Naturals that were once relaxed post up your pics of your relaxed days!

[DozenRoses99]

Thanks for sharing your pics! A lot of the relaxed pics look just as good as the natural pics.

 

[SignatureBeauty]

BlackBarbie your hair is beautiful! I love your hair, it is very thick and I love the color, is it your natural color?

 

[lbellin]

I don't have any pics of my final length before transitioning, but here are the ones two years before my transition.

Here is me a month and twenty days later.

 

[SignatureBeauty]

lbellin your hair was beautiful!!!! so shiny and black!

 

[O-ren]

Oh my goodness, Ibellin and Blackbarbie! Your hair was/is stunning! Seriously.

 

[MsLizziA]

Oh my goodness, Ibellin and Blackbarbie! Your hair was/is stunning! Seriously.

+1 I totally agree.

 

[RockCreak]

Well.... I'm newly natural again... so here's a couple of pics prior to BC:

These pics are from 2008, but I maintained my hair at this length...

My siggy is the new me!

 

[blackbarbie]

BlackBarbie your hair is beautiful! I love your hair, it is very thick and I love the color, is it your natural color?

Thank you!
My normal hair color is dark brown but for the past 6 years, I have gotten highlights. I would usually get a few shades at one time, including light caramel, blonde and copper. I would only get them once a year though; I never kept/keep them up. (on purpose)

I think I have had my last go round with highlights though because I don't like how it makes my natural hair feel. I wish I could find another alternative that would still deposit this type of color though.

BB

 

[MsLizziA]

bump bump ...

 

[silenttullip]

okay why do I now have the urge to slap on a botanical lol. but anyway let me try and post this pic

 

[EbbonyTx]

Ok BB that's it.....I've had it with you! I'm either transitioning or BCing! You are my official hair goal inspiration...my muse...I want to write poetry solely for that mane of yours LOL!

 

[lilsparkle825]

i only remember my relaxed hair being healthy ONE time, and that was my senior year of HS. i was relaxed in middle school, after months of begging my mom for a Just for Me, and transitioned my 3rd year of college.

this is what i considered the "ultimate" in healthy hair...lmao oh boy, how confused i was

a few months later in college, i decided to cut...a month later i started getting professional color, then it got "too expensive" and i got box color (and damaged hair)

this is about a month after i took out the weave that took away all my progress and led to the cut that began my transition. i got great growth from it, but hadn't washed or moisturized my hair for 2 months. (EWWWW!) detangling took me from SL to NL. i was about 4 months post here.

11 months post right after a mini-chop, so a month before my BC. i thought i was doin somethin with those see-thru ends.

a few days before BCing...eww it was so dry and chewed up

 

[janeemat]

You ladies are just making me sick. I want long thick natural hair too.

 

[Barbie83]

^^I know right

 

[likewtr4chklit]

OMG! You Now look at least 10 years Younger with your hair Natural! Looks good though!

Awwww thank you very much!

 

[MsLizziA]

I know they have more natural on here. Post up!

 

[jazii]

Oh my goodness, Ibellin and Blackbarbie! Your hair was/is stunning! Seriously.

I agree ;-)

 

[ThePerfectScore]

And this was my hair on a good day.....

 

[Lynnerie]

Here's a few pics of when I was relaxed. Sometimes I miss being relaxed but not enough to go back. The last 2 are natural pics.

 

[MsLizziA]

Here's a few pics of when I was relaxed. Sometimes I miss being relaxed but not enough to go back. The last 2 are natural pics.

Girl you on point either way!

 

[shinyblackhair]

Here are a couple of me with relaxed hair. I miss it...don't judge me!

 

[cottoncoily]

The first photo is me relaxed 2 months before the BC in April 2008
The second is after my BC- June 2008

 

[wavezncurlz]

Oh my goodness, Ibellin and Blackbarbie! Your hair was/is stunning! Seriously.

+2

My relaxed pics are so old, I have to get a scanner and go through some old photo albums. You guys are so lucky to have kept journals of your natural journey.

 

[wofford16]

Girl...You are working it in this pic. I your style.

 

[Taleah2009]

OMG your hair Soo pretty! And I love your natural hair too!

 

[Solitude]

Gorgeous hair, ladies!!!! Bumping!

 

[Victorian]

Pics from college days. I was a John Frieda Frizz Ease and Frizz Ease Relax line JUNKIE in those days That daily moisturizer from the Relax line was really great, though. I was so sad when they discontinued those products! I still have a bottle of the blow dry cream at my parents house -- can't bring myself to throw it away. When I go home I just sniff it a little and remember the good times, then put it back in the drawer

1. From junior year, a few months after I found RHC and LHCF
2. Freshman year, with a fairly fresh relaxer and cut
3. sophomore year, around thanksgiving
4. sophomore year, near the end of the school year

My relaxed hair was soooo flat all the time. Relaxers just work a little TOO much on my hair because it is so fine -- so glad to have volume now!

 

[Distorted Barbie]

here are my contributions....
one is a couple of yrs ago
two is last year when i cut it into a bob

 

[nikki5852]

Here's my pics. Relaxed hair pics are from high school. My hair never made it past shoulder length until I started to transition. Since big chopping I don't think I've ever had the desire to relax again, I've wanted to wear my har straight hair but definitely not relax it.

Relaxed Hair:


Transitioning Hair:


Natural Hair: (disregard the fact that i need my eyebrows done in these pics lol)

 

[MsLizziA]

reviving this thread!