Can someone explain what makes someone's hair look overprocessed?

[locabouthair]

I never really used to analyze hair like this until I got to this board

People were making comments about a youtuber saying her hair looked overprocessed and I would have never thought about it until someone else said it.

Is it if the hair is super straight and flat?

 

[Solitude]

IDK about other people, but when my hair was over processed it looked very dry, unless I put products in it to make it look shiny.

My ends tended to be frizzy, but it was mostly the all-over "dullness" and a lot of flyaways. My hair which is thick also looked lifeless. As my old stylist would say, it didn't "lay right."

The funny thing about some ppl with over processed hair is that they think they "need a relaxer" when their hair starts to be unmanageable, but it's often unmanageable because it's over processed. It can be a vicious cycle.

Since I cut off all of the damage, started stretching, DCing, and rollersetting about 2 years ago, my hair has a sheen even without a lot of products with oil or cones and it's full and bouncy again.

 

[Beekay305]

My hair was limp, very dry and broke off easily from overprocessing when I had a relaxer years ago.

 

[ceebee3]

It really looks like it was literally fried, it's usually dry and crunchy and limp looking.

 

[dlove]

I always thought it was fine, thin, limp see through hair that was extremely uneven all over the head.

 

[TamedTresses]

I think my hair was overprocessed on my last relaxer (5 weeks ago today). It has 50% less body and volume. I had some breakage right after the relaxer, but that issue has been taken care of. I also think that my hair was too straight and it had no texture whatsoever, but that is a personal preference.

My avatar pic was taken today so you can see what I mean. I'm wearing curls so you may not be able to tell. My family keeps telling me it wasn't overprocessed, but I still think it was.

 

[Oasis]

I never thought about over and underprocessed when I was relaxed because healthy hair was the last thing on my mind. But thinking back to it, I had to be overprocessed because I always relaxed from root to tip. Every.single.time. My hair was very, very frizzy and very, very dry. It wasn't limp though. It looked like an afro/cold blowout on extremely damaged hair. It was incredibly unmanageable.

 

[gissellr78]

Dry, brittle, lifeless iMO