Relaxed hair that looks natural..

antavia009

antavia009

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Just wondering if anyone is in the same boat. Transitioning with only an inch of new growth but my whole head looks natural. I know I should be treating the relaxed and natural differently, but it wont hurt if I dont will it? (Sigh)
 
Evallusion

Evallusion

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My relaxed hair is very "textured" and still looks natural...especially if I let it airdry. I have only 16 weeks of new growth but I treat all of my hair as if it were natural.
 
NYAmicas

NYAmicas

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Me. I have very thick hair and wear a lot of curly styles, people are usually surprised to hear Im relaxed.
 
candy626

candy626

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I relax and am not in trasition. But when I stretch for 16 weeks, I treat all my hair the same, as there's not much difference at all. I am 3c/4a natrually, and with a relaxer my hair goes more toward 3c.

People whose hair is bonelaxed have more of a problem with stretching and transitioning.
 
divya

divya

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That's me. I'm transitioning and my relaxed hair is curly due to very light relaxing/texlaxing. Having started the transitioning process more than once, I have treated my hair the same each time. So you should be fine, at least for now. Now as the transitioning process continues, that might change. I'm only going on 6 months...
 
ATLcutey20

ATLcutey20

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Some people think I'm natural too. I have thick hair & its texlaxed.

The only difference is that when I was natural, I only use moisturizing products. Now that I'm relaxed, I use both moisture & protein products.
 
antavia009

antavia009

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NYAmicas said:
Me. I have very thick hair and wear a lot of curly styles, people are usually surprised to hear Im relaxed.
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I loooooove curly styles. Its a battle though, when I do braid outs (i braid then twist one plait, bobby pin it overnight) my relaxed hair holds the curl so much better. The natural state of my hair scares me lol.
 
gabulldawg

gabulldawg

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People ask me if I'm natural all of the time, especially when I'm in need of a touch up or wear heatless styles (twist outs, bantu knot-outs, etc.).
 
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antavia009

antavia009

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Evallusion said:
My relaxed hair is very "textured" and still looks natural...especially if I let it airdry. I have only 16 weeks of new growth but I treat all of my hair as if it were natural.
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I try to let my hair air dry too. Maybe thats why it seems so natural. Heat will straighten it all but humidity hits my natural roots the hardest.
 
antavia009

antavia009

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gabulldawg said:
People ask me if I'm relaxed all of the time, especially when I'm in need of a touch up or wear heatless styles (twist outs, bantu knot-outs, etc.).
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I envy those long curly braid outs and bodacious bantu knots, but my hair in its natural state seems to much to handle. I wish I can have a marriage with natural hair and an occasional affair with relaxers.
 
MissDarcei

MissDarcei

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Yes im transitioning from a texturizer so my new growth isnt much different and everyone I encounter thinks I am already fully natural
 
Mische

Mische

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It always surprises me when people think I'm natural because I'm relaxed pretty straight. Length compliments are usually accompanied with the "no chemicals, right?" and I'm like well, actually... :look: I wear a lot of airdried braidouts so that probably contributes to it, too.
 
sunnieb

sunnieb

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Meeeeee!

I'm bonelaxed and folk still accuse me of being a straightened natural. :yep:

I airdry and I don't use direct heat. I also stretch my relaxers 15 weeks. I never care about showing off my newgrowth, so I think it's hard for some to realize that not all relaxed heads have super skrait hair all the time.

Sent from my Comet using LHCF
 
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prospurr4

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I'm not transitioning, but my hair looks natural, so I treat it as though it were natural. I do a lot a finger-detangling, as opposed to using a comb, and after washing, I have to keep it stretched as it dries or my almost-WL hair will shrink up to my shoulders. :nono:

However, I'm texlaxed and love it! I have the look and thickness of my natural 4b hair, but the ease of styling of relaxed hair. Best of both worlds, I tell ya! :grin:
 
PoisedNPolished

PoisedNPolished

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My hair looks natural when I wash it and airdry. A full blown TWA. I've been natural 3 times before and I'm toying with the idea again. If I airdry in a ponytail and scarf it all gets pretty straight again.
 
GIJane

GIJane

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My hair looks natural as well. I am currently texlax and about 28 weeks post. My hair does not take relaxer well. I am one of those people that has to relax for over 20 minutes. :naughty: But, I know better than that thanks to LHCF. :yep: Plus no matter what type of relaxer, except Mizani, it always burned my scalp. I never was ever to achieve bone-straight her. Even when I used Bantu or Hawaiian silky. My last full relaxer was at a domincan salon. The lady said my hair just laughed at the relaxer. So now I just texlax to soften my hair.

I was natural before. I don't believe that there isn't much difference between texlax and natural for me. Just the manageability is the difference.
 
Sugar

Sugar

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Yep...me too! If I air dry or do a blowout people think I'm natural. Sometimes when its straightened it looks like heat-straightened natural hair.
 
afrochique

afrochique

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Me. Especially since I stretch for 6 mths or more. I don't usually straighten my NG and pple think I am natural. (With two textured hair, though?)
 
Onhergrind09

Onhergrind09

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GIJane, me too! My hair thinks relaxer is that annoying kid in every class who you have to put up with, but no one pays them any mind :). My air dried hair looks fully natural and that is even with years of me not knowing better and overlapping relaxers like it was going out of style. I wen to a salon where there clients were mainly natural and the stylist goes congratulations on being natural, I was like uhhh.......I'm not, sorry? Even funnier was that this was 2 weeks after I got a relaxer.
 
Lilmama1011

Lilmama1011

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Onhergrind09 said:
GIJane, me too! My hair thinks relaxer is that annoying kid in every class who you have to put up with, but no one pays them any mind :). My air dried hair looks fully natural and that is even with years of me not knowing better and overlapping relaxers like it was going out of style. I wen to a salon where there clients were mainly natural and the stylist goes congratulations on being natural, I was like uhhh.......I'm not, sorry? Even funnier was that this was 2 weeks after I got a relaxer.
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Wow... I seriously never saw that before
 
candy626

candy626

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Onhergrind09 said:
GIJane, me too! My hair thinks relaxer is that annoying kid in every class who you have to put up with, but no one pays them any mind :). My air dried hair looks fully natural and that is even with years of me not knowing better and overlapping relaxers like it was going out of style. I wen to a salon where there clients were mainly natural and the stylist goes congratulations on being natural, I was like uhhh.......I'm not, sorry? Even funnier was that this was 2 weeks after I got a relaxer.
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Same thing happened to me when I went to a Dominican salon a couple years ago. It might have been a week after I relaxed my hair...After washing and conditioning the stylists asks me, "Are you relaxed?" I was like yea I just had it done. She was like, "No way". We went back and forth on it for a minute and she was like, "I have never seen such a thing." My hair had her all confused :spinning:
 
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