Hey Lisa,

I'm glad you're loving your hair, and celebrating it. The TWA looks great on you, and i'm slowly trying to love it for myself. Some dayz i'm just not feeling that thang. I'll admit to being growth obsessed, and shrinkage is the devil.

I'm scared 2 death about pressing, after reading the horror stories on nappturality.. and everytime i wear a wig, for the straight-variety look, i see women with beautiful natural hair, and i wanna get in with them and declare "i'm with yall too" but thats just silly.. At least I can take the wig off, but damn with a press i'd be stuck with it for awhile.

Pam - I've some semi-bad hair days...always when I didn't do my nightly pampering routine. So my hair punished me by feeling like a bed of straw in the morning!

Back in the day before I even started transitioning I just knew that if I ever went natural I would be pressing all the time. I might try it somewhere down the road, depending on how hardy my hair turns out to be. But for now I'm paranoid as heck about it! If I want a straight look I will definitely go for a wig first.