If you transition by growing your hair out, you will basically wear protective styles until you natural, unprocessed hair reaches the length that you want and all your relaxed hair is trimmed away.

One of the first things that you will probably want to know when you are transitioning from a perm to a relaxer is, “How can I style my hair?” Don’t worry with this list you will run of relaxer to cut off before you run out of ways to style your hair.

What makes a good transitional hair style? Good questions. A good transitional hairstyle keeps hair handling to a minimum. That doesn’t mean that you can’t or shouldn’t comb or brush your hair while you are transitioning. It just means that less in this case really is more.

Many times when we discuss “black hair”, “natural hair” or “ethnic hair” we are talking about one category of black hair and forgetting that not all people of color have the same hair type. Because many people of color have mixed heritage (no pun intended), no one description will suffice to define how everyone’s hair will look or behave under any givens circumstance.