What age did you start doing your own hair?

brg240

brg240

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Browsing some threads and thinking back on some friends I've realized I started doing my own hair really really late.
LIke I didn't do my own hair until highschool so at like 12-14 :look::perplexed Or maybe this isn't as late as I think it is. :/

Of course I never got my hair done at salons either.
 
I started at 12, and that consisted of pulling my hair back into a low ponytail (which I thought was a grown-up style back then). It was right after I'd begged my mom to give me a relaxer. I thought I was all grown up. And she followed suit and stopped doing my hair for me.

At the same time, she taught me how to cornrow my little sister's hair so that became my new job, and I got pretty good at it.
 
LOL Me too I started at 8 years old cause I was tired of getting POPPED in the head with the BRUsh!
 
I think I started at about age 13. I started by learning to do my own cornrows me and my girlfriends would practice on ourselves and she'd give me tips.
 
Wow I'm really late. I didn't start doing my hair till I was 23 (Still currently 23) lol. Just started a couple months ago. Feels nice being able to do things on my own.
 
Girl, I am 21 and my mom still does my hair. I mean granted I did it for myself while I was away at college and during some of highschool. But for some reason when it comes to my hair two hands are better than one.
 
Twelve and Im still mad at my mom about that because I straight up demolished my hair and went to school looking a hot mess more than a few times. I understand my mom was very busy back then, wish I had LHCF all those years ago.
 
At 14 or so. My mum was always fussy about the times I'd choose to wash my hair and etc. so I started doing it myself, wasn't easy at first... :nono:
 
Middle school, I guess?? I know when I was in 7th grade I would roll my hair at night on those green foam rollers and wear it out in a little mushroom 'do the next day :lol:
My mom always did my relaxers though, so I wasn't totally hair independent until college when I started transitioning (right after I found hair boards).
 
I started my own styling, wash/condition, etc. around 9-10. I went to the salon for touch-ups.
 
16 when i started my haircare journey in 09 it went from my mom who did braids then after i got a relaxer at 14 i went to the stylist- always....I havent seen her since i started this hair journey
 
I didn't trust myself with my hair until 20. Throughout middle and high school, I would just wear my MBL hair in a ponytail after getting relaxers every 3 months. I've been transitioning by myself and I haven't been to a salon in over a year
 
My mother knows nothing about hair. She can't even make a neat ponytail and knows nothing about proper conditioning, shampooing, or moisturizing. I was doing my own hair from age 8.
 
Around 10... I was tired of the pulling on my sensitive scalp and my mom always trying to make me look like a baby with 4 big braids with the barrettes at the ends. I mastered the low ponytail with the swoop bang and was the coolest kid in 4th grade.
 
Tenins said:
My mother knows nothing about hair. She can't even make a neat ponytail and knows nothing about proper conditioning, shampooing, or moisturizing. I was doing my own hair from age 8.
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I so feel you on this....my mother had "hair dressers" putting chemicals in my head from like 4yrs old on....by the time I was like 9 or 10 I had to get it all cut off cause she didnt know what to do with it.
 
I am currently 20 years old. I decided I wanted to grow healthy, long, natural hair when I was 17. I decided to go to a stylist and get roller sets and flat iron. My hair did grow, but I still wasn't satisfied.

I wanted to take complete control of my hair journey, so at the age of 19 (I was a few weeks away from being 20!) I decided to learn how to do my own hair.

Since I have deserted the salon, my hair has grown. It was difficult at first (I didn't know what the hell I was doing) but I deep condition much more frequently and can control how much heat I use on my hair. It's great!
 
14 - the wrong way. I had NO idea what I was doing. very rough on my hair. (like my mom is, now that I think of it)

23 - the right way. I started going to a very good stylist and treated my hair nicely in between.

24 - completely on my own. I wanted to learn and I noticed on LHCF there are many DIYers. I'm much gentler and I haven't had a trim in almost a year and I definitely notice a difference.
 
I got tired of my mom making me look like a little kid and started doing my own cornrows at 11.

I started adding kenekolon hair at 13.

...I must say...my hair was pretty flyy for a middle schooler who did it all on her own. If I didn't look so dorky in middle school I would post pics.
 
I started doing my own hair in 7th grade when I learned how to make 2 big French braids. I wore my hair like that nearly every day until I graduated high school. I knew nothing about conditioners, moisturizers, etc. My older sister would relax my hair with Revlon Realistic and NOT NEUTRALIZE! Then it was back into the daily braids. My hair was a dry, frizzy mess, so I would load it up with Blue Magic or Dax (the stinky black kind)

I don't know why I wasn't bald, it must have been the non-stop protective styling I was doing unaware. God protects babies and fools (sometimes)
 
Around age 12/13. I begged my mom to give me a relaxer and she finally did. Up until then I had to wake up early every morning to have my mom do my hair. lol That was the main reason I wanted a relaxer anyway. So then after I got a relaxer i started wearing it loose in headbands. And slowly I started using curling irons and wrapping my own hair too.
 
I started around the age of 10/11. I begged my mom to let me do my own hair and wear my hair "grown up" like "the other girls." Most of the other girls had bone straight broke off ponytails. I wore my natural hair in a ponytail and it got shorter and shorter because I had no idea what I was doing.

For 5th grade graduation, after much begging, my mom allowed me to get a relaxer. My natural hair broke off, but at the time of my first relaxer, it was probably APL. That is when I discovered nexxus products, curling irons, and blowdryers. I got pretty good at styling by 13.
 
I started doing my own hair in middle school. "Doing" meaning slapping Pink Lotion on it and putting it in ponytails, ha. I didn't start doing my hair on my own exclusively until about 17, right before I went off to college.
 
Well.. . .I got my first relaxer in 6th grade and jacked my hair up because we were under the old school of thought that if its relaxed, then its easier to do and thus I was allowed to do way too much.

fast forward a year and a half and tons of breakage later, I got a curl. A dry cur. I had a sofnfree curl and loved it, I started doing my own hair then, but curls are not really about "doing" its just spraying it and keeping it detangled. DANG I LOVED MY HAIR WHEN IT WAS IN A CURL. am I wrong for wishing they would make a comeback? lol

After the curl trend wore off and I got tired of being called buttermilk-drip-drop(cuz i switched to carefree which wasn't a dry curl and thus i had the drippy head) I switched back to relaxed and thus became the hard task of fooling with my hair on a whole new level. lots of pony tails and black gel. yep i said black gel not brown gel. hot curling irons and lets jam make for a nice head of bone straight, heat damages, fried hair. sighhhhh.
 
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