Natural Hair Photos - 1st Time Going Natural

1st Time - Going Natural in 2011

The reason I ended up going back to the chemical relaxer after 14 months of going natural, I felt the upkeep of my hair was hard to do. I didn't know much about managing my own hair because I always had a relaxer to keep it manageable for me. I wasn't using natural products. I was using shampoos with sulfate. I was heavily relying on my hairdresser to detangle the mess and straighten the hair with a flat iron. I could never de-tangle the back of my hair because I couldn't see it. I always broke my hair into two sections, front and back. The front was manageable and the back was unruly, which meant the back was never properly detangled and would knot and mat. And all along I wondered why my hair wasn't as beautiful looking as when I had a relaxer? Also, I kept my hair in transition, not letting go of my relaxed ends for those 14 months.

The photos below are my hair when I went natural the first time without cutting my relaxed ends just stopped the relaxers for a year and 4 months. My hair was straighten with a flat iron, but not done by myself for the 2-month photo and 8-month photo. The 4 month photo is what it looks like when I attempted to wash, blow dry and straighten my own hair. You can see it is not as straight as the first two. In fact it looks shorter, because there is hair that is still sort of curled / wavy instead of completely stretched.

2 months without a chemical relaxer

4 months without a chemical relaxer

8 months without a chemical relaxer

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