luckymonkey1307
New Member
Hello everyone, I am new, sort of, been around for about a year, then got neglectful, and now i joined...
ANYHOO
I have been natural all of my life, ALL OF MY LIFE....last year i had some trouble with a scissor happy stylist, and she chopped my hair up to my ear....HMPF.....luckily she went to my church, so i had to stay sane and christian like otherwise she would have gotten the wrath of Hayley...but anyway....i recently went to a dominican salon that I have never gone to before (it was my first time ever trying one as well) and I was so excited to see everyone's hair. Their hair was all shiny and bouncy....since i am natural i wasn't sure if they were guna be able to do my hair the way everyone else's was...but i waited anyway. First off...I waited an hour before anybody started my hair. The washing was nice, and everything but then i got in the chair and one of the ladies started blowdrying. They blowed it out straight, but u know the "natural looking" straight, not the perm lookin straight. Anyway, then I had to wait to get into the main ladies chair so she could "finish it off" well, i waited and waited and FINALLY she told me to come and sit in the chair. She added all this hairspray and crap and started flat ironing it. Now i was hoping for something a little different than the traditional "i can't make black people's hair straight the nice way, so im guna pile it up with gel" mess, but she kept right on, i even heard the deadly sizzle as she was doing it. Anyway, when she was done, it looked ok but it was bone straight and not much movement to it, because it was kind of stiff. Then i had to pay FIFTY DOLLARS at a dominican salon, which is crazy, i asked why and the man said "o well she did a kind of press n curl" ok, using a flat iron is not a press and curl, had she gotten my roots completely straight, that would have been one thing, but UH UH, nope she sure didnt....so u can bet i was a tad bit peeved.
But my point is, everyone in the salon that had a perm (with the exception of two older women) had long relaxed hair. It was weird, and their hair looked wonderful after they did it. My question is, I've always wanted the curly hair look, always, its just something that has always appealed to me. I probably wouldn't get a full relaxer, just a light texturizer, something to make my hair easier to manage. Then I could do my hair on my own once i figured out how to do everything. The only heat i would ever have to put on it is when i would do a wet set or something like that.....but then i don't want my hair to fall out, im so scared that if i get it my hair will break off and i will be bald and THAT CAN'T HAPPEN! Ohmigosh, I would probably cry....a lot. I just don't know what to do....does anyone have any light alternatives....my hair has been trained by the pressing comb so its not hard to deal with when wet, but when it dries its like normal afro hair...ugh i hate it on me, some people look great in it, but it just doesnt work for me....help!
ANYHOO
I have been natural all of my life, ALL OF MY LIFE....last year i had some trouble with a scissor happy stylist, and she chopped my hair up to my ear....HMPF.....luckily she went to my church, so i had to stay sane and christian like otherwise she would have gotten the wrath of Hayley...but anyway....i recently went to a dominican salon that I have never gone to before (it was my first time ever trying one as well) and I was so excited to see everyone's hair. Their hair was all shiny and bouncy....since i am natural i wasn't sure if they were guna be able to do my hair the way everyone else's was...but i waited anyway. First off...I waited an hour before anybody started my hair. The washing was nice, and everything but then i got in the chair and one of the ladies started blowdrying. They blowed it out straight, but u know the "natural looking" straight, not the perm lookin straight. Anyway, then I had to wait to get into the main ladies chair so she could "finish it off" well, i waited and waited and FINALLY she told me to come and sit in the chair. She added all this hairspray and crap and started flat ironing it. Now i was hoping for something a little different than the traditional "i can't make black people's hair straight the nice way, so im guna pile it up with gel" mess, but she kept right on, i even heard the deadly sizzle as she was doing it. Anyway, when she was done, it looked ok but it was bone straight and not much movement to it, because it was kind of stiff. Then i had to pay FIFTY DOLLARS at a dominican salon, which is crazy, i asked why and the man said "o well she did a kind of press n curl" ok, using a flat iron is not a press and curl, had she gotten my roots completely straight, that would have been one thing, but UH UH, nope she sure didnt....so u can bet i was a tad bit peeved.
But my point is, everyone in the salon that had a perm (with the exception of two older women) had long relaxed hair. It was weird, and their hair looked wonderful after they did it. My question is, I've always wanted the curly hair look, always, its just something that has always appealed to me. I probably wouldn't get a full relaxer, just a light texturizer, something to make my hair easier to manage. Then I could do my hair on my own once i figured out how to do everything. The only heat i would ever have to put on it is when i would do a wet set or something like that.....but then i don't want my hair to fall out, im so scared that if i get it my hair will break off and i will be bald and THAT CAN'T HAPPEN! Ohmigosh, I would probably cry....a lot. I just don't know what to do....does anyone have any light alternatives....my hair has been trained by the pressing comb so its not hard to deal with when wet, but when it dries its like normal afro hair...ugh i hate it on me, some people look great in it, but it just doesnt work for me....help!
