I Don't Know What To Do

I washed my hair for the first time in a while. . . and it was not pretty. I officially know about shrinkage. You can see the length of my hair in my last post. It was still chin length. But now, because of shrinkage, my hair looks like it is half an inch. . . except for the 25% of my hair that is not natural. The handful of permed ends of my hair just stick out. So I will obviously have to cut that off for real. I was snipping away the permed hair like it was nothing anyway after the wash because it was full of knots. Surprisingly, my natural hair, though twisted around each other, was really easy to comb and it was just those permed ends giving me trouble.

In any case, the result is I look like a boy. I really don't know what to do. I'm starting to regret going natural. And yet, I still love my thick natural hair. Getting relaxers was making my hair thin and limp. I don't know how to braid up hair in order to stretch it though. I may try going to an all natural hair salon to see what they can do. Or try to do some bantu knots myself since I heard that keeps the hair stretched and then it will look good when you unknot it. In the meantime, I am going to co-wash my hair two or three times a week because it is definitely dry. And I will do a real BC in two weeks when I have time (in the middle of finals now).