Transitioning

So right now I'm currently transitioning. Before I relaxed I was natural for two years. In 2008 my hair length was past my armpits. Then I had an incident where I straightened my hair in February 2008. I used entirely too much heat and burned a great deal of my hair straight. My naps wouldn't bounce back. I was so sad about that. In April (or March of '08, can't remember), I had my mother cut off about three inches even though she didn't want to. lol And in '08 I cut my hair at least another two times to chop off the damage. Well here comes '09 and I was bored with my hair (dangerous) and instead of doing something like getting a different hair color, I relaxed it. I'm so mad about that. I mean, I enjoyed it for a little while, but now I REALLY regret relaxing it in the first place. I miss my curls. So here I am.

I've been transitioning for seven months now. I relaxed back in March. I didn't make the official decision to transition until May or June, but I consider myself transitioning for the seven months because the relaxer hasn't touched my head since March. Maybe it's save to say that I'm 7 months post. After this I won't be relaxing EVER again. If I want a change, I'll cut or color my hair. I'm even side eyeing heat because of my misfortune last yr. With the setbacks and back and forth I could have been bsl by now. Oh well, you live and you learn.

Anywho I recently had a friend of mine cut my hair. I'll be doing mini chops every 3 months until all of this hair is off. I'm cool with the length. I haven't pulled my hair back in a ponytail or bun since it's been cut. I've been wearing it loose/out. I really don't like to wear my hair pulled back. Loose hair is comfortable for me. Right now I'm sporting a braidout daily. I tried to do the twist and curl and it didn't work on my transitioning hair. It looked a mess. But I did a braid and curl (modified version of the twist and curl) and my hair has turned out great. I rebraid every night and put the rollers on my ends every night. Unbraid and fluff in the morning. It's far from low manipulation but it keeps heat out of my hair (not too fond of it right now anyway). I'm loving this so far:

The twist 'n curl method is done by Curly Nikki. Her blog site can be found here:

http://www.curlynikki.com/