“i just found this site and i absolutely LOVE it. all of the sisters on here are beautiful and all of the cute natural hair style’s i’ve been seeing are making me want to switch up my hair even more! i currently have a perm, and i’ve been contemplating going natural for a long time now. i crave a beautiful full natural head of kinks but i don’t want to have to cut off all of my hair to get it. do you guys have any transition advice you can give me, or any ideas about how i can go from perm to natural without that dramatic change? any help or advice you guys could give me would be great!” – kashmir (not pictured)
thanks kashmir, i’m glad you like the site! my goal is always to inspire and provoke women to achieve their best and to believe that their hair is just as fly as the next chic’s so welcome to the family! 
not everyone who goes natural big chops. i didn’t. the way i got around the big chop was by wearing a sew-in weave. i washed my hair every week and added oils and butters to my roots to seal in moisture. i let my hair dry overnight and repeated this process for about a year and a few months before i big chopped. my hair was healthy, vibrant and collar bone length when i finally cut the relaxed hair off.
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ladies! i cut my hair! i was tired of the bulk. i could put it in a little afro puff on the top of my head. not cute.
let’s see, what did i do to get ready for another big chop? to prep my hair, i moisturized with free your mane reviving spray. i prefer cutting my hair when it’s a little damp and not completely wet, so i can see the true length. and you know i had to film it, right? check out the video below [click to continue…]
by kinky girl, sonya mccoy
I did it! (again) “The Big Chop”, as we have come to know it, is a phenomenon in Black culture when African American women cut off their chemically straightened hair. This is the third time I have done the “big chop.” Once in 1993 and once in 1999, I cut off my my chemically straightened hair. This time, I cut off locked (dreadlocked) hair that I had been cultivating and growing for eight years.
Non-Black readers as well as Black ones may be asking: why is this hair thing so important in the Black community?
The discourse about Black folks’ hair is one that has less to do with hair and more to do with American identity. Some will argue this point to infinitude, but there really is no way to account for the persistence of the Black hair issue permeating cultural discourse since the transatlantic slave trade without concluding that we are talking about far more than hair.
Every decade or so since the end of the Civil Rights movement [click to continue…]
every now and again i think many of us go through that, “maybe i should big chop” phase long after we’ve grown our hair. or sometimes we go through it because of hair disaster setbacks like heat damage or a bad hair cut or a break up – i always thought this was a myth (cutting off your hair after a failed relationship) until i ran into a few women who have done this.
recently i’ve been wavering about cutting my hair. for some reason [click to continue…]
so, you did it! you shaved your head bald or did the next best thing – got a ceaser cut. now on your natural journey you are wondering how to keep up this hair cut and how to deal with it as it grows back in – long on top, shorter on the bottom. eekkk!!
i never did the big “shave” – i consider my head not shave friendly, but for those of you who did, it’s not that hard to grow your hair back in; it just take a little creativity and patience.
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many a natural have fallen victim to heat damage. usually it happens in a small section of your head where you unfortunately discover a section of non-reverting hair, usually right after a good press or blow out. but that’s what happens to us when we get, shall i say, lucky?
otise’s (pronounced o-teese) story is a bit different and one i’d say is probably the most common with naturals who like to press and wear their hair straight on a daily bases. having been natural since 03, she’s been pressing her hair for years. unfortunately all of that pressing left her with hair that wouldn’t revert and tons of contrasting textured new growth.
what is heat damage?:
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