keepithealthy
Well-Known Member
Hello Ladies,
Did your stylist try to discourage you from going natural?
I had a friend that has been trying to grow her hair long for the 10 years that I've known her. It seems it would never get past barely touching her shoulders. No matter what it would always get thin at the end and break. We recently met for lunch and I shared with her that my sister and I were going natural. She said that she hadn't relaxed her hair for several months because she was frustrated with relaxers and her hair breaking and not retaining length and that she wanted to see if her hair would grow better if she were natural. So she went to her stylist and told her about it. Her stylist laughed in her face and told her she would look horrible if she went natural because she didn't have the right texture of hair (I think she has mix of 4a 4b hair). So she relaxed her hair and out of frustration cut it really short. I tried to encourage her but I think she has given up going natural and on trying to grow her hair long.I felt so bad for her because she seemed so sad that she "had" to relax her hair and that it will prob not ever grow long. I'm not surprised that her stylist did this because I have never seen even one natural client in her shop. Plus she would lose money. I think its is probably common practice that hairstylist will discourage there clients from going natural since most of them are used to only working with relaxed hair.
I rarely ever go to hairstylist so I don't have this problem. It's mostly my family who keep telling me my hair is going to fall out if I don't relax soon. I'm just wondering how many people were discouraged by a hairstylist when they decided to go natural.
Faith,hope and love...and the greatest of these is love...
Did your stylist try to discourage you from going natural?
I had a friend that has been trying to grow her hair long for the 10 years that I've known her. It seems it would never get past barely touching her shoulders. No matter what it would always get thin at the end and break. We recently met for lunch and I shared with her that my sister and I were going natural. She said that she hadn't relaxed her hair for several months because she was frustrated with relaxers and her hair breaking and not retaining length and that she wanted to see if her hair would grow better if she were natural. So she went to her stylist and told her about it. Her stylist laughed in her face and told her she would look horrible if she went natural because she didn't have the right texture of hair (I think she has mix of 4a 4b hair). So she relaxed her hair and out of frustration cut it really short. I tried to encourage her but I think she has given up going natural and on trying to grow her hair long.I felt so bad for her because she seemed so sad that she "had" to relax her hair and that it will prob not ever grow long. I'm not surprised that her stylist did this because I have never seen even one natural client in her shop. Plus she would lose money. I think its is probably common practice that hairstylist will discourage there clients from going natural since most of them are used to only working with relaxed hair.
I rarely ever go to hairstylist so I don't have this problem. It's mostly my family who keep telling me my hair is going to fall out if I don't relax soon. I'm just wondering how many people were discouraged by a hairstylist when they decided to go natural.
Faith,hope and love...and the greatest of these is love...
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