What do you think is waaaay over-hyped?

[MonaLisa]

Phytorelaxer. Hopefully the hype on this product will die out eventually....

*that is all*

 

[HoneyDew]

Phytorelaxer. Hopefully the hype on this product will die out eventually....

*that is all*

I'm mad at you.

 

[HoneyDew]

Amen to what she said! And these very same women wonder why they can't get a man! Maybe if you stopped putting 10 different cooking oils in your hair, stop with the coochie cream, and the homemade cow serum doo-doo you might get a man. You cannot be cute and sexy walking around with funked-up, skunky foul smelling hair. Stop the insanity...

Wow, such a lady.

Edited to add:

okay sorry. Maybe I shouldn't have said that.

 

[aurora3140]

I don't understand the super no/low manipulation until one reaches her goal. What then? What if you do decide to straighten or do something different? Won't it be difficult and more damaging since you are unfamiliar with actually STYLING your own hairerplexed? And won't it be a shock to your hair as well since it's so used to being baggied, bunned, or whatever?

The way I treat my hair now is the way I'll always treat it. For me, this means that I sometimes protective style and I also wear it out on occasion. I'm on the bun challenge from now until December, but I'm allowing myself passes to wear my hair any way I want to on the weekends .

Also, I cannot comprehend not combing my hair.

 

[*Happily Me*]

Heat is overated

As soon as I stopped using heat regularly, my hair took off

(i use heat once a month, if that)

 

[MissLawyerLady]

For me, ORS Pak. I hated the smell, it was so strong my eyes started watering and burning, and it did nothing special for my hair.

 

[sprungonhairboards]

Pre poo(man I hate that word), wash, hot oil, wash, condition, rinse, deep condition, mix that magic potion with this magic potion, rinse it out, then wash again...but don't touch it! You must not touch it or the hair angels will punish you... rinse, squeeze, twirl, spin, dip, roll..... I think yall get the point. Washing my hair started to feel like a quest for the Sorcerer's Stone. I lost a lot of weekends this way.lol


OMG that is toooo funny. I feel you though

For me, BS is anybody with hair I don't want telling me whats BS.

 

[Evazhair]

OMG that is toooo funny. I feel you though

For me, BS is anybody with hair I don't want telling me whats BS. [/quote]

What she said. Well stated.

Also, I just can't bring myself to call what I don't like for me BS:
henna: allergic rxn: itchy dry scalp and hair for months as a natural

Pantene: my relaxed hair hated it

No-lye relaxers: dryness, tangling

double processed hair: leads to a quest to stave off the inevitable cutting of the color out.

direct heat on relaxed hair: my natural hair can take mad direct heat, but on relaxed, Luckily for me, I don't need it either.

I say it can't be BS if it works for someone else. People have to do what works for them. I just hope people in their search for what works for them don't get discouraged by this thread. You have to go through trial and error sometimes to get it right. I have been there. Eventually you find what works & lose all of the hair drama as long as you stick with what is truly for you.

 

[hair_wit_favor]

The baggy method for me. It caused me to lose 1/2" of hair.

That baggy method is not for me...

 

[Kurlee]

For me, ORS Pak. I hated the smell, it was so strong my eyes started watering and burning, and it did nothing special for my hair.

yup it was jus ok for me.. not spectacular, average.

 

[LunadeMiel]

I don't understand the super no/low manipulation until one reaches her goal. What then? What if you do decide to straighten or do something different? Won't it be difficult and more damaging since you are unfamiliar with actually STYLING your own hairerplexed? And won't it be a shock to your hair as well since it's so used to being baggied, bunned, or whatever?

The way I treat my hair now is the way I'll always treat it. For me, this means that I sometimes protective style and I also wear it out on occasion. I'm on the bun challenge from now until December, but I'm allowing myself passes to wear my hair any way I want to on the weekends .

Also, I cannot comprehend not combing my hair.

I cannot comprehend that either...

 

[MonaLisa]

I'm just checking......I did say that Phytorelaxer is waaaaaaaaaay over-hyped right?

*It is the DEVIL....made in hell, usa*

 

[HoneyDew]

I don't think heat is overrated.

It depends on how someone prefers to wear her hair.

Some people do prefer straighter sleek hair. Others like big hair.

I think some ladies, including myself, take style and the look they want just as important as retaining length and you do what you do to maintain whatever it is that is important to you.

 

[laCriolla]

baggying by far for me. didn't work because i'm a wiilllld sleeper

 

[MonaLisa]

For me, BS is anybody with hair I don't want telling me what's BS.

Oh....and...snap.....

 

[Kurlee]

sealing

*sprints out of thread*

 

[ChocalateDiva]

Amen to what she said! And these very same women wonder why they can't get a man! Maybe if you stopped putting 10 different cooking oils in your hair, stop with the coochie cream, and the homemade cow serum doo-doo you might get a man. You cannot be cute and sexy walking around with funked-up, skunky foul smelling hair. Stop the insanity...

The idea that a woman cannot get a man because of using MTG or any other growth aids is ludicrous. Shoot- if you just want ANY man without regard to his looks, character, charisma, babymama status and financial status- then they are everywhere!!

And if the old adage is true-about the way to a man’s heart is thru his stomach- then walking around smelling like bacon would be a plus.

MTG, MN- No MTG, no MN, whatever the case may be- do you. At the end of the day that what really matters.

 

[HoneyDew]

The idea that a woman cannot get a man because of using MTG or any other growth aids is ludicrous. Shoot- if you just want ANY man without regard to his looks, character, charisma, babymama status and financial status- then they are everywhere!!

And if the old adage is true-about the way to a man’s heart is thru his stomach- then walking around smelling like bacon would be a plus.

MTG, MN- No MTG, no MN, whatever the case may be- do you. At the end of the day that what really matters.

I did not agree with that post either. Maybe it was the way she worded it - total turn off and I don't even use any of those products.

 

[localhost]

For me, BS is anybody with hair I don't want telling me whats BS.

So if someone doesn't have hair down to their crack, they shouldn't have an opinion on what they think is BS? You can go somewhere with that....

 

[CurleeDST]

Oh durn I didn't take it that far. I figured she meant someone with chewed up ends tryna tell her what won't be effective is someone she would not listen to.

YIKES!

So if someone doesn't have hair down to their crack, they shouldn't have an opinion on what they think is BS? You can go somewhere with that....

 

[localhost]

Oh durn I didn't take it that far. I figured she meant someone with chewed up ends tryna tell her what won't be effective is someone she would not listen to.

YIKES!

That's a given. From what I see, people are quick to drool over someone's hair just cuz it's long, even if the ends are chewed or their regimen is questionable.

 

[Candy_C]

• baggying
• s-curl (erm yeh right its junk in a tub)
• toical growth aids - i really haventthe time to be fiddling and applying stuff to my head, rather pop a pill!

 

[localhost]

Candy_C, I'm glad you posted your opinion on topical growth aids--

• baggying
• s-curl (erm yeh right its junk in a tub)
• toical growth aids - i really haventthe time to be fiddling and applying stuff to my head, rather pop a pill!

Using Song_of_Serenity's post as an example, just because someone has long hair and they come with new stuff, it must be the thing that grows long hair. Candy_C doesn't even use the stuff....how IRONIC!!! But because she has long hair and posted about it, it must golden.

I'm sure the only one laughing is Candy_C, the one who came to the boards, spoke about how MN helped her/ her mum (I think) and got ridiculed. Look how many people are using it now, and not only using it, getting results! I'm one of them. The only time I'm laughing is with glee because today, I actually wore my hair all the way back and my edges were full!

Nothing against Candy_C and Song, I'm just using this as an example, so people please, take it at face value. Draw your own conclusion.

 

[SignatureBeauty]

This is a great thread!!!

 

[ShiShiPooPoo]

*tiptoes in thread with shield*

Many of you ladies hit my thoughts right on the head as far as...

Baggying (that was the biggest mess I ever made not to mention it did nothing for my sex life).
Henna (my hair doesn't like it)
Oil Rinses (my hair is too fine for this)
Shikakai Powder (the hardest hair ever)
Aveda DR (expected to be blown away for how much I paid)

Now what is working for me...

No direct heat
Cowashing
Low manipulation
Glover's 5% Sulfur for growth and healthy scalp
Deep Conditioning

When I first joined the forum I was trying everything and my hair suffered a little with breakage. I am in the process now of adopting the KISS rule for my hair and using up/throwing away all of this crap I have collected over the last several of months. It's just ridiculous.

 

[*Happily Me*]

I don't think heat is overrated.

It depends on how someone prefers to wear her hair.

Some people do prefer straighter sleek hair. Others like big hair.

I think some ladies, including myself, take style and the look they want just as important as retaining length and you do what you do to maintain whatever it is that is important to you.

yeah, you gotta do what works best for you.

using heat everyday is what brought me to LHCF. As thick as my hair is, if I used heat more often, it would thin out and break off as it did in the past, and i wouldn't retain any length.

eta - but when i do straighten it... hmmmmmm ummmmm

 

[Moroni]

Candy_C, I'm glad you posted your opinion on topical growth aids--




Using Song_of_Serenity's post as an example, just because someone has long hair and they come with new stuff, it must be the thing that grows long hair. Candy_C doesn't even use the stuff....how IRONIC!!! But because she has long hair and posted about it, it must golden.



Nothing against Candy_C and Song, I'm just using this as an example, so people please, take it at face value. Draw your own conclusion.

I apologize in advance for poking my nose in, OK? I realized, though, that Song's mistake was in the name, and not the reference:

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/showthread.php?p=21846#post21846

It was SpecialC and not Candy_C, who introduced the growth aide that a lot of us swear by.

 

[indefinite]

Candy_C, I'm glad you posted your opinion on topical growth aids--




Using Song_of_Serenity's post as an example, just because someone has long hair and they come with new stuff, it must be the thing that grows long hair. Candy_C doesn't even use the stuff....how IRONIC!!! But because she has long hair and posted about it, it must golden.



Nothing against Candy_C and Song, I'm just using this as an example, so people please, take it at face value. Draw your own conclusion.

:scratchch

 

[HoneyDew]

yeah, you gotta do what works best for you.

using heat everyday is what brought me to LHCF. As thick as my hair is, if I used heat more often, it would thin out and break off as it did in the past, and i wouldn't retain any length.

eta - but when i do straighten it... hmmmmmm ummmmm

I have a cousin that told me that she is having some breakage and thinning hair. She also told me that she uses heat everyday! I know that has to be her problem, but I am not sure how willing she is to step away from the curling iron.

 

[*Happily Me*]

I have a cousin that told me that she is having some breakage and thinning hair. She also told me that she uses heat everyday! I know that has to be her problem, but I am not sure how willing she is to step away from the curling iron.

i would guess so.

maybe you can introduce her to flexi rods? if she flat irons once a week, she could keep it straight and curly through-out the week with rods