I'm scared .
So I went to detangle my hair before a pre poo yesterday and a lot of hair started to come out. I had it in a bun all week.
Lots of posters hit this nail on the head. When you are wearing your hair in styles where there is little combing/detangling involved over a given period of time, your normal, daily hairs that are scheduled to shed have nowhere to go. They'll drop, but they'll get tangled in your intact hairs which eventually leads to knotting, tangling, and more breakage. You can avoid this by gently finger combing your hair each day, if you're trying to stay away from regular combing. That way, you'll be able to free up some of those hairs that need to fall.
So i'm like oh no! Let me get some eggs and evoo to help this. It didn't help... If I combed my hair then tons of hair would come out. If I even pat my head tons of hair was coming out!
Protein is not exactly the best thing to use when your hair is already tangly. In fact, protein can make it much worse. The fact that more hair came out sounds like breakage on top of the shedding you should have expected from that low manipulation style. At this point it is sounding like you should have opted for a elasticity/smoothing (moisture) option rather than a restructuring/rebuilding (protein) option.
I ended up washing that out and deep conditioned with keracare and all that. I ended up rollersetting my hair (which was a long and horrible experience) but it helped a little.
Ding! Ding! Ding! And that's it! Your hair needed moisture. As soon as you began to rehydrate and actually condition your hair, some of the breakage subsided. What I would have done is remained on this moisture track and give it time to turn the hair around. When you're recovering from protein overload especially, you need to give your hair a few washes to release the excess protein and get the moisture back into your hair.
So I just moisturized my hair with raw shea butter and coconut oil, lightly detangled with my fingers, and loosely braided my hair in sections and pinned it up. Oh yea last night I used a little mizana h20 treatment for the first time as well. I dunno if it helped or not since hair is coming out still but not as much as when I first noticed it.
This is okay, but I think if you would have really focused on pure moisture, your results may have been better here. Oils and butters are great, but if you're in recovery mode from protein, those aren't exactly the best hydrators. The Mizani is alright too, but the mineral oil there makes it not as hydrating as you're needing right now.
I feel like my hairline is going. This never happened to me before. I have been extremly stressed and I am almost 10 weeks post with a lot of new growth. It is breaking at the d-line. So I know I need to up my protein but I don't know what I can use and when I can use it since I used the mazani and egg treatment already. My hair is extremly weak and when I used Aphogee Damage Control in the past I didn't notice anything spectacula...I dunno.
Any suggestions?
I would steer clear of more protein for the moment. The only thing with henna is that it can act like protein on the hair, and right now I really think you should work on moisture.
I know some of the ladies suggested that you relax your hair, but I'd really focus on trying to rehydrate your hair and stave off some of this breakage first. Once you get the breakage down to a manageable amount, then I'd relax. It looks like the deep conditioning is helping you get there. Put your focus there. I'd try to squeeze in some more of that prior to your next relax appt. Maybe some 20-30 minute deep conditionings with heat, and still keeping the manipulation low where possible. Good deep conditioning will also reduce your need for a daily moisturizer.
Take care of your body, stay hydrated from within as well. The results won't be immediate, but they'll help you overall. HTH!