I got my last relaxer in September of 2006 when I went to New Jersey to visit a friend. I will never forget...I stayed up until like 2 in the morning getting that damn shit because I had to have fresh roots for my birthday, lol.
Thinking back, I'm not sure what made me make the transition. Maybe all the years of me complaining about needing a perm and everyone responding the same, "Girl please, you don't NEED nothing." Maybe it was looking at my mother's natural waves and my father's head full of curls that made me wonder what I was made of.
Whatever reason I did it....going natural has been one of the best decisions I've made recently. I'm never going back to the dark side, lol. Here is a slide show of my different hairstyles. My silk wrap still looks like I have a relaxer.
Lovely hospital post,
ReplyDeleteI am not completely natural I will get a press, but I don't do perms. When I was teenager almost all of my hair stayed in the sink and on a comb. It was horrible.
Now my hair is extremely healthy and I love it.
i feel like that is completely natural...as long as there are no straightening chemicals. heat ain't a hair crime when you're not relaxing :) thanks for stopping by...your name?
ReplyDeleteI was just looking at the slide show. If that is your natural state of hair, I would have said the same thing back then too. Let that have been me...straight up fro that I would have to use one of those afro picks with the fist on the ends.
ReplyDeleteI did the natural thing for a minute but I have a relaxer now. Where I used to live there was no one around to braid my hair on a constant basis. I keep my hair wrapped and rarely do I use heat. Luckily my hair has been healthy.
However we wear our hair we definitly have to make sure to keep it up so it can look good and healthy.
I like the title of the blog. The first thing I thought about was India Irie's Song "I Am Not My Hair" lol.
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ReplyDeletethank you for stopping by. i'm tellin' you through the transition phase i just knew i won't gonna make it, lol. i was about to go straight to walgreens and get that dark and lovely box, lol.
I broke down waaaay early. I just wanted my hair straight after a year of no chemicals. The girl who was doing my hair, I'm telling you was on point. I was getting it done every two weeks till that heffa got in trouble and had to go to jail. So much for that. My younger sister lasted a little bit longer than I did (she went 5 years) and her hair got down past her shoulders. Then she decides she wants it cut so she got a relaxer and wack it off to a very short layered cut. Lawd why????????????? And what's crazy is her hair grows quicker now and she keeps wacking it right back off.
ReplyDeleteWhat I am going to do is go back to what I was doing when I was in college and that's keeping it braided during the winter months and wearing it out during the summer. I don't care about getting a perm or relaxer every other month. 4 times a year (or less) is suffice for me. I found some young ladies around here who can braid really well so I expect to have my hair done around Thanksgiving, and my goal is to go until the first day of spring without going to Kim's beauty supply (you know Kim is Korean with all the black hair care products you need lol). We'll see how that goes.
Miss Honey, I'm hatin on you and your "good" hurr. lmao
ReplyDeleteBeen natural since 2001, but I always keep it in braids or rock the fro. Lately, I've been throwin weaves in it because after this wedding i was in, i was forced to get a weave (the bride wanted jumbo curls in the summer which is preposterous for a gal like me with natural hair, so i had to do the weave) and get the the front pressed and somehow my hair in the front was trained within 2 weeks so now the afro is in danger because walkin around with half curly, half kinky hair has never been sexy.
Hope you're feeling better!
Cool Post. Get better. I could tell that you were in NYC in one of the pics, and I peeped you trying to do your thing on the mixing board.
ReplyDeleteI just jumped to the pics - I was impatient with the slides...
look, i leave them boards alone as much as i can, lmao. i be havin' the shit squealin' and all that. i just calmly get back on the mic "mad bad ya'll" lol.
ReplyDeleteand i always skip the slide show too...no patience whatsoever.