My Journey (1999), part 2

As mentioned in my previous post, I have been growing out my natural hair texture since 1999. I learned online how to transition from my relaxer, how to style my hair, and what products work well for many and their own natural hair.

Twists

I grew it out successfully but I don't feel I gave much thought to what the next step should be with my hair: care and styling. My natural hair texture has been through hell and back at least twice and is finally headed in the right direction.

I made lots of mistakes with my natural hair, but that was all apart of the learning process. Not all advice about natural hair care was good for my own natural hair. I thought that natural hair was just that--natural hair! But natural hair is different from person to person. I learned this after my second year of being natural. After realizing that my hair won't be the same as that of Holly Robinson Peete's hair texture, for example, I sought for people online who had my similar hair texture to see what their haircare regimen was, but had no luck. I also didn't know anyone personally with my texture of hair grown out past one inch.

So I went through some fazes... some good, some bad!

http://www.kelechiukohablog.com/ Kelechi Ukoha

I love this. Different from most blogs that I have been to. I am going to show my sister this weblog because she has been growing her hair naturally for as long as she has been born so I think it will be interesting for her. She also does hair. More grease to your elbows, no pun intended.
http://www.kelechiukohablog.com Kelechi Ukoha

I love this. Different from most blogs that I have been to. I am going to show my sister this weblog because she has been growing her hair naturally for as long as she has been born so I think it will be interesting for her. She also does hair. More grease to your elbows, no pun intended.
http://www.coilyhair.com/ CoilyHair

Thank you Kelechi for checking this out! I would love for your sister to stop by as well. I think it’s great that she has been growing out her natural hair since birth, I’m sure I could learn a lot from her :-)
Bessie Kaine

Thank you Kelechi for checking this out! I would love for your sister to stop by as well. I think it’s great that she has been growing out her natural hair since birth, I’m sure I could learn a lot from her :-)
Chawon

Hello,

It feels so good to finally fine on the net someone with my coily hair type!! I am so wanting to go natural, but have been so afraid to due to not knowing what steps I need to do to transition successfully. Please I mean please give me advice on how I can transition my hair from relaxers to natural. I am afraid of course breakage especially since my hair time coils so tightly to the roots of my hair (you know what I mean). What can I do? Can I use a hot comb to straighten the roots or is that damaging? I know I need to keep my hair well moisturized and condition do you know of any good products. Do I really have to cut off my hair while transitioning if not please tell me how so, because I have been told that I would have to. Thank you so much in advance – Chawon
Chawon

Hello,

It feels so good to finally fine on the net someone with my coily hair type!! I am so wanting to go natural, but have been so afraid to due to not knowing what steps I need to do to transition successfully. Please I mean please give me advice on how I can transition my hair from relaxers to natural. I am afraid of course breakage especially since my hair time coils so tightly to the roots of my hair (you know what I mean). What can I do? Can I use a hot comb to straighten the roots or is that damaging? I know I need to keep my hair well moisturized and condition do you know of any good products. Do I really have to cut off my hair while transitioning if not please tell me how so, because I have been told that I would have to. Thank you so much in advance – Chawon
http://www.coilyhair.com/ CoilyHair

Hi Chawon, I’m happy that you found your way to CoilyHair.com! Congrats on wanting to ‘go natural’ and I hope that I can offer any advice that may be helpful to you. There are several ways you can grow out your relaxed hair: braided extensions, wigs/half wigs, natural transitional hairstyles, or doing the “big chop.” A transitional style would be wearing your relaxed and natural new growth in twisted styles or twist-out styles, for example. Another one would be a straw set. These type of hairstyles help to disguise the difference between the two textures. The “big chop” would be cutting all of your natural hair. Some choose to cut a bit of their hair at a time as the natural texture begins to grow in. If you look through my Natural Hair Journey entries, one of the ways I transitioned was using a hot comb to blend my natural texture in with the relaxed hair–BAD IDEA! Never resort to using direct heat on your hair as a transitional style to natural hair because the heat will destroy your natural texture over time, leaving you with damaged natural hair to work with… and that’s no fun. I hope that whatever style you choose to go with that you commit to it by remembering why you’re going natural in the first place and remain encouraged through your journey :-)
Bessie Kaine

Hi Chawon, I’m happy that you found your way to CoilyHair.com! Congrats on wanting to ‘go natural’ and I hope that I can offer any advice that may be helpful to you. There are several ways you can grow out your relaxed hair: braided extensions, wigs/half wigs, natural transitional hairstyles, or doing the “big chop.” A transitional style would be wearing your relaxed and natural new growth in twisted styles or twist-out styles, for example. Another one would be a straw set. These type of hairstyles help to disguise the difference between the two textures. The “big chop” would be cutting all of your natural hair. Some choose to cut a bit of their hair at a time as the natural texture begins to grow in. If you look through my Natural Hair Journey entries, one of the ways I transitioned was using a hot comb to blend my natural texture in with the relaxed hair–BAD IDEA! Never resort to using direct heat on your hair as a transitional style to natural hair because the heat will destroy your natural texture over time, leaving you with damaged natural hair to work with… and that’s no fun. I hope that whatever style you choose to go with that you commit to it by remembering why you’re going natural in the first place and remain encouraged through your journey :-)
AW

Type your comment here.
I am thinking about going natural completely. Right now I am between partly permed ends and natural root. It’s not a good time with my hair. How can I find out what type of hair I have and how to style it if I go 100% natural. I’m not a hairstylist, so I need sort of like a recipe for the hairstyle and should I cut all the perm out, because it has already in (some place) fallen out.
http://www.coilyhair.com/ CoilyHair

Hi AW, congrats on growing in your natural hair texture… I definitely
would recommend finding a style which works for the two hair textures until
you’re ready to clip off your relaxed ends. Styles such as bantu knots,
straw sets, twist outs, and braid outs help to minimize the difference
between the natural and relaxed hair until you’re ready to cut it all off,
or bit by bit. I’m confident you’ll find the right style for you in our
posted YouTube videos and other posts on the site. Good luck!

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