jprayze,
Cattypus1,
NikkiQ,
pelohello, thank you all. My theory is dominican blowouts. I stretched my relaxer but was still going to get dominican blowouts and my hair snapped at the line of demarcation. That is why there are pieces 1-2 inches long. I was going thru a phase where i thought the blowouts were ok as long as i didnt wrap my hair (wrapping tends to break my hair) and only blew the roots rather than my whole head, but i was very mistaken. Plus i thought they were using protein treatments on my hair but they were not, their conditioners left me protein deprived which didnt help. The last relaxer may have overprocessed me too, im not sure. I was using designer touch no-lye.
I will never go back to dominican blowouts obviously. My hair grew nicely with the sew in, almost too nicely...my hair was lumpy and my tracks were hanging off after 4 weeks lol. I took it out but i got a relaxer thinking i would have enough progress to begin to nurse my hair without a weave. I was wrong; my hair still needs to be hidden if nothing else for my own sanity. i cant weave it again since i just relaxed. My solution has been to do some cornrows myself that are minimally tight and wig it up. I plan to do this for three months; obviously no relaxer and no heat over this period, and ill go back to DIY. Wash with alter ego garlic shampoo or keracare bain oleo relax or CON, dc with emergencia (bought it in london i dont remember who its by, but when the breakage happened my hair was shedding out of control and this stuff stopped it), or nunaat karite hair mask, or aussie moist depending on how my hair feels, rinse with aloe vera juice, and protein treat with nexxus emergencee when i need to. Leave in chi keratin spray and paul mitchell the conditioner, along with sweet almond oil and air dry.
At night spray the cornrows with water plus infusium 23 or and seal with an oil mix (olive, wild growth, and sweet almond oil) or nourish and shine, and massage in JBCO to all the broken areas. Sleep in a silk scarf then in the morning slap on my wig cap and wig and go. I dont plan to take down the cornrows till wash day. After two months ill go get the cornrows done by the woman who weaved me so at that point i wont have to take them down at all for the last 6 weeks or so. We will all look at my hair after 3 months and decide what to do.
Any adjustments to this reggie be great. I love all the encouragement. since the breakage is everywhere and sooooo short is feels really impossible for it to all grow back
and over the first 6 weeks ALL my hair grew so thei breakage didnt "catch up" at all if that makes sense. I thought about cutting again but decided not to.
. Probably wake up lookin all crazy...LOL
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