Crackers Phinn
Either A Blessing Or A Lesson.
I'm venting so my thoughts are going to be all over the place.
I can't take it no mo!
So what had happened was:
I transitioned to natural the first time in 2004, permed my hair in 2008, transitioned to natural again in 2010, wore wigs for 3.5 of the last 6 years, edges got slightly snatched, started wearing my natural hair in twists or a puff for the last few months and I'm tired of looking like a Rasta librarian. Thankfully my edges are back.
I looked into sisterlocs and that **** is high as giraffe nuts and time consuming. Actually it seems to me that all locs are unless you become self sufficient which I obviously won't since I can't even manage loose hair. I been lurking in the locs thread and that section of YouTube for a while now.
If I could continue wearing wigs without thinning my edges I probably wouldn't contemplate relaxing. Although, flat twisting and corn rolling my hair for the wigs to lay flat rendered me tender headed for the first time ever which is why I know the weave route ain't for me.
Here is the reason natural hair sucks for me: My flat twist and corn rolling skills are not fit to be seen in public so my go to hair style is a puff which pretty much makes me look bald headed from the front and results in single strand knots or twists which have to be redone every 2 weeks on the dot or else my hair begins to loc. I know people with locs will say that's impossible but they haven't sat through taking my hair down before. I tried doing heat training via roller setting and the hair straightening brush but I think it has only loosed my hair by a 1/4 of an inch. My shrinkage is serious.
Here is the reason relaxed hair sucks for me: I stretch for 20-24 weeks and get completely pissed off trying to style the two textures. This normally leads to a ponytail which makes me look bald headed (see the pattern). If I got long hair I want to see it which usually results in me dropping the ball on protective styling. Hello breakage!
I think this may be my last hurrah pursuing long hair tho. My most pressing issue with my hair besides single strand knots is that this gray hair texture is a whole nother beast. If my regular degular black hair is type 4 then this gray is on some type 7 double D. One strand of hair will be coily at the end, straight in the middle and z shaped near the root. I'm telling ya'll my hair is infused with dinosaur DNA. Ole pterodactyl a-- hair.
The next stop for my hair is going the Danai Guerra/Amber Rose route (except dark brown color 4) and keeping up a beat face cuz this hair game got me shook.
On the home front my big fat Jewish family got jokes. After hearing me on the phone asking any and everybody to give me a reason not to relax these mf's gift wrapped a box of Dark and Lovely with a card saying "do it. do it." scribbled. They are well aware that their ain't ****-ness level is on 11. Before this becomes the focus of the thread, most people who know me irl know that I'm quick to tell folks that if you keep harping on a subject the answer is to just act and get it over with. The jokey joke is their way of telling me to **** or get off the pot.
Well, the appointment is for next Tuesday. I'm leaning more towards a texlaxed result than bone straight. I'll still be able to blend my hair when installing kinky twists with marly hair
sigh
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Update 10.18.16
A less puffy version of what my hair looked like everyday.
Blow Dried Pre-trim My ends were covered in single strand knots.
Blow Dried Trimmed I wouldn't have been mad if she took another inch but whatevs.
The flat ironed pics are bootleg since the ends are bumped under. Just imagine these pics except shinier.
Overall, I'm happy with the results. I've got to watch some pincurl tutorials on the Tube of You.
I can't take it no mo!
So what had happened was:
I transitioned to natural the first time in 2004, permed my hair in 2008, transitioned to natural again in 2010, wore wigs for 3.5 of the last 6 years, edges got slightly snatched, started wearing my natural hair in twists or a puff for the last few months and I'm tired of looking like a Rasta librarian. Thankfully my edges are back.
I looked into sisterlocs and that **** is high as giraffe nuts and time consuming. Actually it seems to me that all locs are unless you become self sufficient which I obviously won't since I can't even manage loose hair. I been lurking in the locs thread and that section of YouTube for a while now.
If I could continue wearing wigs without thinning my edges I probably wouldn't contemplate relaxing. Although, flat twisting and corn rolling my hair for the wigs to lay flat rendered me tender headed for the first time ever which is why I know the weave route ain't for me.
Here is the reason natural hair sucks for me: My flat twist and corn rolling skills are not fit to be seen in public so my go to hair style is a puff which pretty much makes me look bald headed from the front and results in single strand knots or twists which have to be redone every 2 weeks on the dot or else my hair begins to loc. I know people with locs will say that's impossible but they haven't sat through taking my hair down before. I tried doing heat training via roller setting and the hair straightening brush but I think it has only loosed my hair by a 1/4 of an inch. My shrinkage is serious.
Here is the reason relaxed hair sucks for me: I stretch for 20-24 weeks and get completely pissed off trying to style the two textures. This normally leads to a ponytail which makes me look bald headed (see the pattern). If I got long hair I want to see it which usually results in me dropping the ball on protective styling. Hello breakage!
I think this may be my last hurrah pursuing long hair tho. My most pressing issue with my hair besides single strand knots is that this gray hair texture is a whole nother beast. If my regular degular black hair is type 4 then this gray is on some type 7 double D. One strand of hair will be coily at the end, straight in the middle and z shaped near the root. I'm telling ya'll my hair is infused with dinosaur DNA. Ole pterodactyl a-- hair.
The next stop for my hair is going the Danai Guerra/Amber Rose route (except dark brown color 4) and keeping up a beat face cuz this hair game got me shook.
On the home front my big fat Jewish family got jokes. After hearing me on the phone asking any and everybody to give me a reason not to relax these mf's gift wrapped a box of Dark and Lovely with a card saying "do it. do it." scribbled. They are well aware that their ain't ****-ness level is on 11. Before this becomes the focus of the thread, most people who know me irl know that I'm quick to tell folks that if you keep harping on a subject the answer is to just act and get it over with. The jokey joke is their way of telling me to **** or get off the pot.
Well, the appointment is for next Tuesday. I'm leaning more towards a texlaxed result than bone straight. I'll still be able to blend my hair when installing kinky twists with marly hair
sigh
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Update 10.18.16
A less puffy version of what my hair looked like everyday.
Blow Dried Pre-trim My ends were covered in single strand knots.
Blow Dried Trimmed I wouldn't have been mad if she took another inch but whatevs.
The flat ironed pics are bootleg since the ends are bumped under. Just imagine these pics except shinier.
Overall, I'm happy with the results. I've got to watch some pincurl tutorials on the Tube of You.
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I style my natural hair exactly how I styled my relaxed hair tho, cuz I really am that uncreative. 
