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[luvhair]

Can you be my natural hair adopted mother?

I LOVE your hair!! I took a peak at your pics and your hair is absolutely gorgeous!! How do you get you hair so straight and shiny in your rollersets? What products do you use? what type of hair do you have? How long did it take you to grow out your natural hair? what supplements do you take?? I just LOVE your hair!

 

[skegeesmb]

Awww thanks. I wrote a longer reply, but I was at work, and I had to pack it up and go home.

Okay, let's see where to start:

My hair is 3c/b-4a.
I just recently texturized as of October 2003.
I started to officially transition December 2001, but I had started on Oct-Nov, but was wondering I was going to retouch or not.

I transitioned until March 2002, and I chopped off over 20" of hair and ended up with a Halle Berry cut. I grew out my natural hair for 2 years, and by the time I texturized again, I was 3-4 inches from braclasp straightened and shoulderlength as a natural. In a moment of extreme frustration in Louisiana, I texturized again because of the inability to keep a straight style without heating it to death because of the insane humidity.

But when I was natural and I used to rollerset, I would use a combo of lottabody cremewrap, wildgrowth hairoil, and elastaQP mango butter. I would section my hair, add some of each product, brush until my hair was smooth and then I would roll with medium to large sized rollers. I would have to sit under the dryer for hours though, but my hair would dry straight up to the root, with a bit of a crinkle, and my hairline wasn't as straight, but I would flatiron the puffy parts to get a nice straight look.

The vitamins I use are: Biotin, Vitamin C, B-complex liquid, MSM, a Walmart multi-vitamin, and I've added some Potassium due to a diet I'm on.

Thank you again for the compliments! I will go natural again, but I'm waiting until I get to waist length, and then I will cut an inch until it's shoulderlength again, and then chop. I won't do it so short again.

 

[luvhair]

so you're not natural, but you texturize? I was thinking of texturizing my hair because I would like to loosen the curl slightly, but I am afraid. I would like to pay with hair color and I like using heat so I want to make sure that my hair is as strong as possible, so I wanted to avoid any chemicals of any kind, inluding texturizers. So my question is do you think it made your hair weaker or anything because of it?