sunnieb Oh.... Where do I start? I miss my perfect ends, just shaking my head, and it starts wrapping itself... The shine .... wrapping my hair nightly.... Didnt have to worry about products, moisture etc I had 0 products .. I mean 0...
BUT I lived in a salon... Went every week religiously... washed n roller set... Stylist was old school... Never blow dried, Never flat ironed... Hair was lush... I relaxed every 6 weeks though.. She was supposed to trim my ends with every perm.. but most times, ends were so perfect she had nothing to trim...
The only downside was that the back of my head always fell... like a little section of my back hair... Now that I'm natural, I see that that section is a soft and fragile 4A while every other part of my head is a very course 4B.... We should have applied the relaxer last to that area, but since I didnt know I had different textures, treating it the same as my 4B head was too much for it.
Then I moved away, started flat ironing weekly, hair fell out...went natural.... It's been a love hate relationship.. Hair is really course, really really course.... Hair has damaged a lot due to manipulation, suffered major heat damage...
Hair has grown though.. Longest layer @ APL, but it is very uneven... The cost savings are great... I paid my stylist $90 every month, and I could get whatever done to it, perm, wash, anything my hair needed.
I'm still trying to figure it out... If I am anywhere close to my old hair stylist, i may go relaxed again..
Im afraid of chemical/relaxer effects on my health long term and im really trying to stay natural with all my products.. 3 years of bein natural, I'm still in limbo.
My hair grows great in twists... The only time I dont have to worry about my hair falling is when its in twists.. everything else is a recipe for disaster.. Wondering how long I can live in twists... Looks like I can have great natural hair by being constantly in twists, or just getting relaxed again... Still confused.. (I'm sure you can tell)
Nice thread topic!
I would be interested in hearing from more current naturals who loved their relaxed hair and never had issues with it.....like me.
I mean really, if you hated getting a relaxer, burned each time, had no edges, got oozing sores, etc., who would blame you for not missing that process?
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