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

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gymfreak336 said:
If that is the case then we don't need to distinguish between relaxed or natural hair either since they both have the same requirements.

I don't think anyone thinks that texlaxing to totally different than regular "relaxing". We all know we are still using chemicals. Its just a more detailed way to describe your hair after the processing which can help people help you. From being very texlaxed to being BONE straight to being just regular relaxed, I can tell you that my hair had very different requirements in each stage. All hair needs to the same thing, just in different levels which can be affected by the level of processing you put it thorugh. Hence why people use texlaxed.
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What im saying is, i dont think you can determine what level of processing different people are putting their hair through, and place it into a catergory "tex-laxed" and say it needs this and this.

When it comes to chemicals...Your natural, or chemically processed.

With eyeveryones chemically processed hair, YOU have to go by what YOUR hair needs and learn to balance it. Theres no different qualifications set in stone for what 50% relaxed hair, and 90% relaxed hair needs.

And i do think that chemically processed/relaxed hair, and natural hair have different needs....

But thats my opinion, and you have yours which i respect, just wanted to say that, even though i know the horse is being dead and this thread is now about trees LOL

Irresistible said:
girl how did you answer that, that made my brain hurt seriously!

your good with plants and percentages and breaking things down to miniscule detail!

*taking notes*
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:ohwell::rolleyes:...:lachen::lachen:

Artemis said:
Wow, all this these posts...Geez, people!
*saying "people" the way Ateya says in her You Tube videos :lol: *

Whatever happened to keeping it simple? :look:

Natural...Texturized...Relaxed?

(Like others have said a 'texturizer' is just descrbing the process of the relaxer being left on the hair shorter than the time needed to "fully relax" the hair...It is not a separate type or formulation of chemical. You can be more [or less] "texurized" than someone else, but it's using the same chemical as a "fully relaxed" head, ie no-lye, lye, etc.)

We started inventing words to pass the time, maybe? :spinning:

Call it what you want, yes, but dang...All these other code names for the same ish will have all of us slow people going :huh:

I think that was the point of the thread?! (Not that I read it all, b/c that's just ridiculous...)

*sigh*

Carry on...:yawn:
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Thats what i was thinking too LOL....You watch her 2? I just saw a video of hers yesterday she kills me with the "people" thing LOL "listen people" :lachen:
 
Since this thread is so ridiculous (and a few other words i wont mention) im going to take the opportunity to use a smiley that ive always wanted to use (but couldnt find the right topic or context):

:kneel:

Yes it makes no sense but niether does a 28 page explanation on a tex-laxing. Carry on.
 
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Good thread (although I stopped at page 2). I agree with you whole heartedly. After coming to the board and learning what "texlaxed" was, I was like, :perplexed..its a relaxer!

Texlaxing sounds like a cop out to the truth. Its still relaxed regardless of how technical they wanna make it, but if they wanna be tex- instead of re-, the so be it.
 
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 give a **** what other people call what they do to their hair?
 
I don't think people use the term texlaxed because they don't want to "admit" their hair is relaxed. It's just a better way to describe the hair. I don't know too many people with fully relaxed hair that can do a wash-n-go with a mass of curls, so someone who is textlaxed wouldn't want info on curl enhancing products from those people who's hair dries fairly straight or don't do wash-n-gos, for example. Some of ya'll are thinking too hard.
 
long2short2_? said:
. . .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.
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:lachen::lachen::lachen::grin::grin::lachen::lachen::lachen:Thats a way to sum it all up.....I love it... "texture-tex, relaxing-laxing which = texlaxing" :lachen::lachen:
 
atlien11 said:
Since this thread is so ridiculous (and a few other words i wont mention) im going to take the opportunity to use a smiley that ive always wanted to use (but couldnt find the right topic or context):

:kneel:

Yes it makes no sense but niether does a 28 page explanation on a tex-laxing. Carry on.
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Here's my "nonsensical" contribution as well..
:doingdishes:
 
I hate a lot of general traits in such a specific genre of people. And I feel like that's a problem because I don't want to get to a place where I feel like I'm the only one with any real insight and I'm just surrounded by idiots but at the same time... cmon... look at our country...
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:lachen::lachen::lachen::lachen:

I never actually thought about it but you are so right... Maybe we should all just call it "underprocessed" and call it a day.
 
Hmmm........Interesting.......

All I know is that if I were to ever relax again, I'd probably go the "texlax" route for the sake of maintaining some kind of thickness. I guess I'd try to find a happy medium between relaxing tooooo straight and leaving tooo much texture. Don't know if I'd just go around IRL saying texlaxed, because I doubt if they know what it means, :lol:. I'd just say relaxed. But here on LHCF, y'all know what texlaxed means. Instead of 15 minute application...reduce it to 10 minutes. It's still relaxed, IMO, but there is a difference between bone bone bone super straight, and some type of deep wave/semi-curl partern.
 
fluffylocks said:
What im saying is, i dont think you can determine what level of processing different people are putting their hair through, and place it into a catergory "tex-laxed" and say it needs this and this.

When it comes to chemicals...Your natural, or chemically processed.

With eyeveryones chemically processed hair, YOU have to go by what YOUR hair needs and learn to balance it. Theres no different qualifications set in stone for what 50% relaxed hair, and 90% relaxed hair needs.

And i do think that chemically processed/relaxed hair, and natural hair have different needs....

But thats my opinion, and you have yours which i respect, just wanted to say that, even though i know the horse is being dead and this thread is now about trees LOL
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How you care for hair that is texlax/texturized may likely somewhat different from fully relaxed hair. That's a big reason why people make the distinction. I have been texlaxed/texturized since a pre-teen, never relaxed fully. I don't care for my hair the way my fully relaxed friends care for theirs.

Speaking of needs, the hair care for my natural growing up is not that much different from my texlaxed hair care- and even now while transitioning. Fully relaxed hair will take longer and my hair will be much more fragile. Texlax hair simply takes less time overall. It's likely that both fully relaxed and natural would take longer for me. But that's just my hair...

So how people label their own hair suits them. If they call themselves texlax/texturised or relaxed, they know why...
 
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TSUprincess04 said:
Hmmm........Interesting.......

All I know is that if I were to ever relax again, I'd probably go the "texlax" route for the sake of maintaining some kind of thickness. I guess I'd try to find a happy medium between relaxing tooooo straight and leaving tooo much texture. Don't know if I'd just go around IRL saying texlaxed, because I doubt if they know what it means, :lol:. I'd just say relaxed. But here on LHCF, y'all know what texlaxed means. Instead of 15 minute application...reduce it to 10 minutes. It's still relaxed, IMO, but there is a difference between bone bone bone super straight, and some type of deep wave/semi-curl partern.
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MMM hmmm, people generally assume my hair is natural. The only question I get is if my hair is all mine. :lachen: But I usually will still tell people that my hair is slightly/lightly relaxed. Who in the world outside of LHCF would know what texlax means? :lachen:
 
divya said:
MMM hmmm, people generally assume my hair is natural. The only question I get is if my hair is all mine. :lachen: But I usually will still tell people that my hair is slightly/lightly relaxed. Who in the world outside of LHCF would know what texlax means? :lachen:
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I have actually started explaing it to people. I will tell them that I am relaxed and they will look at me like :ohwell:.. Then I tell them its a process called "tex-laxing" you should see the look in their eyes...OHHH what is that... I just tell them its putting a relaxer on your NG for a shorter period of time.. That way I keep the curls, without the fuss...

It would be cool to go into salons and they ask, so what process would you like bonelaxed or tex-lax?
 
PanamasOwn said:
I have actually started explaing it to people. I will tell them that I am relaxed and they will look at me like :ohwell:.. Then I tell them its a process called "tex-laxing" you should see the look in their eyes...OHHH what is that... I just tell them its putting a relaxer on your NG for a shorter period of time.. That way I keep the curls, without the fuss...

It would be cool to go into salons and they ask, so what process would you like bonelaxed or tex-lax?
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I'll bet. Some women just love anything "hair"! Like us!

:lachen: :lachen: And LHCF could get all the credit for the new terminology!
 
PanamasOwn said:
I have actually started explaing it to people. I will tell them that I am relaxed and they will look at me like :ohwell:.. Then I tell them its a process called "tex-laxing" you should see the look in their eyes...OHHH what is that... I just tell them its putting a relaxer on your NG for a shorter period of time.. That way I keep the curls, without the fuss...

It would be cool to go into salons and they ask, so what process would you like bonelaxed or tex-lax?
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Girl I'm telling you. Sometimes they are soooo very clueless. I actually have told new stylists that I need them to "bone it out" and they still don't get it.
 
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