Welcome back to Lumynex Essentials texture tall Podcast. I am your host Kerone Maxineau. I am your natural hair consultant, author podcaster, and your natural curl champion. I'm on a mission to inspire and empower women with natural Afro-textured hair to overcome those struggles and those unknown certainties so that she can be on a path to achieving healthy and or growing hair. And if that's you, I give you praise. So for those who are tuning in for the first time, I just want to welcome you thank you so much for taking your time out to listen to this phenomenal natural hair podcast. But today, I just want to bring on a guest that is so excited and loves her natural hair. She has her own hair product which is called AuthenticaAliMe. And not only that, it caters to our own hair needs, but she offered her handmade, natural hair product to the natural hair community and she is so excited to be on this podcast on top of that

I want to introduce you to Alicia. Alicia. Are you there? Hello, hello. Hello, I am here. Hi. Lovely. Thank you for taking the time out to join and to share all that natural hair stuff. Thank you. Yes. Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it. Thank you. We appreciate you. I appreciate Thank you so much. So, let the listeners know a little about you. So tell us where you are from? Well, yes, I am originally from Malvern, Arkansas, small little country town population of about 10,000 people but yes, I'm a little country girl at heart. That's where I'm from. Wow. So how's the town you said it's a small town there. Yes. So small-town population is about 10,000 people very, very small.

It's one of those times where everybody knows everybody, everybody knows everybody's business. You know, one big old, ginormous family.

Everybody knows you, everybody knows. A lot of issues, right? Because everybody's gonna know what's going on. Yeah, it could be a good thing that it could be like a con against that.

Exactly.

So, what we would like to know about your natural hair journey and what is natural mean to you, so part of that, can you just bring us on and like, What inspired you to become natural? See what inspired me to become natural? , to be honest, my first thought was different. and then I had to do a little bit of research. I asked questions because I have some friends that are natural and we just got to talk, going about it in everything and then that's when I learned I'm like whoa so okay this is the hair day you know God has blessed me with and here I am you know putting these harsh chemicals on my hair we got to do something about this. Yes, I was like oh no, no, no no, we're not be putting in on my hair anymore. So I had one good friend in particular who pretty much kind of walked me through with their transition because I didn't do like a big chop big shot. We just started with the transition first and she let me know like what products and everything I need to purchase to get started. And it was very cool.  [Listen to the full Episode]

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