Q&A for How to Go from Relaxed Hair to Natural

Try to avoid straightening it when it's not really necessary. Detangle your hair regularly and nourish it to keep it soft without twisting it up or creating knots. Other than that, just condition and wash your hair regularly and treat it with love!

When growing out your hair, washing as infrequently as possible will help retain moisture. Most people with natural curls can wait a week between washings.

Unfortunately you can't undo or reverse the effects of a perm, you just have to wait for it to grow out.

No, wearing wigs, sew-ins, or braids will not affect your transition because they are protective styles that help to cover up your new growth. Just stay away from glue-in products.

It helps moisturize your hair, which makes it stronger and healthier.

You can if you choose to, but if you've grown out your natural hair, realize that putting chemicals in it will just weaken it again.

It depends on how much relaxed hair you have. The "big chop" should remove all of your relaxed hair, leaving only your natural hair behind, however short it might be.

Once the hair is relaxed, there is no going back. The only thing you can do is grow out your hair and slowly cut off the relaxed parts or do the big chop as the article has stated.

You can wait until your roots grow out long enough, and then maybe you will be comfortable with a haircut.

Design Essentials STS Express Smoothing System is an excellent option for transitioning from relaxed to natural, providing hair with maximum strength, manageability, frizz control, heat protection and shine. It will equalize the strand at the line of demarcation, aiding in breakage elimination as you slowly trim, with the ultimate goal of a healthy head of natural hair from root to end. Keep in mind though, relaxed hair does not revert itself, once chemically reformed there's no return. However, with this system you can maintain length and slowly trim with ease.

First, make sure you're hair is completely wet, then add a deep conditioner or just any conditioner. Next, section your hair into 4 or 6 parts and gently pull apart the sections of your hair again and again until you're left with nicely finger-detangled hair. Then, use a wide toothed comb to finish the job and you're done.

You natural hair will start to appear within 3 months but only expect up to 2-3 inches of new growth.

Once a week or depending on your hairstyle, deep condition your hair and switch to shampoos that are sulfate free.

You can simply buy dandruff shampoo. That should correct the problem.

Only if you want to. You only cut you hair once natural hair has started growing, then it is your choice.

Three months is just the correct waiting period when it comes to box braids. If you were to do it sooner, then your new, fragile growth would suffered from the unfamiliar weight of the braids. When inserting, make sure that it is not painful and as comfortable as can be, or else you will quickly find that your efforts for protective styling are in vain.

It will take much longer than a few months, but you don't have to do the big chop.

Stop using a brush to refine your hair. Instead, use a comb to style it loosely.

It depends on your genetics and how well you take care of it, but I would expect at least a few months.

Yes. You may have to chop your hair from time to time, so your natural hair has the space to grow again.

Once your hair has been chemically relaxed, you can't get back your natural hair until you grow it out again.

Get a glass of water and drop a strand of hair in. If it sinks, it has a high porosity. If it goes to the middle, it has a normal porosity. If it floats, it has a low porosity.

Yes, that's called transitioning.

I like to twist my hair and wear a headband. You could also do some braids.

You can transition back to natural hair with trimming regularly or considering the big chop. Also, oiling your hair daily can increase hair growth. In due time, you'll start to notice new growth.

You should wait until your length is what you are comfortable with so that the cut does not seem so big.

Yes, the new hair would be relaxed, but the permed hair will stay on your head unless you cut it off (or it breaks off).

Start at ends and work up to the roots. Trust me, it's easier this way, my roots get matted all the time.

If transitioning to natural hair, there are actually many products made specifically for this process. I'm currently going back to natural and I'm using a transitioning moisturizer. It says "shea moisture, back to nautral." Also, natural oils such as coconut, castor, and shea can help with natural hair; castor oil especially brings back strength and thickness to the strands.

Unfortunately, you will. To prevent this, try to convince your mom why you want your hair natural.