How do you know you wouldn't be able to handle the two textures? Have you stretched unsucessfully?
This is why we are here. There is so much support on this and other sites as well as ideas, techniques and products. Once you make your mind up you can trudge forward. Let me make myself clear before I begin:
It's okay to be relaxed. I'm not bashing relaxers at all.
Here are some suggestions:
1. Figure out why you want to go natural.
Study other natural ladies hair(all textures).
Stretch the relaxer a bit, feel the newgrowth, run your fingers through it. Examine it in the mirror. You'll realize that your hair really isn't as "bad" as you thought.
2. Stretch, stretch. stretch...this is the only true way to see what your hair is 'like' and how you can handle it. Experiment with products...
3. Once you realize, this is who you are and how YOUR hair is, you'll make a conscious decision, one way or the other.
4. Do I care what others think, one way or the other?
5. Some people feel they need to speak it with their mouths: 'I'm going natural or growing my relaxer out', etc. Others, like me, found it easier to not tell a soul...why?:
a. the negativity
b. I may not be able to make it..therefore the negative 'celebration' of the negative people....
c. I wanted to get to know my newgrowth better.
Once I made the decision, no matter what my hair looked and felt like, I trudged on. I'll never truly know how it will behave until all my relaxed ends are gone. However, I'm so excited because my natural hair fits me. It suits me so much better. It goes with my eyebrows and skintone. It's me, it is who I am...
Reasons to NOT end your transition:
1. Shedding: you'll get this after a certain amount of weeks. It is okay, you will not go bald....
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It does eventually stop or it slows down the more natural you become.
2. Breakage: you will get a certain amount of this. And, basically this is what you want after a certain point because you want the relaxed ends gone anyway. Now, if you are one that isn't comfortable with having short hair, you need to take extra care of the line of demarcation and relaxed ends to retain them. If you need help in stopping breakage, come to the board, keep a journal(this is important because it documents what products and techniqes worked and didn't work.), pay attention to your hair and love it! It's not JUST hair!(we all know this, hence our obession...
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3. Other people!!! This is your life, your hair, YOUR decision.
Because of the ideas that society and our ancestors have ingrained in us we actually have to become, de-programmed. Let's face it, we were NOT born with straight hair. We don't HAVE to relax to 'look right' or 'decent'. It should be a choice. Not a must. Some people like straight hair, but they shouldn't loathe the hair God gave them, you know?
Okay, enough, babbling.
hth
~op~