I didn't even trim i just let the relaxed ends fall away in their own time.
Thats great you'll love the versatility. Yep, I went natural via pressing my new growth and flat ironing my hair every single wash worked out great for me!!
Senegalese twists also really helped with my transition
As long as you have the kind of strands that can handle that much heat you should be fine.
And I don't regret it one bit!! I love my hair and couldn't wait to get my fingers in it.
It was probably two years untill I was completely natural but I like my hair longer then APL so I was fully satisfied when I was like between APL and MBL straightened and fully natural & coily.
I started transitioning my hair like that (with pressing and cutting) but I got impatient and couldn't take the two textures. I even had senegalese twists, but when I took them out, I cut the perm out shortly after. I HATED the perm and I wanted it out my hair with the quickness, so I chopped after about 9 months.
I don't know if I can give any tips, though, because it was so long ago and I wasn't really into hair care then, so I didn't pay attention. Also, it was not unusual for me to "stretch" relaxers (didn't know the concept back then) by just pressing rather than getting a touch up. she was licensed!). When someone else did it, they usually pressed the whole length of my hair 
, but that wasn't more than once every couple months or so. When I did it myself, I'd wash, blow dry the length, and press the roots. I might do a really quick pass over the length with a warm comb. I washed every couple of weeks.
I'm transitioning this way too. My regime is no different from what's mentioned here - except I'm not wearing braids or wigs. She presses what's natural, uses the marcel irons to give me spirals and they last for two weeks which is when I go back for another wash.
I'm going on 10 months now and she trims the relaxed ends every three months. My progress is going so well, I may be fully done few months short of my two year goal.
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How long was your natural hair stretched before cutting the relaxed ends offThats great you'll love the versatility. Yep, I went natural via pressing my new growth and flat ironing my hair every single wash worked out great for me!!
Senegalese twists also really helped with my transition
As long as you have the kind of strands that can handle that much heat you should be fine.
I never cut my hair period, I just washed conditioned, pressed the roots and flat ironed with a ceramic iron the length every week or two and kept that up for like 4 years, this year I decided to give it more breaks and do more air-dry styles. I stopped believing the hype about having to trim to grow hair and by the time I was at the length I was comfortable with (between APL and MBL) I was fully natural, with nice ends I wasn't closely documenting it because I wasn't on the boards at that time but yea....
my roots are nicely stretched and smooth with this method
I never cut my hair period, I just washed conditioned, pressed the roots and flat ironed with a ceramic iron the length every week or two and kept that up for like 4 years, this year I decided to give it more breaks and do more air-dry styles. I stopped believing the hype about having to trim to grow hair and by the time I was at the length I was comfortable with (between APL and MBL) I was fully natural, with nice ends I wasn't closely documenting it because I wasn't on the boards at that time but yea....
Another great style for blending two totally different textures is a braid-out...even on my super kinky super dense hair a braid out done the right way comes out soooo lovely
Thanks. I hope I'm not bothering you too much, lol.. but what kind of flat iron do you use? I wanna get twists but in between the twists and braid outs I wanna straighten my hair from time to time.I never cut my hair period, I just washed conditioned, pressed the roots and flat ironed with a ceramic iron the length every week or two and kept that up for like 4 years, this year I decided to give it more breaks and do more air-dry styles. I stopped believing the hype about having to trim to grow hair and by the time I was at the length I was comfortable with (between APL and MBL) I was fully natural, with nice ends I wasn't closely documenting it because I wasn't on the boards at that time but yea....
Another great style for blending two totally different textures is a braid-out...even on my super kinky super dense hair a braid out done the right way comes out soooo lovely
You're not bothering me at all...I
talkin about this stuff! lol The best flat iron I've used ironically was the good ole con air ceramic one you can get from the pharmacy for like $50 I think, its black, one inch thick (i like to do waves and curls on my ends) and it was wonderful that was ole trusy right there....my hair was in its best condition with that iron word up.
