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I don't know. I'm a little vain, I think I'll look better with my natural hair.

It was hard to explain to my sons why I chose to make my hair different from theirs.

Natural hair just looks good.
 
-Mainly I would rather have blond streaks than straight hair, i can always flat iron

-no matter what I did, i could not get rid of my dry, itchy scalp until I discovered it was the products i needed to use to maintain the relaxer (perm and all0

- to to revamp me all the way around
 
I had a tramatizing experience with a relaxer, that left my hair extra brittle and coming out left and right. So I never went back and my hair has been thriving.
 
I initially was just trying to grow my hair out and start all over cause my hard earned $$ at the salon was not getting me anything but burned ears and scalp, and no growth...even when I stopped using heat!:wallbash:...So 10 months after my last perm in August 07, I chopped all the relaxed ends off (What I now know is called BC), I almost cried when I felt my God-given texture was so soft:blush:....It felt delicious in the shower when I washed it for the first time when it was so short...! I developed HIHS (Hand in hair syndrome for real)....I teared up a little because all this time I was made to feel like my natural hair was knotty, unmanagable, and ugly.....

I just let it grow out and when I saw that I was actually retaining length, I decided I would not perm again....That was almost 2 years ago and I have not looked back every since! I am loving my 4AB hair!
 
I don't have a very deep reason. I moved to Mexico and i dont trust stylist here to handle my hair, the relaxers made in here are bad for our type... so i BC, anyway now i'm lovinf my natural hair and learning how to ake care of it.
 
I liked my relaxed hair. It was in good condition, healthy, longish by other peoples standards but I didn't have a job and so I got my cousin to be braiding my hair (I hated braids. They hurt big time) for free.


I want to relax again but now I'm terrified of going to the stylists. I think they may cut my hair and I am doing the Bootcamp 2010 challenge.
 
I was curious about what products I could use and what styles I could do on natural hair.

During the last few years that my hair was relaxed I noticed a lot of natural styles that I liked.

When my hair eventually starts turning gray I'm going to dye it black or dark brown. I don't want dye and a relaxer.

I realized that I didn't want to still be getting relaxers at age 60, 70, 80+.

I figured natural styles would be more flattering on me than relaxed hair.
 
My 'aha' moment came when I started going to an Ethiopian salon and realized that 80% of the clientele were natural and their hair was getting just as straight as mine. And their hair looked just like mine did when I was natural (I didn't get a relaxer until I was 14 and didn't get a bone straight one until I was 20 so I knew my natural hair very well). I was like, "OMG, I *don't* have to put harsh chemicals in my hair to wear it straight!!!" Never looked back. No need to.
 
I've never had all natural hair since the age of 4; I've been brought up to have my relaxed, blowdried, straightened, and braided, and it hardly every passed shoulder length, which I didn't particularly like. Once I found out about haircare on various sites including LHCF, I first intended to grow long relaxed hair, just because I didn't want to lose the length I already had by transitioning. After a year and a half of some disappointment, and failures in doing my own relaxers, I just decided I won't bother relaxing anymore, and I changed other things in my regimen to help improve my hair. I know a lot more about natural hair now from what I've learned on here, and youtube, fotki, etc, and I really like the look of natural hair, and the fact that I can still flat iron to make it look relaxed if I want. So I think, maybe relaxers are weakening my hair, I should just stop them and see if my hair will be longer natural. Plus, the line of demarcation from new growth is annoying, so once my transition is over I won't have to deal with that anymore.
 
I love big hair and I am curious what my natural hair is like.

I'm only a few months into my transition, but I'm pretty sure I'll never get a relaxer again.
 
1. I had a bad experience with relaxers years ago.

2. After shaving my head for the first time and seeing my hair grow in with waves and coils, I decided that I liked my natural hair better.

3. Most women I saw with relaxed hair didn't have healthy, thick hair and I was tired of looking like them.

4. I wanted to get back the beautiful hair I used to have when my mom took care of my hair when I was a girl.

5. Getting relaxed every three or four weeks is expensive and there were times I was too broke to go to the salon all of the time.

6. Finding out that if I learned to press my hair correctly (learned this on these boards) and use the right products I could get the straight look whenever I wanted without the harsh chemicals.
 
1) Every time I relaxed I ended up with horrible split ends. The very last time I relaxed (April 8, 2009) I had extreme breakage and the left side of my hair started breaking off like crazy
2) I was horrified when I saw that soda can get eaten up by sodium hydroxide (the reason for that "burning" sensation in relaxers) in "Good Hair"
3) I've always wondered what my texture would be like
4) I don't want to continue that love-hate relationship I have with relaxed hair
 
Always hated relaxers (which were forced upon me). Once I took over my haircare @ 16, I cut the mess off and kept it moving. Never looked back. HATED HATED HATED the process, the look, the super straight hair, ugh. I felt, even at a young age that burning one's hair straight was just not right. I wasn't as culturally/politically/socially aware then as I am now, but my gut told me it was just wrong for us to do that to ourselves.

Needless to say, there's no chance in hell I'll ever willingly put a relaxer in my head lol
 
My hair hasn't liked chemicals for a LONG time, but I kept forcing the issue. When I went from relaxed to texlaxed and I was still having the same problems, I started transitioning. Had a recent mishap and now am completely natural. My hair is the healthiest and most moisturized it has ever been. NEVER going back!
 
I've never liked the idea of chemically straightening my hair and natural hair is so beautiful and versatile!
 
First time I went natural was to loc; the second time was because I missed my natural hair, it had become my preference.
 
I never knew I was chemically sensitive I had what I thought was lifetime problems. They where minor compared to the other health issues I have had in my life so I ignored it. One day I had a meeting with my now doctor/naturopath and he said to try not to relax my hair for 3 months and just see what happened. Well it worked, so I shaved my head and haven't looked back.
 
Well, my primary reason was that my stylist became preggers and had a "hormonal attitude"
Then I got really really sick, lost 20 pounds in 2 weeks developed dermatitis, arthritis/tendon pain and hives. none of the doctors knew what was wrong.... so I eliminated almost all of my hair regimes- dye, relaxer, product etc ( along with other chemicals) and somehow I got better:yep:
 
arosieworld said:
I never knew I was chemically sensitive I had what I thought was lifetime problems. They where minor compared to the other health issues I have had in my life so I ignored it. One day I had a meeting with my now doctor/naturopath and he said to try not to relax my hair for 3 months and just see what happened. Well it worked, so I shaved my head and haven't looked back.
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Thats so cool, you had a good Dr.
Mines just fed me pill after pill, and gave me NO answers or suggestions:wallbash:
My vegan cousin, whom my family thinks is nuts, gave me the best advice " go as natural as you can".
And I've been pain free for 8 months now.
 
Aviah said:
To the transitioners, naturals and those who want to be natural-
What are your reasons? I'll start:
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My reasons would be:

1) Over time my relaxed hair got thinner and thinner.

My natural hair is so much thicker natural than it was anytime I was relaxed ever.

2)In the summertime my hair could've been to the T and once I stepped out into the humidity it was a wrap. My cute lil' curls were gone.

Now when my shrinks and I have a cute ol' fro :)


3)Although it didn't happen often the chemical burns were CRUCIAL. I'm grateful that I will NEVER again have to experince one of those whether I scratched my scalp accidentally or not.

4)The smell of relaxers.
 
I BC in March, 2009 for many reasons - some good, some bad. Reasoning aside, I remain natural because I recall my mother speaking of my hair when I was a girl. She loved it. I want to see if the hype was real or just motherly admiration. :blush: I still cannot tell my texture (it seems to be 4a/b) but I will be able to tell by September of this year. *grow hair, grow hair!!!*

I am also starting to hear, "Hey, curly," from my husband. He is from a family of long-haired, hair snobs, :lachen::lachen:, so all of his compliments feel like heaven. He loves my hair and I cannot wait to have some more length so I can wear it down naturally.

Ultimately, I am curious...

cj
 
I have thought about it for years but, for whatever reason, didn't do it.

Recently I washed an elderly womans hair who, obviously, had never had a relaxer. Her hair was about apl stretched and was absolutely beautiful wet. The waves made me seasick and I knew then that I wouldn't relax again.

I also really, really want to put highlights in my hair again.

So excited about my transition.
 
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1. Natural hair is sooo beautiful and versatile!

2. I left my last relaxer on too long and had a tingling/burning feeling for two days...I know it was my own fault, but it scared me natural! lol

3. I've been envying naturals for too long...I want to experience it for myself.

4. Relaxers have contributed to my thinning crown and edges.

5. Now I can show my daughter just how beautiful her hair is, even though right now she hates my twa!
 
My hair was getting thinner and thinner and shorter and shorter... You could actually see through it:perplexed
I would let my natural hair grow out and get healthy and thick, just to put another relaxer in it.. and go through the same cycle... Had a moment and decided no more relaxer, I cut off all my hair and was natural for two years and just when my hair was begining to get thick, healthy and long..... Put another relaxer in it and it started to break Again!!!.:wallbash:

The only way to keep healthy hair on my head is to be natural:yep:... Relaxers dont agree with me
 
There are two things every black man knows the smell of... Pump It Up Spritz & a fresh relaxer... Going to the gym, I went from relaxed and cute, to Lady of Rage. :nono:

When I did stretch my relaxer, I loved playing in my NG.

The overall health of my hair while it was relaxed started to deteriorate as I became too busy to properly care for it. I figure, as a natural, I'll be able to wear more PS rather than always having a curling iron in my hair. Protective Styles= less maintenance; Less maintenance= :bouncegre:
 
I just got really tired about fighting with Mother nature.

I did not realize it when I first decided to go natural, but I couldn't reconcile anymore with the idea that there was something "wrong" with my natural hair texture that I needed to fix.

At the time I didn't make a conscious decision to go back to natural hair but rather to stop relaxing. I always HATED doing it, just thought I "had to".

I cut my hair to a twa before even knowing what a BC was. That was exactly a year ago (March 11th 2009).I thought: "I'll braid my hair and give it a rest for a while".

Then I decided to educate myself about hair care and found lhcf, natural hair care blogs, youtube tutorials etc.

The more I learned, the more I was convinced there was no turning back for me. Now I'm a 150% sure that's what I want.:grin:

Right now my hair is in braids, about SL(not full though )and still growing :yep:
 
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