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Why do people call it texlaxing? it's relaxing!!

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I personally say texlaxing because after using a relaxer my hair is still quite textured. I don't relax bone straight or really even close to what most people thing of as a relaxed straight texture.
 
yeah people need to stop frontin! your relaxing regardless of if you still have texture. hell people who relax bone straight still have "texture"
 
I think that most people realize that putting creamy crack on the hair means you are relaxing technically. I think some of us that don't want to relax bone straight call it texlaxing since you are still maintaining most/some of your texture.

Whats your beef with folx saying texlaxed if they want to anyway? I guess I don't understand where you are coming from. No one here that says "texlaxed" denies they have put relaxer on their heads so i guess I don't get it...
 
Hell, just like there are terms for everything else on a hair board CO=conditioner washing, TO=twistout...it's just another hair term. Of course it's a relaxer silly....:grin:
 
That's like some black folx calling themselves "african american" and others calling themselves "black". In this world it all amounts to us being n***** anyway so....
 
. . .thats why they say texlaxing. its not denying they have relaxed hair, they just dont relax it bone straight so there is still a lot of curls and/or texture. texture-tex, relaxing-laxing which = texlaxing.
 
shatarip said:
Theres no such thing as texlaxing, its a relaxer!!! you are now relax, whats wrong with saying that you are relax. There are naturals, people who get texturizer which are still chemicals:spinning: and then there are people who are relax, IMO, I think people who go from natural to relax dont want to come to terms that they are relaxing again, oh i'm going to just texlax, sweetie you are relaxing, you're no more natural..... Can someone please set this straight.... I know i'm going to get some mean responses, but whatever...
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why do you care what people call what they do to their hair

the name makes sense in my opinion.....relaxing while retaining some natural texture = tex laxing......what's the big deal?
 
relaxing, shmalaxing...what does it matter. If any thing it is is just a way to be clear that you are not relaxing bone straight. The term relaxing implies that you are relaxing the natural texture of your hair, but I think the term relaxing is being mis-used because when most women put a relaxer in their hair from what I have witnessed in the salons...they don't want relaxation, but bone straightenedness, I think thats when the term relaxer is really being misused.

I don't think anyone is fronting or is in denial that they are putting chemicals in their hair.
 
Fabulousity said:
I think that most people realize that putting creamy crack on the hair means you are relaxing technically. I think some of us that don't want to relax bone straight call it texlaxing since you are still maintaining most/some of your texture.

Whats your beef with folx saying texlaxed if they want to anyway? I guess I don't understand where you are coming from. No one here that says "texlaxed" denies they have put relaxer on their heads so i guess I don't get it...
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THANK YOU!! I've never seen anyone who "tex-lax" say they don't have a relaxer. These natchel's girls need to get over themselves....i mean "wasn't you relaxed a few years, or months ago??"
What's up with this self-righteous attitude? Even when I was 100% natural, i never tried to make my self look better than someone who had a chemical in their hair. Shoot, that wouldn't seem right thinking I'm better than my "momma, aunts, sister, cousins, great-aunts, great-great grandma..." you get the point.
 
People can call themselves what they want:ohwell:. IMO its not fully relaxing and the phrase was probably made up to describe the between bit where the bonds are not fully broken down into straight locks but it has loosened the natural texture somewhat.

Im sure people are aware they had a relaxer and chemicals in and use it for description purposes, it also can describe the type of look you were going for.
 
so does texlaxing range from the basic "breaking down the kinks a lil" all the way "not bone straight"? should there be more clarifying terms?
 
I ain't speaking for the OP or nothing... hell I don't even know her, but I don't see her as saying natural is better or anything... just wondering why the hell folks say they texlaxed instead just saying they relaxed
 
Uh whats the big deal? People are always trying to make something out of nothing.

"Texlaxing" is just hairboard slang to describe purposely underprocessed hair as opposed to bone straight hair.

Same way folks want to call themselves napptural vs natural vs whateva.....
 
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Val said:
relaxing while retaining some natural texture = tex laxing......what's the big deal?
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Pretty much the meaning.
Texturized and texlaxed are the same, no? Except people use a "texturizer" and others just intentionally underprocess with relaxer? So what's the difference in texturizer ingredients and relaxer ingredients. Don't they do the same thing? Or can you not go straight with a texturizer if left on too long?:spinning:

Op, now if people were trying to front as if the curls they got from texlaxing were their own natural hair texture, that'd be one thing. But obviously, saying "texlax" obviously means they had a chemical process done. :yep:
~*Janelle~*
 
I don't understand why that is such an issue. Its simply a combination of two words. The hair is relaxed with chemicals, but there is still texture--curl, wave (albeit unnatural)--to the hair. Its not a matter of being in denial or still trying to claim natural. :look: If you are relaxing bone straight, you have very little texture, if any at all, so I don't know what that means.

When I talk to people in general public/conversation I say that I'm relaxed. If people see my hair wet they don't realize I have a relaxer and I just explain that I do, it just isn't bone straight. I don't even concern them with the whole texlaxed concept, but I thought the people on the hair boards understood what it meant. Guess not. Didn't realize it was that serious.
 
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