My Hair Journey: Natural To Relaxed 2012 - February 2020

What'S up, what's up hey, ladies, it's sydney from sitting pretty here back with another video, and in this video i got a very special treat for y'all. We are getting into my hair journey. This video was a long time coming because whether y'all would realize it or not. This was a really hard video to make sitting here, trying to get all these pictures together and then put them in chronological order was the most mundane thing ever, but i got it done for y'all. So please don't sleep on this video go ahead and give it a thumbs up now go ahead and drop a comment. You know after you watch it and if you haven't already make sure that you subscribe to get all of the details on how i took my hair from zero to hero. So i just want to give y'all a quick synopsis of what my hair life was like. Unfortunately, i wasn't able to include uh pictures from every part of my journey, but that's why i'm here to give you commentary. So i went ahead and even put some baby pictures in here because i want y'all to know. I am not one of these girls on youtube: who's selling, y'all a hair journey, but literally already had bomb hair from day one growing up. I was a bald headed baby literally, that is a running broken my family and you know, as i was a kid or growing up in childhood, i had hair, but it was never super super long now. I sh, without a doubt, a tribute, my hair not being able to reach his fullest potential from a young age to moving back and forth between the south and the west coast. The reason being is because, when i was in the south from the time i was in the second grade and beyond my mom always took me to a hairstylist. She took me to the same hairstylist at the dominican salon and my hair always thrived. But unfortunately, every time we moved back to the west coast, my hair always broke off. I didn't have a stylist there and till this day people just cannot seem to solve the mystery of hair growth on the west coast, particularly the desert states. So gratefully. You know. I have taken the time to debunk that that urban legend, so if you would like more information on growing your hair in the desert, make sure you head over to my patreon, you can click the link in my bio now to join my private community. Here i give access to all of the exclusive information surrounding my techniques and everything you need to know to take your head from zero to hero. So i truly believe if i had continued to go to this dominican salon throughout my entire life consecutively like without having to move, my head would probably have gotten longer, but i continuously had to go through setbacks. Now i was only natural. I wasn't natural until i was in um, maybe like in 2013 2012. I think i first went natural growing up. I had got a relaxer since i was like five. I do think five is really young to get a relaxer. However, i don't think there's anything wrong with kids getting relaxers done properly. We can talk about that in another video, but five was definitely very young and um. I decided to go natural because i had been in weaves for about two years after my last hair. My last relaxer broke off after moving back to the west coast again, and you know me and my friends at school. It was during like the epitome or the it was like the peak of the natural hair movement. So it was a thing i did with my friends and i didn't regret it at all. It was a nice empowering thing to do. I really did take the path less traveled again on the relaxer um i mean on my natural hair journey. I can talk about that in another video. I didn't necessarily do everything youtube said to a t um. I kind of did my own thing but anyways after going natural, you know. After a while, we got old and i was back into my weaves uh uh. You will see a plethora of weave pictures because that's what my life was weaves and it was interesting because growing up the i mean i wore braids, but my mom didn't really do all that to my hair and i, like literally became a slave to my weaves. So it was not until i went through the situation, and i talked about in my five keys guide. If you have not downloaded my five keys to success in your healthy hair journey guide, make sure you do so now by clicking the link in my bio. If you read that guide and if you watch my video how my hair journey changed my life, then you know why i ended up taking my weave out. So i took my weave out and honestly y'all. My hair was gorgeous. It was absolutely gorgeous and i was loving it. However, again, if you didn't read my guide um, you know something transpired in my life that caused me to kind of my mental health was not in the best place and i ended up cutting my hair off. It began with the relaxer like a pixie cut that was so ugly and grannyish, and i was impulsive. So i decided you know what i'm shaving this off and going back natural ain't, no sense of keeping this on, and this literally that happened in a week. So you'll see pictures like that and then from there you know i tried to dye it. I tried to do all these things because i hated the amber rose. Look so much so then i ended up going back to wigs. I did braids y'all did so many things, so what you're seeing in this video is not only the last couple of years, but as far back as i could go to my childhood, i wanted to give you all some context. I'M not gon na withhold you any further because we're already five minutes in, but i hope that that provides some insight to what you're gon na see in this video. Alright. So i'm gon na leave you all to watch the video as a slideshow. Thank you. So much for tuning in - and let me know what you think in the comments below i am honestly happy to be here. I believe i'm at armpit length now and um. It'S amazing because i've broken all of the myths that i once believed that black hair didn't grow or that i had to go natural. I couldn't use heat. I had to use black hair products. I have achieved these results defying every odd and defying every rule imposed upon me by the natural hair community in these youtube influencers as a hair stylist. So it's amazing to be able to say that i got these results from using basic things such as common sense. So anyways y'all, let's get into this video baby. This is that was it for this video. I hope that it was very informative. I hope that all my videos are informative. Please submit your questions through my instagram dropbox, or so today, i'm putting a flutter back on it either y'all, it's all in a deep condition. Okay, i can't believe i can feel my hair on my back again. My hair is super cute today. What y'all think you