Paradigm shifts in hair care

[FluffyRed]

LHCF has been so eye-opening and such a positive experience. I am thrilled that this is a bunch of black females, brilliant women, exchanging information and creating positive changes in our haircare and getting results we want.

My strange case is, I like the idea of texlaxing, and I know that leaving some texture = stronger hair and ultimately more length retention, but when my relaxers have come out with variances in texture (fuzzy spots and wavy spots) I have tended to think I haven't done it properly.

This has caused me to do corrective after corrective, jeopardizing my hair!! ( see the 4 bad perms in 2 months thread)

I just realized today that my hair, with it's smooth straight parts and fluff-nappy parts, is actually manageable, soft, easy to rollerset, protein-moisture balanced and growing!!!

My fine hair is not breaking!!! (Well, except for those formerly blond streaks, but the length in the back is not affected ) If I airdry it without a scarf, it's kinda fluffy! A good thing, so it doesn't look so thin!

It's fine like this! I am not going to chase the little nappier chunks to make them perfectly waved. They are fine.

In what ways has your approach to haircare evolved? Has your mindset changed in any way since being on LHCF?

 

[prospurr4]

In what ways has your approach to haircare evolved? Has your mindset changed in any way since being on LHCF?

My haircare has evolved from not knowing a thing about how to take care of it properly to having a regimen by which my hair is making progress. Since being here, my mindset has totally changed about relaxing. I used to think that my hair had to be relaxed stick-straight in order to be pretty. Now, as a texlaxed head, my former broken, overprocessed, limp, lifeless tresses are only a dim memory.

 

[FluffyRed]

That is awesome! What was the longest length you reached while bone straight?

 

[shininnebear]

I think for me it's been the change of the idea that to look "polished" I have to have straight hair. I am transitioning, and have been wearing my hair in wash in go styles to work, and it looks just as cute. This is HUGE for me as I was formerly (before I found this board) a person who wore their hair bone straight ever single day! I'm free!!

 

[FluffyRed]

I think for me it's been the change of the idea that to look "polished" I have to have straight hair. I am transitioning, and have been wearing my hair in wash in go styles to work, and it looks just as cute. This is HUGE for me as I was formerly (before I found this board) a person who wore their hair bone straight ever single day! I'm free!!

I know it is so freeing to know and accept your napptural texture!

Congratulations!

 

[Muse]

LHCF has been so eye-opening and such a positive experience. I am thrilled that this is a bunch of black females, brilliant women, exchanging information and creating positive changes in our haircare and getting results we want.

My strange case is, I like the idea of texlaxing, and I know that leaving some texture = stronger hair and ultimately more length retention, but when my relaxers have come out with variances in texture (fuzzy spots and wavy spots) I have tended to think I haven't done it properly.

This has caused me to do corrective after corrective, jeopardizing my hair!! ( see the 4 bad perms in 2 months thread)

I just realized today that my hair, with it's smooth straight parts and fluff-nappy parts, is actually manageable, soft, easy to rollerset, protein-moisture balanced and growing!!!

My fine hair is not breaking!!! (Well, except for those formerly blond streaks, but the length in the back is not affected ) If I airdry it without a scarf, it's kinda fluffy! A good thing, so it doesn't look so thin!

It's fine like this! I am not going to chase the little nappier chunks to make them perfectly waved. They are fine.

In what ways has your approach to haircare evolved? Has your mindset changed in any way since being on LHCF?

Absolutely! Like you, I am no longer trying to beat my hair into submission to get it straight. I have come to accept and like my natural texture since coming here. I honestly don't view my hair as nappy anymore but just very tightly curled.

 

[Angelicus]

I'm content with having relaxed hair that doesn't look relaxed now! I don't need to have hair that looks like I came out of the salon. I'm almost content with wearing my hair in a ponytail (I usually feel sooo ugly in protective styles but I've worn them so much that the stigma has worn off). I know my hair isn't as long as it used to be but I'm content with it being longer than when I started my hair journey.