What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the time?

[MilkChocolateOne]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

Relaxers aren't the only option to obtain straight hair. Heat is less damaging to my hair than a relaxer. People wore press and curls for decades before relaxers became mainstream. It seems more people had healthier/thicker/longer hair was in the past with press and curls. Some people (like myself) still had to use some form of heat as a relaxed head so why not eliminate the chemicals.

 

[PinkSunshine77]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

Not all white people's hair is bone straight either.

I never stated that.

 

[bajandoc86]

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[Poohbear]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

I guess that would depend on your opinion on excessive. If you're natural, any chemical should be deemed "excessive" including BKTS (JMHO)

for me excessive chemicals would be using a relaxer every 3 and 4 weeks. Heck to me even every 6-8 weeks is too often.

You're the one who asked if excessive heat is better. Why do you consider a natural haired woman who uses heat 99% of the time as excessive? "Excessive" is a relative term. To me, excessive heat is blowdrying and flat ironing or pressing your hair every day or very frequently each week. Once a month isn't excessive to me.

And where did BKT come from? Aren't you talking about heat natural vs relaxed? Or is this a heat & BKT natural vs relaxed thread? Me personally, I don't care about BKT and have no interest in getting one. I'll just use heat to straighten my natural hair.

 

[PinkSunshine77]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

You're the one who asked if excessive heat is better. Why do you consider a natural haired woman who uses heat 99% of the time as excessive? "Excessive" is a relative term. To me, excessive heat is blowdrying and flat ironing or pressing your hair every day or very frequently each week. Once a month isn't excessive to me.

And where did BKT come from? Aren't you talking about heat natural vs relaxed? Or is this a heat & BKT natural vs relaxed thread? Me personally, I don't care about BKT and have no interest in getting one. I'll just use heat to straighten my natural hair.

I didn't say ALL. You're putting words that I didn't write. Anyhow. I'm done with you and this post.


Lock it up . I'm not responding after this. Frankly most of you ladies lack the ability to be respectful and debate.

 

[**SaSSy**]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

Because they prefer to use no chemicals to straighten their hair which is healthier long term than relaxers.

 

[Kerryann]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

lmao this is a good one where is the popcorn gif

 

[KurlyNinja]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

I can't speak for anybody except myself, but my hair actually gets straighter now then it did when I was relaxed. It probably also had something to do with how I was taking care of my hair before, but that just gives me an even better reason to stay natural. Because I do not know how to take care of relaxed hair, but my natural hair is thriving.

So if I ever did wish to keep my hair in a straight style most of the time, I would still not go back to relaxing. The chemicals cause havoc on my scalp anyway. And I've gotten down the technique to get a silky straight press anytime I feel like it. Relaxers have become irrelevant to me. I can get what I want without all the chemicals.

 

[bajandoc86]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

I didn't say ALL. You're putting words that I didn't write. Anyhow. I'm done with you and this post.


Lock it up . I'm not responding after this. Frankly most of you ladies lack the ability to be respectful and debate.

Really tho? erplexed The responses you have garnered in this thread have been straight forward AND respectful for the most part. So to say MOST of the ladies here lack that ability is quite offensive.

 

[AFashionSlave]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

PinkSunshine77

I just saw your post to close this thread. You've been on this board since March 2011, so you know what goes on here. I don't think that anyone here is being nasty to you.

It's a normal practice for the ladies on LHCF to redirect you to a thread that is already open about the topic.

It's normal for the ladies on LHCF tell you that you are beating a dead horse. Heck, they even have an emoji for this specific thing. LOL! It's the nature of this message board.

What kind of responses were you expecting exactly?

 

[Philippians413]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

I didn't say ALL. You're putting words that I didn't write. Anyhow. I'm done with you and this post.


Lock it up . I'm not responding after this. Frankly most of you ladies lack the ability to be respectful and debate.

I didn't know this was a debate. I thought you wanted an answer to your question (and you were given several).

 

[MissMasala5]

I didn't say ALL. You're putting words that I didn't write. Anyhow. I'm done with you and this post.

Lock it up . I'm not responding after this. Frankly most of you ladies lack the ability to be respectful and debate.

No. This thread didn't elicit the responses that you wanted. Plain and simple.

 

[Poohbear]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

I didn't say ALL. You're putting words that I didn't write. Anyhow. I'm done with you and this post.


Lock it up . I'm not responding after this. Frankly most of you ladies lack the ability to be respectful and debate.

In the post you quoted of mine, I didn't say you said ALL about anything either. And I do not lack the ability to be respectful. How am I being disrespectful? Why are you so offended?

Well how about this....

Just keep relaxing your hair and stop worrying about what naturals do then if you can't handle others responses.

 

[faithVA]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

It's so early And it's not even Sunday. And least I didnt' miss it this time.

 

[bajandoc86]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

AFashionSlave She expected high fives and yea girl! Anything else is 'lack of ability to respectfully debate', when clearly, debate was NOT even the aim of this thread.

 

[EssenceOfBeauty]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

What is going on here?
*Glances left, then right and then left again*
But...

 

[AFashionSlave]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

AFashionSlave She expected high fives and yea girl! Anything else is 'lack of ability to respectfully debate', when clearly, debate was NOT even the aim of this thread.

Ahhh....OK...but it's a message board?
Holy crap! She lives in Brooklyn! I've never met a sensitive person from NYC. Hell, I'm from Carol City and the last time I was in Brooklyn I got my feelings hurt several times. LOL! I guess I need to get out more and stop believing stereotypes. (shrugs)

 

[BadMamaJama]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti



Kumbaya, ladies, kumbaya!

 

[30something]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

Why be relaxed when you can straighten your natural hair %99 of the time. It works both ways, it is all about preference and what is best for your hair health and life style.

 

[LadyPBC]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

When I went natural the intent was to get my hair straightened. As I became more enlightened I also became a little paranoid and decided against heat. I have tightly coily hair so it won't necessarily remain straight after a good press without lots of product on top to weigh it down. I try to do it on my own but I fail miserably. No worries though because I spend a good amount of time working out so it would not make sense to try to straighten my hair anyway with the way I perspire.

 

[Skiggle]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

Chile... *I always wanted to write that*

 

[Whimsy]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

I was ready to agree until you said "relax heads don't have that option" OH really? LOL twist outs, braidsouts, bantu knot outs, french braids, cornrows, we have plenty of options if we chose to have big hair. I'm not into big hair. I think it looks awful on me and I don't feel that style suits me at all. Besides, even relaxed my hair is NOT bone straight and is nothing like "white people's hair".

A relaxed twistout/braidout/knotout etc will never be a fro, or a big fluffy naturally curlykinky look. It will look like relaxed hair that's been braided twisted or knotted.

As for the white people's hair comment....methinks there's some trolling afoot... but if you were actually serious with the comment... who mentioned white people's hair but you?

Let's see, if you keep your hair straight 99% or every day out of a month and you weren't born in Asia, or India, most likely you're using heat on the regular to keep it that way.

::sigh::
Using heat regularly and using excessive heat are two different things.

Just curious, how old are you?

 

[BostonMaria]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

For me its just easier to keep it straight. My hair is very long and I don't always have time to wash it every morning and style it. Plus it shrinks from almost tailbone up to my damn ears LOL

I used to be militant about my hair. Now I really don't care and just do what makes me happy. I care even less what other people are doing to their natural hair.

 

[nappystorm]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

Because it's mine.

I'm feeling snarky today

 

[Whimsy]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

For me its just easier to keep it straight. My hair is very long and I don't always have time to wash it every morning and style it. Plus it shrinks from almost tailbone up to my damn ears LOL

I used to be militant about my hair. Now I really don't care and just do what makes me happy. I care even less what other people are doing to their natural hair.

where's the drooly smiley?

 

[BostonMaria]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

where's the drooly smiley?

Ahaha You were tailbone length once and then you cut it all off. I cried for weeks


ETA: Ooops OP didn't ask us why we don't relax

 

[Poohbear]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

where's the drooly smiley?

 

[H0tPinkButtafly]

how do you know the heat is excessive?

U don't always have to use heat to get ur hair straight. Rollersets can be done to get hair straight

 

[empressri]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

Ahhh....OK...but it's a message board?
Holy crap! She lives in Brooklyn! I've never met a sensitive person from NYC. Hell, I'm from Carol City and the last time I was in Brooklyn I got my feelings hurt several times. LOL! I guess I need to get out more and stop believing stereotypes. (shrugs)

Live in and from are two different things, not that I know but just saying...

 

[KurlyNinja]

Re: What is the point of being natural if you prefer your hair straight 99% of the ti

No reason for the "whats so hard about that". You can answer the question or if this post annoys,bothers you, you could've very easily not answered it and ignored it. I don't think I was rude, just stating a question. If the question offended you, you could've bypassed the post. What's so hard about that?

Had to go back and find out when this thread started going down hill. We couldn't even get off the first page.