Relaxed hair that looks natural..

[antavia009]

Just wondering if anyone is in the same boat. Transitioning with only an inch of new growth but my whole head looks natural. I know I should be treating the relaxed and natural differently, but it wont hurt if I dont will it? (Sigh)

 

[Evallusion]

My relaxed hair is very "textured" and still looks natural...especially if I let it airdry. I have only 16 weeks of new growth but I treat all of my hair as if it were natural.

 

[NYAmicas]

Me. I have very thick hair and wear a lot of curly styles, people are usually surprised to hear Im relaxed.

 

[candy626]

I relax and am not in trasition. But when I stretch for 16 weeks, I treat all my hair the same, as there's not much difference at all. I am 3c/4a natrually, and with a relaxer my hair goes more toward 3c.

People whose hair is bonelaxed have more of a problem with stretching and transitioning.

 

[divya]

That's me. I'm transitioning and my relaxed hair is curly due to very light relaxing/texlaxing. Having started the transitioning process more than once, I have treated my hair the same each time. So you should be fine, at least for now. Now as the transitioning process continues, that might change. I'm only going on 6 months...

 

[ATLcutey20]

Some people think I'm natural too. I have thick hair & its texlaxed.

The only difference is that when I was natural, I only use moisturizing products. Now that I'm relaxed, I use both moisture & protein products.

 

[antavia009]

Me. I have very thick hair and wear a lot of curly styles, people are usually surprised to hear Im relaxed.

I loooooove curly styles. Its a battle though, when I do braid outs (i braid then twist one plait, bobby pin it overnight) my relaxed hair holds the curl so much better. The natural state of my hair scares me lol.

 

[gabulldawg]

People ask me if I'm natural all of the time, especially when I'm in need of a touch up or wear heatless styles (twist outs, bantu knot-outs, etc.).

 

[antavia009]

My relaxed hair is very "textured" and still looks natural...especially if I let it airdry. I have only 16 weeks of new growth but I treat all of my hair as if it were natural.

I try to let my hair air dry too. Maybe thats why it seems so natural. Heat will straighten it all but humidity hits my natural roots the hardest.

 

[antavia009]

People ask me if I'm relaxed all of the time, especially when I'm in need of a touch up or wear heatless styles (twist outs, bantu knot-outs, etc.).

I envy those long curly braid outs and bodacious bantu knots, but my hair in its natural state seems to much to handle. I wish I can have a marriage with natural hair and an occasional affair with relaxers.

 

[MissDarcei]

Yes im transitioning from a texturizer so my new growth isnt much different and everyone I encounter thinks I am already fully natural

 

[SuchaLady]

People always ask if Im natural. I was asked that recently.

 

[cutiepiesensei]

MissDarcei how did you get your hair like that in the picture? Is that purely from a texturizer?

 

[Mische]

It always surprises me when people think I'm natural because I'm relaxed pretty straight. Length compliments are usually accompanied with the "no chemicals, right?" and I'm like well, actually... I wear a lot of airdried braidouts so that probably contributes to it, too.

 

[sunnieb]

Meeeeee!

I'm bonelaxed and folk still accuse me of being a straightened natural.

I airdry and I don't use direct heat. I also stretch my relaxers 15 weeks. I never care about showing off my newgrowth, so I think it's hard for some to realize that not all relaxed heads have super skrait hair all the time.

Sent from my Comet using LHCF

 

[MissDarcei]

cutiepiesensei Yup it's just one of my wash and gos. I leave my conditioner in and air dry.

 

[cutiepiesensei]

it's really pretty. I'm relaxed tho soooooo can't do that lol

 

[prospurr4]

I'm not transitioning, but my hair looks natural, so I treat it as though it were natural. I do a lot a finger-detangling, as opposed to using a comb, and after washing, I have to keep it stretched as it dries or my almost-WL hair will shrink up to my shoulders.

However, I'm texlaxed and love it! I have the look and thickness of my natural 4b hair, but the ease of styling of relaxed hair. Best of both worlds, I tell ya!

 

[beana]

people always thought i was natural when I was relaxed, so i just transitioned .

 

[PoisedNPolished]

My hair looks natural when I wash it and airdry. A full blown TWA. I've been natural 3 times before and I'm toying with the idea again. If I airdry in a ponytail and scarf it all gets pretty straight again.

 

[GIJane]

My hair looks natural as well. I am currently texlax and about 28 weeks post. My hair does not take relaxer well. I am one of those people that has to relax for over 20 minutes. But, I know better than that thanks to LHCF. Plus no matter what type of relaxer, except Mizani, it always burned my scalp. I never was ever to achieve bone-straight her. Even when I used Bantu or Hawaiian silky. My last full relaxer was at a domincan salon. The lady said my hair just laughed at the relaxer. So now I just texlax to soften my hair.

I was natural before. I don't believe that there isn't much difference between texlax and natural for me. Just the manageability is the difference.

 

[BillsBackerz67]

Mine did once it airdried. No one ever knew i was relaxed

 

[Poranges]

I am. My hair looks 2c/3a when freshly washed.

 

[sunnieb]

Anybody else?

 

[Sugar]

Yep...me too! If I air dry or do a blowout people think I'm natural. Sometimes when its straightened it looks like heat-straightened natural hair.

 

[afrochique]

Me. Especially since I stretch for 6 mths or more. I don't usually straighten my NG and pple think I am natural. (With two textured hair, though?)

 

[bosswitch]

Yup it's just one of my wash and gos. I leave my conditioner in and air dry.

[USER] oasis[/USER]
What's your hair type? And which texturizer do you use? I'm thinking of transitioning to texturizers...

 

[Onhergrind09]

GIJane, me too! My hair thinks relaxer is that annoying kid in every class who you have to put up with, but no one pays them any mind . My air dried hair looks fully natural and that is even with years of me not knowing better and overlapping relaxers like it was going out of style. I wen to a salon where there clients were mainly natural and the stylist goes congratulations on being natural, I was like uhhh.......I'm not, sorry? Even funnier was that this was 2 weeks after I got a relaxer.

 

[Lilmama1011]

GIJane, me too! My hair thinks relaxer is that annoying kid in every class who you have to put up with, but no one pays them any mind . My air dried hair looks fully natural and that is even with years of me not knowing better and overlapping relaxers like it was going out of style. I wen to a salon where there clients were mainly natural and the stylist goes congratulations on being natural, I was like uhhh.......I'm not, sorry? Even funnier was that this was 2 weeks after I got a relaxer.

Wow... I seriously never saw that before

 

[candy626]

GIJane, me too! My hair thinks relaxer is that annoying kid in every class who you have to put up with, but no one pays them any mind . My air dried hair looks fully natural and that is even with years of me not knowing better and overlapping relaxers like it was going out of style. I wen to a salon where there clients were mainly natural and the stylist goes congratulations on being natural, I was like uhhh.......I'm not, sorry? Even funnier was that this was 2 weeks after I got a relaxer.

Same thing happened to me when I went to a Dominican salon a couple years ago. It might have been a week after I relaxed my hair...After washing and conditioning the stylists asks me, "Are you relaxed?" I was like yea I just had it done. She was like, "No way". We went back and forth on it for a minute and she was like, "I have never seen such a thing." My hair had her all confused