The Dumbest D!#n Hair Advice You've Ever Heard (given or received)

[bermudabeauty]

*Sleeping in wet hair will make it rot.[/quote] OMG that is the funniest ish I have ever heard.

For me it would be cutting your hair will make it grow and that black people can't have a relaxer and color.

 

[TCT]

After shampooing, an old stylist proceeded to towel dry my hair erplexed...when I asked if she was done, she said "Yeah, you don't NEED any conditioner this time . Hmpf. I joined LHCF a month later.

LOLOLOL!!!! OH MY GOODNESS i hope you got up and ran from that foolishness.

 

[araceli2418]

Okay, I managed to calm myself down.

Let's see I've heard:

Black people can't wash their hair everyday
Dirt makes your hair grow
Black people don't get long hair
Black people can't wash and go
Trimming your hair will make it grow
Black people have to grease their scalp to make their hair grow

Thank God, I found this board!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[~*Tigget*~]

When I had a setback and all my hair fell out. I was told to brush my scalp w/ a hard brush vigorously, and it would help it grow back....what tha, and I did it. And there went the rest of my hair. It was horrible.

 

[Neith]

Not to be offensive to anyone here in case you are followers...

but the whole trimming by the moon cycle thing makes me go:




We all know that trimming does NOTHING for the growth at your hair roots. even if the moon DOES have an affect on hair growth (hey, it might... how would I know?), why would TRIMMING have any thing to do with it?

If your hair is gonna grow because of the moon, it's just gonna grow. Why cut your hair off?

It's perplexing! Especially when I see followers here and on other hair sites.

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[Nya33]

Never wash your braids. I've heard this from every single braider I've been to.

I was told this too! Also while in braids told to keep greasing my scalp, all this did was make my head matt up and attract flies!!!!!!

 

[darkangel25]

My cousin told me that in order to prevent breakage, when I shower, that I should not to let water touch my hair.

 

[Carla From VA]

When I was in high school way back in the big 80s, I remember girls in the bathroom would say that they never washed their hair, except for when they got a relaxer touchup, then they would go 6 weeks before water hit it again, at the next touchup. They swore that it kept their perms looking fresh if water never hit it!

 

[HrdErndWizDom]

I got everybody beat:

An old friend of my mother's told us that used motor oil (yes the ish you drain during an oil change) would grow your hair, you just "grease" your scalp with it. She had top of ear length hair. My mom and I looked at one another and changed the subject.

MY PEOPLE, MY PEOPLE!!! WHAT IS WE GONE DO? LAWDHAFMERCY

 

[Neith]

I got everybody beat:

An old friend of my mother's told us that used motor oil (yes the ish you drain during an oil change) would grow your hair, you just "grease" your scalp with it. She had top of ear length hair. My mom and I looked at one another and changed the subject.

MY PEOPLE, MY PEOPLE!!! WHAT IS WE GONE DO? LAWDHAFMERCY

You sure do have everyone beat


but seriously... I would think that's straight TOXIC! Is she okay?
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[araceli2418]

I got everybody beat:

An old friend of my mother's told us that used motor oil (yes the ish you drain during an oil change) would grow your hair, you just "grease" your scalp with it. She had top of ear length hair. My mom and I looked at one another and changed the subject.

MY PEOPLE, MY PEOPLE!!! WHAT IS WE GONE DO? LAWDHAFMERCY

WHAT!!!!!????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, I DO think you have everyone beat.

 

[SimpleKomplexity]

When I was pregnant with my twins I lived in Germany and for some reason my scalp began to get really dry and my dandruff was something awful well a lady I worked with told me not to worry about it too much cause that was a sign that I had fast growing hair and the dandruff was a sign that it was growing. That was the dumbest piece of ish I had ever heard.

I know what u mean. My mom used to get so excited when she saw my dandruff. She said dang you are just like em! Your hair grows fast!! you have that growing dandruff!

 

[manegoal]

I got everybody beat:

An old friend of my mother's told us that used motor oil (yes the ish you drain during an oil change) would grow your hair, you just "grease" your scalp with it. She had top of ear length hair. My mom and I looked at one another and changed the subject.

MY PEOPLE, MY PEOPLE!!! WHAT IS WE GONE DO? LAWDHAFMERCY

your funny!

 

[mymane]

deep conditioning too much (every week) can dry your hair out, make it 'hard' feeling.

 

[BostonMaria]

Motor Oil?!!!!!!

My sister's SIL told her to put chopped up pieces of red onions in her shampoo and its supposed to make your hair grow. Even if it works it just HAS TO smell really bad. Yuck, I'll pass on that one!

 

[SexyCap]

Motor Oil?!!!!!!

My sister's SIL told her to put chopped up pieces of red onions in her shampoo and its supposed to make your hair grow. Even if it works it just HAS TO smell really bad. Yuck, I'll pass on that one!

Red onions are high in sulfur. So maybe that's what did it.

 

[BostonMaria]

Red onions are high in sulfur. So maybe that's what did it.

Wow really? I had no idea. Well she's almost waist length now so she MIGHT be telling the truth. Regardless I ain't doing it. Heck I won't even EAT onions, let alone put it on my hair!

 

[HrdErndWizDom]

You sure do have everyone beat


but seriously... I would think that's straight TOXIC! Is she okay?
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She is still living and still got short hair

 

[producjunki]

:heated: Fire. Back in the day,(& why i've always been a self braider)....
When braids were installed, I was told (by several folks :mob to burn the frizzies(excess) off the braids, this will make them look neat and "seal" the ends. I've also witnessed this being done.

:burning:My response has always been....WTF!
"My" hair is part of the frizzies and I damn well know that burning is not good for my hair!

I also avoid cutting the frizzies off my finsished braids. (it's "my" hair)

I'm not even going to lye to you. When I was younger and my sister used to braid my hair ( She does hair on the side), She used to either burn the frizzed hair that was sticking up off, or she used to clip it with scissorserplexed. I was thinkiing to myself " This can't be good?!". Now she has finally learned that it isn't good to do because you are damaging the person's hair, causing split ends and unwanted shaggy layers. So now she just mouses the braids and wraps them

 

[Likeyouneverseenme]

A woman once told me that i should put styling mousse in my hair after I complained about it being dry. Now, how was that going to help...?

 

[Whimsy]

- don't wash your hair so much, it'll stop growing (WTF?!)

- you should put some vaseline on your nappy edges, they'll lay down that way.
(hell to the no)

 

[*Muffin*]

I've heard so much bad advice in my life that it's hard to pin point it down to just one experience, so I'm going to give you two,. Before I list the experiences I just want to say that both of the people had good intentions, it's just that those intentions weren't good for me .

Experience # 1

About a year ago at the beginning of my hair journey my Grandmother and I had to run my brother into the hospital because he was running a high fever and was really sick. While we were there my grandmother (who is white) was talking with this very pretty black woman that worked at the hospital who had about APL hair, and to my horror my grandmother was talking to her about how all I want to do was grow my hair long like hers . Needless to say that was embarrassing enough. Then my grandmother proceeded to ask the lady "could you give my granddaughter any advice?" The lady proceeds to tell me "Oh, you just have to brush your hair a lot. I brush mine all the time". My grandmother's a really sweet woman, though. She looked so pleased with herself, like she had done something to help me so I pretended to be happy when really I was cringing inside.

Experience #2

This incident took place a couple of months ago at my job. By this point my hair had grown longer than in incident number 1 and had reached APL. There's this lady that works at my job that almost always wears weave in her hair (and her weaves are very pretty), and when she doesn't she gels her hair back so that it looks glued to her head. She's really a nice lady, but she always felt the need to criticize my hair. She would touch my hair and say "Oh, your hair is too soft. That's not good." or "Why is your hair wet all the time (when it wasn't), that's not good" and annoying things like that. One day she decides to tell me "You know, you really should start blow-drying your hair straight. It'll look so much healthier that way. You see how my hair looks" She takes off her hat to show me her hair, and let's just say that her hair looked ANYTHING but healthy . I didn't have the heart to tell her that she was giving bad advice, so I just didn't say anything at all.

 

[CenteredGirl]

I guess this can be construed as advice--- watching old TV commercials where the models piled their hair up on their head to wash their hair. Doesn't work for 4ab naturals. Talk about a tangled MESS!

 

[*Muffin*]

What the dumbest advice about hair care you've ever heard, whether or not you received or gave it? I just thought about my time a Msms (boarding-type school) when I was competing with a friend brittany, to give advice about hair care for my friend Doya. *names changed to protect the innocent*

Now to give you some idea, brittany's hair was very unhealthy...all two inches of it with some very visible bald comb-over spots around the temple area and scales of dandruff due to infrequent washing on top of dermatitis . Doya who happens to be a fan of weave, had thinning, short hair but it was salvageable with some proper care. Now at the time, I was relaxed but transitioning (had recently discovered NP and BHM) with approx. bsl hair. I had good hair care methods before the boards and had grown my hair from above shoulder length from self-inflicted heat damage a year befor (inspite of knowing better because I was only 16 and wanted to be cute).

Doya was styling her hair and asked my advice on what she should do. I told her it would be best if she put if she rolled it and not used so much heat. Brittany interrupts and says that if she followed my advice that her hair would be all over the place because it was so short and that she should do the following:

-wash hair (no conditioner because that was for white people)
-add grease immediately after to "condition"
-add gel, slick hair down straight, and blowdry
-after drying, curl with a curling iron to set style, add spritz, repeat every 3-4 weeks....without washing in between

I sat in absolute disbelief even before hair boards I knew that would take someone's hair clean off their head. I said Doya, "are you really gone listen to her" . She said, "well, her hair short too and you got indian hair so what you do is not going to work for me anyway (to put this in it's cultural context brittany & I are AA and doyin is nigerian....and I do NOT have Indain hair). So I proceeded to shut up, since my advice was falling on deaf ears, but it astonished me that someone could give such advice, as if you wanted their hair to come out

OMG, that's horrible .

 

[sillygirl82]

What the dumbest advice about hair care you've ever heard, whether or not you received or gave it? I just thought about my time a Msms (boarding-type school) when I was competing with a friend brittany, to give advice about hair care for my friend Doya. *names changed to protect the innocent*

Now to give you some idea, brittany's hair was very unhealthy...all two inches of it with some very visible bald comb-over spots around the temple area and scales of dandruff due to infrequent washing on top of dermatitis . Doya who happens to be a fan of weave, had thinning, short hair but it was salvageable with some proper care. Now at the time, I was relaxed but transitioning (had recently discovered NP and BHM) with approx. bsl hair. I had good hair care methods before the boards and had grown my hair from above shoulder length from self-inflicted heat damage a year befor (inspite of knowing better because I was only 16 and wanted to be cute).

Doya was styling her hair and asked my advice on what she should do. I told her it would be best if she put if she rolled it and not used so much heat. Brittany interrupts and says that if she followed my advice that her hair would be all over the place because it was so short and that she should do the following:

-wash hair (no conditioner because that was for white people)
-add grease immediately after to "condition"
-add gel, slick hair down straight, and blowdry
-after drying, curl with a curling iron to set style, add spritz, repeat every 3-4 weeks....without washing in between

I sat in absolute disbelief even before hair boards I knew that would take someone's hair clean off their head. I said Doya, "are you really gone listen to her" . She said, "well, her hair short too and you got indian hair so what you do is not going to work for me anyway (to put this in it's cultural context brittany & I are AA and doyin is nigerian....and I do NOT have Indain hair). So I proceeded to shut up, since my advice was falling on deaf ears, but it astonished me that someone could give such advice, as if you wanted their hair to come out

My aunt does a modified version of that every day.
1. She washes her hair. No conditioner.
2. Gels her to death and then blow-dries the gel into the hair.
3. Comes home, washes her and then lets air dry.
4. Goes to sleep, no scarf/cap on cotton bed linens.

My aunt who had SL length curls at one time, now barely has a enough hair to make a ponytail. She also a bald spot.

 

[cottoncoily]

My sister while in cosmetology school said they taught her that the way to moisturize hair was to put grease on all of it then hot comb/flat iron it. The heat is supposed to seal the grease in the hair and therefore it gets moisturize It's a good thing she dropped out.

 

[doll-baby]

1...dandruff from another person's scalp (ewww) will make your hair grow
2...@&%!? from a guy will make your hair curly
3...only cut your hair when the moon is full, burn it so that birds won't use it in their nests and give you a headache.

 

[sunshinebeautiful]

My sister while in cosmetology school said they taught her that the way to moisturize hair was to put grease on all of it then hot comb/flat iron it. The heat is supposed to seal the grease in the hair and therefore it gets moisturize It's a good think she dropped out.

No they didn't!

 

[sunshinebeautiful]

I don't understand this growing dandruff thing.

I was told my hair was gonna fall out if I didn't use grease/stop washing my hair so frequently... Still waiting on this to happen.

"White" hair products will make your hair fall out.

 

[TCT]

I got everybody beat:

An old friend of my mother's told us that used motor oil (yes the ish you drain during an oil change) would grow your hair, you just "grease" your scalp with it. She had top of ear length hair. My mom and I looked at one another and changed the subject.

MY PEOPLE, MY PEOPLE!!! WHAT IS WE GONE DO? LAWDHAFMERCY

ROFL!!!!! IT DOES SOUND EXTREAMLY RIDDICULOUS. eadgar cayce thought otherwise though. he said crued oil grows hair, and ppl who follow his remedies say that its true..