doesn't exist. We're just finding another reason to hate ourselves.