1. What's your name and where are you from? 

Alicia Gettys. Birmingham Alabama

2. What is your hair type?

Don’t really know my hair type. I care more about my hair being healthy than trying to classify my curls has one type

3. When did you go natural and what made you do it? 

Transitioned in 2013. Fully natural in 2013. There wasn’t a monumental thing or an epiphany. I use to wear my straight hair in lots of curly hairstyles. Saw that in between perms, my curl pattern was something I liked, so I went for it. 

4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? 

Dealing with the humidity in the South during the spring and summer months. Moisturizing is key. I would find myself moisturizing my hair daily just to make sure. Winter also plays heavily on hair moisture but it doesn’t get that cold down here. 

5. What is your weekly regimen? 

Oil treatment (4 hours), Shampoo, Deep Condition (8 hrs), Apply product, wear bun overnight and into the next day (hair is still wet). Wash and go’s can last 4-5 days depending on weather and my workout routine for that week. 

6. What is your daily morning regimen? 

Dampen hair with water, apply EcoStyler to curls, pull back into low pineapple, get ready for work, take down and shake 

7. What is your daily night time regimen? 

Nothing much. Pull up into pineapple and either put on Satin cap or sleep on satin pillow (most of the time it’s the pillow)

8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? 
​
I protective style with perm/flexi rods 5-6 times a year (use low heat). To straighten my hair, I use large rollers for a roller set (med heat) and hit the roots if needed. I will straighten my hair 3-4 times a years. Always apply a protein treatment before straightening my hair. 

1. What's your name and where are you from? 

Amber Cunningham/ Birmingham, AL  (currently Auburn AL)

2. What is your hair type?

I would consider myself a 3b/3c mixture

3. When did you go natural and what made you do it? 

My last relaxer was May 2012 and my big chop was April 2013. I had been natural for 17 years prior to my first relaxer but didn't know how to wear my hair curly the first time around so I wanted to give it another try.

4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? 

Learning what my hair liked

5. What is your weekly regimen? 

Co-wash, deep condition, and wash and go style

6. What is your daily morning regimen? 

Fluff and go lol

7. What is your daily night time regimen? 

Sleep on a satin pillow case. that's it!

8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? 

Direct heat, no. I do diffuse and sit under a hooded dryer occasionally

1. What's your name and where are you from? 

My name is Leslie, but I’m known as Kinky Curly Beauty and I’m located in Birmingham, Alabama.

2. What is your hair type?

I typically don’t like to be categorized into a hair type. But if I had to state a type I’d fall between 3C and 4A.

3. When did you go natural and what made you do it? 

This is actually my third and final time returning to my Natural texture.  This last time it was because of premature greying.  I had to choose between permanent hair coloring and relaxers, and as many have noticed, I chose the permanent  colors. :)

4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural? 

The only challenge that I notice is that many of us revert our hair back to its natural state but our mindsets remain in a “relaxed” state.  It takes us a while to love what we were born with because our mindsets are often still chemically treated. 
[Heather comment: I love this - so true]

I often tell women that in preparing to return to your natural texture, you must also renew your mind...change how you think about your hair’s natural texture. Learn to love who God created you to be.

5. What is your weekly regimen? 

I use a think moisturizing cream/pudding and seal with oil daily...sometimes twice daily (morning and night).

6. What is your daily morning regimen? 

It depends on how my hair is styled. If it's loose I apply a leave-in, moisturizer and my sealant oil every morning. If it's in a protective style I'll spray my leave-in/oil concoction in the air and walk under it to naturally catch the needed mists.

7. What is your daily night time regimen? 

Most times I do the same things at night that I do for my hair in the mornings. If I'm wearing a Twistout/Braidout I apply the previous mentioned products and twist or braid the hair in chunks. Chunky twists/braids promote "big hair". If I'm wearing a protective style I stand under the spray of my leave-in/oil concoction to catch the most then tie my hair with a satin or silk scarf and head to bed.

8. Do you use heat on your hair at all? 

I’ve used minimal medium hand dryer heat twice in nearly three years. Typically all of my styles are air-dried or created from old twist-outs/braid-outs.

1. What's your name and where are you from?

Victoria Sanders. I am from Washington DC & Alabama but I live in LA now.

2. What is your hair type?

3C

3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?

I've been natural my entire life. Never ever had a relaxer or any other type of chemical alteration done to my hair.

4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural?

Well, since I didn't "go natural" I can't answer this. However, I can say this...Before being natural became such a phenomena it was VERY hard to find products that worked in my hair. I was extremely self conscious about my big, frizzy hair.

5. What is your weekly regimen? 

I start by deep conditioning weekly with a homemade concoction (1 egg, half a banana, olive oil, honey). I leave this on my hair for 45 minutes to 1 hour. Then I steam my hair with my Q-Redew steamer,then co-wash my hair with Heavenly Scents opulently organic conditioner (I mix about 2 tablespoons of castor oil in the jar). 

If I'm doing a WNG I'll use Kinky Curly Knot Today, coconut oil, and then scrunch with Curls gel.  I normally co-wash my hair about 2-3 times a week depending on how dry I feel my hair is. And I steam my hair at least twice a week. Also, I follow the Curly Girl method, so I don't use shampoo or any products that contain silicones or sulfates. I make sure to get my ends trimmed when they need it.

6. What is your daily morning regimen? 

In the mornings I take my pineapple down and refresh my curls by misting them with a little water & vegetable glycerin (that I mix in a spray bottle) and I'll pick my curls out a little.

7. What is your daily night time regimen? 

If I have a wash and go, I simply pineapple and sleep on a satin pillowcase. I HATE scarves and bonnets, but I always sleep on my satin pillowcase.

8. Do you use heat on your hair at all?

I use heat on my hair about once every 6 months or so, I will flat iron it to see how long it is. I only blow dry my hair if I'm in a complete rush and don't want to leave with my hair soaking wet.

1. What's your name and where are you from?

My name is Sun Sonja Johnson & I reside in Tuscaloosa, AL (ROLL TIDE) 

2. What is your hair type? 

Type 3 or at least I think so :)

3. When did you go natural and what made you do it?

I went natural in 2003, I got tired of the relaxer PLUS; I am "Tender headed".

4. What was the most challenging thing about going natural?

I am not at all a hair person, so I try to do different styles but it is a challenge.

5. What is your weekly regimen?

Add moisturizer weekly.

6. What is your daily morning regimen?

I don't do anything much on a daily basis.

7. What is your daily night time regimen?

I wrap my hair in a silk bonnet.

8. Do you use heat on your hair at all?

Maybe once or twice a year IF necessary.