Before i cut my hair off

My hair had been permed for nearly all my life at least since i can remember. My mom helped me go natural once before in middle school but i ended up putting a perm in it again because it was too thick and hard to manage. I never had the problems of my hair breaking off from the perm because my hair has always been thick but it never wanted to pass should length and this is what led me to cut it all off. I wanted to have hair down my back and i knew it was possible with natural hair. My hair was limp and there was much you could with straight hair besides wearing it straight all the time and that's about it. With natural hair there is so much more versatility and i love it!!