Learning your natural........Hair!

When becoming natural, it's very important that you know what your hair likes, needs and wants. Learn your texture and what products and regimen works for your hair. We will talk more about product and regimen on a later day but let's focus on learning your texture. Lets talk types of natural hair, type 2 hair is wavy, type 3 hair is curly and type 4 hair is coily. Can you have a blend? You sure can, let's use my hair for example; my hair is type 3c but in some parts of my hair I have type 4a. So guess what? I have to treat my hair for two types of hair. My hair is very curly, my curls are normally in a pencil or straw curl. My curls are very tight and soft. When my hair gets dry, it gets tangled and makes it hard to work with. What works for someone else's hair may not work for your hair, this is why its very important to learn what works best for your hair. My hair loves water and products that moisture my hair. I don't have to use a lot of oils on my hair but what works best for my hair is when I add my oils to my product. My hair is in love with creams and butters, my hair type is very fragile so I finger tangle my hair a lot, and I use a lot of conditioner!!!!! My hair will frizz very easy, so I have to use gels and anti-frizz serum.  When you find your natural hair type, research all you can to find out what your hair loves and what your hair dislikes. What's your natural hair type? Look at the chart below. 

          

Why I love my natural hair!

3months natural- in love 

When I decided to go natural, it was a huge decision! Being natural has taught me so much, I have learned to embrace my natural beauty.  I love my natural hair because it is who I'm, it allows me to be me, my natural hair is beautifully unique, my styles are endless. I love my natural hair because it is my natural hair! Nobody else shares my exact texture. I can't hide behind anything but true beauty.I love and embrace my curls!  I love my natural hair! How about you?

4 months natural!!!!!!! 

My big chop experience

March 10,2013 was the day I did the BC ( big chop)!!!!! I was excited but very scared, I didn't know how people would take the fact that I was going to cut all my hair off, even my husband was a little negative about me cutting my hair and going natural, but I just knew this was going to be the best for my hair. Note, I had no idea what I was to do after my big chop. So the first day waking up with natural hair, I was mad that I did it. I kept questioning myself, asking myself why did I cut my hair off? I had to step back and remember why I cut my hair off in the first place. I wanted heathy hair, I wanted to be free in my skin, I wanted to be natural because I was sick of putting perm in my hair! When I thought of all the reasons, I begin to do my research. What do I do after my BC? The information begin to flow, and I start feeling good about my decision. I begin to find out about my hair type and find out what would be the best regimen and products for my hair. There was a lot of trial and error, but after 4 months of being natural and a whole lot I mean a whole lot of research on what is best for my hair, I have learned a regimen and now have staple products. This is just the beginning of my journey!

My hair is gone!!!!!!

I did it!!!!! My big chop!!!!!

 

Why natural?

When I think about women going back to natural, I always had a negative thought. I felt you should not go natural if you did not have good hair. Good hair? What's good hair? As I begin to think, I found out that it's not about good hair, but about healthy hair ,whether perm was your thing or natural. So the big question for me was "should I go natural?" and "why did I want to go natural"?  I have had perm hair from day one, that was like the big thing when I was growing up, straight long hair. I liked my perm hair but could figure out why it was not growing long like other girls. I had to see what all this natural hair talk was all about, so I begin to YouTube and looking at different channels, and boy did I find some amazing information about natural hair. I loved the way it looked, and what you could do to it. So I took the information and begin my transition Oct.10,2012. My transitioning period was very easy for me because I kept my hair, in buns, ponytails and braids, but of course I was getting really bored and wanted to see what my natural hair really was going to look like, so I cut a small back piece of my hair, and love what I saw. I then begin to research the BC known as the big chop, I was not ready to cut all my hair off, so I set a big chop day and stuck to it. March 15, 2013 was my big chop day !!!!!! I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I never researched on how to talk care of my natural hair until after I did my big chop! I only knew to keep heat off my hair and keep it moist but ohhhhh it was a whole different story after researching a few of my hair crush, they had this thing down pack, regimen? Mud wash? Co-wash?  I no idea what I was doing and no idea where to start!  Was I ready????  Stay toon more of my story to come!!!!!!

My perm days 

My favorite look 

Here are a few of my transition pictures