Here is one of my reasons. My hair was sooooo thick and healthy. Guess the relaxer really destroys hair :-(
I cut half of my hair off already so now I'm shoulder length. I plan bc'ing in December before the New Year


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I was on a trip in Chicago and my hotel had an pool... I was worrying too much about my limp damaged relaxed hair to have fun and swim.. So I decided that night of missing out on fun to stop getting relaxers... I thought it was a super weird idea but little did I know there was a HUGE online natural hair community I didn't even know people went natural before that! 99% of black folks I saw had relaxed hair... So yeah thats my story on going natural

I'm on a medication that makes my hair come out and the relaxers were thinning my hair also so the combination of the 2 was just no longer a good idea. Since I cant stop my meds I chose to give up the relaxers

Yep! Same here!! Had my thyroid removed in '10 and couldn't tell if it was my medicine or the relaxers.....along with my beautician being 1.5 away I said bump it...NO MORE RELAXERS!


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I had no idea before deciding that they were so many people just like me! Most of my friends think I'm nuts :-/


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Best of luck!!!!!!!!


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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!

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!

Thanks girlie!....and u as well!! 😊


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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 😊