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Wigs as Protective Styles for Natural Hair
If you've relaxed your hair for a long time, once you've decided to abandon chemicals and transition back to natural, you'll need time not only to become reacquainted with your natural hair but also to learn how to properly care for it in its new, natural state. Wearing your hair in protective styles for natural hair will help a lot to retain hair growth, both as you go through the transitioning process and once your natural hair has reached the length you want with no traces of relaxed hair left.
You may immediately think of braids, twists, buns, and weaves, as your go-to protective hairstyles, but there are various reasons why you should consider wearing wigs for protective styles as well.
It's Over Your Head
First off, the fact that wigs cover the hair makes them well-suited for protecting it from combing and other manipulating for styling that can pull and damage natural hair. For example, you can still wear favorite hair accessories on a wig, but they just won't snag or rip your own hair. The fragile ends of your hair in particular benefit from the rest they get from staying tucked up under a wig and not being handled to be styled or exposed to the elements.
Even after you've trimmed off the last of your grown-out, relaxed hair, you may want to continue wearing a wig periodically just to help protect your natural hair. Your ends won't get caught up and pulled by purse shoulder straps or constantly rub against clothing or get caught in zippers or buttons.
Fine Tuning
As a general rule, curlier hair patterns are finer than most people realize, often even people who have curly hair themselves seem to realize. Treating your natural hair gently is just something you'll need to do to keep it healthy. And wearing a wig is a quick, easy way you can be gentle with your hair and give it a rest from styling – All without having to give up a thing as far as style!
There are plenty of wigs that replicate the look of natural hair of different textures. You can even find wigs that look so much like your own natural hair, they'll work well as a protective style without anyone even knowing you're wearing a wig.
The Glow of Satisfaction
Wigs can also give you a bit of immediate gratification as you're transitioning to natural. Can hardly wait to see your hair at your goal length? Spending lots of time imaging how you'll look with your hair finally natural again after years (even decades) of relaxing it? Well, a wig can give you some idea, all while also being protective hair styling.
Whether the natural curl pattern of your hair is waves, ringlets, coils, or even zig-zags, you can find human hair wigs that have undergone yaki processing and are designed to resemble that curl pattern. And remember, full lace human hair wigs come ready to be cut into the style you want, so in a way, having hair the length you want is pretty immediate with a wig.
Keeping Your Options Open
Weaves are a popular protective hairstyle option used by many people, but there are reasons why wigs may still be a protective style you want to go with. Although some wigs are designed to be able to be worn for days (some people are even comfortable wearing them longer), you always have the option of taking off a wig more often, even daily – and with a lot less hassle than removing a weave. As you become more and more adept at working with a wig, you'll find that you can enjoy the style and hair protection it offers a lot faster and with less effort than doing braids or twists.
With a wig, you can get to know your own hair's natural texture and properties and learn how to care for it in its natural state the whole time it's in transition. And after your transition to natural is complete, you can continue with wigs for the protective styling, versatility, and ease they offer.