In Santo Domingo it is common place to see women, teenagers, even young girls walking around with rollos in the hair. New York is the same way. We get rollos, rollers put in and go out to buy groceries, pay the bills. It’s business as usual.

So, when I started doing my own wet sets, putting in my own rollers, when I went away to school , all of the girls would ask the same question, “Why don’t you just blow dry your hair? It would be a heck of a lot faster!”

I thought about this. Let it marinate for a while. Then I tried it. I started blow drying my hair.

WHY DID I LISTEN TO A BUNCH OF CHICKS WITH STIR FRIED HAIR?!

I could see a difference in my hair in a matter of a few weeks. My hair was dry, brittle and breaking at the ends. My hair turned into a box of Kellog’s cereal, “Snap, Crackle & Pop!”

Al fin, at last, I ended up chopping off 4 inches of hair to get damaged ends off and to make my life easier. At this point, I had not done my own roller sets, but I knew that I couldn’t continue blowing my hair directly. That was just asking for trouble.