Naturals: Was your hair type what you expected?

ScandalousBeauty

ScandalousBeauty

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Hey Naturals and Transitioners!

I have been getting used to my hair type over the last 5 days or so, since I have been braided during my entire transition period. I assumed that I would have 4b hair, which I basically do. But I have found little ringlets/coils all throughout my hair! Isn't this a 4a characteristic? I was shocked to find them, shoot I wish they were all over!

The question is, after you decided against relaxing or texturizing, was your hair type what you thought it would be???
 
i just assumed my hair was 4b too, because my new growth always came out looking wiggly and zig-zaggy. i didn't realize that this was scab hair. once an inch or so of that grew out, my true texture came out.

i'm speaking generally of course... my hair is predominately 4a. i have some 4b and 3c mixed up in there too. and those random straight hairs from time to time... :eek:

kinda mad though, since i thought i'd be rocking twists most of the time and my hair won't hold twists for nothin... :lol:
 
Hi LilChocolateMa - Congrats on your transition!:)

You may discover that your hair is combo of 4a/4b, but your coils/ringlets are seperated due to styling - you could be combing/brushing out your curls.

try aridrying your hair - without too handling - to see how your hair texture reacts.

Good luck! :)
 
Not at all. I'm 3c/4a and have some crazy (but gorgeous) curls and spirals going on. I absolutely love my hair. After I BCd (transitioned for about 10 months) I could type my hair much better.
 
Girl I thought my hair was going to come out looking like Joan off girlfriends...

We are all mixed with something, but I must be mixed with African and African because my hair texture is straight up 4a/b....and on. My new growth was always so soft that it deceived me into thinking my curl pattern would be a lot more loose than it was...what a joke! (lol)

But I have grown to love my natural texture. It just took a reality check from all hair appliances such as the COMB, Blowdryer and don't even say rattail comb within hearing distance of my hair.
 
For the most part I knew I had an abundance of 3c and 4a hair. During my relaxed days, the hairdressers I went to always looked at my new growth and told me how curly and wavy it was. Since I was notorious for stretching my relaxers, the comments came rolling in more because my new growth was so obvious. Fortunately none of them were negative and I had a few who were in awe of my new growth and loved to massage it.

I do have some 4b hair in the very front but it wasn't obvious until I totally gave up chemicals. Overall I enjoy the mix of hair textures and wish I would've stayed natural the first time I went natural.
 
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I had no idea what type my hair was. I just knew I wanted a fro. Unfortunately that wasn't quite possible unless I teased it up something awful. Anyways, I discovered a whole variety of textures on my head and loved em all.
 
i was a little schocked its curly in the front and froish in the back i was not expecting it to be different textures but i love it what ever it is LOL
 
It was more loosely curled than I expected, and less frizzy.

Because when I was a child the curls were always combed out because no-one knew how to look after curly hair! So I had massive frizzy hair back then...
 
I am not sure about my hair texture. When I BC I was shocked to find out that I had curls all over. I was glad about it but my hair texture threw me for a loop. I have really nice curls on the lower sides and all of my back. My lower back is very curly or very straight. It hangs I can't really do a full bush with the back hanging like it does. the top curls nicely as well but the top sides don't curl. I have to push to get it to curl up and its probably 4b hair or something. I can't say that I like it, its so different from the rest of my hair. But I tell you when I deep condition and put some curl keeper on it it really curls nicely. I am so happy I went natural I can't say it enough I dont' miss anything about the relaxer, well some days I am dying to see how long it is and its a challenge not to add heat to see
 
I wasn't too sure. When I was relaxed, stylists always just wanted to press and not relax b/c of the texture. Plus my hair doesn't do well with a lot of chemicals. I am a mixture of 3c and 4a.
 
In short, yes. My newgrowth when I was relaxed and transitioning was just a harbinger of things to come. My hair hasn't changed texture or done anything surprising like that. I'm grateful for that because I don't know how I'd get along with 3 different textures on my head :lol:
 
Yes it was. When I was younger my hair was so damaged and overprocessed by a relaxer that it had to be cut down to an inch. I have 4B hair.
 
I have been natural all my life (except for about two years for 4th and 5th grade). But I am still surprised at my hair. I have always been straighning my hair with a hot comb, which nautrally killed all the curls in my hair. I though my hair was about 3b because of that. But as my hair has grown and I have cut out all the old parts, and stopped using heat, I have noticed my hair is 4a/3c. My hair was also always really thin, and I now know that its not as thin as I thought, I was just damaging it!
But all in all, I love my hair. The only thing I don't like right now is the legth, because its in an akward stage, 4 or 5 more inches and I be able to put it in a ponytail eaiser than I can now and will have more styling options.
 
I was kinda shocked. I thought my hair would be 4b all over but it ain't at all, and I wish I could say that with a smile but it just makes it extra hard to take care of it:confused: it's really frustrating at times...My hair's 3b in the front and 4a/b in the back.
 
Kinda sorta. I had 18 years of experience with my natural texture before relaxing, but there was a difference after I cut off the relaxer. Before, my hair was wavy at the roots but got straighter further down. Now my hair maintains its texture all the way to the ends.
 
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lana said:
Girl I thought my hair was going to come out looking like Joan off girlfriends...

We are all mixed with something, but I must be mixed with African and African because my hair texture is straight up 4a/b....and on. My new growth was always so soft that it deceived me into thinking my curl pattern would be a lot more loose than it was...what a joke! (lol)

But I have grown to love my natural texture. It just took a reality check from all hair appliances such as the COMB, Blowdryer and don't even say rattail comb within hearing distance of my hair.
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The bolded is way funny but still a beautiful thang. :lachen: :)

When I was natural I wasn't surprised by my hair type at all. I had to find the right products to retain moisture thru trial and error.
This bush was and still is too much hair even texturized.
I have two full heads of hair on my one head. Dyslla has four heads:look: . Her hair is really thick and beautiful.;)
 
I can not say what I expected my hair texture to be, but I knew it was not going to be thick. That is why my twists are pathetic.
 
I had an idea of what my hair type was since I used to stretch my relaxers for long periods of time. I have a mixture of 3c/4a hair, I absolutely love my texture. :p
 
I had no idea what to expect... and after a few years what my hair looks like now is nothing like it looked when I first started natural because I've learned what products work for it and how to style it... nice :). So in a few more years of being natural, my expectations may once again change. I really love my hair :cool: .
 
No it wasn't. Even though I only relaxed 4 times a year and I got familiar with my texture I didnt truly see it until after I chopped the relaxed ends. I had no idea that it would have a curl pattern. I was also suprised that it's so thin. I thought by going natural my hair would be thicker (it was thin as a relaxed head and was part of the reason for my transition) but it's not.
 
Didn't know what to expect because I was relaxed for more than 20 years. My hair is a 4a/b.... textbook 4a in the perimeter and 4b in the crown.... but it seems that the longer it grows out, it's growing out more of a 4a. It's delicate in that I'm figuring out that when I treat it right, it responds with such finesse.... but when I treat it wrong, it locks up! Hunh... sounds just like me: treat me right, I'm a lovely, sweet sexy thang.... treat me wrong, I lock up on ya!:lol:
 
When I was natural, I wasn't sure what to expect.

My hair was damaged with residual relaxer and colour.

Plus I wasn't taking care of it.

I was expecting this 4bness all over. And I thought I was.

But then I realized, damn, my hair has no curl pattern at all, is kinky, but no curl pattern.

Then I was like, hmm... yeah, my hair ain't wanna be typed :lachen:
 
I'm about 10 months into my transition and I still can't tell what my hair type is:look: About every month my hair looks different. My crown is way looser than my edges all around, but I know those were the most damaged areas full of scab hair.

I think I am a 4a/b but I guess time will tell, I am trying not to worry so much about type and more about health and style.
 
miss Congeniality said:
I didn't have an expectations for a hair type, but I did think it would be uniform. I have a mixture of 3c, 4a, 4b.
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Me too. I have 4a in the front/4a possibly b i'm not sure at the crown(I'm not sure I just know it curls only if it feels like it) , and 3c at the very nape.


Sweetyb said:
I had no idea what to expect... and after a few years what my hair looks like now is nothing like it looked when I first started natural because I've learned what products work for it and how to style it... nice :). So in a few more years of being natural, my expectations may once again change. I really love my hair :cool: .
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Same here. Also when I first BC'd I had heat damage from trying to keep my hair straight during my transition and possibly scab hair. Everyone is different but I think it takes at least a year or two after you stop relaxing to figure out what you have.
 
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