Why I'm No Longer a Straight Hair Natural

In this video I will be sharing why I only straighten my hair two times a year. In the past I would straighten it every month but I decided to change things up. Time stamps listed below!

Time Stamps:
Why I decided to make this video - 2:00
A little background on my straight hair - 2:45
Reason 1 - 4:50
Reason 2 - 6:40
Reason 3 - 7:57
Reason 4 - 8:45
Reason 5 - 9:32
Reason 6 - 10:07
Reason 7 - 10:50
Reason 8 - 12:20
Reason 9 - 12:49
Reason 10 - 13:22

[digitallocations]

You had me at, "straight hair is not the only way to look presentable". 🙌💯
Many people have their hair natural for years and years without coming to that realization.

[marvinandjosh]

Thank you for saying that about heat damage/heat 'training'. If your curl is altered/loosened from heat usage, it is heat damaged. I truly believe some people are in denial about that. Just because you have some texture left and it isn't completely straight, doesn't mean it isn't heat damaged. The amount of loosening just denotes the severity of the damage NOT that you don't have heat damage. I'm amazed at how much people don't get that concept.

[Candicedickinsonllc]

It’s sad that a black womens natural hair can be perceived as attention seeking in some areas ….I mean it literally grows out of our head 😅

[Senseiisaiyan]

The thing is for people with kinky curls being a “straight hair natural” is highly beneficial if you take the correct steps to prevent damage. The reason kinky curlies straighten their hair is mostly because it’s a low maintenance style (if you can maintain it at least 2 weeks) and our ends don’t have the chance to shrink up and knot around each other.

[digitallocations]

I don't wear my hair straightened myself, but shrunken hair is very prone to single strand knots. You avoid them by never letting your hair dry unstretched. That's what the washday twists are for. It took me a while to realise people didn't just do them for the chunky twist or twist out aesthetic. I love to style my natural hair and wear it open most of the time. I experience the least shedding when I do this.
Also airdrying hair can be very dehydrating to the strands. Heat can help you seal your cuticles and keep the moisture in. You can sit under a hooded dryer to dry your natural hairstyles or use your blowdryer. I do this and I never have to remoisturise my hair between washdays.

[kefilwesebolai]

As a straight hair natural I think I cracked the code, to having healthy natural hair while using heat. You gotta do keratin or hair botox treatments they help strengthen your hair and fill in the cuticles and your silk presses last longer therefore you don’t have to straighten your hair often that’s what is it

[Just_Kianna]

I’m at the stage of straightening my hair once or twice a month. I’m just trying to figure out how to maintain it once straightened. Going to binge watch more of your videos. Enjoyed the vid.

[e.o.a]

Your Hair is so beautiful, when natural hair is straightened it looks thicker and healthier than relaxed hair.

[lisaj]

This used to be me - I was a straight "hair" natural. I put hair in quotes because I literally had like 4 hairs by the end of 3 years. LOL. My hair got less and less dense over the 3 years that I wore it straight all the time. And my gosh the SMELL. Many of us try to ignore and pretend the smell is not there, but baby it STANK when you don't wash it. Wearing straight hair had me always delaying a wash in order to maintain the straightness. My poor abused hair rebelled and shed itself away every day until my ponytail was a sad string. Eventually I had to do a big chop. It was all in my mind that straight hair looks better. Nobody can't tell me that my AFRO ain't BOMB. It's the best hair of my life. xoxo

[Zahara-psce]

Sure. But, its equally valid to wear your hair straight/'heat-trained' or natural or relaxed. Its what you're comfortable with and its just hair.
Yes, the way you wear your hair impacts how you are perceived in society and etc...but its all up to personal choice. And, all choices are equally valid.

[melissal]

I agree! Heat trained is just another way to say you've damaged your hair with heat and it's behaving differently because of it.

[ossier]

I love that water is my friend. I hated avoiding working out after getting my hair straightened because my roots would get poofy due to sweaty scalp and it cost a lot of money to get it done.

[winternightsky]

I guess im so used to relaxer/flat ironing my hair since a teen and that's why i feel better with straight hair, because that's when i feel i look like me.

Now the older i got i stopped using the relaxers because im lazy and that was an extra step i had to do, so i guess i became natural due to being lazy😂.

I tried the afro with water/cream and i got tired of doing that everyday/picking out the afro, so i started with the use of flexirods and i really loved how i looked, the afro stayed curly for days and thought that's how i would wear my hair.

Yea no my hair broke off and i just cant believe i didn't notice but i guess the afro was hiding it. So i went back to just flat ironing my hair once a month, putting it in a bun and i was able to keep up with split ends and didn't have any single stranded nots anymore. But then my scalp developed flakes/i started trying to workout and got tired of my hair puffing up/getting dry/flakes.

So now i wear my hair cornrowed and slap a wig on and go on about my day. This hair stuff is just tedious and i don't have the patience anymore. I'm not trying to sit in anyone's chair for hours getting a hairdo or braids, no more sitting under that hot ass dryer for hour(s) and no more losing sleep because I'm trying to sleep a certain way not to mess up my hair

[VampireBlood]

I use to straighten my hair all the time and after I was done, I would have a pile of dry hair to throw away, tugging pulling and combing out knotted hair just to get it straight… I started watching YouTube 5 or 6 years ago and that changed my life …..I learned my hair and to my surprise I’m a flawless natural ☺️I love my curls but I still got to learn how too cut my ends….

[recapswithmae_music]

So glad the algorithm put you in my feed 😎

[Ambi]

I haven't been a straight hair natural since high school. What I will say is, I noticed I would always have my hands in my hair when it was straight and always brushing/combing it. When I wear my hair in its curly state, I don't touch it until it's time for a wash (at the end of the week). Also, I think I look better with my curly hair. I get a lot of compliments and it's what I feel comfortable and confident in. When it's straight, I'm always worried about whether it looks frizzy and if it's reverting back.

[charlyee]

I was a straight natural for 10 and this year i big chopped in February. I now straighten my hair once a year. Best decision ever 😍😍.

[BlackBeauty]

Hey, new subscriber here 🙋🏽. I have natural waist length hair but wasn't always this way. I always had long hair but never knew my hair was curly due to my family relaxing my hair at a very early age. I also could never get it pass the middle of my back. From middle school to my mid 20's, I would always cut, color, relax and straighten my hair. I ended up cutting most of it off and that's when I learned that my hair is 3C/4A. I kept my hair natural and started wearing wigs for the different colors and styles. Once I learned how to take care of my hair, it started to grow like crazy. I do straighten my hair, maybe 2-3 times a year now. This is mostly in the fall/winter and after a very good conditioning and lot's of heat protection. This has really helped with keeping my hair heat damage free.

[Oddsawesome]

I tried to be a straight haired/heat trained natural and would go back and forth between the flat iron and curls, now I feel like I only want to straighten two times a year, any other time, I will be using the blowdryer on the cool setting to keep my hair stretched since my hair loves to be stretched, and wash n go's from time to time. Thank you for this video! 💖

[sherikajohnson]

I'm glad you talked about heat damage because you was right about straight natural and hand damage is the same.