Naturals that were once relaxed post up your pics of your relaxed days!

[keepithealthy]

1st pic: my relaxed hair
2nd pic: relaxed hair right before I cut it
3rd pic: au natural
4th pic: au natual

I don't miss my relaxed hair but I do miss the length. I want to be able to put my hair in ponytail again. 10 months natural!

 

[BlaqBella]

2007

 

[PPGbubbles]

I only thing I miss are my big rollersets!!!

your skin is soooo pretty!!!! and U have a lovely smile... looking at the first photo....bigger hair is very becoming on you!

 

[MsLizziA]

Everybody had some pretty nice hair when it was relaxed too. The reason i went natural was because even though i didnt know half the things i know not about taking care of hair, i still thought my hair was pretty nice so if it looked like that relaxed, i wanted to see if i would look even better natural!

 

[Tene]

 

[JustKiya]

Everybody had some pretty nice hair when it was relaxed too. The reason i went natural was because even though i didnt know half the things i know not about taking care of hair, i still thought my hair was pretty nice so if it looked like that relaxed, i wanted to see if i would look even better natural!

The only reason my hair looked that good is because it was practically still virgin. I got my first relaxer maybe three months before that picture, which means I had only had one relaxer and maaayyybbbeee a touch-up. If I had pictures of my hair at the end of my relaxer experiment..........erplexed

I messed up my hair and quickly.

 

[MsLizziA]

Y did i ever relax my hair again???

 

[changingSeasons]

Ohh Some of these pics are draw droppingly GORGOEUS! I wouldnt mind having that hair Relxed, Natural, or Texlaxed!!!!

I love the versatility of our hair!

I think that alot of the women do look younger with there natural hair, but thats just IMO, and for me curly hair.

I am currently transitioning, only 3 months post : ). Hopefully one day I will be where you ladies are!

 

[sqzbly1908]

Girl those pics are "somethin' serious"!!!!

 

[MsLizziA]

bump.... more pics please...

 

[BrandNew]

Great thread!

My relaxed hair:
*POOF*

My newly natural hair:
*POOF*

 

[MsLizziA]

bump....................

 

[Bubblingbrownshuga]

This is when I was relaxed in 2001

After being natural for about 6 years, I went back to the relaxer

I was getting tired of the relaxer, so I started chopping!!!

 

[GreenD]

Here's my hair relaxed about 2 years ago. It was around this time that I realized I didn't want perms any more because she would perm the heck outta my hair then add tons of heat to "control" it. erplexed And the second pic was taken in Sept. 2009.

 

[MsLizziA]

This is when I was relaxed in 2001

After being natural for about 6 years, I went back to the relaxer

I was getting tired of the relaxer, so I started chopping!!!

So are you transitioning now or are you natural again in this last pic?

 

[beans4reezy]

This is when I was relaxed in 2001


After being natural for about 6 years, I went back to the relaxer

I was getting tired of the relaxer, so I started chopping!!!

Your natural hair is absolutely stunning

 

[Chromia]

Relaxed - These 3 are cell phone pics.
2006

wet hair 2007

2007, 11 weeks post relaxer

Natural
Twistout last month

Another one from last month (shaky hands, didn't use blur reduction on camera):

 

[brittdadutchess]

I am loving this thread...

 

[Truth]

Lettssss seee here

 

[LoveCraze]

Subscribing so that I can post my before and after pics some day.

 

[MsLizziA]

I never noticed how then our hair could look until i look at the before and after. It just was not meant to look like that...

 

[Taina]

Here some of my pics

http://images52.fotki.com/v1552/photos/9/1538149/7829330/mmm-vi.jpg

 

[BostonMaria]

Here some of my pics

Taina I didn't know your hair was so long before! Beautiful! Must've been hard for you to cut it all off.

 

[Bubblingbrownshuga]

So are you transitioning now or are you natural again in this last pic?

In that last pic, I was like 3 months into my transition. I am fully natural now. Check out my thread about my one year since the big chop.

 

[Bubblingbrownshuga]

Your natural hair is absolutely stunning

These pics were of my relaxed hair.

 

[Taina]

Taina I didn't know your hair was so long before! Beautiful! Must've been hard for you to cut it all off.

Actually i had short hair when i BC ( i had it longer than the one in uniform) this picture is like 4 years old, that was the only time i decide to grow long hair, i did not like straight long hair so i was usually from ear to shoulder lenght.

 

[MsLizziA]

In that last pic, I was like 3 months into my transition. I am fully natural now. Check out my thread about my one year since the big chop.

I looked for your thread, i didn't see it

 

[Bubblingbrownshuga]

I looked for your thread, i didn't see it

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/showthread.php?t=449362&highlight=

 

[blackbarbie]

Sometime in late 2006 or early 2007

April 2007

August 2007

November 2007

March 2008 (13 months into my transition)

Still transitioning (November 2008)

Still transitioning (end product from above ^^^^^)

Still transitioning (November 2008 flat ironed)^^^^^(22 months into my transition)

Still transitioning...Cut and color (February 2009) ....2 years into transition

June 2009

October 2009 (completely natural)

Taken 2 weeks ago. 100% natural. Just got about 3-4 inches taken off.


*** The picture in my siggy is in October 2009 and I was newly natural.
As evident by this pic, my hair could get just as straight being natural as it could being relaxed so I decided going natural was the best thing for me (because I could also enjoy the versatility of natural hair). In addition to that, my hair is very fine and I was always fearful of it getting thinner as I got older. I am enjoying the thickness of my natural hair!

BB

 

[MsLizziA]

Sometime in late 2006 or early 2007

April 2007

August 2007

November 2007

March 2008 (13 months into my transition)

Still transitioning (November 2008)

Still transitioning (end product from above ^^^^^)

Still transitioning (November 2008 flat ironed)^^^^^(22 months into my transition)

Still transitioning...Cut and color (February 2009) ....2 years into transition

June 2009

October 2009 (completely natural)

Taken 2 weeks ago. 100% natural. Just got about 3-4 inches taken off.


*** The picture in my siggy is in October 2009 and I was newly natural.
As evident by this pic, my hair could get just as straight being natural as it could being relaxed so I decided going natural was the best thing for me (because I could also enjoy the versatility of natural hair). In addition to that, my hair is very fine and I was always fearful of it getting thinner as I got older. I am enjoying the thickness of my natural hair!

BB

NO MA'AM! THIS IS ENTIRELY TOOO BEAUTIFUL! Ima need you to post up your regimen and your technique for flat ironing your hair!