If you weren't on this hair journey...?

Processed with an over-priced texturizer. Shiny, healthy, thick and bouncy some times, thin, lifeless and breaking at others, for unknown reasons. Average of shoulder length. Left completely in the hands of 1 of 3 hairdressers I rotated in the past 10 years.

With all the stuff we learn on this forum, I am not surprised that many women decide to go back to relaxers because they know where they effed up! LOL
 
Healthy shoulder length.

My hairdresser kept my hair at shoulder length. She taught me about bunning as a protective style, I DCed often, moisturized etc. however she trimmed/cut at every single visit keeping me at SL.
 
it would look good, not as "special" as it looks now but decent, except: I would keep buying the whole drugstore and visiting salons every 2 months, my hair would be forever shoulder length and I would need a big quantity of color rinses and hair serum in order to be satisfied.
 
relaxed and still a slave to the salon, being over processed and dealing with dryness and breakage
 
I'd be relaxed with a short hair cut to hide the severe breakage and doing blue black rinses to fake healthy hair. I'd probably have severe heat damage from hot curling and flat ironing every day as well...Glad those days are over lol

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Relaxed but still going through long transitions with braids or twists with extensions. Then relax and stay at SL forever :lol:
 
I was on a healthy hair journey before I found hair boards, so I can't really see myself not taking care of my hair. If I hadn't found LHCF I'd either still be locked, or I'd have loose natural hair and be maintaining around BSL or MBL. I definitely wouldn't be trying to grow to HL.

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...I would still be rocking my thin, damaged (from heat and chemicals), dry, breaking, uneven, scraggly NL hair...it was a mess. :nono: My hair type is 4b so it was easy for me to accept that the condition of my hair was "the best it could be." :ohwell:

I thank God for sites like this one, because now, I am on my way to W-HIP, maybe even HL.
 
Carrie A said:
I'd be going through the same cycle of grow out, damage, cut, repeat.
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thats me, normally i get 2 years of grow out b4 major damage. this may be the first time i ever get to year 3(besides when i was young and my mom cared for my hair)
 
Still relaxed, just doing my thing, but completely exasperated trying to find a stylist that didn't [bleep] up my hair. I think this hair journey was the natural conclusion. I don't think I would have continued that way. But if I hadn't found all this info and seen all this inspiration, I don' think I would have successfully transitioned.
 
I don't even want to imagine!!! A short back and sides! Because my ends and nape would have broken off from too much pulling. Short because I wouldn't have my extreme dryness under control and and thin because I would still be abusing my hair by sporting every hairstyle known to 'black woman'. Now can I wake up from that nightmare?! Lol!
 
my hair would look just like this! :grin::grin::grin:

Ugh this makes me miss my short cut....
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I'd have some peace and sleep at night... lol... Thinking about hair 24/7 is not safe at all... Oh, I'll have some money in the bank too... I'd be natural tho... I was a lil natural nazi before getting on these boards.... not that serious anymore.. lol
 
Great question. I have no idea. In braids, afraid to relax again? Probably shoulder length. Definitely not moisturized and with lots of split ends.
In other words, a mess.
 
I'd be natural. Probably still under a weave or a wig all the time. Or maybe a heat trained natural.
 
broken off relaxed, NL and probably hating it

now i have longer hair than i've ever had in my life and i still hate it

go figure
 
My hair would be bleached and stuck @ APL. I would be more concerned w/ curl definition than length. I had no idea how horrible w&g was for my hair.
 
If i wasnt bald i would definelty still have shoulder length over processed chewed up hair.
I would have never had the nerve to purchase half wigs
and i would probably be fire red by now.
and telling myself that by next year my hair will be longer... It never happened.
 
Wooooo! I've been dying to get back to my laptop to respond to this post. :lachen:

Oh, I know EXACTLY how my hair would be if I were not on this hair journey. *Clears throat*

My hair would be an overprocessed, overly flat ironed mess with dry brittle ends. The length would be no longer than SL and and I'd have it pulled back into a ponytail. Now, in my mind, my ponytail would be flowing down my back but if I look to the left or right, my so-called ponytail would be sticking straight out like a thin bunch of dry straw. And I'd be dustbusting my bathroom floor to clean up the ton of broken hairs laying around like the fallen pine needles under a dry Christmas tree.

Oh, and if my luxurious ponytail wasn't hanging, then it would be pinned up to the back of my head. Like why?? :perplexed

But hey. I have always had thick hair and my stylist could always get a shine out of it so, I never knew there was a problem. Duped! :nono:
 
"If I weren't on this hair journey...?" A Prettypithy original play.

ACT I

Roomate: Why do you leave so many little hairs by the sink?
Prettypithy: That's just what happens when I brush it. :rakes paddle brush through dry hair:
Roomate: Uhhh, are you sure that's supposed to happen?
Prettypithy: :shrugs: Well, I still have plenty of hair on my head so I'm not too worried about it!!:drunk:

***************************************************

ACT II

Friend: Prettypithy, did you get a hair cut?
Prettypithy: No, but everyone keeps asking me that! I wonder why?:spinning:

FIN:clap:
 
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