melissa-bee
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Relaxed to natural.
Well there's not much to see but I thought I would show my progress especially as I unintentionally took a year's progress natural shot which will be at the end.
But I'm going to show you from the beginning.
The first time I relaxed my hair I was around 18/19 (2005/2006)
I don't have any pics of my virgin relaxer but the next few pics show my hair when it was at its healthiest relaxed state.
Feb 2007:
September 2007:
ETA: Forgot to mention my hair was dyed in the above pic. I used a reddish colour by Soft Sheen and Carson. You may be able to see the colour starting about 5 inches from my roots.
May 2008:
Now you know how the story goes. My hair started breaking off and I didn't even recognise it. All I remember is looking in the at photos and at my shadow thinking "why does my hair look like this?" "Where did my hair go." I was not trimming it at all. And my friend's would look at me like "what happened to your hair it used to be long" * whilst pointing at the end of my neck*
April 2009:
My hair was looking green cos of the quality of my camera phone.
I can't be bothered to work out the dates of when I decided to transition but I had been thinking about it for a while because I couldn't trust the person to relax my hair to relax my hair anymore. I tried to self relax twice and I failed both times...lol, the only part that was done properly was my front.
June 2010, transitioning pic
I was about 6-9 months post relaxer in the above pic. Probably had about 3 inches new growth.
I BC'd November 2010
I took pics but deleted them because they looked a hot mess, I had scab hair and there was still relaxed hair in some places.
Here is a pic I took about 3 month later whilst doing an oil rinse
Feb 2011 (3 months after BC):
SMH
I always braid my hair to stretch after washing but won't wear the braidouts, just tie it in to a bun
Feb 2011:
Now, I unintentionally took 1 years progress photos and I'm so happy I did because I thought my hair looked the same as last year but it now it looks so much thicker and has more hang. Again, I do not wear these braidouts out, it's just to stretch after washing.
Feb 2012:
Can someone tell me what program to use to do side by side comparison?
I wanted to join the APL 2012 challenge so I tried to take some length check shots, but due to this skinny mirror I can't see where my pits are.
Feb 2012:
I am a very slow grower. My hair grows 4 inches a year. It's nothing to do with retention because I measured my hair one year in to my transition and my new growth was 4 inches and it still had relaxed ends so I get sad about that. I've made progress in a year so at least that's something.
My final goal is Belly Button length, in other words Waist length. But I'd be very pleased at Below Shoulder Blade.
Thanks for viewing!
Well there's not much to see but I thought I would show my progress especially as I unintentionally took a year's progress natural shot which will be at the end.
But I'm going to show you from the beginning.
The first time I relaxed my hair I was around 18/19 (2005/2006)
I don't have any pics of my virgin relaxer but the next few pics show my hair when it was at its healthiest relaxed state.
Feb 2007:
September 2007:
ETA: Forgot to mention my hair was dyed in the above pic. I used a reddish colour by Soft Sheen and Carson. You may be able to see the colour starting about 5 inches from my roots.
May 2008:
Now you know how the story goes. My hair started breaking off and I didn't even recognise it. All I remember is looking in the at photos and at my shadow thinking "why does my hair look like this?" "Where did my hair go." I was not trimming it at all. And my friend's would look at me like "what happened to your hair it used to be long" * whilst pointing at the end of my neck*
April 2009:
My hair was looking green cos of the quality of my camera phone.
I can't be bothered to work out the dates of when I decided to transition but I had been thinking about it for a while because I couldn't trust the person to relax my hair to relax my hair anymore. I tried to self relax twice and I failed both times...lol, the only part that was done properly was my front.
June 2010, transitioning pic
I was about 6-9 months post relaxer in the above pic. Probably had about 3 inches new growth.
I BC'd November 2010
I took pics but deleted them because they looked a hot mess, I had scab hair and there was still relaxed hair in some places.
Here is a pic I took about 3 month later whilst doing an oil rinse
Feb 2011 (3 months after BC):
SMH
I always braid my hair to stretch after washing but won't wear the braidouts, just tie it in to a bun
Feb 2011:
Now, I unintentionally took 1 years progress photos and I'm so happy I did because I thought my hair looked the same as last year but it now it looks so much thicker and has more hang. Again, I do not wear these braidouts out, it's just to stretch after washing.
Feb 2012:
Can someone tell me what program to use to do side by side comparison?
I wanted to join the APL 2012 challenge so I tried to take some length check shots, but due to this skinny mirror I can't see where my pits are.
Feb 2012:
I am a very slow grower. My hair grows 4 inches a year. It's nothing to do with retention because I measured my hair one year in to my transition and my new growth was 4 inches and it still had relaxed ends so I get sad about that. I've made progress in a year so at least that's something.
My final goal is Belly Button length, in other words Waist length. But I'd be very pleased at Below Shoulder Blade.
Thanks for viewing!
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I mentioned that your hair was thicker and you brushed me off. I'm glad you can actually see it for yourself now.
