Victoria’s first taste of relaxing her hair came as a way of taming it. “At 14, going to school with frizzy hair was definitely not ‘in’. I didn’t know what I was doing with my hair. It was just about being able to manage it more easily.” But when she was 25, she stopped. “My hairdressers closed down,” Victoria shares, “It was kind of out of fear of finding a new one, which sounds ridiculous out loud…” Sareta began relaxing her hair at 14 too. “I begged my mom to let me,” she told us. And then, three years ago, Sareta decided to look into how to transition to natural hair. “I don’t think relaxing really suited my hair type. But there are temptations all around to have processed hair,” she told us. “I watch a lot of TV and the ladies with straight hair… it’s beautiful and glossy and glamorous. I had to pinch myself and be like, this is not reality.”
As Victoria and Sareta embarked on their natural hair transition, they discovered that the secret to beautiful, frizz-controlled hair isn’t chemicals – but just getting to know it. Victoria’s first piece of advice? Just go for it. “There is joy that comes with embracing your naturally curly hair – just know that it is a bit of a journey.”
Victoria and Sareta’s natural hair transition tips: