newly naturals R u planning 2 relax 1 day?

[natural_one]

I dont think so..I did it once before and immediately regretted it. I enjoy the ease of natural hair...

 

[ingenious_mind]

No!! I love the versatility of natural hair, plus my hair is much heathier! If i ever feel the need to wear it straight i'll just flat iron it. So I think I am going to be natural foreverrrr. Lol.

 

[Bella02]

I don’t think I will ever go back to relaxing. Being on this forum has shown me that natural hair can have so much versatility. So I plan to stay natural. But if I were to ever relax again—I think I am now armed with the proper knowledge to take better care of my hair than before I found LHCF.

 

[lilsparkle825]

I may texlax if I can't really manage my hair when it gets to WL. If I can get my styles together and I can deal with it, then I won't bother with any chemicals. But I get overwhelmed now and it's not even APL!! I'm sure I'll regret it sooner or later if I did, so it's probably best to not even go down that road and have to start all over again.

Never say never. If I decide I want a change I'll try less permanent methods first (BKT, etc) before relaxing. If I do go back I'll probably texlax instead of going bone straight. I know I love my coilies though and I would miss them

All of this. I have contemplated texlaxing at WL, but I would never go bone straight -- ever since I went natural, seeing hair straight when it's wet is just WEIRD to me. Also, I figure by then I will either be really good at using that flat iron/hot comb or phenomenal at rollersets -- shoot, they charge me the extra $10 at the Dominican salon for being natural and ANOTHER $10 for "long hair" and I'm not even BSL yet -- God knows what they'd come up with if I went in there with WL natural hair. I was good at ponytail rollersets when my hair was SL, but I'm too scared to try it now...plus my rollers are too small. I definitely plan on learning how to do a good rollerset on this length of hair SOON.

 

[PearlyCurly]

I agree with some of the other ladies,

I would do BKT first, and my last stop would be Texlaxing if BKT does work out. I acutally didnt go natural to be natural, i went natural because i was half bald But before that i happened i wanted to my natural curl pattern too, i like it I change my mind so much i would never say "No!".

I like being natural now but i dont no where my hair will end up 3yrs from now, hopefully i will be TBL wether its curly or straight.

 

[DarkChyld]

When I first began the natural hair journey back in 2004, I planned (tried to put in in stone) on growing it long and healthy then destroying my texture with a relaxer once I reached APL/BSL stretched. Fast forward to six years later, I love my unruly texture. I like what I can do with it. My hair has many styles in one unlike my relaxed hair which was flatish after a few days. I can also get my hair wet and go swimming when I please unlike when I was younger with a relaxer. I would have to wait until I got braids to get my hair wet in the summer.

I'm not a new natural but I recently started to wear it natural all of the time versus when my press wore out or when my weave was taken out.

 

[JustDoIt]

For now I'm saying ... naw gyurl!... just because I'm really lazy and hated getting touchups.. with my natural hair I don't have to worry much about going to the salon.. I pretty much can run my own life... and not let my hair rule me.. (well except when it's wash day and we spend quality time together)

 

[Tene]

I've never ever relax again, my hair so much healthier now.