My Hair Story – Samantha Saunders

1. Introduce yourself . . .

My name is Samantha Saunders from the Northern Virginia area. I’m a wife and mother and I work as a counselor. I’ve been natural for over 8 years.

2. Are you relaxed, natural, texturized or texlaxed?

Natural

3. What’s your story, how did you get to where you are?

When I was younger, my mom would not allow me to get a relaxer which felt like the longest time. I was natural all the way up to the age of 15.

Back in the day, I saw all the girls at school having a relaxer so I begged my mom to let me have one. A had a relaxer for about 5 years then my hair started breaking and becoming thinner so I decided to Big Chop.

I didn’t have natural hair support when I big chopped so I used blogs and forums to help me in my journey. When my hair started growing a little longer I wore mostly twists. Since it was always twisted, I eventually turned them into locs.

I had a loctician help me for a year then started doing my hair myself. I rocked my locs for 3 years but started to miss my loose hair again. So, I one day asked my husband to help me and we picked each loc out without cutting any locs at all.

Since I had full time work and school at the time it took me nearly a month to get them all out. I wore a hat for over a month, it felt like forever. It’s been about a year and half later since that happened and now I’m rocking my hair in braid outs, twist outs and protective styles.

4. What is your typical weekly regimen?

A typical wash day consists of pre poo of coconut oil* to help me detangle my hair. I separate my hair into 4- 6 sections. After that I use Shea Moisture* JBCO* shampoo and mainly focus on my…