Random Hair Thoughts/Thinking out loud

Owwww SuchaLady I know how you feel girl! :lol: I'm sitting here with a pre-poo excited about washing my hair tmrw. I honestly planned on installing braids but I have to test out this blow dryer first. Later for those braids.
 
Which one of these is the best buy?

Joico Daily Care Leave In Detangler
Biolage Detangling Tonic
Paul Mitchell The Detangler
 
SuchaLady said:
Yup. Same here. I'm gonna straighten tomorrow and see how much damage transitioning has done :look: SlimPickinz my braids should be back in September.
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SuchaLady
Stretching/transitioning can be quite evil. After 9 months my hair was so chewed up, I had no choice but to call quit. I hung around for an additional 2 months an BCd at 11 months post. My original plan was to stretch. But hey, I'm a happy natural now. Good luck, and hope everything works out.
I have to add though that I was a newbie. I started that long stretch only 2 months after finding this site and starting my journey. I knew nothing about MY hair in terms of what it liked/disliked. I was new to all of these info on healthy hair practice. Looking back, I was meant to fail. I am sure you will be more successful than I was if you want to long term transition.
 
Yup SuchaLady transitioning is hard. I BC'd because it was hard having 2 different textures even though I wore my hair straight. But my sister long term transitioned I think for like 2.5 years. I'm not that strong lol
 
I have officially given up my detangling tools and have moved strictly to finger detangling. I don't straighten my hair so why bother? All these combs and brushes for my hair to just coil back on itself again.

This has been a great wash day so far!
 
I slept with my hair out in a twist out kind of pushed the curls more above my ears and when I took my bonnet off, I was like wtf because it looked crazy but sliding it up was fine
 
Was sitting here paying a bill online and looked up and thought, "how on earth did I glitch to SunKisssAlba's YT?" She was a model on the utility's website lol.
 
Found out why my favorite detangler left a greasy residue in my roots. All I had to do was shake the bottle before applying.

-_- they should really post that in the instructions.
 
Twist out fail. Hair puffed up the second I left the house. And I'm not even at work yet. *Sigh*

Maybe it's because I didn't use gel, or I had too much product in my hair. My ends are curly but my roots aren't. I think I'm going to give up on twistouts, they just don't seem to work.
 
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ronie said:
SuchaLady Stretching/transitioning can be quite evil. After 9 months my hair was so chewed up, I had no choice but to call quit. I hung around for an additional 2 months an BCd at 11 months post. My original plan was to stretch. But hey, I'm a happy natural now. Good luck, and hope everything works out. I have to add though that I was a newbie. I started that long stretch only 2 months after finding this site and starting my journey. I knew nothing about MY hair in terms of what it liked/disliked. I was new to all of these info on healthy hair practice. Looking back, I was meant to fail. I am sure you will be more successful than I was if you want to long term transition.
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I wanted to take my hair out and analyze before I responded :look: My hair actually looks fine. Even my ends. It's something about transitioning that will make you think you're going bald. I had stretching down. Like to a science. It had gotten to the point where I would forget when my last relaxer was causing me to search for posts on here :lol: I would be 6,8.9+ months post and not realize it :lol: So I decided to transition :crazy:
hopefully I like it. And I do hope to long term transition. I need hair when I cut this relaxer out :look:
 
SlimPickinz said:
Yup SuchaLady transitioning is hard. I BC'd because it was hard having 2 different textures even though I wore my hair straight. But my sister long term transitioned I think for like 2.5 years. I'm not that strong lol
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2.5 years is awesome! I was planning on 3. Cool thing about transitioning is as long as your relaxed ends are there you retain all your growth :giggle: why made you decide to relax?
 
It's about that time again. I'm getting antsy and bored with my hair. I want to cut it short into a pixie; I want to layer it; I want to dye it a nice copper red -oooh oooh or honey brown. Hmm maybe I'll just "trim" a few inches off heh heh. It's gotten so bad that whenever I'm in Walmart or Walgreen's I have to visit the hair color aisle for at least ten minutes, maniacally debating about which shade of red(or light brown) would be best, and if I should get color now or wait til my hair is longer. Kinda makes me feel crazy.
 
SuchaLady said:
2.5 years is awesome! I was planning on 3. Cool thing about transitioning is as long as your relaxed ends are there you retain all your growth :giggle: why made you decide to relax?
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I wear my hair primarily straight. I don't want to be afraid of moisture all the time, like I am now. I don't even touch my hair with damp hands :lol: Hopefully by January I will be relaxed with shoulder length hair.
 
Even though I've been natural my entire life, I'm just truly figuring my hair out over the past few years. When you know better you do better.

I will try my best to not get irritated if/when I hear someone complain that they can't become natural bc they don't have good hair, it's too nappy, too much work, looks ugly on them etc. They don't understand their hair or what they are saying. I felt some of these things too before I became enlightened about how beautiful our hair is.

I'm so glad there is a strong movement towards not just being natural, but black women understanding their hair and accepting it. It took a long time for us to believe the hype of the yt's version of beauty, so it will take a while to accept our own. But we're doing it!

Woo that was long.. Had to get that off my chest yall :grin::
 
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