I did it on a whim, bad me.
I had almost 6 months of new growth and I was tired of having to style two different textures... mostly because my kitchen area was all natural and it would kind of stick out and be a noticeably different texture than the rest of my hair. My twist outs on my natural hair and my texturized hair look different, so I changed it to all texturized
This is the first time that I did it myself. I mixed Lustrasilk Cholesterol and neutralizing shampoo and put it on the previously texturized hair, applied and smoothed Revlon Realistic Relaxer Lye in regular strength for 20 minutes.
(my hair is really resistant and it just laughed at this stuff because there is no way in hell that it's going to be straightened from a regular strength lye relaxer)
Then I used Mizani Neutralizing shampoo and Isoplus Neutralizing shampoo. I shampooed and rinsed, then I shampooed and kept it in for 5 minutes for three times. Finally I used Elasta QP shampoo for relaxed hair and deep conditioned with Humecto, Elasta QP breakage control serum, evoo and honey.
The questions that I want to ask are
Is it normal to lose more hair than normal during the time that you are neutralizing? I usually lose about 10-15 hairs on a normal wash day. Today I lost about 30-35 hairs.
I don't think that 30 hairs is a lot to lose, but I'm still a little worried!
After I deep conditioned I lost only a very tiny amount of hair like normal.
Also, my hair felt kind of hard and rough. I'm guessing that it was from the repeated washing with shampoo. It also improved after deep conditioning though.
Are these things typical?
P.S. I had absolutely no burning or discomfort through the whole thing, last time my hairdresser burned the heck out of me and that resulted in hair loss... but not now, so go me!
I had almost 6 months of new growth and I was tired of having to style two different textures... mostly because my kitchen area was all natural and it would kind of stick out and be a noticeably different texture than the rest of my hair. My twist outs on my natural hair and my texturized hair look different, so I changed it to all texturized
This is the first time that I did it myself. I mixed Lustrasilk Cholesterol and neutralizing shampoo and put it on the previously texturized hair, applied and smoothed Revlon Realistic Relaxer Lye in regular strength for 20 minutes.
(my hair is really resistant and it just laughed at this stuff because there is no way in hell that it's going to be straightened from a regular strength lye relaxer)
Then I used Mizani Neutralizing shampoo and Isoplus Neutralizing shampoo. I shampooed and rinsed, then I shampooed and kept it in for 5 minutes for three times. Finally I used Elasta QP shampoo for relaxed hair and deep conditioned with Humecto, Elasta QP breakage control serum, evoo and honey.
The questions that I want to ask are
Is it normal to lose more hair than normal during the time that you are neutralizing? I usually lose about 10-15 hairs on a normal wash day. Today I lost about 30-35 hairs.
I don't think that 30 hairs is a lot to lose, but I'm still a little worried!
After I deep conditioned I lost only a very tiny amount of hair like normal.
Also, my hair felt kind of hard and rough. I'm guessing that it was from the repeated washing with shampoo. It also improved after deep conditioning though.
Are these things typical?
P.S. I had absolutely no burning or discomfort through the whole thing, last time my hairdresser burned the heck out of me and that resulted in hair loss... but not now, so go me!