10 months was my usual stretch. I was on a weird schedule because I would relax in April and then again in June (if I had a lot of ng) but I wouldn't relax from June until April again. Been on this schedule since I was little. As of this year the only difference I made was cutting out the July relaxer and only relaxing once a year. I always hated relaxing my hair and when I didn't my hair would be a lot thicker and have the volume that I liked to have with my rollersets. I would always wear my hair down and would blow out it or flat iron from about 1996-2003. In 2003 I mastered the rollerset and didn't have a blowdryer or flatiron so I would just rollerset it and then wrap it tight to take out the waves. I always wore a lot of wash n go's cuz my hair was texlaxed about 30-40% and I loved curly hair.