***MY 2 YEAR 8 MONTH TRANSITION IS OFFICIALLY OVER! I BIG CHOPPED!!! picture heavy***

[Nerd.]

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THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!! wow.
I am terribly overwhelmed by all of your kind words and comments!! My goodness..I have never received so much positive and heartfelt feedback from my hair in my entire life. It has touched me in so many ways, thank you all!

*throws confetti* Congratulations!!! I enjoyed reading your story. Looking forward to seeing more of your progress.

Keep shining young lady, have fun and enjoy your natural hair!!!

@septemberbaby This actually made me teary. Thank you!

Wow! Your hair looks great and your curls....ahhhh I'm jealous! I've been transitioning now for a little more than a year...and am going to wait until at least 2 years to start thinking about big chopping. Did you find your relaxed ends became really thin towards the end or were you able to retain most of them?

tarheelgurl Thank you!
Once my newgrowth started taking up 50% of my head, my relaxed ends literally started to surrender themselves. I did do a mini chop in September 2011, but at that point I only had 3 or so inches of relaxed ends left. All throughout my transition my relaxed ends started to break and thin out no matter how much I babied them.
It really sucked, mainly because I wasn't ready to lose too much length. Then I thought to myself, "the entire point of transitioning is to get rid of my relaxed hair" So if my ends wanted to peace-out, fine. This mentality helped me a lot.

@Nerd.

I love your transitioning hair! How were you able to blend the relaxed ends so well with the natural hair in that twist out?

@ezina Thank You, my ends really had the potential to ruin a twistout!:

So I would pin curl the ends, and hold them with a clip like this

:luv2:

 

[Nerd.]

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what was your transitioning regi??

MsDee14 For the first yea and a half, I survived off of bananaclip ponytails and buns:

It truly was all about trial and error, mostly error. For the longest time I had to treat my hair like it was all entirely relaxed (roller setting, using products that my relaxed hair liked...etc). However, as I started to get more newgrowth I could experiment with things like twistout and braidout ponytails, and also play around with natural techniques.

I tried so many things during my transition, I really cannot give one thing all the credit. But one thing I stuck to was low manipulation. If I styled my hair on Sunday I was literally not fooling around with it again until Saturday. I washed or co washed AT LEAST every week and a half. I wasn't using a leave-in, but was leaving conditioner in my hair as a leave-in.

It wasn't until I hit 2 years into my transition where I started doing twistouts (sans the ponytail). I was really nervous, I didnt think it looked good. You could tell I was an amateur and my technique wasn't quite down, however, I knew I wanted to be natural and wear these styles. So even when I knew it looked a mess I wore my hair proudly.

 

[caribeandiva]

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Congrats on your bc! It's about time. I only lasted 4 months into my transition before I said *** it and cut it all off.

btw you have the same birthday as my brother. He turned 18 yesterday.

 

[lamaria211]

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Love ur curls!!!

 

[tdillz]

Congrats on ur big chop! You look great!!!!

 

[grownwomanaz]

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Very nice. You did well grasshopper. I went the long transition route as well.

 

[Seamonster]

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:borgsmile welcome to the natural side
What an exciting journey

 

[Stormy]

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Wow! You really stuck through that journey. I really like your hair natural. Congrats and Happy Belated Birthday!!!

 

[Supergirl]

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Oh honey, you have beautiful hair!

 

[halee_J]

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Your hair is so pretty!:lovedrool: congrats on the BC and getting through that long transition, I'm trying to make 3 years myself.

 

[Platinum]

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Congratulations! Very pretty!

 

[Rocky91]

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Congrats! Your hair is very very pretty!

 

[cutenss]

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That sounds like it was a AWESOME birthday Beautiful hair

 

[greenandchic]

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Congratulations! Beautiful hair.

 

[Aggie]

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Your curls are so cute and well defined. Congrats!

 

[PureSilver]

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Your progress is very Inspiration and beautiful. Congrats on your magnificent journey.

 

[NYDee]

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Very beautiful hair. How many inches did you retain?

 

[Xavier]

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You did such a good job. Your hair is beautiful!

 

[cupcakes]

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I love your hair, Im transitioning long term and I have the same hair type.It has been a struggle so far. Thanks for the inspiration

 

[SingBrina]

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Awww now i am excited to get the rest of this relaxer out of my hair!!

 

[TracyNicole]

Congrats! Your natural hair looks so lush and is really beautiful.

 

[january noir]

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Beautiful! I love your texture! I"m newly natural. I can't wait until my hair achieves length!

 

[Angel of the North]

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congratulations, your hair is gorgeous