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.