bad hair

Hi. I am a college student, and most of my hair life, since i was about 14, i have been wearing braids. my hair is thin and breaks off easily. i have tried wearing ponytails, sew in weaves, crocet braids, box braids, micros, and cornrows. my problem is that most hair styles that last a month or two on regular heads only last 3 weeks on me, and maybe 4 if i strech it. the only thing that lasted a while was a set of micros that made it thru marching season, but when i went back to the same stylist and got the same style, they only lasted 3 weeks. it seems like any kind of styling product makes the braids start to come off and my hair poof up. ive tried all sorts of braid specific styling products. should i give up braids? or maybe there''''s something im not doing right. i dont think im ready to go natural, but is there a hair style that i can use thats easy that wont cause my hair problems?

thanks. Any clues on what i shouild do in the mean time? besides the conditioning

Your hair may be breaking from damaging chemical relaxers combined with the stress of wearing braids all of the time. Try leaving the braids in for 3 weeks then give your hair a rest for another 3 weeks.

Try wearing your hair natural without tight braids. One popular natural style is twists but you can also wear puffs (afro with scarf pulling hair up and back).

See http://www.nappturality.com and http://www.ourhair.net for more ideas.

Oh and no your hair is not bad but the popular hatred/ignorance of natural nappy hair is very damaging to your spirit and your hair.