All this talk about naturals relaxing is tempting…..

[JudithO]

^^Agreed!!!

 

[BEAUTYU2U]

@BEAUTYU2U, you're so uninterested that you even deleted the subject before responding^^. (I don't know if that were deliberate but it gave me hearty laugh to see that ahem "demonstration" of how you really feel.)

Lmao, I didn't even notice that. I wish I was so clever. But yes, I'm that disinterested.

 

[Southern Belle]

I know I have said I would never go back to a relaxer. You could not pay me to because of the chemicals and the careless stylist. I seriously would not want to deal with that again. The thing is that since I’ve been natural I rarely wear my hair out. My hair is usually braided or in a weave. Right now it is braided because I don’t have time to do it due to my schedule. My texture is 4b and though I love my natural hair I just don’t have the patience to deal with it half the time so I hide it. When I was relaxed I never wore weave and rarely wore braids. All the anti relaxer talk I do I know many will give me the side eye if I do relax.

Not sure what I will do but is it is just me or are others feeling the temptation?

This thread came right on time. No you aren't alone. The only thing that gives me pause is that I know I'll regret it.

I have no desire to have relaxed hair, but I hate, hate, HATE not being able to see my length. erplexed

But then I'll see a post from my hair idol, mwedzi , and it'll give me the strength to hang in there, because it shows me that with a little patience and stick-to-it, I can have BOTH.

 

[mzteaze]

I think I feel most tempted to relax when I feel like I want to see my length. I have tight, small coils so my hair still appears to be ear length when in fact it is APL. This my cue to change up styles and try something else. While I doubt I will relax again, I won't completely rule it out. I am close to 8 years natural, if not longer.

 

[AtlantaJJ]

@greight, what length is this? I don't do twist-outs. Just have never been a fan coz I like small twist-outs anyway, and if I did them, I'd have to retwist all those many twists at night because going to bed with loose hair is an unforgivable sin in my book. With my find strands, big twist-outs would need some work to be acceptable to *me*. I do love afro puffs though. I'd rock any of these styles (I apologize in advance for anyone whose photos I'm borrowing for this. I'll be happy to take down any that anyone knows the owner would not appreciate being used.)

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This is not really an "out" style but hey, it's no different from having a French braid which takes a minute to do:

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IMO, the longer the hair is, the easier to stretch it is and the more you can do with it.

I think WNGs are not Type 4B hair friendly...so I'm not sure why people who find they cause SSKs, tangles, knots continue to fuss with them when there are so many other option. 4B hair is so versatile and so obedient. Once you stretch it and as long as you avoid using wet products, it stays stretched and if you braid it every night, it will remain obedient and easy to style in the AM. Granted if you're caught in the rain in a stretched style, You will have to carefully braid in while wet and let it airdry to get it back to a state where it's easy to whip into style again...or you could just decide to wear it shrunken for a day and then wear twists of braids for a day (Check out the Ballerina Bun Remix thread and see what Sipp100 did to her daughter's hair. Maybe you won't have it looking like that but two French braids to stretch it then maybe redo them again to further stretch it and in a day or so you have hair that can be worked into some cute updo.

I didn't include braid-outs or twist-outs because you already do that. But c'mon, are those the ONLY things our hair is capable of?

Curlformers?

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I ran across this thread and this post while researching Curlformers on Google. This is a great thread!!