The grass is always greener, especially when it comes to healthy hair. On one hand, who doesn’t want soft, strong strands? On the other, some of us came of age in the early 2000s, and it shows (stick-straight hair, anyone?).
Between curling irons, flatirons, highlights, and straightening treatments, there are endless combinations of ways to customize your hair to your preferences—which can take a huge toll on it in the process.
At a certain point, you may come to a crossroads: Continue down the path of beating your hair into submission, breakage be damned, or try to make peace by living with—and seriously coddling—your damaged hair. It can be a tough call. But the latter can have some serious rewards.
If You’re Transitioning From Relaxed to Natural…
In 2007, Danni Washington, a TV presenter and ocean activist in Miami chopped her hair off after years of relaxing it at the salon. She’d been perming it since she was six years old, so she didn’t even really know what her natural texture looked like.
“I remember the day that I pulled my roots back and saw that this gorgeous curl pattern was growing out of my head,” she says.
“I didn’t even know it belonged to me.” It took three years—and some key hydrating products—for it to get to a place she considered healthy.
Read the complete article at Glamour.com
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