natural hair?

[Mermaid Momo]

Hello fellow mers! In January I began my natural hair journey by swearing off perms and heat (though I did crimp my hair last month, so that I changed my plan to include only a little heat for special occasions.) I'm wondering if there are any other mers who have natural hair/ is transitioning like I am.
How do you care for your natural hair when you swim a lot? I tend to braid my hair up before I go swimming So that it isn't some weird half kinky half straight afro (I have 4b hair). I'm now looking at putting in some type of twists (maybe havanna/marley twists) but i have to show my mom to see if she can do it for me.

[Yulia]

I have natural blonde hair. I never use styling products, or any shaping tool, neither do I blowdry my hair.
When I go swimming in a chlorinated pool I always braid it, and try to wash it thoroughly with water afterwards.
I wash it with shampoo and conditioner about once a week, and brush it once a day.
When we are going to the ocean I don't care that much about braiding my hair or washing it afterwards, because we will probably go there next day.
http://i930.photobucket.com/albums/ad142/YuliaLinderoth/null_zps6038caef.jpg

[Mermaid Kelda]

I'm half way through growing out my natural hair (by which I mean the natural hair is now as long as the coloured and treated part at the bottom) and for me it's pretty much the same as Yulia.
I don't blowdry (though that's not new to going natural - I never blowdry my hair xD), I wash it maybe once or twice a week with shampoo and conditioner, and I try to avoid styling products or curlers other than on special occasions.
I'm sure there are treatments you can use, too - I've heard good things about hot oil, though I haven't tried it myself, so that's something you'd have to research.

[Mermaid Momo]

(by which I mean the natural hair is now as long as the coloured and treated part at the bottom)
Hair that hasn't been colored is called natural hair too? I didn't know that! learn something new everyday! When I said natural, I was originally refering to kinky coily hair, like this:
http://www.naturalsolutionsbykristy.com/files/QuickSiteImages/frohawk2.jpghttps://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ8jLE4xPdhBfexPsGTeOVMFhC7E5d-5XcKwsEfaEnRlyb-05gohttp://naturaldiva.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/5/1/12517062/2312958_orig.jpg
(I have 4b hair, so mine looks more like the second and third picture. More kinky than coily lol)
but that's good too! maybe it'll help people who don't have kinky hair but want to get their hair healthy again after coloring.

[Mermaid Kelda]

I spent basically my entire high school life colouring my hair, to the point where it sort of held a red-tone no matter how much blue-toned colour I tried to put in it, despite my natural colour being ash-brown and not at all red. So I guess that's what I mean by natural - having a blank canvas again to which I can do whatever I like :)
But yeah, I can't really give any advice on switching from perms, since my hair is naturally straight anyway. But I love all three of those hair styles! Especially the first and third. I think going back to natural will be a good choice :thumbs-up:

[empressmone]

hello my hair is natural but i have locs . i usually just heavily wet it before i get into the pool . when i leave the pool i wash and condition as usual and then moisturize and blow dry . i have to use heat (blow dryer) as my locs reach my knees and will take forever to dry. 21990 thats a old pic of my locs :}

[triteia]

For a long time I used to straighten my hair. I haven't been straighten mine for about 2 years. I get it dyed when I do hair modeling, but I haven't done hair modeling in a year. and this is my hair right now. http://37.media.tumblr.com/bc1512b4034c398ceef12931bf6664fa/tumblr_n7ae0yTF4V1stimtio1_1280.jpg (Just after a trim) I love having my hair natural.

[Azurin Luna]

I never blowdry my hair but let it dry up most of the time in a towel when I want nice curls. My hair curls naturally, but it gets really poofy when I brush it. So before I got to somewhere special, I wash my hair with a little shampoo and then let it dripdry for a bit as I'm drying the rest of myself and then roll my hair in a towel to create a kind of turban. After half an hour till an hour I take the towel off and shake out my hair, I spray a little olive oil in the tips of my hair and I'm good to go. Then when I need to brush it out I use a little more olive oil spray and comb it out, makes it less poofy, but not as nice when freshly washed.
I straightened it a few times because of a character I played in Larp and just to scare my grandma, she didn't like my with straight hair though ;)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=625573490864034&set=pb.100002341658716.-2207520000.1404070627.&type=3&theater This is how it looks when towel dried, here without olive oil spray though

[Theta]

hello my hair is natural but i have locs . i usually just heavily wet it before i get into the pool . when i leave the pool i wash and condition as usual and then moisturize and blow dry . i have to use heat (blow dryer) as my locs reach my knees and will take forever to dry. 21990 thats a old pic of my locs :}

My god your hair is stunning.

Beautiful. I'd kill to have that length.

[Seraphina Suds]

Wow, draggersprez, I'm sorry this thread got derailed so quickly. When I saw "natural hair" I thought of kinky curls, like you meant. I don't think the term really applies to hair that has just been untreated like the others have posted, although I can understand their confusion. (Everyone's hair is lovely, by the way, just not what I think the original intent was.) While I don't have kinky hair myself, I love the way it looks! I have a tag specifically for beautiful natural hair on my personal tumblr and I wanted to share some of the pictures I've found there to get this thread back on track.

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[source] (http://afrocentricmisfit.tumblr.com/post/82706266121/she-is-a-magic-woman-brown-skin)

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[source] (http://tesahrey.tumblr.com/post/78661081057/tess)

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[source] (http://dreadfulstripper.tumblr.com/post/87618566883/blerrgghh) careful, her blog is nsfw

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[source] (http://thebestofbothworldz.tumblr.com/post/80602560489/annie-cant-be-black-shes-supposed-to-have-red) check for more redheads!

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[source] (http://iamwomanking.tumblr.com/post/76956667590/one-of-the-best-sailor-moon-cosplay-a-of-all-time) probably a wig but who can resist those afro puffs + sailor moon?!

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[source] (http://welovecurls.tumblr.com/post/47645566518) this blog is full of amazing hair

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[source] (http://black--lamb.tumblr.com/post/68610646460/im-curious-have-you-ever-had-a-relaxer-can-you-post-a) click to read about her journey from relaxed to natural

And I will end this photo spam with pretty artwork of a natural haired mermaid, because obviously that's what this is all about!
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[source] (http://asieybarbie.tumblr.com/post/79850301980/imagine-a-post-apocalyptic-mermaid-situation)

(I hope none of these are massive...)

[Mermaid Kelda]

Wouldn't "natural hair" apply to anything that isn't treated? If I permed my hair, it wouldn't be natural, but I don't. If that doesn't make my hair natural, what is it?
I think the term is a bit too ambiguous to assign any specific meaning to it.

Back on topic, though, those pics are beautiful! <3

[Seraphina Suds]

I feel like it's not my place to say if it's ambiguous or not because I don't have that type of hair. But I do suggest you Google "natural hair" and see the results.

I'm unsure if there's a term for untreated hair. My friends and I just called it virgin hair or born again virgin hair if it started to grow out after being treated lol

[empressmone]

Ty so much :)

[Mermaid Wesley]

Natural hair in terms of African-descendent hair means not straightened or relaxed (I think. I'm white. I just think that's what it means)


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