Flat iron and stiffed

[ladykaya]

Hell Yall.

I think my hair is mad at me. So I decided to press out my hair. Usually I go to a salon and get it done but I decided because of time and funds to do it myself. As a natural I have never had the same success as in the salon. It may be my techique and I hope you ladies can help me out. My hair feels very stiff I can't even finger comb through it. I will have to wash it out this week.

So here is what I did
Wash and condition with Treasured locks emu oil shampoo and conditioner
De-tangled my hair and put in six braids to let air dry over night.
(here is probably where I messed up)
My hair is completely dry I applied Sabino MB on ever section from a braid I took out. I thought I screwed myself so I added leave-in de-tangler just for me shea butter.
Either way my hair feels awful and looks awful. I'm too ashamed to show pictures.

I looked at some threads about other people's regiment and I got the just of products but I think my technique is way off.
Oh and I am a 4b natural. Thank you ladies for all your support and advice in advance.

 

[brownbean96]

Hi Lady, that happened to me. Here is what I learned.

A little Sabino MB goes a long way!! Also, you should follow the instructions for using SMB pretty precisely. For example, they tell you to use a smal amount of the product while wet - they say it's the most important part of the process.

After my first failed attempt. I used on my hair when wet and then used less then the first time after blow drying. The other step that I added (might not work for everyone) but I used some moisture on my ends (Qhemet B) in addition to the Sabino. My hair steamed a bit from the flat ironing meeting with the moisturizer but I got excellent results. The first time most of my hair was hard and stiff - especially the ends. The second time my entire head was very light and had a lot of swang. Also, I re-applied a bit more of SMB after flat-ironing and a bit more each day. I'm at the 2nd week mark and am about to wash it out - it reverted a lot over the weekend becuase I was caught in the rain - but it's still semi straight. I'm wearing it back/twisted in the back so that the reversion doesn't really show.

HTH.

 

[kblc06]

Hell Yall.

I think my hair is mad at me. So I decided to press out my hair. Usually I go to a salon and get it done but I decided because of time and funds to do it myself. As a natural I have never had the same success as in the salon. It may be my techique and I hope you ladies can help me out. My hair feels very stiff I can't even finger comb through it. I will have to wash it out this week.

So here is what I did
Wash and condition with Treasured locks emu oil shampoo and conditioner
De-tangled my hair and put in six braids to let air dry over night.
(here is probably where I messed up)
My hair is completely dry I applied Sabino MB on ever section from a braid I took out. I thought I screwed myself so I added leave-in de-tangler just for me shea butter.
Either way my hair feels awful and looks awful. I'm too ashamed to show pictures.

I looked at some threads about other people's regiment and I got the just of products but I think my technique is way off.
Oh and I am a 4b natural. Thank you ladies for all your support and advice in advance.

Have you ever attempted to use the chasing technique where you glide a comb or brush through hair while flat-ironing? This works very well to smooth out and separate my ends . The leave-in detangler may have contained ingredients such as aloe or glycerin that do not react well with heat . Also when flat-ironing, use very thin sections (like 1/4" or less)

 

[pmichael52172]

One thing to add, once you put the Sabino on.... NOTHING else is getting in there... no matter what you put on top of it. The only thing that will penetrate is shampoo and water (to wash it out).