how old were u when u start doing your own hair???

[GodMadeMePretty]

I was in 7th grade. And you can really tell from the school pictures. I could not style for anything. All my relaxers and bi-weekly washes were at the salon, though, all through my high school years. I don't think I EVER washed my own hair. Talk about salon-dependent. Sheeesh. But my hair was extremely healthy and was always long UNTIL I wanted that jheri curl. I got that in 9th grade but by the time I was a senior, I had my relaxed hair back. I don't even remember transitioning. My hair always grew very quickly and it was back to shoulder length by my senior year. My head was always a jacked up mess, hence all my mom's relatives had a standing joke that my hair was never going to be done at our yearly reunions.

Always talking about my wearing my hair up in a clip or a ponytail even to work. They would sigh as though there was something wrong with me.

My daughter will remain natural and I'm going to teach her how to maintain her hair starting in a few years when she's about 8. I'll let her do some styles about once or twice a month just so she can get some practice in. I think I was very limited with styling because my mom kept combing my hair and never let me put my hands in it. Or maybe I'll just let her practice in my hair. She gets oh, so offended now when I undo it. She thinks she has done "da bomb" job on me.

 

[sassygirl125]

I was in the 10th grade. That's when I got my first relaxer, too.

 

[licutiexx]

I started at about 12 in the 6th grade and messed my hair up!

 

[vickiepickles]

I was 11 or 12 and I never used a curling iron until I got to college---this is when I really jacked my hair up. When I did it in Junior high and Senior High, I just let it air dry and did some funky braid patterns (way ahead of my time) and mostly wore bangs with a ponytail and hair coming down in the back. My hair was very healthy when I lived at home. After college it was all downhill!

 

[vickiepickles]

I was 11 or 12 and I never used a curling iron until I got to college---this is when I really jacked my hair up. When I did it in Junior high and Senior High, I just let it air dry and did some funky braid patterns (way ahead of my time) and mostly wore bangs with a ponytail and hair coming down in the back. My hair was very healthy when I lived at home. After college it was all downhill!

 

[jainygirl]

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jainygirl said:
i think i was about 10

mom got busy

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But i started doing my own relaxers at 15 or 16. i was doing no-lye kits at the time, but i eventually moved on to lye -- straight from the tub

once i got my method down it wasnt anything to it. -- jainygirl

 

[ChoclatePrincess]

I started doing my own hair in about 4th or 5th grade. I use to braid, hot comb and wash my own hair. I didn't use hot curlers back then there were the sponge rollers, you know the ones that left the print in your hair. I didn't get my first relaxer til I got out of 6th grade, the first time I went to the beauty parlor was high school. Whoa what a flash back!

 

[hotshot]

i was eleven, the year was 1992, the very same year my hair WENT TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET. i got a halle cut to deal with the enormous breakage inflicted. why didnt my friends and i use curling irons every day??? i think we were so excited to do our own hair we just had to do way to much, every day. why didnt i listen to my mother? age tweleve thirteen is when i started expirimenting with eggs and aloe as conditioners. by fifteen i was in braids for most of high school. i never really learned how to take care of permed hair properly.

 

[Babygurl]

I believe I was 11 or 12, biggest mistake I ever made in my life, Im jacked my hair ALL the way up. I did recover when I let my mom go back to doing it but even now that I m grown I do a pretty good job, just not as good as my mother

 

[alliyah4eva203]

10

and only recently within the last 2 years have i really learnt how to take care of my hair properly.

thats 7 years of maltreating my hair

 

[chocolate01]

I was 11 when i started doing my own hair, my mom went back to school so she didn't have time to comb my hair in the morning. She let me get a relaxer..big mistake I didn't know to properly take care of relaxed hair and my mom didn't have the time so by the time I was 13 I cut my hair and started over. Funny you think I would have learned something but im back relaxed and contemplating going natural again..for good this time.

 

[blue_flower]

I was 10.

 

[Guest]

I was around 13 or 14, then I was the school beautician, not to mention that I made boo coo money doing hair in college.

 

[Ebony]

12-13 years old.

 

[amwcah]

I think I was around 9. I remember making my own ponytails. By the time I reached highschool, my mother would not press my hair anymore. I tried to do it myself and burned the side of my hair out. My hair turned yellow from the hot comb at the nape of my hair and the rest of the hair after the comb stuck to the comb and detached from my head. I was soooooo mad. I had to cut the yellowish part out of my hair.

 

[blazingthru]

I was 9, I did not want my mother or my sister combing my hair it hurt to much. I had a lot of hair then. I was horrible, I did not know what to do with it so whatever I could find that would comb it I would use. A fork and some string and I was good to go to school. I did this for years until one day there was no more hair on my head. I was so bald I just had to brush my hair with a part on the side and wear it like that until I was 14 years. Then my aunt taught me how to do my hair and it started to grow thick and beautiful. Then I got a perm, it was downhill all the way.

 

[nomoweavesfome]

I was 13. I remember because I hated my jherri curl. I was trying to make it look more like a natural curl.

 

[Dearlove]

This thread brings back memories!!

I was about 12 when I started doing my own hair. My mom used to "pull out the ends" with the hot comb. I used to do two ponytails with bangs most of the time. My great grandmother had a stove curling iron that was very small, maybe 1/2 inch. I wanted my bangs to be banging, so I put the iron on the stove until it was glowing red hot. Then I curled my right bang. You know the bang fell off in my hand -- the heat burned it right off my head!!

 

[The Girl]

I think 14 or 15