Natural Hair: Transitioning



That's my hair guys!



           I am transitioning to natural hair from relaxed hair. I wanted to transtition since I watched that "special" episode of The Trya Show about natural hair. Does anyone remember the theme song? "I'm coming out! Tyra! Tyra!" Anyway, that was when I was in high school but I was too scared to go natural because I thought that if  I were to go natural I would have to chop all my hair off! I don't know about anyone else, but I don't look good with  short hair--I think.  You see I was the girl with "good hair" my hair has always been long since I could remember ( even reaching to my butt) and I remember when I was in the fourth grade, and some ghetto child argued with me about my hair on the school bus.

    She turned around and opened her big mouth "Yah hair is a weave! That can't be yah hair!" I was peeved then, but I laugh at it now because although it was the hair growing out of my head it wasn't the texture God gave me. And since my hair was relaxed at a very young age (since 5) I could understand her confusion now. But anyway, that is why I am transitionining because I think it's weird that I am in college now and I do not even remember my own texture. And growing up in the late 90s and early 00s I realize that this is the case for a lot of African-American woman.



Me as a kid

                       
                                                  
   Now six months earlier I was looking at the website blackgirllonghair.com and I was amazed at all the glorious crowns that the natural-haired woman were wearing and I wanted my own glorious crown. So, without hesitation I decided to just not relax my hair that week like I was supposed to and now fast-forward to today, I am still happy about my decision. I can't stop touching the different ringlets of coils, kinks, and curls that are my hair. I wish I was always natural but this experiece, although hard at times, has made me appreciate my own set of curls.

   What other race can say they have African-American hair? So why, should we be ashamed of it? Because of what the media depicts as beautiful? Please! I dont care what anyone says my hair is unique and I rather have this hair then any of  those models in the before-and-after hair commercials. Now, I have been transitioning for six months now, and I would like to make it to a year at least.

    I used to think transitioning meant cutting inches off every month, but some don't and even transition for three years and don't cut off any of it until the "big chop".  I'm not saying that's the correct way but instead of cutting off as I go, I am trimming my hair. So far my only problem is that my hair has different textures all over, and my hair in the sides seem longer than the hair in the back. Hopefully, I will henna my hair tomorrow for the first time and see if it will my make my hair stronger and promote more hair growth. Now, let me go back to my nasty habit of feeling my kinks, coils, and curls.

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