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I finally fell in love with my hair when....

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I fell in love with my hair when

  • I reached my goal length

    Votes: 8 6.3%

  • I let it do what it do

    Votes: 37 28.9%

  • I played with it enough to realize what it could do

    Votes: 40 31.3%

  • We still have a love/hate relationship...we're working on it

    Votes: 64 50.0%
  • Total voters
    128
It was nice to hear these stories ladies...I fell in love with my hair when I started working again and didn't have time to mess with it all the time and I just had to let it do what it do and what it do is WAY better than what I did! This is something to look back on when we have those "I just want to shave it off" feeling days.
 
I chose when I played with it long enough.

I guess when I was natural I had a love/hate relationship.

Now that I am texlaxed, I don't love my hair -I have a deep appreciation and respect for my hair.

I have learned its strengths and weaknesses.

I like to wear my hair straight and love to wear it bushy. I don't feel married to either style or texture.

It's now a deep respect. I love the relationship I have with my hair.
 
I don't think I am in love with my hair. I just suffered yet ANOTHER setback where my hair matted up and I had to rip through it to get it untangled. Maybe I should just go natural.
 
Like any relationship, my hair and I have had our ups and downs. I used to (being the woman that I am) try to change my hair. And as we all know, you can't be in a relationship trying to change the other person (or hair, in my case). So, I got frustrated when my hair didn't want to change for me. I wanted it to be straight and silky, but my hair said, "no way.". So, I flatironed it, got Dominican blowouts, and left my relaxer on until it burned. OUCH! I guess I was trying to punish my hair.

Then I found LHCF...that's when I fell in love with my hair. I realized that despite my punishment, my hair never left me. It didn't change, but it never left me. It continued to grow, and do it's thing. So, now I let it. If it's not in a bun...it's wild and big. I do braidouts on wet hair, and by the time it dries...it's huge. I do rollersets, and I let my curls reign free. And that's ok. Because that's my hair. And while somedays I don't like it, I'll always love it.
 
GABeauty said:
Like any relationship, my hair and I have had our ups and downs. I used to (being the woman that I am) try to change my hair. And as we all know, you can't be in a relationship trying to change the other person (or hair, in my case). So, I got frustrated when my hair didn't want to change for me. I wanted it to be straight and silky, but my hair said, "no way.". So, I flatironed it, got Dominican blowouts, and left my relaxer on until it burned. OUCH! I guess I was trying to punish my hair.

Then I found LHCF...that's when I fell in love with my hair. I realized that despite my punishment, my hair never left me. It didn't change, but it never left me. It continued to grow, and do it's thing. So, now I let it. If it's not in a bun...it's wild and big. I do braidouts on wet hair, and by the time it dries...it's huge. I do rollersets, and I let my curls reign free. And that's ok. Because that's my hair. And while somedays I don't like it, I'll always love it.
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YOU GO GIRL!!!
 
Miamori said:
Honestly, I'm ashamed to admit I think I have been vain since I was in the womb. :look: I think I have always loved my hair because people around me (relatives and some friends) groomed me to do so.
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Miamori, are u feeling better? I prayed for you last night!!! Hope so!
 
I fell in love with hip hop when.... oops! :lachen:

I finally fell in love with my hair when I finally began to take a deeper look at myself as a young black woman.

When I decided to embrace and love myself and then ask, "why do I continue to put relaxers in my hair when I crave that soft afro that I see other sistahs rock?"

Is it to be "socially acceptable" or was it because it's so "unmanageable" that it needed to be "lyed to and straightened out"

Well, One day I decided to find out what "my-napptural-me" looked and felt like, so I decided to do the "Big Chop" and I've never felt more free! I could walk in the rain and the wind and not worry about whether my "do" was messed up.

One thing I realized my hair is a symbol that identifies my race, it did not matter whether my hair was relaxed or natural with short or long hair. What mattered was whether I was proud of being me, a beautiful black woman.

Yes! yes! yes! I am in love with my hair, kinky, knotty, straight, relaxed, twa, braids, and all, because God gave it to me!!
 
I finally learned to care for it and realised it just needed and wanted to be cared for. We've been having a GREAT relationship ever since:yep:!
 
Miamori said:
Honestly, I'm ashamed to admit I think I have been vain since I was in the womb. :look: I think I have always loved my hair because people around me (relatives and some friends) groomed me to do so.
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AMEN~ AMEN~ And the longer it gets the more in love I am.:yep:
 
i voted love/hate! i love my hair when its freshly relaxed:lick: but i hate it when it reaches 12+ weeks post and the previously underprocessed parts swell and become tangled and matted along with the inch and a half of newgrowth:wallbash: Altho ive found the right products im still working on the right hair techniques for under-laxed tangly hair.....
 
Love hate relationship -- my edges are too thin, won't grow. Not giving up thou, I'll just continue doing what I'm doing and hopefully it works itself out...
 
ever since i stopped searching for the perfect product and just let my hair go naked ive fallen soooo deeply in love with my own natural hair
 
I fell in love with my natural hair two weeks ago when I started doing two-strand twist. I am in love with my natural now. My twist are shiny, soft and moisturized, I love my natural hair.
 
I am still learning with my hair. But I was so in love when I reached my 1st goal of SL after cutting it to EL. I love it more and more everyday (really on relaxer days b/c I am able to see my progress)
 
Yesterday when I got a blow out and wlked out of the salon. I thought it was the same length, but when I got home I saw that it was longer than I thought. When I got to work today everyone said how much they liked it. I know it will get thicker as more of my natural hair comes through.
 
I fell in love with my hair when I was 8 and would twirl it all day. I'm now 37 and still twirl my hair LOL

I've always loved my hair. I feel blessed to have natural hair again. As it grows longer the more I enjoy it.
 
I voted that we still have a love-hate relationship.

My hair loves being put in flexi rods after a steam treatment and left that way for 2 weeks.
 
i loved my hair til i went to college and had to do my hair myself (my hair was done by my sis) so while i have been diy-ing and discovering lhcf it became a love hate relationship ive just flatironed my hair for the 3rd time in its life (all done by me) and it finally came out pretty good im loving it..overall i love this head of hair so much if i had a good hairdresser i would love it all the time
 
when i realized my hair's on my side and not against me. I work with it not against it. I no longer try to relax my hair stick straight because it obviously doesn't want to do that. I can't wait to have enough hair to BC cause i might not wear my hair straight for a long time.
 
Now that I am pregnant with my second child. For the first time since my natural journey it is thick, soft (mostly, if I keep on top of it) and looks/feels healthy. I'm just praying this is a permenant turnaround and not just due to hormones and vitamins, LOL!!
After I give birth I'll be doing my utmost to retain, maintain and improve upon its current state.
 
....when I reach full BSL :grin:

I was IN LOVE with my hair before LHCF, I don't know what's up now :ohwell: Maybe it's all these MBL/WSL havin women that makes my barely gracing BSL hair insecure :sad:
 
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OK, 'LOVE' is a bit of a strong word when it comes to my hair right about now, but for the first time I really liked my hair last weekend when I got a fresh relaxer after 10 months, a saran wrap, trim and flat iron.
I came out of that hairdressers and my hair was swingin' like no ones business and blowing in the wind. Even after all of that movement, my hair still fell back into place!...
Maybe when I reach BSL and have thicker hair, I will BEGIN to fall in love with it.
 
vestaluv1 said:
OK, 'LOVE' is a bit of a strong word when it comes to my hair right about now, but for the first time I really liked my hair last weekend when I got a fresh relaxer after 10 months, a saran wrap, trim and flat iron.
I came out of that hairdressers and my hair was swingin' like no ones business and blowing in the wind. Even after all of that movement, my hair still fell back into place!...
Maybe when I reach BSL and have thicker hair, I will BEGIN to fall in love with it.
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ur hair is very pretty in your siggy! :yep:
 
I fell in love with my hair once i became about 85% Natural. Now that I am 100% its a love affair.

I do admit I haven't taken as much care of it as I used to in the past couple of months, but I have renewed my vows and its on!
 
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