| EPITOME wrote:|
your hair won't act the same as hair that is not colored bc it has a chemical process. that's like someone who is texlaxed saying my hair looks and acts the same as someone with 3b hair so i am natural too.
idk if i'd agree with your statement to that extent. that's reaching, but i'd argue for what one of the previous posters said, which is that it's all a matter of perception. if you merely want to group all chemically altered hair under the wide umbrella of 'non natural' then that's your prerogative but if we're merely arguing about what natural means generally when you say it to most black women/men on the street, most are going to tell you it simply means hair that is relaxer free.
then you have the sects that'll include texturizers.
then you'll have those that throw in heat trainers...
then you'll have those that'll toss up hair-dyers..
and baking soda users...
and twistouters and braidouters...etc.
and then you see how this quickly devolves into something totally laughable.
and speaking as one who has dyed and bleached her hair plenty before, i can promise you that so long as you're not outright bleaching your hair, the only change you're going to be apt to note about your hair post dye is possibly that it'll feel drier. bleaching carries the potential of texturizing, though only mildly so. but basic dyes don't pose this threat to the same extent. i for one didn't notice any change in texture that altered it on the scale of your analogy. for this reason i'd hardly compare dying one's hair to texturizing/relaxing, as these are two completely different chemical processes both in the end result as well as the means by which they alter the hair.