Yodit Writes:I did my big chop during the summer of 2005. I decided my senior year of high school (in 2002) that I wanted to go natural but I kept coming up with excuses for continuing to relax my hair - I had senior pictures to take so I needed a touch up, I had to "look good" for prom so I needed a touch up, and on and on. During my freshman and sophomore years of college, I became complacent with my processing routine and was too scared to make the transition to something I wasn't familiar with. Then during the summer after my second year, I was hanging out with some high school friends at our friend's house and they asked why I hadn't gone natural after years of talking about it. I kept giving my usual excuses until they suggested that I cut it right then and there. I sat in a folding chair in the living room and they snipped off about 8 inches of relaxed hair (I had about 2 inches of new growth by then). There was something so freeing and comforting about having loved ones who encouraged me for all those years to go natural be the ones to start me on my natural hair journey. Now I looked a hot mess after they finished and freaked out but after I got it professionally cut the next day and saw those curls, I fell in love and haven't looked back!
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