Ladies who have been both relaxed and natural

[Piscesgirl718]

I think my hair grows at the same rate if I'm relaxed or natural. However, I think that I retain more growth/length if it's natural.

 

[GoldenBreeze]

It's been a very long time since I was relaxed, but as far as I remember it grows at the same rate either way.

 

[Harmony0221]

I want to say it grows faster now that I am natural but at the same time I didn't have LHCF when I was relaxed sooooo....

 

[brownsugarflyygirl]

I think that my hair grows at the same speed but I have retained more length as a natural because I wear more protective styles now than I did when I was relaxed.

 

[LadyKaypnyc]

My hair grows at the same speed...but I wasn't able to retain the length when I had a relaxer.


My hair was always long, but by the time I reach brastrap length, my hair was start to break off. No matter what I did...

Now that I'm natural, my hair grow and retain it's length w/o too much effort...although shrinkage would fool one into thinking it's not growing at all

 

[a_ caribbean_dream]

I would say my hair grew faster when I was relaxed
but longer now that I am natural and know how to take care of my hair.

If I knew about stretching relaxers and caring for your ends when I was relaxed I think I would've had the same growth and retention rate.

 

[ebonylocs]

It grows at the same rate. (Of course. Having or not having a relaxer won't affect the rate hair grows out of your scalp. (Unless you're talking serious scalp damage).

However, of course, when relaxed my length *shows* a lot more.

But the trade-off is my relaxed hair now seems more brittle, more fragile and more prone to breakage than my natural hair was. But that's probably because I'm currently over-processed. It didn't feel quite like this before the last relaxer session.

 

[aja1121]

My hair grows the same either way. The difference is as a natural, there are no length retention issues like when relaxed.

ITA!!! same speed, but I retained way more length with natural hair. The only way I could monitor was growth with relaxers was with my new growth and roots from color.

 

[jennifermb]

I immediately voted faster when natural. I really should've voted "same speed". I did have noticeable new growth every 6 weeks when I was relaxed both times. The problem was that my relaxed hair always broke off erplexed so I sometimes confuse that with not growing.

 

[Faith]

I said faster when natural but I think it may be because I keep all of my ends as a natural and had to trim a bit more as a relaxed head. Hmm!

 

[MissMarie]

ditto to the above

same growth rate but greater retention, healthier scalp and ends as a natural

 

[onyxcabelo]

Seems like it was the same growth rate - however, it almost seemed like to me that my hair grew faster with the relaxer because it was straighter, of course, but also it always seemed like I was in need of a retouch, which also made it "seem" like it grew faster.

 

[gradygirl]

I don't know if it grows faster but I retain more inches because my hair does not break as much anymore. It grew really fast right after I bc'ed but my hair always seem to take off after a good cut.

 

[Aggie]

My hair grows the same....I can't notice any difference

Co-signing with Traycee. I never noticed before but really, it's about the same when I really think about it.

 

[Irresistible]

I don't know about faster. But mine certainly grows longer when it's natural.

What she said!

 

[MonPetite]

Same speed, but I think I'm retaining more. That said, once my scalp was out of the detox phase I could feel more tingling and I still do.

My hair grew in "spurts" relaxed, now it is constant. Faster? Not sure.

Maybe my growing phase has lengthened.

 

[DDTexlaxed]

I say it grew faster natural because I rinse daily. My rate of retention is better because I barely shed any hair natural.

 

[klowdnyne]

My growth rate is about the same, but my retention is much better since I'm not relaxed.

 

[beautifulisaunderstatment]

It grows at the same rate, BUT my retention rate is higher as a natural.

 

[ladylibra]

same growth rate, greater retention as a natural. i'm more involved in caring for my hair now, so that's part of it too.

 

[LadyKaypnyc]

same growth rate, greater retention as a natural. i'm more involved in caring for my hair now, so that's part of it too.

^^^^What she said

 

[winnettag]

My hair grew the same. The only difference now is that I'm retaining the length instead of sweeping ends up off the floor!

 

[naturalgurl]

My hair grows at the same rate either way (I think). It's just that I retain lenght as a natural. When I was relaxed, never got past APL, now I'm breezing by APL unstretched and I have so much more hair than when I was relaxed.

 

[shebababy]

Based on my new growth, my relaxed hair grew slower. I think my scalp didnt like that particular relaxer though. When i texturized, my hair grew quickly; from a lil past shoulder length to a inch from bra strap; then my hair subsequently broke off. As a natural my hair grew quickly, but the first time around, I had no idea how to handle it. Now I'm newly natural again, hopefully I'll get it right this time; either that or cutting this ole hair short.

 

[LadyEuphoria007]

My hair was growing the same but maintaining and retaining it was a diff story. By the time I figured it out...I decided to go natural.

 

[bbdgirl]

when my hair was natural I was sure that it was growing faster but it just turns out that I was treating my hair differently than when it was relaxed. Mainly I rinsed my hair everyday and always left conditioner in all day and night. MY hair wasnt growing any faster I was just retaining length better than I ever had before. Now that I practice the same thing frequent washings, deep conditoning and always using conditioner night and day...guess what my hair is still growing and I am retaining length like crazy. Simple.

 

[Cattypus1]

I don't think the speed is different...I just can't tell since I'm all natural. The new growth was easier to see when I was relaxed. As for retention, that remains to be seen.

 

[BostonMaria]

Aww it's always nostalgic to see old posts from former members


My hair grows the same. Now as a natural I retain more length.

Sent from my iPad using LHCF

 

[PinkSunshine77]

growth and retention is about the same

 

[caribeandiva]

It seems faster when I went natural, probably because I was retaining more length easier.