Real Talk: Hair Confessions

[heyfranz]

I'm secretly angry at myself for relaxing again. If i'd found LHCF before i relaxed, i'd still be a natural. Now i want to transition again - for the 3rd time, but i'm afraid it just won't work out for me because even though i loved my hair as a natural, it grows longer when relaxed. My siggy is after being doing a bc and being natural for one year, and that's all the growth i retained...

 

[Lyoness]

I can't wait to get rid of my ends, since my hair is like chalk and cheese, but I wont give up my length!!

I'm worried that when I am natural I wont be able to handle my hair! I'm not giving up now though!

 

[bermudabeauty]

Its been getting cold here and I don't want my hair to airdry, but since my hair has gotten longer it takes way too long to dry in the hooded dryer, so I confess... Once a week for about 5wks I have been blow drying my hair! No judgements please. LOL. I have however, put my hair in a full weave so I can give my hair a break for awhile.

 

[1QTPie]

right now i feel that i don't want to ever go natural....

LOL! You have like 12 years of new growth so technically, you are natchul whether you admit it or not. *waiting 'til the other 2/3rd of your hair revolts and become natural too.*



I have no confessions. My hair is boring.

 

[msa]

I like to wear Celie braids, not just under my wig, but out of the house with no wig. I won't do it if I'm going to church or work, but if I'm just going to the store or to work out or the mall I'll do it. I love it.

 

[CurliDiva]

I’m impatient for my natural hair to GROW! It seems like it grew faster when I abused it, greased my scalp and barely ever conditioned!

Although I want MID BACK length natural hair, I have not clue of how I would style it. I'm afraid that I will have to straighten constantly to show any length and have it look stylish.

I get irritated when some seem to go from a twa to APL in months and I been trying to get to APL for over a year.

 

[shmmr]

I have an appt to get a relaxer on Nov 5th. I'm 100% ready for it.

I wish my hair was thicker.

I can't stand straggly ends, got a cut last Thurs (so I'm still SL) and wish more ladies on this board would do the same (no comments please).

I wish I could find a hairdresser like Renience here in ATL - one who will also teach me how to do right by my hair at home. (PM me if you know of oneerplexed).

 

[Naemone]

I don't think relaxed hair is as good as our natural hair(that we all have because it grows out of our scalps, whether we choose to relax shortly after or not.)

That's it!

 

[TLC1020]

I had a setback and I am so disappointed and mad at myself for it I could just scream . Now it seem like my hair is a totally different texture and it do not have the fullness or thickness that I am used too having .

 

[Mrs.Green]

do you pincurl afterwards? the thing i like about rollersetting is that it makes my curls last longer. when I would use heat, it wouldnt last very long.

Yep I pincurl or wrap throughout the week. During the week I'm good, I've just been taking the easy route during the weekend after wash/deep condition by blow drying and curling erplexed

 

[jevetta]

I really wish I had started good natural hair care when I was a teen. My nappy hair was a shiny black, and very thick. I could have grown it long, because I didn't have to style it for work or anything.
I hated my hair relaxed, it depressed me. It would hang so limp and nasty, like a living thing had been killed.
I would like to grow my hair long enough to wear two braids that reach to the boobs, grandma braids. Jeve

 

[GV-NA-GI-TLV-GE-I]

Don't kill me. I sometimes feel that Black people have cursed hair! That's the truth. Then I calm down, stop blaming G-d for my poor haircare choices, and embrace the mess I got myself into lol. You can go crazy dealing with hair! Especially dealing any of the 1 billion varieties of "ours." I don't hate myself. I'm just trying to cut my addiction to creamy crack...so instead of "angel dust aka strong relaxer" I'm doing "cocaine aka texturizer" to control these coils. Oh l-rd. Sigh... I love myself,I love myself, I love myself. Black is beautiful (without this mantra, I'd be a baldie!) Y'all asked for the truth.

 

[locabouthair]

Don't kill me. I sometimes feel that Black people have cursed hair! That's the truth. Then I calm down, stop blaming G-d for my poor haircare choices, and embrace the mess I got myself into lol. You can go crazy dealing with hair! Especially dealing any of the 1 billion varieties of "ours." I don't hate myself. I'm just trying to cut my addiction to creamy crack...so instead of "angel dust aka strong relaxer" I'm doing "cocaine aka texturizer" to control these coils. Oh l-rd. Sigh... I love myself,I love myself, I love myself. Black is beautiful (without this mantra, I'd be a baldie!) Y'all asked for the truth.

I used to feel like that too, so it's ok. I used to DREAD getting my hair done.

 

[glamazon386]

I am very low maintenance when it comes to everything. Hair, nails, makeup, etc. People seem to think the opposite but I'm not. Just because those things are kept up 99% of the time it doesn't mean I put hours into that maintenance.

 

[Ediese]

I am very low maintenance when it comes to everything. Hair, nails, makeup, etc. People seem to think the opposite but I'm not. Just because those things are kept up 99% of the time it doesn't mean I put hours into that maintenance.

Great progress in your siggie!

 

[KEWLKAT103]

-It really bothers me to walk in a room full of AA women and be the only one wearing my own hair on my head.

-When someone on here complains that people think all AA women with long hair is fake, I understand why.

 

[glamazon386]

Oh yeah and how about I HATE MY THIN HAIR.

 

[chebaby]

i dont like my flat ironed hair anymore. i went back to co washing everyday.

 

[tocktick]

I'm only taking a break from protective styling in June/July because of my graduation. If I wasn't graduating, I would keep my hair in braids completely until I reached BSL. The break is likely to be for 1-2 weeks and then it's back in braids.

Quite a few people want me to take my extensions out and wear my natural hair and I've considered it. But then I remember that it makes the time I take getting ready much longer and comes attached with a whole host of other maintenance issues that I cannot be bothered to deal with on a daily basis, even if I was only going to leave my hair out for 1 week.

Truthfully, I don't like my hair at the stage that it is in right now. The longer it gets, the nicer it looks and the nicer I look. Short hair doesn't look that great on me - this is partially why I always used to stretch and blow-out my hair.

 

[tapioca_pudding]

I can't for the life of me figure out how to pincurl. I have watched every youtube, metube and yomommas tube. I just can't get it.

 

[Iluvsmuhgrass]

Sometimes I wanna grow it then I wanna cut it off
Damn near died when I had to comb it out

Sorry... I had an Usher moment.


My confessions:

1. I find something that works... my hair flourishes,,, then I get lazy.
2. I can NOT roller set. Thank Jeebus (Simpsons episode) for curlformers.
3. I find stuff I LOVE after I use it up, I can't find it anymore.
4. My temples hate binding of any kind. I finally got them to thicken up, then I used a silk scarf to air dry and I'm almost back where I started. (And I didn't tie it tight at all.... roar.

 

[Evazhair]

I am tired of having bins of products. It's crazy how good I feel to finish something and throw the package away.
I am tired of rollersetting right now, but I will continue to do it.
I really only feel like wearing a braid with ends tucked in right now.

 

[azucar]

I hate my fine/thin hair, but I learning to work with what I've got.
I love sengelese twist but my fine/thin hair can't take it I will be back to no edges.

 

[glamazon386]

I can't for the life of me figure out how to pincurl. I have watched every youtube, metube and yomommas tube. I just can't get it.

I never figured it out either.

 

[gymfreak336]

I want to color my hair again
If my hair doensn't get back to normal soon I will have to cut it. I am just too impatient

 

[JessCNU]

I love being black (before anybody questions that)
but I hated MY natural hair....
it looked like the back of a sheep's bootay no matter what I did to it.

 

[wonderstar]

If my hair was thick/er I would have relaxed bone straight.

 

[Blaque*Angel]

this should be called the natural confession thread

 

[wonderstar]

this should be called the natural confession thread

You're probably right.

 

[msa]

this should be called the natural confession thread

For real. Apparently nobody likes theirs