Ladies please please please help me

[mj11051]

I'm getting my hair braided in the morning and I just used bentonite clay to clarify my hair and then did a dc. Now here's my question should I just use a leave in and some oil or should I moisturize my hair also?

 

[robot.]

I would definitely moisturize, but maybe skip the oil. Your braider might have a hard time trying to grab onto slick hair, IMO.

 

[MyAngelEyez~C~U]

moisturize most definitely.

 

[msa]

Doesn't your leave in moisturize? I mean, that's what leave-in's do.

And how are you stretching your hair so that it will be easy for the braider to part and braid it? That may affect what you want to put in your hair.

 

[mj11051]

Yes I am because I'm to put large twist in my hair to sleep in.

 

[msa]

Yes I am because I'm to put large twist in my hair to sleep in.

Is that going to be stretched out enough?

I learned over a decade of getting braids that if you don't want the braider ripping out your hair its best to go in with your hair as straight as possible without it being slippery. So I would always blowdry my hair as straight as possible so that they could part, comb, and braid with ease.

 

[Tafa01]

I would just moisturize and skip the oil

 

[Tafa01]

Is that going to be stretched out enough?

I learned over a decade of getting braids that if you don't want the braider ripping out your hair its best to go in with your hair as straight as possible without it being slippery. So I would always blowdry my hair as straight as possible so that they could part, comb, and braid with ease.

I agree with the poster

 

[mj11051]

I don't own a blow dryererplexed

 

[msa]

I don't own a blow dryererplexed

In that case I suggest small-medium braids done with tension...that's usually almost as good as a blowdry for me. You want your hair stretched out.

 

[rosalindb]

I don't own a blow dryererplexed

I used to go to the hairdressers to get my hair cornrowed with extensions or occassionally single plaits and they would always blow dry my hair straight. I read about the damage that heat can do and wanted to go heat free and asked them if they would braid my hair without blowdrying it first and they said that was impossible. I believed them and stopped getting extensions in April 2005 as I found a young girl that lived locally to cornrow my hair without extensions and have been going to her ever since.

A few weeks later, I went to the young girl as normal to get my hair done and her mother was doing beautiful tiny single plaits with extensions in the younger daughter's hair but she had not blowdried it and her hair is about my texture but much coarser and it is almost BSL. When I asked the mother about blowdrying, she said that she never blow dries their hair. Over the years I have seen her doing her friends' hair as well as her two daughters and the hair always comes out looking beautiful.

I think the hairdressers just want to make it easier for themselves to cornrow/braid.

 

[IDareT'sHair]

Chile, You Had Me Runnin' Up in This Thread:

Oh LAWD......What's Wrong Now!

Is this Chile Finally In Jail or What!

Who She Done: NOW!

Can't Help. Never Had Braids or Know anything about them.

But.....I hope you are feeling Better and Staying Out of Trouble.

*don't be scaring me...talking about please, please, please help!*

 

[Nonie]

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In that case I suggest small-medium braids done with tension...that's usually almost as good as a blowdry for me. You want your hair stretched out.

I agree with Rosalind. I never blowdry. Plaiting the hair to stretch is all I ever do. Problem with blowdrying or getting hair straight before braiding is the day you wash it, the hair will shrink and create an accordion effect on the part of the braid containing your hair. If you leave the hair semi-shrunken as would be if just braided, it's similar to having prewashed jeans that don't shrink when washed. So your braids hold better and still look good when you wash.

 

[IDareT'sHair]

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I agree with Rosalind. I never blowdry. Plaiting the hair to stretch is all I ever do. Problem with blowdrying or getting hair straight before braiding is the day you wash it, the hair will shrink and create an accordion effect on the part of the braid containing your hair. If you leave the hair semi-shrunken as would be if just braided, it's similar to having prewashed jeans that don't shrink when washed. So your braids hold better and still look good when you wash.

Nonie Quit Laughin': You Know You Ran Up In Here Too, Because You Never Know what Kind of "Drama" MJ Got Going On (Today)....................

I Thought She Don' Gave Somebody the Beat Down for being One Centimeter from Almost Touchin' Her Hurr Accidentially:hardslap: and DH wasn't around to Stop/Save The Poor Person!

 

[Nonie]

Nonie Quit Laughin': You Know You Ran Up In Here Too, Because You Never Know what Kind of "Drama" MJ Got Going On (Today)....................

I Thought She Don' Gave Somebody the Beat Down for being One Centimeter from Almost Touchin' Her Hurr Accidentially:hardslap: and DH wasn't around to Stop/Save The Poor Person!

IDTH, you need to sit down on that naughty stool indefinitely with your crazy butt.

 

[IDareT'sHair]

IDTH, you need to sit down on that naughty stool indefinitely with your crazy butt.

Girl, You Know MJ will Throw Down with The Landlord, The Person at the Grocery Store, the Nurse in the Recovery Room....

The Person waayy across the Street that looked at her like they even "thought about" touching her hair.
Ain't No Shame in Her Game!

I bet whoever is braiding her Hurr is Scurrrrd.