Through my going natural journey, I have found many books to help educate me about my hair. So far, I have bought three books:

Going Natural: How to fall In Love With Nappy Hair

This book is very helpful, it tells you how to properly groom your hair, and how to transition from relaxed to natural. This book includes how to do hairstyles for transitioning and natural hair, and even has little hair recipes for you try in moisturizing your hair.

No Lye! The African-American Woman's Guide To Natural Hair Care

This book breaks your hair structure down to a science you can understand just what type of hair you have, and how you can take care of it. This book also talks about grooming and hairstyles.

Ultra Black Hair Growth II

This book talks about hair products, hair dressers, hair appliances, and what they all do on your head. This book also covers grooming, and what to do if you want your hair to grow ultra long. This is book is very informative like the two above this. I recommend this book for ladies who want to gorw their textured hair.

Right now, there are two books I am looking to add on to my arsenal, that are immediately downloadable, and they are:

Grow Curly African Hair Long

This is a book that is supposed to teach you recipes to help make your hair managable and grow long hair (and treat balding and thinning hair lines), and says it can help you achieve length fast. However, I am highly skeptical because hair is said to grow only half an inch a month, but I am still curious...very curious...about those hair recipes...there is a 60 day guaranteed money back if I don't like it................hey, what can I lose, and it is immediately downloadable, too.

Nappturosity: The #1 Resource For Natural Hair And Loc Care

I want to see what this book offers too. This book is also immediately downloadble. This book talks a lot about locs and how to start and maintain. Natural hair is talked about along with transitioning and do-it-yourself hair styles. Best ways to grow natural hair and groom natural hair. I am thinking about this one, it even comes with a money back guarantee of 60 days also...mmmmmmmmmmm, once again, nothing to lose...I am always looking to add on to my knowledge of Black Hair, I wonder if it can tell me something new...only one way to find out!

My Decision To Transition

In 2008, I decided to transition. The year before that, in 2007, I had been educating myself about black hair. I decided that I was going to get my new growth touched-up, and take care of my hair with those nice chemicals...that is, until I had a horrible experience. I went to a salon to get my new growth done. The lady who did my hair kept the chemicals in my hair so long, that my scalp started to burn horribly. I said to her, "Aren't you supposed to take it out now?" She smiled and said," You want your hair straight, don't you?" I just looked at her in shock and grimaced in pain. After I continued to give her a weird look, she started washing the chemicals out of my hair. As the hot water poured down through my hair, I was sure I was in my worst pain of my entire existence. I felt each drop of hot water go into every single pore in my head. Afterwards, the lady asked if I wanted a trim, I said no because I knew that she would try to cut off all of my hair. She kept insisting, so I said fine, but just a trim, not a hair cut. Yeah right, that woman cut three inches off. The next day, I knew I had to give my hair a good deep condition if I wanted to put strength and moisture back into my hair. To my horror, all of my hair began to clump together with this white stuff. Let me tell you, I began to freak out, I didn't know what was in my hair. I called crying to my cousin about the white stuff in my hair, she came over with her hair tools and examined my head. After looking at my head, she said "Wow, this lady really damaged your scalp, it has burns all over it, that's what the white stuff is, it is all off your dead skin from what that lady did to your hair. I am surprised you still have hair on your head!" With that said, I made a decision to just be the way God made me, if He wanted me to have straight hair, He would have created me with straight hair, but He didn't. And since I am convinced that God knows what is best for me, I decided right at that moment to go all natural. I started my transition with braids.