Why did you go natural?
Because the few afro-textured women I saw I fell in love with. I wanted my hair to be like theirs. My hair wasn't damaged, thinning or anything like that. I just wanted to grow out my hair.
Is it true you can't straighten your hair too much becuase your hair will lose its natural curl?
I heard this due to horror stories of folks it has happened to. What I also read was that after two or three times a week of intense deep conditioning there hair came back to normal. My co-worker has super long waist-length natural hair, but she still has a few inches of relaxed ends left. She goes back and forth flat ironing it with the chi all the time. Her natural hair doesn't seem damaged at all, because chi she uses doesn't get that hot. She's cutting the relaxed ends off slowly. You only notice something's wrong, because when she wears it in braidouts or let's it dry naturally her ends are of a different texture and much thinner.
Did you BC (bald) or transition?
I transitioned for a year. If I knew then what I know NOW I would have chopped after three months and called it a day. Trying to match the two textures were a pain in the arse.
How many inches were you?
Probably about two or three, but I honestly didn't measure. All I know is I had enough hair to twist and create stretchage. I stopped measuring once I became natural. I wasn't going to tape the ends of my hair to a piece of paper to measure the length. It's not that important to me. I will say this though, SHRINKAGE IS A *ITCH! LOL!
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