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" So you&amp;#039;ve finally decided to stop relaxing, drying, and flat ironing your hair, and go natural. Really, how hard could it be? No more relaxers, no more heat, piece of cake! Not exactly. As any girl who&amp;#039;s been there knows, the struggle of transitioning from relaxed to natural hair is real\u2014and taking the plunge can be scary. The good news is, you&amp;#039;re not alone\u2014and the results can be totally worth it. Here are the stages every girl goes through while transitioning from relaxed to natural hair.  You start off excited! Just think about how healthy your hair is going to be, and you can finally try out all those cool natural hairstyles you&amp;#039;ve been pinning!  Until you get to your first wash-day\u2026. How do you style this anyway?! You&amp;#039;ve bought all these curly hair products, but you&amp;#039;re hair&amp;#039;s not really curly yet. It&amp;#039;s curly at the roots, straight at the ends. When you leave it alone, it&amp;#039;s like nothing you&amp;#039;ve ever seen.  Headbands, you&amp;#039;ve settled on headbands. Headbands are you new best friend. All anyone notices is your cute headband, right?  Then you start trying to tame it, and before you know it, hair products have taken over your bathroom. You could have sworn going natural would be a little more um, natural. You&amp;#039;ve got scalp treatments, deep conditioners, split-end serums, pomades, gels, oils\u2014and you still haven&amp;#039;t found the magic formula!          Lol so earlier I heard something crash and I thought someone fell outside. Nope it was my big ass bin of #naturalHairProducts &#128518;&#128518; #ProductJunky #naturalhairisalotofwork #kinkycurlyhead #IHaveGhosts A photo posted by MAllory (@sistahfuego) on Jun 16, 2014 at 7:10pm PDT     You decide braids are the answer and now you can&amp;#039;t even count on your hands anymore how many people have asked to touch your hair. You know it looks different, but seriously it took forever to make it look presentable.   As the months go by, you start to like what you see, and start letting it loose. Your new &amp;#039;do is bringing out a whole new side of you!  Your curls are more defined, the heat damage is almost all gone, your hair feels thick and strong, and you&amp;#039;ve never seen it this shiny in your life: The transition is complete and you&amp;#039;ve embraced your hair like the flawless natural-haired beauty you are!  But still no touching.  What was your experience going natural? Comment below! MORE: 3 New Hair Products To Test This Weekend Hair How-To: Turn A Frizzy Mess Into Perfect Curls The Real Girl&amp;#039;s Guide To Rocking Your Natural Hair  GIFs courtesy of Giphy.com "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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