Wish You Could Go Natural???

[SouthernTease]

Relaxers are CRACK right?
We want to stop getting them,
but we can't for whatever reasons
... is this the universal consensus?

 

[ellebelle88]

I really want to go natural. But straight hair is my forte right now. If there was some way to achieve straight hair without all the heat then I would go natural in a heart beat. Because it would just be a waist of time going natural then straightening my hair everyday. I'd be bald!

Besides, I think its easier for me to grow my hair out while I'm relaxed. Natural is something that I do want to do one day though...maybe after I reach my hair length goals??

 

[SouthernTease]

I said yes, it was a tough decision
and it's going to be hard and tempting.
I'm almost 5 months post and I just
love running my fingers through
my new growth... well, touching it
feeling the waves... I don't need
relaxers anymore. I think that
if we had flat irons back in the day,
I would have never gotten a relaxer.
My hair before relaxers was it was
down my back, my hair after relaxers
stayed shoulder length... I've come
to the conclusion that if I want to meet
my hair goals and have healthy hair...
I really need to go natural.

 

[InnerSoul]

I voted maybe..one day but not anytime soon. As of now I am stretching them out to 3 months at a time.. this has helped my strands thicken up!

 

[Jaegermany]

I said yes

Ive been seriously entertaining the thought..

 

[Southernbella.]

I'm transitioning, but I don't look at relaxers as crack. I think the straight look, however achieved, is what relaxer wearers/flat ironers want, and it's easier for most to get that by using chemicals. I think most women would stop using relaxers if there was a way to achieve the straight look, not have to worry about reversion, and not have to restraighten every few days. JMO

 

[Christa438]

I am thinking of going natural one day in the future--maybe when Im close to 30 just because I know I can if I want to. I know my natural hair is a beautiful tight coily texture too. Right now I just want to enjoy my relaxed hair and watch it grow out. If it appealed to me that much, then I would be natural. But I have the power and the know-how to have the same results as far as wearing my hair curly, or as far as my hair being healthy (not damaged or breaking) and growing long.
I am happy with the results I have been getting so I will continue to relax, but not bone-straight because that doesn't appeal to me personally.

 

[ak46]

I wish I could but I don't think I can right now. I most likely will in the future though =)

 

[LocksOfLuV]

I know I won't be relaxing FOREVER.

But I can't blame the people who do want to relax forever. I LOVE having relaxed hair. The ease and manageablity.

So I voted, maybe, but not now.

 

[locabouthair]

i get tired of relaxing sometimes but I have been natural before. I only relaxed my hair about a year ago. i came to this site as a natural and it was just too much for me. I wont say never but I dont plan on going back to natural.

 

[Lynnerie]

I wish I could be natural. I love curly and kinky hair more than straight honestly. But truth is, I work in Corporate America so thats a no-go.

And I'm much closer to my length goal being relaxed. I've never had long hair and now so thats my focus. And when it comes down to it... I can wear a fabulous braid out that gives me options of not rocking a straight do.

 

[ayoung]

I was natural from 2003-2006 and enjoyed it.
Then I got relaxed--and I still am.--and I am enjoying this too.
I will go natural again--but not in the near future. I think when I hit 50ish--I'm gonna sport a twa--women look SHARP w/ them.

 

[victorious]

Maybe... one day, someday, but not anytime soon

I might go natural around my 40's. I'm prepared in case I go natural sooner. I have a private journal entries with a few websites, good threads and tips for transitioning to natural hair. (I should print them out too.)

Not sure if I will transition for a long time or bc. If I do bc, it'll be during warm weather.

 

[Empress Yahudah]

Relaxer as Crack? thats cute......
Ive been natural most of my life now relaxed for alittle over a year.. and I dont miss being natural at all ..it was fine ...but I love the versatility of my hair now ... I loved my natural hair texture but I love being relaxed too....As long as I keep my hair in good condition I doubt ill ever go natural again.

 

[Much2much41]

I can't see myself in dreads at ALL, and it would require too much to try to keep my hair straight w/o a relaxer. However, I might cut it all off and rock a bald fade when I'm about 45

 

[HollyGolightly1982]

I was natural for five years and I felt very limited in styling choices. I decided to telax and I am loving my hair now.

 

[Whimsy]

no such thing as can't
once you truly want to go natural, you will.

 

[SignatureBeauty]

I wish I could be natural. I love curly and kinky hair more than straight honestly. But truth is, I work in Corporate America so thats a no-go.

And I'm much closer to my length goal being relaxed. I've never had long hair and now so thats my focus. And when it comes down to it... I can wear a fabulous braid out that gives me options of not rocking a straight do.

There are alot of Naturals in the Corporate world, I mean I have seen all types of Twas, Low Puffs, Twist etc. that Look realy good and Presentable. You don't have to go to work sporting a Huge Angela Davis Fro

 

[glamazon386]

I'm transitioning, but I don't look at relaxers as crack. I think the straight look, however achieved, is what relaxer wearers/flat ironers want, and it's easier for most to get that by using chemicals. I think most women would stop using relaxers if there was a way to achieve the straight look, not have to worry about reversion, and not have to restraighten every few days. JMO

I agree with you Lauren. That and the fact that you have to chop all your hair off at some point whether its right away or after transitioning for a period of time.

 

[Crackers Phinn]

I am natural.

I am living with the reasons why people do not want to go natural:

I dig my hair, but my hair does stuff that is beyond my control.

I won't be relaxing, but the flat iron may be making far more guest appearances in my regimen.

 

[Energist]

I have been natural before (7 years) and hated it after 5. That's when my hair got very unruly. Had I known about a site like this I would have still been natural, and at times I feel like going back now that I know what to do. Unfortunately, the Dominicans beat me to it and got me strung out on their hairdress practices so it doesn't look like it these days, however I may in the future sometime

 

[LadyChe]

I do... but I'm not in love with the texture I've got going on underneath. I'm not committed to doing twists and braids all the time - the twa/maa/baa is not for me.

I know.. bad me.

 

[Lynnerie]

There are alot of Naturals in the Corporate world, I mean I have seen all types of Twas, Low Puffs, Twist etc. that Look realy good and Presentable. You don't have to go to work sporting a Huge Angela Davis Fro

Hi NappyParadise...I know what you're saying is true maybe when I find a job that will be more acceptable I can be natural one day. My environment doesnt accept it. I work for someone who's made it clear that if we are to go natural we better press it. I dont see the point of being natural and just wearing a press. Yes she's black too and I find that its our own people who are more critical of our hair. Which is so sad.

 

[lisana]

I was natural for 4. 5 years. I always wanted to know what my tru texture was like. It was a good experience but I liked my hair relaxed, straight an dbouncy. But nowadays, with all the information out there, anyone can arm themselves with enough knowledge to be natural and happy.

 

[ellebelle88]

I got my first relaxer in the 9th grade, so I was about 15. Although I have been natural for 15 years, to tell you the truth I remember very little about my hair. I really wish I had known how to care for my hair then

I have been getting a relaxer for going on 5 years now, and like I said before, I don't really experiment with different styles too often. But I really wanna have the option of going from curly to texlaxed like Whimsy. So I wanna do the texlaxed thing to see how it works. I'll do the natural thing somewhere down the line...waaaayyyy down the line.

 

[~*~ShopAholic~*~]

Well I voted maybe, but not anytime soon, since that was the closes option to my answer. I also don't look at relaxing like crack, so I don't wish to go natural because if and when I'm serious about doing something it's gets done, God willing.

Plus I always thought straightening combs came b4 the relaxer?, if so relaxers are not the blame for folks wanting straight hair either way it would be done weather pressed, flat ironed, blow dried or relaxed.

 

[~*~ShopAholic~*~]

Wow, that's crazy, I would quit if I wanted to go natural that bad because that's discrimination if you ask me and a fro can keep nobody from doing their job I don't care how big it can get.

Hi NappyParadise...I know what you're saying is true maybe when I find a job that will be more acceptable I can be natural one day. My environment doesnt accept it. I work for someone who's made it clear that if we are to go natural we better press it. I dont see the point of being natural and just wearing a press. Yes she's black too and I find that its our own people who are more critical of our hair. Which is so sad.

 

[SouthernTease]

That's why it's called "creamy crack".
Everybody says I can quit whenever I want,
isn't that what all addicts say???
I'm only 5 months into my transition
and I really don't know if I can do it
but I'm gonna try my best to quit it.

 

[SignatureBeauty]

Hi NappyParadise...I know what you're saying is true maybe when I find a job that will be more acceptable I can be natural one day. My environment doesnt accept it. I work for someone who's made it clear that if we are to go natural we better press it. I dont see the point of being natural and just wearing a press. Yes she's black too and I find that its our own people who are more critical of our hair. Which is so sad.

I am sorry to hear that! It is so true how some of our people can be, I am sorry that you have to work in an enviroment like that!

 

[B_Phlyy]

I'm natural so I voted yes.

I don't believe relaxers are crack. You really can quit if you want. The fact that so many people do major stretches should be proof of that.

I may relax again, but even when I was previously relaxed, I never thought I would relax forever. But I will admit transitioning can sometimes be hell, and if there was a way to be instantly natural, I'd sure take it.