Reflections on All I Have Done To My Hair

Over the years I have done it all to my hair.  It's been fried, dyed and laid to the side, lol.  I had a jeri curl then returned to a relaxer only to return to the jeri curl.  I remember dying my hair an auburn color and it eventually turned fire red.  I also remember (while being relaxed) a bald spot when my hair fell out.  But you know what, my hair always grew back.

Once I got married and had kids I had no time to experiment on my hair.  I was addicted to the creamy crack so I relaxed my new growth every 4-5 weeks.  My hair grew really fast back then.  Once I reached age 40 things began to change.

I noticed that my hair was beginning to thin out.  So my solution to this was to visit my sytlist more often and get frequent trims.  Eventually that stopped working.  Look at the picture below.  It shows my trying to save my fried hair.  The ends needed clipping and it just wasn't as think as it use to be.

A couple of weeks after this picture I got a hair cut and the girl did not cut it the way I asked her so that was IT for me.  That's when I made up my mind togo natural. 

I always knew that my hair was curly because my mom didn't let me get my first Jeri Curl until I was about 14 years old.  Before that mom would wash our hair, let it air dry and use a straightening comb to tame the beast.

I transitioned for about 6 or 7 months but I couldn't take dealing with both textures so I decided to big chop on Thanksgiving day in 2010.  My relaxed hair was so fragile that I had a big ball of hair everytime I washed and detangled my hair so my sister MsRosieVelt did my big chop.  My only regret now is that I didn't do it sooner.

Look at those ends!!!  Scragly (is that a word) is all I have to say.  My relaxed hair was even longer than this.  I would get the ends clipped about 3 times a year so it was about time to get another trim.