I'm currently relaxed, my last perm was sometime around late November (like the 20th or something) and since then i've got almost an inch of new growth and I really like it. I noticed it's a lot thicker than my relaxed hair and I love looking at some of the small curls that started to form. There's a lot of pictures of people with natural hair that really just make me drool.
When I was like 6 or 7 my grandma decided to perm my hair because she said it was too much for her to deal with when it got humid..she did the same thing with my mom when she was little. So around the time when I got to high school I reeeeally reeeeally wanted curly hair and I just didn't understand why my mom's hair would still curl even though she had a perm. Well at the time I was ignorant and always told my mom that "my hair texture will change one day" and I didn't mean it would change by not perming it anymore..I meant that it would just magically happen.
So eventually I just started to think that black people didn't have curly hair, only the mixed people did or some people just got lucky and had "good hair". After I found LHCF I realized that we all have some type of curl pattern..if you don't perm it. So now I'm trying to debate whether or not I should go natural. My only obstacle that I think i'd have would be humidity..my home is in South Florida and the air there is NEVER dry.
I was wondering if anyone could tell me some of the pros and cons of being natural. Also, I haven't experienced any balding or excessive hair loss from getting relaxers. Although my hair does break , but I'm not sure if that's from poor hair care (i've just started taking care of it recently) or the relaxer.
When I was like 6 or 7 my grandma decided to perm my hair because she said it was too much for her to deal with when it got humid..she did the same thing with my mom when she was little. So around the time when I got to high school I reeeeally reeeeally wanted curly hair and I just didn't understand why my mom's hair would still curl even though she had a perm. Well at the time I was ignorant and always told my mom that "my hair texture will change one day" and I didn't mean it would change by not perming it anymore..I meant that it would just magically happen.
So eventually I just started to think that black people didn't have curly hair, only the mixed people did or some people just got lucky and had "good hair". After I found LHCF I realized that we all have some type of curl pattern..if you don't perm it. So now I'm trying to debate whether or not I should go natural. My only obstacle that I think i'd have would be humidity..my home is in South Florida and the air there is NEVER dry.
I was wondering if anyone could tell me some of the pros and cons of being natural. Also, I haven't experienced any balding or excessive hair loss from getting relaxers. Although my hair does break , but I'm not sure if that's from poor hair care (i've just started taking care of it recently) or the relaxer.