After being natural for two years, I decided to texturize/relax my hair on 10/18/2007.
I guess a couple of factors led to my decision, the main culprits being: knots and breakage. And as much as I loved shrinkage for two-strand twists, flat twists, braidouts and puffs, I think this was also another factor.
In the end, I made the decision to texturize and I have no regrets. I no longer see any broken hairs on my floor, which has been a major setback for me these past 5 months.
I was pretty scared at first because I know I didn’t want bone straight relaxed hair, so I made sure that I mixed a protein conditioner, some jojoba oil, and castor oil into the ORS relaxer that I used. I really didn’t research what relaxer to use, but the ORS (Organic Root Stimulator) seemed the best choice on that aisle in Target. In the end, I’m happy with my results. I texturized using a method I’ve never really heard anyone use before, but which made sense, and that was to apply the relaxer while my hair was still in twists. I guess you can call it laziness because I didn’t want to take these 3 week old twists down, or I was simply curious to see what might happen, but all in all, I think this method is a keeper.
I didn’t end up with too many straight ends…maybe 5-8…and my hair pretty much looks the same, minus my ends constantly breaking and the shrinkage…well sort of. Since I was really scared of the chemicals I did a few strand tests and found that a processing time of 5 minutes worked the best. Anything more (as you’ll see in my album) caused too much straightness.
We'll see how my hair fares in the upcoming months...
More pics are in my album, and the “how-to” folder is by password request only.
-lovelymissyoli
Your hair looks too cute!!!!
Thank you for your compliments. To answer your question, I do believe I would have gotten the same results IF and only IF I took the time to process very small sections at a time. If you look at my 'The Process' album, my strand test came out in spirals as well, but you have to take into consideration that it was only a half an inch in diameter so imagine trying to do that to my entire head. It would take forever!
As for the protein conditioner, it was Pantene Pro-V's Intense Curl Hydrating Mask. ...Now that I look @ the ingredients, I think this just may be a deep treatment and not a protein conditioner. Oh well...it works great and smells heavenly!
Such a creative technique....you are so inspiring! I will def try this with the Pantene conditioner for my next texlax.
this product does not agree with everyone's hair mixing down your product might work better .. i have started from scratch after using this product my hair literally fell out. your hair looks great though.
After being natural for two years, I decided to texturize/relax my hair on 10/18/2007.
I guess a couple of factors led to my decision, the main culprits being: knots and breakage. And as much as I loved shrinkage for two-strand twists, flat twists, braidouts and puffs, I think this was also another factor.
In the end, I made the decision to texturize and I have no regrets. I no longer see any broken hairs on my floor, which has been a major setback for me these past 5 months.
I was pretty scared at first because I know I didn’t want bone straight relaxed hair, so I made sure that I mixed a protein conditioner, some jojoba oil, and castor oil into the ORS relaxer that I used. I really didn’t research what relaxer to use, but the ORS (Organic Root Stimulator) seemed the best choice on that aisle in Target. In the end, I’m happy with my results. I texturized using a method I’ve never really heard anyone use before, but which made sense, and that was to apply the relaxer while my hair was still in twists. I guess you can call it laziness because I didn’t want to take these 3 week old twists down, or I was simply curious to see what might happen, but all in all, I think this method is a keeper.
I didn’t end up with too many straight ends…maybe 5-8…and my hair pretty much looks the same, minus my ends constantly breaking and the shrinkage…well sort of. Since I was really scared of the chemicals I did a few strand tests and found that a processing time of 5 minutes worked the best. Anything more (as you’ll see in my album) caused too much straightness.
We'll see how my hair fares in the upcoming months...
More pics are in my album, and the “how-to” folder is by password request only.
-lovelymissyoli
THAT is what I want!! Beautiful!!
.......Anyone else try this method yet?
