Natural Hair Transitioning: A small spiral set
Curly styles are best when transitioning from relaxed to natural hair. At least, creating the style is anyway, what with no heat needed, maintaining tends to be a little tricky but we’ll get to that. Last week I went to get a spiral set for my birthday. My hairdresser put in the teeny tiny spirals and it came out waaaaay too small for my liking, almost like a straw set. I hate a straw set. See:
Super side eye. This was me trying to find a cute way to pin it up to head out which would stretch it a bit for the birthday dinner the following day. I ended up pinning it all back out my face and the next day it looked something like
Better, but I still didn’t like how small it was. So I spent the entire day running my fingers through the spirals separating and fluffing…it felt so great! I ended up with
Perfect! I love it! Still not a big poufy curly fro but I was really feeling the curls. I’m still not a fan of the small spiral set, if I go back I’ll definitely request bigger curls, but this hairstyle was alllllright. And my hair was nice and soft, word to Maureen. I couldn’t keep my hands out of it the entire time, which is what I meant about maintenance. Knots galore, which I did nothing to help always trying to separate the spirals, so I feel I lost a lot more hair than I needed to.
Anyone else out there transitioning? What are your go to styles?
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I think the spiral set looks nice. I notice many women looking for transitioning styles. It can be tough when your dealing with relaxed hair and natural hair. How long have you been transitioning?
Kenneth
Hi Kenneth, my last relaxer was in August.
After reading this a couple days ago I decided to finally sit down and curl my hair. It took hours and looked fantastic… The only problem? It lasted an hour. Then went flat! Maybe I shouldn’t have washed it right before. But, I still have some curls in, and I will most likely do it again
wow is your hair relaxed or natural? did you use a curling iron? styles like these done with a curling iron do tend to go flat very quickly, its best done with some spirals or straws under a hooded dryer. lets see what your next try looks like!