Who became Natural by accident?......

[I Am So Blessed]

Who, at first had the intentions of just stretching their relaxer and then

discovered you wanted to be fully natural after all?

Or should i say , Who transitioned by accident?

 

[SND411]

One day I took out my extension braids and realized all my relaxed hair broke off. Voila!

 

[I Am So Blessed]

One day I took out my extension braids and realized all my relaxed hair broke off. Voila!

*chuckle*..*puts hand on chest and laughs* ..... that was cute i had to laugh.

your hair is fine now right....*chuckle* .....siigghh

 

[FRESHstart101]

me, i had my first sew-in weave in 2010 and after that it was a wrap. I figured that there was no reason to still get perms if most of my hair was gonna be braided up, so i just flat irons the little sections in the front. My cousin had been doing my sew-in and said she was going natural and that i should too. I agreed and said i would only because i thought if I said no she would stop doing my sew-ins ... after my second installation (which had been a combined total of 5 months) the NG was too much so i just BC ... yup ... just like that lol

 

[virtuenow]

It was totally by accident. I took out my microbraids after a very long stint- along w/a student stylist- she was supposed to perm & re-braid with more micros. Instead, she convinced me to cut it all off (relaxed hair) and jsut wear my natural hair, saying, "its so nice n coily, wow". I never seriously considered it until that moment; but went to the mirror and studied it-- ran a comb thru it so easily-- and it was so much stronger than my relaxed hair - it was unbelievable. So I said, go for it, cut it. I had a big chop and never did any research or prep or anything. I've been natural every since!

 

[faithVA]

I went to get my hair texturized and when she finished cutting, all I had was a very, very short twa. She then told me I had to walk around like that for 2 or 3 weeks to let it grow out before she could texturize it. After I got over the shock of being "bald" and walking around for 3 weeks with no hair, I fell in love with it. All I had to do was get up and go. I got used to people staring and calling me sir. After 3 weeks she did texturize it but I couldn't tell the difference between the texturized version and the natural version so I just put my $60 in my pocket and have been natural ever since.

I say it was by accident because I had no intention of going natural and it had never crossed my mind.

 

[lettieg27]

During my freshman year of college I was in desperate need of a stylist to get a perm but couldn't find one. So being stupid I let one of the girls down the hall do it who said they were great at perms but were not and she burned me. So from that moment I decided I'd just braid up my hair until I had alot of new growth n then I'd perm again. I kept my hair braided the entire year of 2009 and slowly cut the old perm off so I could have new permed hair; however attending an HBCU I saw so many women with their natural hair looking fierce that by the time I had enough hair for neck length I just said to hell it.

 

[chrisanddonniesmommy]

I used to stretch every 4 months and relax 3 times a year. I researched transitioning during one stretch; but, I chickened out and relaxed anyway. After that last relaxer, I decided to go ahead and do it. Eight months later, here I am.

 

[LovinLea]

I used to relax every 12 weeks and that was with forcing myself to wait. There were a few people going natural on the board and I would just look at them and my itch to relax just didn't come back for about 6 months. Then, I made the decision to transition. I BCed about 2 months later.

 

[Fhrizzball]

I was just too broke to get a relaxer and I was at college so I couldn't have my mum do it for me. Next thing I realized all my hair was curly. I wasn't that observant of my hair back then. I didn't get trims so it my relaxed ends just broke off.

I really don't even know how long I've been natural so each time someone asks the answer is always different.

 

[OsnapCnapp!]

I became natural by accident back in '08. I was stretching my relaxers just to stretch them to see more growth from the relaxers. I had always been curious about going natural but didn't really know how to go about doing it. For the very VERY first time in my life, I went to a stylist to get my relaxer done after like 6 months of stretching. This stupid girl mixed the salon brand relaxer with my relaxer that I bought for her to use. She mixed it while she was doing my hair and did not tell me what the hell she was doing. So all was fine, it didn't burn or anything but dam the next day I was like hold up my damn scalp is burning and my ends looked fried. So I did a wait out. About 1-2 wks later my hair began to split from the ends and after a month it split all the way up to the root. I went back to the salon when it initially began to tear and I asked her what was up with that and she said, "oh u must be having a reaction to the relaxers". I said relaxers? With a 'S'? What you mean? This idiot said my new growth was too thick for just a medium relaxer and it never would have taken so she mixed in super with it. My cousin had to come get me because I was about to slap her.

Well....I cut all that schit off hell it was gonna fall out anyway. I sued them...ha, ha and I won. But anyway so yeah that is my big story. I think it all happened for a reason too because I loves being natural honeychild lemme tell ya! 2 years strong over here!

 

[nappystorm]

I became natural by accident back in '08. I was stretching my relaxers just to stretch them to see more growth from the relaxers. I had always been curious about going natural but didn't really know how to go about doing it. For the very VERY first time in my life, I went to a stylist to get my relaxer done after like 6 months of stretching. This stupid girl mixed the salon brand relaxer with my relaxer that I bought for her to use. She mixed it while she was doing my hair and did not tell me what the hell she was doing. So all was fine, it didn't burn or anything but dam the next day I was like hold up my damn scalp is burning and my ends looked fried. So I did a wait out. About 1-2 wks later my hair began to split from the ends and after a month it split all the way up to the root. I went back to the salon when it initially began to tear and I asked her what was up with that and she said, "oh u must be having a reaction to the relaxers". I said relaxers? With a 'S'? What you mean? This idiot said my new growth was too thick for just a medium relaxer and it never would have taken so she mixed in super with it. My cousin had to come get me because I was about to slap her.

Well....I cut all that schit off hell it was gonna fall out anyway. I sued them...ha, ha and I won. But anyway so yeah that is my big story. I think it all happened for a reason too because I loves being natural honeychild lemme tell ya! 2 years strong over here!

 

[I Am So Blessed]

I became natural by accident back in '08. I was stretching my relaxers just to stretch them to see more growth from the relaxers. I had always been curious about going natural but didn't really know how to go about doing it. For the very VERY first time in my life, I went to a stylist to get my relaxer done after like 6 months of stretching. This stupid girl mixed the salon brand relaxer with my relaxer that I bought for her to use. She mixed it while she was doing my hair and did not tell me what the hell she was doing. So all was fine, it didn't burn or anything but dam the next day I was like hold up my damn scalp is burning and my ends looked fried. So I did a wait out. About 1-2 wks later my hair began to split from the ends and after a month it split all the way up to the root. I went back to the salon when it initially began to tear and I asked her what was up with that and she said, "oh u must be having a reaction to the relaxers". I said relaxers? With a 'S'? What you mean? This idiot said my new growth was too thick for just a medium relaxer and it never would have taken so she mixed in super with it. My cousin had to come get me because I was about to slap her.

Well....I cut all that schit off hell it was gonna fall out anyway. I sued them...ha, ha and I won. But anyway so yeah that is my big story. I think it all happened for a reason too because I loves being natural honeychild lemme tell ya! 2 years strong over here!

I can not believe somebody could be THAT stupid!!!


If this were to happen to me, I'd Just die, DIE i tell you!!!!

Anyway, im glad you sued them and won!.

THIS WAS A GREAT POST! "TWO YEARS STRONG" SHE SAID!!

 

[MizzBrown]

^^It really annoys me that stylists still do this. They just put whatever they want on your head without asking you OR telling you what product it is. Cause how do they know if you may be allergic or don't want a specific product on your head.

That is scary. Good that you sued them.

 

[glamazon386]

Who, at first had the intentions of just stretching their relaxer and then

discovered you wanted to be fully natural after all?

Or should i say , Who transitioned by accident?

I did. I mean I thought about it but I never actively decided to transition. I was on my second 6 month relaxer stretch. At 5.5 months (after removing some braids) I just went in my bathroom one day and chopped all my hair off. I had orignally planned to have a weave installed the followed day and figured what the hell why not do it? Nobody would know since my hair was going to be covered up by a weave anyway. So I took the scissors to it. After I cut all my hair off I went to the shop with a wig on and took it off to show the stylist. I asked her would my hair still be long enough to braid, she said yeah and I proceeded with my weave install the next day as planned.

 

[CrownCola]

I was just too broke to get a relaxer and I was at college so I couldn't have my mum do it for me. Next thing I realized all my hair was curly. I wasn't that observant of my hair back then. I didn't get trims so it my relaxed ends just broke off.

I really don't even know how long I've been natural so each time someone asks the answer is always different.

Wow! Similar story. Replace college, with the "School of Hard Knocks", cause at the time I was young and fending for myself. I'd always hated relaxers and knew I'd be okay without them. It's been since about 2001. My natural hair fit in line with my "natural" lifestyle, and for several other reasons (like the improvement of look/feel and finding crown and glory), it stuck. Later, whenever it was brought up I would make a comment about not conforming to a certain standard of beauty, which was technically one of the reasons I stayed natural, and much less depressing than my first reason...

 

[Aviah]

I was stretching 6 months between relaxers before I decided somewhere along one of those stretches I wasn't getting another relaxer.

 

[EMJazzy]

One day I took out my extension braids and realized all my relaxed hair broke off. Voila!

That's pretty much what happened to me.

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[Fhrizzball]

Wow! Similar story. Replace college, with the "School of Hard Knocks", cause at the time I was young and fending for myself. I'd always hated relaxers and knew I'd be okay without them. It's been since about 2001. My natural hair fit in line with my "natural" lifestyle, and for several other reasons (like the improvement of look/feel and finding crown and glory), it stuck. Later, whenever it was brought up I would make a comment about not conforming to a certain standard of beauty, which was technically one of the reasons I stayed natural, and much less depressing than my first reason...

Congrats to you and since 01' wow! I can't wait until I have that many years under my belt. I keep getting suggested offhandedly to relax again, I guess because I keep wearing the same PS so often and spend my extra money on hair products. But honesty I get bored of straight hair and wash my hair out only days after I press because it's so boring and foreign to me so I know I wouldn't be able to cope being Relaxed.

 

[LisaMar]

With me, it was totally by accident. My hair has always been about APL length, but it would shed like crazy, and thin out. So, while searching the web for half wigs and lacefronts, I came across some hair gurus, which led me to LHCF.

My hair is very fine, with medium density. For years I would self relax, and always stretched for 3-4 months, sometimes even more, between relaxers. So, while it hasn't been easy, its do-able for be.

 

[Carisa]

I went to get my hair texturized and when she finished cutting, all I had was a very, very short twa. She then told me I had to walk around like that for 2 or 3 weeks to let it grow out before she could texturize it. After I got over the shock of being "bald" and walking around for 3 weeks with no hair, I fell in love with it. All I had to do was get up and go. I got used to people staring and calling me sir. After 3 weeks she did texturize it but I couldn't tell the difference between the texturized version and the natural version so I just put my $60 in my pocket and have been natural ever since.

I say it was by accident because I had no intention of going natural and it had never crossed my mind.

I hope your were joking! In no way do you look like a sir.

 

[moore.1506]

I was just on a 6 month stretch. I kept thinking to myself I will go natural when im like 30 and more confident with myself lol. But then two things happened I saw that big hair thread by CurlyMoo and LOVED IT! Also I decided to move to China and felt like I can make a big hair change since im gonna make such a big life change. Decided to transition then after 1yr transistion I chopped it! Love it some days some days don't have a clue what to do with it. Luckly im in China where just being black is an oddity so on my good hair days or bad hair days they don't know the difference and im much more comfortable with it now then I probably would have been in the US.

 

[snillohsss]

I put micro braids in about 7-8 years ago, and they took my hair out in patches, I had my hair cut off short and even, and weaved it up for a few years so it could grew back. Then when I took the sew-in out, I saw my curls (lots of new growth), and decided never to go back to relaxers.

 

[CrownCola]

Congrats to you and since 01' wow! I can't wait until I have that many years under my belt. I keep getting suggested offhandedly to relax again, I guess because I keep wearing the same PS so often and spend my extra money on hair products. But honesty I get bored of straight hair and wash my hair out only days after I press because it's so boring and foreign to me so I know I wouldn't be able to cope being Relaxed.

Thanks. Funny. Straight hair used to feel bland to me too. Now, when people ask me why I don't go back to relaxers, its because of how often I'm wearing it straight (As opposed to before, when they were being recommended by friends that weren't digging the "naps").

 

[iri9109]

when i first found lhcf i noticed that most of the ladies with really long and luscious hair were natural, and the ones that were relaxed usually stretched...so originally i though ok maybe i'll stretch (i was already getting relaxers every like 10-12 weeks), but a couple weeks after that i decided that i didn't want anymore perms at all, and decided to transition.

 

[Mz.MoMo5235]

i went natural by accident...

i used to relax once a year anyways and one year i forgot to relax.
by the time i remembered i figured i would just relax before next monsoon
(i always relaxed before monsoon).
then i forgot again.

then i found a pic when i was little and my hair was so thick.

by this time i was now stretched for almost 3yrs and figured i just wouldnt relax again.

shortly after that i went for a trim and the stylist asked how much i wanted her to cut,
i told her, then she said "well why dont we just get the rest of these relaxed ends off instead" i said ok and then i was natural

then 2wks after that i heat damaged my hair and joined here lmfao

 

[lilsparkle825]

A weave takedown gone wrong set me on my natural journey.

I got a full (China bangs) sew-in and loved it, then the girl who did my next one (since the first stylist did a hack job) left out my hair in the front for a side part since I didn't buy enough hair for a full weave that time. I asked her if it was okay and if my hair would blend, since I was about 2-3 months post. She reassured me it would be fine, and my hair was so soft that I didn't need a relaxer anyway. The light bulb flickered here.

She disappeared around the time I was supposed to get that sew-in taken out, so my cousin took it down for me and detangled my hair with a small toothed comb!!! Don't worry, this was way before LHCF! I cried and cried when I went from full SL to EL or NL in about 15 minutes. I wanted her to put a relaxer in my hair to make it look "better" since I was convinced it looked really bad that short, but at least she was smart enough to tell me I needed to wait a few weeks for that. She then suggested I go to this Dominican salon she had once visited, and I loved it. That day, I figured I could keep going there to get blowouts, and grow my hair out a little at a time until I was natural. That way, I could switch from curly (thinking I was strictly type 3) to straight on a whim.

A few months later at 10 months post, I discovered LHCF and ditched the idea of being a straightened natural. I also realized I was "transitioning," a term I had never heard, and did this for two more months before BCing out of sheer anxiety and Fotki-stalking overload.

 

[winnettag]

The first time, I just couldn't afford to get my hair relaxed because I was a broke college student. I was afraid to try to do my own relaxers, but I had no problem doing my own braids...before I knew it I was natural.
The second time I transitioned intentionally for about 3 years.

 

[OriginalMe]

When I was a senior in HS a former senior (1 year older than me ) came back to talk about how college life was. She had cut off all her hair and had a TWA. I thought it was so beautiful and I loved it. That was the first time I had seen a girl my age with a TWA.

The next year I started transitioning and eventually did a BC. I’ve been natural since 1997, had locks for seven years and I haven’t looked back. I love the versatility of natural hair.

 

[phychugirl]

After realizing that relaxers had broken off more than half my length, I cut off half of my relaxed ends and vowed to never get another. Fast forward two years, after washing my hair one day I realized I had ALL curls! No straight ends. And if I did see any, I just snipped them.