My decision to go natural was not at all deep, in fact it wasn't even really a concious decision. I'd always worn micro braids alot - after a horrendous over-processing that broke my hair off badly, i just stopped relaxing in between. My mom has been natural for most of her life so i knew having a relaxer was not a necessity. I would get press & curls (no dc'ing, proper moisturizing, etc) and my hair would still thin and break. I'd literally just resolved to wearing sew in weaves for the rest of my life when i found lhcf, and of course, a whole new world of hair care opened up.
. Well anyway, it's hard to mainatin hair that is soaking wet like that in a straight style so I would just keep my hair weaved up or in a half wig. But here's the thing I would take my hair down in like four months and relax it, but still couldn't wear my hair down for the reasons mentioned above. So I just stopped relaxing. But here's the real silly part, this is the third and LAST time I'm doing this. I would go natural because of the working out issue. This would last like 2 years, get tired cause I wanna wear my own hair straight and my hair would only last ONE day cause of the gym. I would convincemyself ok, if you relax then you can wear your hair straight but alas the same thing would happen. I would grow my hair to BSL in two years relax, then cut. BUT this TIME I won't be relaxing again. I think I learned my lesson
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