Why I Decided To Get A Hair Transplant | Pictures Included

Hello, everybody and welcome back to my channel, also welcome to my hair transplant series. If you don't know me, my name is zarya, and if this is your first time on my channel, I do hair transplant series on my channel, where I just talk about my journey with my hair transplant, and I also show you all the update again. I'M in natural lighting and the Sun is starting to shine. We love that the lighting will fluctuate a little bit, so I do apologize about the up and down lining hold on. I think I have not too much lip gloss. Okay, we're back in this video. I wanted to talk about why I decided to get a hair transplant because it's a lot of controversy on hair transplants, which I don't see the big problem. But a lot of people have told me not to do it and we'll get all into that. But I want to start off with why I decided to get my transplant what caused my hair to fall out? What caused me for attraction, alopecia and very thin edges, because my edges were transparent translucent, they were thin, they were not there non-existent gone snatched. If you will, firstly, I decided to get my hair transplant, because when I was younger I had no choice but to get my hair done. It just was something that I did as a little girl. I got my hair done all the time. My mom was not letting me walk around with my hair, looking crazy that just wasn't happening so in my family you get braids and you get relaxed. You get some type of protective style and I feel like that's just how it was back then, and I've always gotten braids when I was younger whether it was straight backs whether it was into a ponytail, no matter what style I got braids with me getting relaxers As well, it was just so much distress on my hair. It was awful if you guys don't know what a relaxer is. A relaxer is a chemical product that permanently straightens your hair. If you have kinky curly, hair, kinky, hair or just any type of textured hair, it makes it permanently straight and it Smooths it up. I'Ll also insert pictures as well. So you guys can get a visual of what my hair used to look like when I was younger, because that's the only way y'all gon na be able to see how snatched back my hair was and how bad it was. When I would get my braids from my mom sometimes I would literally hide under a bed or I would go to my grandma's house or ask to go to my cousin's house, my mom just braided, so tight tight. I will cry y'all and I will get popped with the comb when my mom would braid my hair. I used to get the knot at the top back. Then it wasn't too many hairstyles like it is now all the different types of braids, but I got the braids with the knots and the knots were at the top of my hairline, where it started and with the knots I would see my roots come out every Time I would take down my face and I'm looking like what are these little white things which I didn't know what they were at the time, because I wasn't educated on hair and body and stuff like that body anatomy. I just didn't have any knowledge on that. I was a child when I would take down my braids. I wouldn't even have to take down the front of the braid which started here, because it was nothing to take down it lifted from the front. So it was so bad to the point where this was happening again and again and again and to the point where my hair was just thinning and thinning and thing I didn't have a chance of having a hairline. I didn't have a chance to have edges y'all. It wasn't Apple, I've never had thick. Hair probably doesn't need some thick hair. I'Ve always had fine hair. My hair is Kinky Curly, it's like a 3C, more 4A, very coily I'll insert all types of pictures, so y'all can see exactly what I'm talking about. On top of the braids I was getting my relaxers and with my relaxers I was getting them every six months when the roots grow out, you go ahead and you run it back. You get you another relaxer, sometimes with getting a relaxer. You are not able to scratch your head the day before or do any type of manipulation. You have to completely leave it alone. Your parents will tell you, don't scratch your head the day before you get this relaxer and you would be so scared, but I did get chemical burns from the relaxer um. You do feel it because, when it's time for that relaxer to come out, you'll start to feel the burn, and that's when you hurry up and rest sugar sink. The right side of my head was the worst side. This side had almost no hair like it was and, and it might sound like I'm being dramatic, but when y'all see these pictures, y'all understand where I'm saying exactly where I'm coming from it got to a point to where, when I was in school, I was in Seventh grade, I remember I was a math class. There was a dude, I had a crush on. He was supposed to be my stink about my sneaker link, but you know it was just a crush and he didn't even know that I liked it. He was sitting on the right side of me and he was like you got you go so you supposed to be my man, my man, my man, but you appear point, I'm a boss Bob, but I do that as time went on once I got into Middle School I started to get the fake ponytails and those were tight. It was just more attention on my hair. I was getting my hair braided up into a ponytail and getting the fake ponytail the attachments, and they were so right mind you, I'm still getting relaxer. So all this tension on my hairline all this tension on my hair, I had no clue that my hair, even curled at all, I had no clue that I had even textured hair because I've never in my life seen my hair. My mom always took care of my hair, don't play in your head, you bald-headed already. You know how that goes. So by the time I got to um high school, which I was I think 15 at the time my brother, he was in seventh grade and my parents went out and I asked him, could he cut my hair because I feel like my hair was just breaking Off - and I was like hey: can you line me up in a bag and he should have been like get somebody else to do it, because he did not know what he was doing. I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know how to use Clippers. So we basically shaved my head and jacked me up because I wanted a pixie cut and that's not what I ended up with and we jacked me up, and I wear a hat for a few days until I just could not wear the hat. No more. I'M starting to get itchy and I'm tired - that is one of my natural Journeys started because it wasn't intentional for my natural journey to start it was more so I cut my hair and that's what happened so as I'm trying to lay down my new hair, which I still wouldn't have no idea, so I'm trying to lay down my new hair, that's growing out. I'M like why is my hair laying down. I was so used to relaxers and the hair, just like slick down how you want it. I wasn't used to texture since my edges were so thin. I had a lot of texture in the back of my head and on the sides, but no edges matches were fine, thin and just nothing transparent. So in high school I was no longer getting relaxers. That'S cut out be done with that, I'm just getting box braids. I didn't get straight backs or anything like that, but I was getting box braids and then I was also um starting to experiment and wear synthetic wigs. I love me a good synthetic wig in school. I didn't really know too much. I just know put that baby on my head with some Combs and then I would put a little got to be glued. If I wanted to do my edges, which it was really bad because the way I used to do my edges yeah, we all go through it. We all got ta, learn with the Combs being damaging as well. They were pulling at my hair and this time my edges are still gone, but it's pulling on my hair, so it's actually thinning my hair in high school. I wasn't too concerned with my edges, but I did realize that they were thin and I'm like. I don't think I'm gon na wear a ponytail like I don't see myself when I bought it, though After High School I got into Lace, Wigs, I'm not wearing box braids. At this point, I'm not wearing any braids whatsoever, like you will always catch me in a lace. Wig, there's never going to be a day where you don't see me in a wig. I always got my hair braided up and that's how my hair started growing. So I had hair and my hair was growing. It was flourishing. It was very healthy, but my edges were extremely damaged to the point where it was no going back with my follicles constantly coming out from the tension. It caused my hair to thin and thin and thin into that. Follicle completely died, and there was nothing left that I could do. There'S nothing left that could have saved it. It was so smooth, I'm talking about the side of my head. It was so smooth. It was no hair follicle there with me wearing Lace, Wigs. I was getting glue on my sideburns um. The hairline wasn't affected too much, but I was getting it on my sideburns and my sideburns were starting to come out really bad. So I'm like oh here, we go. I was so insecure at this point because I realized, like my edges, were snatched and I think at this point I was living in Florida and it just started like a big deal. Everybody get their hair done. Everybody wig is laid like edges, are a big deal when I started wearing my hair, I would either wear it slick down like side part or if I went to the Dominican sticking my hair blow out, which they never gave me heat damage. I would always wear a middle part and then, when the wind would blow, I would be like really insecure and I would like hold my hair down so like the wind is not like blowing my hair back and then you can see all my edges because, like Yeah that was embarrassing, and I remember when I went to get my hair done at the Dominicans. She was looking at my edges like, but she didn't say nothing, but she was just looking and it felt so weird other people was there and it's just like they. Looking at your edges, like damn, she got hair, but since I got only just like what's tea, what's going on over there with you, I just was hiding underneath wigs, because at this point it was nothing that I could do to fix it. I considered PRP at that time, but PRP would bring back, maybe like I'll fall Accord two, but it's not gon na bring back density and I consulted with the doctor about this. I mean I had knowledge on this. I knew about it and I was just like. I cannot keep doing this. I cannot keep wearing wigs it's hot, it's like 95 degrees, nearly 100 here in South Florida, and then on top of that you have me constantly, manipulating my hair, trying to Slick it down all the time mind you I'm not blowing. My hair up just like it out, I'm slicking it down when it's wet and I have very kinky curly hair. So it's just waving up and then this side was really bad. So I always swooped it this side and then this side wasn't too bad, but it was bad. So this side was bald and then my hair would crinkle up and then you would see my scalp and I'm just like. I remember explaining this to a friend or two: they didn't really know. Nobody knew how Maya just looked. I would not show anybody. Nobody like nobody, besides my family, because we live together, but as far as friends, nobody knew how my edges looked and I wanted to keep it that way, because you know I'm gon na be touching me like once I found out about hair transplants, I tried to Explain it to her, like I want to get a hair transplant, she's like. Why are your hair, so nice, but she didn't like understand like I, don't have no edges and it was just causing me hair depression. So I tried to explain that to her and she's. Like girl, seriously hair depression, I'm like yes, like people go through hair brushing. Yes, it's a real thing and you just get frustrated with your hair when you just get frustrated at that, the state that your hair is in. Yes, it's a real thing. I had another friend she's like girl. No try oils try, grow oils is not gon na bring these follicles back they're dead, they're gone, they're deceased rest in peace. It was frustrating because people didn't get it because people are not in the same situation that I was in, so they didn't get it. I'Ve tried Derma rolling that didn't work. I tried Rogaine that didn't work Rogaine. Actually, when I stopped using, it is something that you have to use for the rest of your life. My hair fell out, it really broke off and it was pretty bad, so I would highly highly highly not recommend Rogaine that just did not work for me. I literally tried everything I tried to scalp massages I invested into a hair massager. I did everything I had my head upside down. Looking crazy and nothing worked. I looked into getting hair transplants and the place that I was originally going to go to was um Ashley Tarkin, but Ashley sarkin had skyrocketed that price. It went from 1500 to 2500 and I still had to pay for my flight and I still have to have money saved up for Recovery when I get back home. So I'm like oh no baby, that ain't gon na work for me, I'm gon na, have to keep looking then, as I'm doing, research on hair transplants and Clinics. I came across longevity and then, when I came across on Gemini it wasn't too many videos on longevity. So it was really hard. It actually wasn't a lot of videos on black women. It was more so black men that was going overseas and I'm like okay. I can kind of get an idea, but I want to know how my hairline is gon na look a woman's hairline as I'm looking at pictures, I'm looking at clinics and stuff like that and reviews like just doing intensive research. I come across the different types of transplants, so you have DHI, which you don't have to shave your head, for. You have Fue, which you have to shave the back of your head and then you have fut, which I don't know too much about fut. But I think you have to shave a piece of skin or something like that and that, like they literally take out skin, I don't know that scared me. So I didn't do that. I ended up getting Fue and I'm pretty like satisfied and okay with the decision that I made like I'm, not tripping off. Nothing and I went to longevity and that's just that. But a lot of people, especially my family and like friends that didn't understand, was trying to convince me not to go to Turkey like you're, really gon na go to another country. You can just try like yes, I am yes, I'm gon na go to a different country and get these edges late. Yes, yes, ma'am people, they were telling me, don't cut your hair off, because here's different pictures of my hair y'all, like here's, my hair, don't cut your hair um, don't go to a different country. Don'T get a transplant! Try to use oil! Try to do this. Try to do that, try to eat different foods like y'all. At the end of the day. I have to do what was best for me because it was affecting my everyday life. I was tired of spending money on wigs. I was tired of wearing wigs. I wanted to wear my hair and I wanted to be confident and I wanted to experiment with different styles. So, no matter what no matter what anybody said, I was still going to do it once I have my mind made up: that's it I'm gon na do what I want to do. I'M really happy with the decision that I made and even if my hair isn't as thick as I'd like, it still looks a lot better than it did before. But that is my story on why I decided to get my hair transplant because of my severe traction. Alopecia, if you guys have any more questions, definitely be sure to leave them down below and if you have any recommendations that you do for your hair or that you use near here definitely be sure to share them. But until then I'll see y'all in the next hair transplant series, and I will see y'all in the next video love y'all bye, I create with love