I started my journey in April 2011 when I decided that I was going to get my last perm for Easter. I'm the type of person who always wanted to try different things with their hair but usually was afraid to. But around this time my roommate was going through her transitional phase from relaxed to natural and I really liked her hair so I was like " I want to try it". But fast forwarding to this past week. So my last perm was 9 months ago and I really hated getting my hair styled because it was relaxed and natural and the natural hair would lose the style before my relaxed would so I decided to get a quick weave to hold me over until i decided on what my next move was. So on Jan. 27th, 2012, I got the BIG CHOP. Sitting in the chair and hearing the scissors cut off all my hard work really madE me question "did i make the right move?". I'm slowly getting use to the mini fro, but a part me is like "I WANT MY HAIR BACK". 

Hello.  After going through so much with hair breaking and perms and finally being natural,  I would never think about putting a perm in my kids hair.  It is tough combing it sometimes but I love her curly fro! 
http://youtu.be/5WxFGnlDjGM

http://youtu.be/kRMRZxXz4tQ

Ok, I live in Arizona so the percentage of blacks is really low. The last time I checked it was 5% on the census of 2011. I work with mostly Causcasions so you know where I am going with this. I was the only Black person working there and they recently hired 2 more Black people. (yey)
One male the other is female. The female looked latin from a far distance, then when I finally met her I realized she is light skinned. (I'm from New Orleans so I would say that she is "RED BONED")  Two of my  co-workers who are white stated that she can't be black because her hair is too straight" I told them that it is relaxed. They said; No if she were black we would know I mean look at your hair its all..... Then they didn't finish their sentence. So I said Its all what? Natural or Nappy? Because my hair is in an afro right now. Anyway they just walked out of the office. It sort of irritated me in a way that some people are ignorant to natural black hair. Yeah , I get that we conformed to having our hair straight to look socially acceptable. But C'mon now!

I really love being natural. I have been natural before, but this time I feel as if I have a new feel and groove about me, with this natural look...I am more confident and much more focused. I am and acheiver, I have overcome some major obsticals in this walk of my life, I am victorious no longer will I be the victim...  Into each life some rain will fall but always after the rain I gain NEW  Strength .... I am forver loving this new me! pictures are coming soon.

Eternally Natural!

It has been a long time since I have wrote to update on my life since doing my big chop.  I have to say I am still very happy with that decision of getting rid of my relaxed hair.  It has been worth it through the compliments and complaints that people have made about my hair.  One thing that bothers me is that all the complaints have come from other black women.  Most of the compliments have come from people of another race and culture which disturbed me alot of times.  Why is it as black women we do not know how to support and ecourage one another? Why do we knock each other down before picking each other up off the ground?  Today I am going to make sure to show love to everyone I come across we never know what battle they fight each day in their life.

Hello,

I have decided to start this new season of my life off with going natural. I have made this decision because it is the perfect start to an amazing change in my life. I have been growing my perm out since August and I think I am ready. I still have stringy permed ends that are damaged but I am afraid to cut them off. I believe it symbols something inside of me that  I need to let go of so I can be free of it. Those stingy ends will have to go. I don't know I have been working with it twisting and pinned it up so it doesn't show as much. I have also been a wig addict for the past year. Growing my naps underneath the fake hair. i am finally going to break this habit for once and for all. I never knew how addictive wearing wigs were. It is bad when you look in my closet and there are more wigs hanging than cloths. Here goes my journal of going natural. I will take some pictures as soon as I'm satisfied with my new look for 2012.

okay so im trying this new thing called natual and its not as esay as it is well i guess maybe its because i am so darn lazy like i dont know how to wash my own hair cause it always get tangled and then i rip it apart which hurts really bad. but all my hair througout high school i had extention until i move out of state and it was hard finding someone to do my hair. but i have always seen people with fro's and all that and i always wondered how it was like. well last week i decided to do a bantu knot and still had relaxers in my ends and the lady told me that my hair is damage and all that so i had to cut some off but not entirely. when you are being told that your hair is damage that is a terrible thing, i was scared and lost and i didnt know what to do anymore urgh.. so now i been watching alot of videos and im waiting until i go to the hair salon so i can see where do i go from there so i can start purchasing thse products.i am looking forward to my new journey.

I really dont know what to do it's been almost a year and I have texlax my hair twice. I started out going natural but i got so frustrated with my boyfriend and others make remarks about my hair. There was a point where i wish I had never told anyone I was going natural. People treated me like I had a disease and my boyfriend told me that natural hair was wrong. Really! How can something god gave you that grows from the scalp of your head be so wrong. What the hell is wrong with our society. Too make a long story short I perm my hair and its like my hair fought back. So now its been three months and I havent perm my hair yet and I have this texlax texture hair. I'm happy because it didnt straighten all the way but I dont know what to do because I want to do the big chop but I'm really scare of the out come. Simply because I have natural hair and texlax hair and both are thick textures of hair so where would the chop begin. Help!!!!!!!!!

Site updates going on now

Hi I just did the big chop well what was left of my hair i been getting perms since I remember it always broke off my poor hair I use to hate getting perms but I thought that was what I was supposed to do my mom is puerto rican im mixed with black she been perming my hair since I was 7 I definitely don't know my curl pattern because getting perms is all i know so about a mouth ago I went to the salon to get a color correction from jet black to honey blonde the color came out beautiful but everyday my hair was breaking off then I went to perm it a month later and most of my hair fell out OMG I wanted to die that was a tragic & depressing moment for me I had to just start all over Im taking the salon to court because I neTver signed a release form and  apparently he over prosessed my hair this all happened less than a week ago its growing back pretty fast curls are forming already I'm so happy but so sad because of how it happened but now I get to wear my NATURAL hair straight or curly i always wanted to have that choice I'm DONE with chemicals for GOOD wish me luck I'm going through a hard time right now dealing with this BIG transition I look so different with a fade lol I can't wait until it grows bk out this site inspired me along with the ladies on YouTube i been watching a lot of videos of black womens hair journey and boy it made me feel better because im not alone I have a great support system so I'm not getting through this alone actually my boyfriend loves the fact that I'm going natural because he hates chemicals himself thanks for reading my story I will soon post pictures of before and after and most of all my growth process so stay tuned love peace & happiness