Sunday, April 10, 2011

Happy to be nappy!

I am a huge fan of natural hair. I love curls and if I could I would love all my clients to be natural. I have had relaxed hair before and I totally understand the convience of it. Natural hair does require a little more attention and maintenance but the pros of natural hair outweigh the cons.
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The purpose of a relaxer is to eliminating the curl out of your hair. With eliminating the curl the chemical also can eliminate the body and the moisture in the hair, leaving it flat and lifeless. With short hair this is the best option and the only time I will not express my happy to be nappy opinion. I have short hair and my hair is natural so it is possible. The reason being is because I enjoy my bright red hair and in order for me to achieve this look I had to go natural, but it requires alot. I wont sugar coat natural hair and not every stylist is equipped to do it. If you enjoy bright lighter colors, body, shine, and strength, with the option of straight or curly hair then natural is the way to go, and how cool is it to be able to say I'm happy to be nappy lol!

3 comments:

  1. I just started the process of being happy to go nappy and I don't know where to begin. First I weaved it up b/c I was told it'd make it easier to grow my hair out, but I couldn't maintain the weave for longer than 3 months so I took it out and I hate the way my hair felt afterwards (dry and rough and lacking body). So now I have it in what I call my Melanie cut (you know how Mel on The Game cut her's) and I'm trying to grow it out this way and I just flat iron my roots when they start waving up, but I don't know if that's healthy...what to do!?

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  2. Going from relaxed to natural is hard! The most important thing is to keep a trim every six weeks! Also the hair will snap at the line of demarcation so be sure to get strengthing treatments mazani has a good one called kerafuse! The summer will be hard my suggestion that's the only time to do weave is the summer months other then that they can tear your hair up, but remember when getting them do not do it back to back leave a little time in between or you will cause damage to your hair. Stay away from heat everyday just when u wash & style bottom line try not to sweat! Lol

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  3. Thanks! Whew, this is going to be hard...I was just saying I wish I had started in the winter so it'd be a good length by summer...we'll see how it goes:-/

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