While the pros and cons of relaxing hair are discussed in detail at black hair salons everywhere, at Nappturality.com, the Internet's shrine to natural hair, chemical straighteners are not up for debate.

If you ask Patricia "Dee" Gaines, the Rhode Island-reared, Australia-dwelling founder of Nappturality, there are no pros to relaxing your hair.

"Hate is not strong enough word for how I feel about the product," Gaines told Stereohyped. "Not only do I see what it does to women's hair, I see what it does to their feelings about themselves. I relaxed for over 20 years. The mindset that I had when I was relaxing my hair for 20 years was that my own hair as it grew out of my head was not acceptable, and no one could tell me any different."

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