<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' gd:etag='W/&quot;A0IESH8-cCp7ImA9WhZXF0U.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419033582739150155</id><updated>2011-05-07T10:31:49.158-07:00</updated><title>transitioning to natural</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kikicouturesnaturaljourney.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2419033582739150155/posts/default?redirect=false&amp;v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kikicouturesnaturaljourney.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>kikicouturealways</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11862563475258318100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;AkINQX0zeSp7ImA9WhZXE0o.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2419033582739150155.post-5752179765401290560</id><published>2011-05-02T16:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-02T16:23:10.381-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-05-02T16:23:10.381-07:00</app:edited><title>natural hair mission</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6uW0v02nmJg/Tb86bWBaxDI/AAAAAAAAAE4/BQ9rQfykE9w/s1600/DSCN2239.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200px" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6uW0v02nmJg/Tb86bWBaxDI/AAAAAAAAAE4/BQ9rQfykE9w/s200/DSCN2239.JPG" width="150px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I have been transitioning to natural for 3 months and 4 days now and I love it for those of you who do not know what transitioning is, you basically stop getting relaxers and grow out your natural&amp;nbsp;hair and slowly cut off your relaxed ends maybe every 3 months you cut off a half an inch to 1 inch until all of your relaxed ends are gone. I plan to transition for 15 to 24 months I'm not saying its going to be easy but I know I will be able to enjoy the fruits of my labor once I'm completely natural of coarse as you get further along, the new growth can be harder to manage but I'm dealing with it by co-washing my hair meaning I wash my hair once a week with conditioner instead of shampoo to keep my hair moisturized, and&amp;nbsp;I deep condition to keep my new growth soft. My curl pattern is small tighly coiled ringlets which I love so I may fall in the 4a 4b kinky textures so we will see..........here are the new growth pics..........&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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