I'm not gonna lie, going natural was a big deal for me. I had been relaxed for as long as I could remember. No, I wasn't one of those kids getting relaxers at 3, but throughout the most of my life, that was a part of how my hair was being taken care of by my mom and the beauticians I went to. It's

When I was a teenager in the early 90s, there was a definite trend adopted by a specific type of hippy student I dated, who told themselves and those around them that hair was "self-cleaning". For weeks, even months, they would refuse shampoo, resulting in hair that emitted cheap cider and bong