Originally Posted by unmanageable_hair

I'm doing it out of curiosity, just to see if I can, and also because I don't remember what my natural hair looks like. For me my hair actually grew longer on relaxers (probably because my hair was so unmanageable before that I used to handle it way too rough so it never grew as much). I realize I might back out but at least I want to give this a shot and not just give up before I start!

Originally Posted by Illicituse

My hair was thinning from the relaxer and this Is even after waiting 3 mths in between, relaxed hair was becoming too expensive, I was jealous of BIG hair. I'm in nursing school, have 2 kids, and work full time. I needed at least one 1 thing in my life that was easy. Plus I wanted to give my daughter a positive healthy look at her natural hair 😊

Originally Posted by Naturalforever

My cousin actually suggested (well really forced me) to go natural after I came to het house with 20 pounds of kinky hair for her to braid into my own hair :-) She actually said my own hair was long enough to twist. That's been over 8 years ago & I now love, love, love my natural! I will never do a relaxer again!

Originally Posted by CurlyGurlNia

I went back natural after being on YouTube looking for some cute quick styles for relaxed hair and I think I somehow came across someone who was natural. I really don't remember all I do remember is me saying I am about to go BACK to natural hair because I was tired of the straight bang and massive shedding coming off all on my shirt. Now this month I will b 2 years natural. And don't plan on goin back to relaxers

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Originally Posted by Anybri

Months flew by and I realized I hadn't had a perm and I had a lot of growth. So I decided I'm gonna go longer in hopes for more length. I was about 9months natural when I discovered that straight (permed) hair is not all it's talked up to be and ultimately not really me.

Originally Posted by tolly

initially did a BC two years ago and relaxed again 3months ago, I kept getting SSK and cutting the ends, after 4months of monthly trims and only 6inches in two years, I relaxed and miss my coils so much.....I'm back to transitioning.
I went natural in the first place because I wanted to be free of salons and didn't trust myself with chemicals....then I fell in love with my kinks.

Originally Posted by Tiajenea

I "accidentally" went natural. I never received regular relaxers, I probably got 1 relaxer per year. My addition was actually to heating tools. My hair started thinning in the front. I went online researching heatless hair styles and came across YouTube videos with all these beautiful ladies with amazing natural hair and I was hooked. October will be two years of me transitioning to be natural.

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Originally Posted by NaturallyApiphany

I got tired of my hair being so damaged. I was self conscious about taking pictures because I hardly ever liked my hair in them. It was so stiff that there was always a side or piece sticking up somewhere. I was so fed up with my hair that I stopped caring. I flat ironed every day with no protectant, never wrapped my hair, didn't moisturize properly, and I even shampooed and skipped the conditioner sometimes. One day I just thought there had to be a way to get my hair back looking the way it was when I was little and I realized all the damage, massive shedding and even headaches were due to relaxers and of course me not caring. I thought about maybe going natural but a girl with beautiful natural hair pushed me over the edge when she came to my job one day. I haven't looked back since and my hair is so healthy

Originally Posted by shortydowap52

Does perm give you headaches I never heard that before?

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Originally Posted by NaturallyApiphany

I'm not sure about other people but the day after a relaxer I always got a headache. Now I never get any, so I'm pretty sure they caused them.