jwhitley6
Well-Known Member
Plenty of us have transitioned to natural...I've been fully natural for the past 8 years but I was just thinking about my relaxer experience. My hair shed and broke out like crazy so I cut it and transitioned back to fully natural in about 9 months from my first relaxer (I had gotten one touch-up).
This made me wonder if it would have been better to relax a portion of my hair and see how it worked out (like maybe a few inches up the nape). If it didn't work for me I could cut the relaxed hair off and not impact my styling options too much; or, if it worked, I could relax the rest of my head at some point in the future. It would be somewhat of an extended strand test, I guess.
I'm not considering relaxing at the moment but I would probably try something like this to avoid the utter disaster I experienced last time. What are your thoughts? Has anyone done this?
This made me wonder if it would have been better to relax a portion of my hair and see how it worked out (like maybe a few inches up the nape). If it didn't work for me I could cut the relaxed hair off and not impact my styling options too much; or, if it worked, I could relax the rest of my head at some point in the future. It would be somewhat of an extended strand test, I guess.
I'm not considering relaxing at the moment but I would probably try something like this to avoid the utter disaster I experienced last time. What are your thoughts? Has anyone done this?
