Question About Transitioning

[TigerLily]

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Karonica said:
Tigerlily, how long had you been transitioning?

I'm looking at your album and seeing you had a nice size fro, even after your big chop.

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I transitioned for a year. I had shoulder length hair and got tired off it and chopped it off the beginning of this month. I would loooove to have bra strap natural hair!!

My hair when straightened comes a little bit below my earlobe.

 

[deborah11]

I transitioned for 19 months before deciding to get a texturizer. I believe that at that point I could have transitioned for as long as I wanted without major breakage because by month 19 a lot of the relaxed hair was gone-either cut or broken off. You will have breakage from the tangles while transitioning. There are only a few people that transition without the big chop, and they do not have breakage as this is an anomoly. I think during my transition, I lost about 4-5 inches thru cutting or breakage. The breakage was gradual over that 19 month period and not all at once so it wasn't that noticable. I however didn't accumulate a lot of length while transitioning due to the breakage cycle of the relaxed hair. In the end I had up to 8 inches of new hair but overall probably gained an extra 5 inches in actual length because of breaking / cutting off the relaxed ends. You must be very careful with your hair ehile tranitioning in this manner. the tangles while transitioning are no joke. Hope this helps.

 

[chicamorena]

Thanks again everyone! I think when I do decide to go natural, I will transition in a two step process. First from relaxed to texturized. And later on from texturized to natural.