r/Naturalhair

My dad was an amateur photographer, proud “Rattler”, and a Q. I just wanted to share what we looked like through the eyes of a hopeful young black man in the early 70s on and off the Florida A&M campus. No RevAirs or Dysons, no Aunt Jackie’s or Olaplex. Just green and blue Ultra Sheen, Posner, and Pink Oil Lotion. That’s me on mom’s lap, but I don’t know who anybody else is—could be your grand or great grand, look close and let me know…Have a beautiful, natural day!

I’m looking for support, I’ve always been incredibly insecure about my natural hair especially when my mom would force me to wear it out in an Afro or space buns. Been thinking about getting locs. I feel like I look like a little boy when I wash it only. I feel like only look good with braid outs (first photo) and blow outs. I don’t like it when it’s freshly washed. I mostly wear braids now which my mom said I shouldn’t anymore and I should start just doing twist since it’s causing breakage. I also feel like my hair has stayed the same length for a while now.

I cut it off a month ago. It used to be right almost to
My boob now it’s collarbone. I wanna start my natural hair journey, but it’s hard since my mom always did my hair and she’s moving out soon.

This year makes it 2 years that I’ve been an active natural. All I can do is my personal best and hope that God willing everything else falls into place. It literally just occurred to me (it sinked in) that I’m a natural and what that means 😇. I’m going to take myself out to dinner 🍽️ to celebrate this milestone. Hopefully this inspires someone to keep going.

Thank you for reading 📚.

Just wanted show of my hair since I haven’t used a flat iron/blow dryer in a while…

It was a hit and I won 1st place lol

I use a serum every night before wrapping and sometimes in the morning, but the bounce is gone after a few days. This was my first silk press ever, so I’m a bit disappointed. Atp, I’m just ready to re-loc it. 🤷🏽‍♀️

i used k18 leave in hair mask after i dyed it yesterday and it’s so soft and elongated and fluffy 😭 my hair definitely feels stronger but i do know that k18 works overtime so im excited to see what that has in store for me. if u haven’t had success with k18 before , they did update the usage instructions to add that you can rinse out after 4 minutes is up then condition like normal cuz it can make your hair sorta stiff. this is a braid out from blow dried hair using ogx protein bond leave in and pattern leave in after completely blowdried.

Good morning ☀️. I used As I Am Rosemary styling mousse. I haven’t had a perm rod set in a long while. I got new perm rods that are a different size and different colors from the beauty supply store. I just had to use them to exercise my skills 😫. I will only get better 😇. Thank you for reading 📚.

I’ve been wearing “protective styles” back to back pretty much for 5-6 years straight. It’s enough!!! I’ve managed 60 days with my natural hair and I must say I’m loving it. My hair doesn’t need to be longer, or softer, or have looser curls to be beautiful, it just needs to be HEALTHY.

The first month was uncomfortable, but honestly the longer you wear your own hair you start to recognise yourself again. I now can’t imagine going to a salon to get braids (this is crazy for me to say btw as I said I wore locs, knotless braids, boho braids etc forever).

I’m travelling soon and usually I’d be running to a salon to get my hair done, but honestly I’m not doing it, I’m wearing the hair that’s coming out my scalp 🙂

Every step is a new challenge that I’m trying to conquer. First it was work, then going out to a social event, now a holiday. Next I guess dating….

Either way THIS IS ME. I’m tired of hiding. My hair is beautiful. Society needs to catch up.

My almost 8-year old has a LOT of long, thick, beautiful hair. I’ve always kept it in twists because she’s extremely tender-headed and having to detangle her hair after it’s been out is a NIGHTMARE.

Recently she’s become interested in redoing some of her twists and doing her hair. Now she’s complaining that she doesn’t want her hair in twists anymore and wants to try other styles. She said she will detangle and moisturize her hair if it’s out.

I’m struggling with giving her independence to learn to do her hair and also keeping her hair healthy and manageable by keeping it in twists. Idk what to do 😩

I was thinking maybe if I get a good blow dryer I can stretch her hair and try different styles. She mentioned something like French braids (which I don’t know how to do) but I don’t think I can learn to do them properly if her hair is not stretched. Any tips on blow-dryers, styles, suggestions.

My curls are doing a lot of work on the front lines, I’m happy I grew it out these last 8 months.

A year ago I had steroid shots in the back of my scalp and the hair has grown back looser than the rest of my hair. More like 3B vs. my typical 4A texture. The strands are also not as thick and it hangs lower, I can’t blend or hide it. It completely messes up any wash and go I try to do. It looks like a bunch of heat damaged hair, except it’s not.

I big chopped 17 months ago and I thought I could wear my curly fro throughout this forever lasting awkward phase but my hair just looks an utter mess in the back. I spent the past hour trying to finger coil it and it looks horrible. My hair is about 8-9 inches stretched.

Any suggestions? I didn’t want to cut it because the hair is technically healthy, I’m not a straight natural.

(Pic is after I brushed out my finger coils in frustration 😭)

SA

I need help growing my hair out especially on the sides and the back because I got it braided but I realized I I might want to grow those areas out and get them braided again in my question would be how do I make that not look so awkward