Ladies Im growing out my relaxer (almost there) and it is the best thing possible for your hair. I knows relaxing give managibility.....but trust it is so good to be natural
I grew out my relaxer for 7 months.... unlike y'all, my hair grows HECKA slow.. so it didn't do much for me... so I succame (sp?) and got a relaxer.. I personally luv it now, cuz its REALLY heathy...
I haven't had a perm in a little over a year and I must say its hard. My hair is very thick and I'm to impatient to do anything with it so I faithfully go to the hair dresser every 2 weeks. I'm honestly thinking about getting a relaxer put back in my hair because I get it blow dryed, press and curled anyway. My hair dresser said all that heat in my hair is just as damaging as getting a perm so why go through getting it pressed when the DC humidity is just gonna waste my money. Besides I havent found a product to put in my hair that works in my hair for a wash and go hair do.
my child is gonna choose a relaxer if she wants though imma be sooo against it lol
i feel you on that but my babies aren't gonna be able to get a relaxer even if they wanted one until they hit high school. but i'ma try to raise them not to even want one in the first place. i didn't have a choice about my hair being relaxed and i wish i had. it might've saved me a lot of heartache now.
my child is gonna choose a relaxer if she wants though imma be sooo against it lol
i feel you on that but my babies aren't gonna be able to get a relaxer even if they wanted one until they hit high school. but i'ma try to raise them not to even want one in the first place. i didn't have a choice about my hair being relaxed and i wish i had. it might've saved me a lot of heartache now.
cosigns.. them lil nigguhs are going to get their ****pressed if they want it straight..othawise.. it'll be natural til High School
i thought of that because i have a friend who has had natural hair (dreads) all her life and she's getting ready to leave for college. she is one of the most beautiful, most confident, most talented people i know and the way she was raised prevented her from ever wanting to be anything but natural. i kinda want the same things for my kids. i figure if i could raise them believing that the way they were made is beautiful, they might be a step ahead of everyone else.
Im a natural chic myself, I didnt get my first relaxer until I was 12 then I stopped in December of last year then cut it all off in February, & it was one of the best decisions I ever made. Seriously though, if people knew what was in relaxers, they would definitely stop relaxing. Right now I got some cute comb coils, theres almost no maintenance. Going Natural is definitely a commitment, its not something that u could just jump up and do one day, its more of a mental thing, the easiest part is growing out your hair or cutting it off, the hard part is unconditioning your mind from that relaxed mentality. But anyway, I'd choose my natural hair over relaxed hair anyday.
but then another thing that made me go natural was when i had to do a science project with my friend and we found out relaxers had the some of the same chemicals from drano and nair, just in a less concentrated form....i couldnt do it anymore.. i mean i didnt see any way it could be healthy ....and i didnt see my white friends doing such drastic things to their hair so i was like 'f**k it' if i dont look beautiful at least ill be healthier damnit lol..
cosigns. lol. my reasons for going natural (i've been wanting to share this with more people for awhile so bear with me ) are:
:arrow: i'm tired of feeling like i'm not beautiful when my hair is not relaxed which is stupid because i'm not an **** person (i'll have pics as soon as i get my hands on a scanner)
:arrow: i hate the process: it's hot, tiring, and sometimes painful
:arrow: i think there's a twisted sense of what beauty is as it relates to Black women and i just can't keep acting like i don't see it by relaxing my hair
:arrow: and finally what HU-Queen just informed me about those chemicals :lol:
How do you healthfully grow out a perm. I'm think about going back natural. But I don't want to have to cut all my hair off.
I feel u on that cause for the longest I was afraid to cut my hair off. I know there are people who are gangster with it and cut it all off, but im not one of those people
So anyways my last perm was last august and it is the best choice i have made for my hair. Let me tell u i got that **** **** break the teeth out a comb hair so managebility was a task for me. I go to schhol in N.O. so the humidity is horrible for a perm. I just got braids and gradually cut the ends off with trims.
Im almost there, but honestly its for everyone. I dunno for me its just like my hair has been brought back from the ****.
Well I may stop getting perms later in life, but I only get them twice a year anyway...
I didnt get ma first one until I was 12, but I didnt REALLY need one... But I sure do love havin one!
Now when it comes to streakin, colorin, cuttin and ish... Im scared to experiment too much...
I have ma hair feathered and layered in the front, and a wine cellophane. Now Ion kno what Ima do when I get to Florida b/c its so humid down there, and ma hair DOES NOT stay straight in humidity....
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:arrow: i'm tired of feeling like i'm not beautiful when my hair is not relaxed which is stupid because i'm not an **** person (i'll have pics as soon as i get my hands on a scanner)
:arrow: i hate the process: it's hot, tiring, and sometimes painful
:arrow: i think there's a twisted sense of what beauty is as it relates to Black women and i just can't keep acting like i don't see it by relaxing my hair
:arrow: and finally what HU-Queen just informed me about those chemicals :lol:
