basically...
So..with this new revelation..both are being posed as evils and you are picking b/w the lesser of two....am I correct?
ok...well I would have to go with the horror of having healthy 4b natural hair and just live out my life in exile.......
This thread makes me giggle inside....
If people just adopted new techniques on hwo to care for their hair, and knew the facts instead of myths....it wouldn't matter relaxed or natural. It would be healthy hair period, and that's basically what we all want
A chicken attacked her head?I have seen some relaxed heads irl that looked damaged beyond repair. (thin edges due to relaxers, straggly ends, etc) They relax at every chance they get. They absolutely refuse to follow healthy hair techniques.
I asked one girl why don't you lay off the chemicals for awhile and go natural. Her response," I don't have that type of hair. I have nappy hair". "It won't look good".I was like . You would rather look like a chicken attacked your head rather than have thick healthy natural hair just because you don't like the natural hair that grows out of your head.
So my question is, would you rather have damaged relaxed hair or healthy natural 4b hair? It's sad to say but some women would actually say they would keep the damaged relaxed hair just because of their natural hair type.
Disclaimer: I know every natural head is not healthy.
You're acting like natural hair is some kind of brain surgery, and that relaxed hair is the default position. People! This is what grows out of our own doggoned scalps. Natural hair isn't complicated. How come we're the only race on the planet that thinks that the DEFAULT position for our hair is to chemically alter it? So that to go back to our texture must be some big production???? Wow, it's like the matrix or something. (I've been back and forth between natural and processed whenever I feel like a change. And whenever I wanted to go back to natural, you know what I did? ... I took a pair of scissors, cut my processed hair off, and that was that. And my natural hair was always fine.)But why do they have to go natural? Why can't they stretch and/or adopt healthier relaxed hair care methods?
I can't tell someone with damaged relaxed hair to just go natural gung ho. She has to get heathly hair care down first then stretch and if she can handle the stretching and new methods, THEN go natural.
How is it loaded?
I think that this is an extremely biased question in my honest opinion. Now if you had asked a 3rd question like "Would you rather have healthy, well-maintained relaxed hair", then you would get a lot better responses from relaxed heads like myself......
--But if there were indeed options for
-healthy relaxed
-healthy natural
-damaged relaxed
It would be a really dumb question because we already know who would answer what with the exception of transitioners.
Naturals choose healthy natural.
Relaxed/Texlaxed choose healthy relaxed.
The purpose of the OP posing the question in the manner that she did was to propose a 'dilemma'
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What I would like to know is why do most, not all, but most naturals get all "bent out of shape" with the ladies who chose to relax, texlax, and texturize their hair? ..................
I can guarantee you that you DO NOT know Most Naturals.
Sorry sis, I was with you up until this point.You're acting like natural hair is some kind of brain surgery, and that relaxed hair is the default position. People! This is what grows out of our own doggoned scalps. Natural hair isn't complicated. How come we're the only race on the planet that thinks that the DEFAULT position for our hair is to chemically alter it? So that to go back to our texture must be some big production???? Wow, it's like the matrix or something.
I currently have relaxed hair. .......
The question is basically asking to choose the lesser of 2 "evils".
The answer to this question should be very obvious since we're talking healthy vs. damaged, but since it's not that simple, some people are choosing damaged relaxed over healthy 4b natural.
For many, it has nothing to do with the health and has more to do with texture.
Sorry sis, I was with you up until this point.
Pleeeeeaaaaaaaasssssssssssssse, don't take that personally
But like a few others have been saying in this thread
"That just made me giggle"
Nevertheless, I TOTALLY get what you're saying Ebony, HHG
Darling....You DON'Tknow Most Naturals.Sweet girl, I live in the Bahamas where natural hair is prevalent. So don't tell me what I know from what I don't know.
Darling....You DON'Tknow Most Naturals.
Natural hair may very well be prevalent in the Bahamas; however that doesn't mean that the majority of Naturals are IN the Bahamas.
Black/African women are Natural world-wide.
You don't know most naturals.
I'll just chalk your comment up to your own personal encounters with Naturals
Sweet girl, I live in the Bahamas where natural hair is prevalent. So don't tell me what I know from what I don't know. I speak only from the experience I have.
It's just that whenever a thread like this comes up, it's always someone wearing their natural who does it. Why is there a constant need to fight each other on our own ideals and practices. Don't get me wrong, I love natural hair, and that's the honest truth. I am just sick and tired of having naturals always trying to beat down my throat about it. We leave you alone, so the heck won't you leave us the hell alone?
Because people have issues with hair. Its like if someone had issues with their hair growing up, then as they learn and journey to healthy hair whether relaxed or natural, they tend to put those issues on everyone else. Like if I had issues with it then everyone else must have had issues like mine too. If someone was relaxing their hair to fit in or what ever, then once they become natural, some of them believe that since that was their reason then everyone else must be going through the same issues which isn't the case. Not everyone has hair horror stories that affected them to the same level as everyone else and people need to remember that. (This is so true) It just seems like as some people go natural or whatever, they become a little self righteous and start to assume that everyone else still relaxing is in denial and has issues just because at one point they did.
At the end of the day, whether relaxed or natural, our concern should be learning about taking care of our hair. A damaged relaxed head and a damaged natural head are the envy of no one.
I hear ya Aggie, I do
Sweet girl, I live in the Bahamas where natural hair is prevalent. So don't tell me what I know from what I don't know. I speak only from the experience I have.
It's just that whenever a thread like this comes up, it's always someone wearing their hair natural who does it. Why is there a constant need to fight each other on our own ideals and practices. Don't get me wrong, I love natural hair, and that's the honest truth. I am just sick and tired of having naturals always trying to beat down my throat about it. We leave you alone, so why the heck won't you leave us the hell alone?
Wow!
I guess I didn't see where the OP posted a loaded question. I guess I also didn't se how the question that she asked was about choosing from the lesser of 2 evils. I thought the OP really just asked whether or not you would rather have damaged relaxed hair over healthy natural hair. I don't think the 4B texture (mine...lol) has anything to do with it.
I have seen some relaxed heads irl that looked damaged beyond repair. (thin edges due to relaxers, straggly ends, etc) They relax at every chance they get. They absolutely refuse to follow healthy hair techniques.
I asked one girl why don't you lay off the chemicals for awhile and go natural. Her response," I don't have that type of hair. I have nappy hair". "It won't look good".I was like . You would rather look like a chicken attacked your head rather than have thick healthy natural hair just because you don't like the natural hair that grows out of your head.
So my question is, would you rather have damaged relaxed hair or healthy natural 4b hair? It's sad to say but some women would actually say they would keep the damaged relaxed hair just because of their natural hair type.
Disclaimer: I know every natural head is not healthy.
I think that was the OP's point: Not to down relaxed hair - that would be silly. But just to point out that some women consider relaxed hair to be the ONLY choice. So much so, that even if the relaxer is killing their hair, they refuse to give it up. And yes, I've seen those women, and wondered the same thing about them: How do you go out of the way to actually DO something (and pay $$$ for it) that makes your hair look like ish, when not doing anything at all would yield better results? It's not logical.
I relaxed today on Jan 23, 2008 (pic was taken a few days after) Still had shrinkage
Back to apl after trim.
Hoping for bsl before Summer '08