TRANSITIONING

thinking back to when i went natural i cringe at the things i did to my hair and how i took healthy collar bone length hair and fried it, shred it, ripped it and fried it some more to the brink of death. the resources that currently are available now to new naturals and transitioners was not available to me at the time and kisforkinky didn’t exist nor was it on my radar to start this little space on the internet.

during my transition and first year fully natural, i made many a mistake the main one being too much heat. i see this all the time with new transitioners as well – they don’t want that line of demarcation where the new growth meets the relaxed enes so they fry their roots to death to get them to match the rest of their hair. big mistake! [click to continue…]