What have you been doing to deal with where your new growth ends and permed hair starts? Let us know what your doing to make this transition work for you.

1. Cut off all the relaxed hair and leave only the new growth to start over with.

2. If you aren’t ready to sport a teeny weeny afro you can keep the relaxed part of your hair and find ways to style your hair that won’t cause breakage. Remember where your new growth ends and your relaxed hair starts is where the hair can break so you don’t want to do much tugging or pulling. The best hairstyles at that juncture are roller sets, spiral sets, straw type sets.

Unfortunately with natural hair you will experience shrinkage that will always make your hair appear shorter than it is but once you get rid of all of what’s relaxed you can do anything to your hair like press it, flat iron it and blow it out. Once you make that big chop your options are endless.

Hope that gives you some insight.

I think when taking care of natural hair one thing to remember is to look for products that don’t strip the hair and products that encourage and help the hair to retain moisture. I know a bit about natural hair but a great resource about natural hair care and styles is nappturality.com. For most people to find products that work for their hair specifically requires a little trial and error especially when it comes to working with a texture that is different than what your used to. Some product lines you would might want to check out that make shampoos, conditoners, leave-in’s etc. for natural are:

Carol’s Daughter
Kinky Curly
Curls
The Jane Carter Solution

Good Luck