Transitioning anyone?

Happy Thursday everyone!!!

So--the reason why I wanted to create a blog is because I am newly natural and wanted to document my journey; and perhaps help another along their natural journey.  I have learned SO MUCH about my hair, what it likes, dislikes and what works well for it.  The more information I learn about my hair that more thirsty I am to share it with the world.  I am part of many natural hair support groups and communities where there is just a plethora of information and support from fellow naturals. 

I transitioned for 8 months before I decided to do the big chop.  One thing that I learned about going natural is that it is probably much easier to do the BC right away then attempt to struggle with two types of hair on your head.  I just could not face the fact that after the bc I would practically be bald headed lol.  In our society, having hair is being beautiful (no matter how wrong that is).

In my other natural communities that I am a part of I have realized that when someone is transitioning they may be lost in how to deal with their two different textures.  SO, I have a few pointers for those that may have stumbled upon this site looking for pointers. 

1.  Start to treat you hair as if it is already natural!  I learned so much about my transitioning hair through goggling that key phrase "transitioning to natural", as well as you tubing natural hair techniques and protective styles.  

2.  You may be asking yourself what are "protective styles?”  Protective styles are hair styles that don’t consist of the hair being worn loose. Wearing the hair in a protective style requires that the permed ends, which are the oldest and most fragile part of the hair, are usually tucked away and sealed with some kind of moisturizer. Popular protective styles that I wore during my transitioning phase were Bantu Knots, Twist outs, Braid outs and plaiting my hair (which is just making chunky cornrows) and placing a beanie over top of it. 

3. You must seal your hair when you moisturize it.  In order to seal your hair, you must first apply the water to your hair then spray the hair with oil.  The reason you want to spray your hair with water first is because the oil molecule is bigger than the water molecule.  Therefore by spraying the water molecule first and oil molecule second, you are essentially trapping the water onto the hair which provides the most moisture. 

4.  Familiarize yourself about which ingredients you should stay away from (those that DON'T work well with natural hair).  I can develop a post about this if anyone is interested?

I didn't want to ramble on and on if no one is reading this...lol, I will post pics of my journey and be as helpful as I can!!!

Have a beautiful day everyone and stay NAPPY!

:)

xoxox

Nickie