Is Natural Hair Overrated?

It's been two years since I decided to stop relaxing my hair.  I recall being frantically glued to YouTube sucking in all the information I could tolerate about all things natural hair.  How to wash, co-wash, pre-poo, no-poo, dc my coils, and all that.  Making sure to use Shea Butter, EVOO, EVCO and all the needed essential oils.  Whew!

Fast forward to last week, when my daughter said, "Mom, doing my hair is so much easier now that it was before.  We should have learned how to do our hair a long time ago".  I couldn't be upset, because she was right.  Even at the age of thirteen, she confirmed what I had figured out not too long ago.  Natural hair wasn't as hard to maintain, as it seemed.

One evening, after a family swim, I just didn't feel like going through the wash, condish, deep-condish, leave-in, seal, and all, for four heads.  Well, three, since I trained my thirteen year old, and put her on her own.  I decided to cut the routine short, just using Kinky Curly Come Clean shampoo, and Knot Today Leave-In, with the Curling Custard.  That was it.  If you've used this line before, you know the results were awesome.  However, more importantly, I did my hair and my two youngest girls, and they have a LOT of hair I might add, in an hour and a half.  I felt so proud that night.  There were no tears, no long conditioning sessions, none of the usual.

That night I pondered that, it was just too easy.  I felt guilty that I didn't take hours doing our hair, as if I had left off part of a regimen that may cause our hair to fall out or something.  However, it didn't and our hair was just fine.  I thought, hair is hair.  Why all the fuss?  Maybe this natural hair thing just overrated.  I suppose it depends on whom you ask, but from my perspective, natural hair can be just as hard or just as easy as you want it to be.  Find your own groove.  I'm keeping it simple.  How complex is your routine?