At what age was your hair first processed?

[chicamorena]

I was 18

 

[Tru_Mind]

Too young!!! I was too young to appreciate my naturally curly hair. I just wanted bone staight hair.

 

[SilkyandSmooth]

I relaxed for the first time right after I graduated from High School. I was eighteen.

 

[stacy]

I was 13 years old. I went to Debbie's Beauty School in Chi-town.

 

[NGC]

Between 3 and 4. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[gloomgeisha]

I was 7 years old. The stylist took me from midback length thick natural hair to a relaxed bob at my chin and I was in tears. I still get on my mom about that today. >.< LOL

 

[inthepink]

I was 12 years old. I remember that I didn't want a relaxer b/c I thought you couldn't scratch your head - EVER! lol The stylist applied the relaxer and I didn't feel a thing. Unfortunately, the relaxer didn't take and he had to re-relax me. My head felt like it was on fire. Sadly, I experienced that many times during my years of being relaxed.

 

[Netta1]

hair was always a big deal in my house I used to get it pressed to death when I was a very little girl, then my mother couldn't handle it (plus I begged) her to let me get a jerri curl when I was about 8-10 yrs old. After the curl I begged her to get a perm at about 13yrs old. My last perm was May 2003 I bced Oct 2003 I was twenty-three years old.

Feels good to be free :0). Feels even better to be me.

 

[Survive4]

9. Went to Belize with my grandmother and was swimming every day. Well my press and curl head couldn't take the water and neither could my grannie so she slapped a relaxer into my hair. 21 years later I'm still caught in its tangled web but maybe I'll find my way out.

 

[luv04]

i was 15

 

[alibi]

I was 12 and my mom gave me an Optimum. I remember it like it was yesterday! She set it on brown paper bags w/ flat beer as a setting lotion. /images/graemlins/look.gif Apparently, that was the thing back her day. Anyways, I had a love/hate relationship w/ my relaxer from then until I was 26. I LOVED the way it made my hair feel, but I HATED the fact that my hair never grew as long as it was before it was relaxed! /images/graemlins/ohwell.gif

 

[ricochet]

I begged my Mother for a relaxer, she wouldn't let me get one until I guess I was old enough to start doing my own hair. Up to that point, I wore braids, cornrows, plaits, puffs and press n curls.

I can't remember if I was 12 or 13 but I know that I was in the 7th grade because we took school pictures a few days after. Boy was I cheesin in that picture! Every time I look at it, I know EXACTLY why I was so happy. I had been fried, dyed and laid to the side! /images/graemlins/cool.gif I do remember burning a little and it taking a very long time for my hair to process, I know that woman left it in my head for about 30-40 minutes. /images/graemlins/tongue.giferplexed: But I knew I was looking good after I left. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Poohbear]

Around third grade (around 8 years old)... I was looking at my yearbooks from elementary school and I was still sporting my natural hair in two pigtails in third grade. In my fourth grade pic, my hair was relaxed. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

The first relaxer my mom ever used on my hair was Just-For-Me! Then Hawaiian Silky, then Motions and Elasta QP.

 

[Connie]

Wow..I can't believe how young some of you were when you got your first relaxer!

I got my first relaxer when I was 21 and my hair has been relaxed until I began attempting to transition months ago and am serious contemplating going back--but that's a whole 'nother thread. As a child, my hair was pressed every two weeks. It was always shoulder length, so keeping it straight made it easier for my mom to manage.

 

[Chakira]

I got mine at 9, I begged and begged, and hated being the only one with nappy hair. I still remember it, that first relaxer turned my hair brown!!!

 

[Poohbear]

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Connie said:
Wow..I can't believe how young some of you were when you got your first relaxer!

I got my first relaxer when I was 21 and my hair has been relaxed until I began attempting to transition months ago and am serious contemplating going back--but that's a whole 'nother thread. As a child, my hair was pressed every two weeks. It was always shoulder length, so keeping it straight made it easier for my mom to manage.

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I was surprised when my mom told me she got her first relaxer when she was 18 years old! /images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[blkmaryland]

Ya'll are bringing back memories!!!!!

Age 8-Vigorol---that was the liquid stuff that smelled like rotten eggs...It was a "relaxer" it never quite straightened your hair enough to stop you from sweatin it out!!!!! It made it easier to press your hair...

Age 9--Cream Perm----I was so happy to get the "permanent relaxer"......super straight and flowing hair that didn't sweat out!!!! only thing I hated was sitting under the dryer...and I still hate sitting under that dryer....

 

[Divastate]

I was 8 or 9 years old.

I'll never forget a converation I had with my mom when I was a senior in high school or so- she told me my hair was always soft and never that difficult to handle so she's not exactly sure about why she ever pressed or permed my hair. That planted a seed that helped me go natural almost 10 years later.

 

[melodee]

I was about 6 or 7. My mom was tired of pressing. She still has the same philosophy. She told me to texturize my 7 year old's type 3a hair so the fluffy edges wouldn't stick out.

 

[skegeesmb]

I think I was 10. I begged my mom because my cousins were getting relaxers. I didn't want to maintain the looks so I was natural by the time I hit 6th grade. I've relaxed my hair and went natural many times. So all together I was relaxed on and off for about 9 years.

 

[chocolate01]

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Age 15

 

[Country gal]

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I want to say in 5th grade but /images/graemlins/sekret.gif it was a jheri curl which just didn't work.