Journey to Natural- Personal Accounts

-Were you a long term or short term transitioner, and why?I transitioned for 17 months. I was stretching my relaxer applications, long before I knew the "technical" terms, according to the forums. I went to a hairdresser and she told me that I didn't need to relax my hair, due to my texture. So I took her advice, stopped relaxing…

-Were you a long term or short term transitioner, and why?I transitioned for 8 months. I was going to transition longer, but it was difficult to care for both textures, as many people have experienced. I would get knots all of the time and it was hard to detangle at the root.-When did you BC? What was your initial reaction…

I was a short term transitioner 2 1/2mos.My plan was to go from March 2008 through January 2009 however, I got to May 11th 2008 and couldn't take the two textures so I did the Big Chop. I was inspired during the time I was doing a 10 day master cleanse. I believe part of it was spiritual. I was…

-Were you a long term or short term transitioner?? why??I actually didn't really transition at all. Dec. 2007 I had my last relaxer after 2-3 months of no relaxer.My hair was in limbo and I grew tired of the ponytail I found myself wearing everyday. I had a beautiful shoulder length (but slightly damaged) bob when I took the scissors…