10 Months post!!!
I haven't used heat since December! Too scared of heat damage.
My hair is always in a protective style anyway so it doesn't matter since I don't wear straight styles.
@mimi0410
Girl, why ya making me do the math?erplexed So you were 34 months post when you bc'd in these pics?
Your hair looks so healthy and beautiful. Awesome job!
I never did a BC per se. I was 9months post my last texlax and decided I couldnt do it anymore so I weaved it up and I wore weaves (beginning May of 2010)the entire time. These photos are from April 2010, I had just had a good amount of the chemical cut out in these pics. Every other install I would cut a few inches off. Honestly I have been chemical free for at least a year. I was pregnant last year and did not want the stress of trying to deal w/hair. So I opted to keep the weave in, probably got a bit hooked on the weave 
. This was my second attempt at transitioning. The first attempt lasted 13months and I fell vicitim--I texlaxed. This time around I was determined to see it through, and for me weaving it up was the best way. I wore each weave for a max 10 weeks, upon taking each install down, my stylist would do a deep conditioning treatment as well as a steam treatment. As a I mentioned before she would cut a few inches off every other install.
) but I have come so far. I know I will regret it and I don;t want to waste 10 months+. 
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Thank goodness for this ticker and Instagram. I'm just ready to slap a relaxer in my hair (okay not really slap
I hate when I come across old pictures of my relaxed hair. Then the next time I look in the mirror, I'm like
I BC'ed today. Last relaxer was sometime in February or March:
My stylist took out my weave, cut the relaxed ends and installed the weave back. She and another client kept asking me if i was sure and saying how brave i was and i was like meh just cut it or ill do it myself. I was just over the relaxed ends. This is after my hair was air-dried with no product in.
not long enough to put in a ponytail but ample length to corn row.
daviine, I know what you mean, my relaxed/texlaxed hair at its prime was pretty nice and I miss it, but the way I see it that hair is gone and even if I relaxed now it wouldnt be the same head of hair anyway bc I had suffered some damage before transitioning, then I did a pretty major chop to get rid of thin ends, and even with optimal haircare there is going to be some demarcation line breakage....so even if I hypothetically did give in and relax or texlax, Im fairly certain I wouldnt be happy with the outcome lol. So I might as well ride it out and on the other side of the rainbow will be a head full of healthy, natural hair. Its the limbo period that is hard.Thank goodness for this ticker and Instagram. I'm just ready to slap a relaxer in my hair (okay not really slap
I hate when I come across old pictures of my relaxed hair. Then the next time I look in the mirror, I'm like
I took those mini braids out cause I just wan't feeling them. Put my hair into a high bun today, and am really feeling it, so I will just bun until I get more extensions put in.
They were really cute but the synthetic hair had my scalp itching and skin crawling at 4 a.m. Monday. I had to stay home and take them out. This was after washing the twists, dunking my hair/head in a bucket of ACV/water mix, doing a rinse, putting oil on my scalp, taking benadryll pills. I really tried yall. I know I probably wouldn't have had this problem if I had soaked the hair beforehand, but I'll just chalk this up to a lesson learned. I hadn't had this issue before, but maybe my scalp is more sensitive because I've been relaxer free since December and I'm more selective about what I put on my scalp nowadays.
shockolate said:
Thanks. Hopefully in the next few months ill be able to put it in a ponytail and ill be rocking my bun. When its much longer hopefully in the next year, i can wear twist outs and braid outs
