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Can someone please explain what a corrective relaxer is??
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erplexedglamazon386
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It's when they take the relaxer and run it through the already relaxed parts of your hair. It's to smooth out or go back "correct" the underprocessed parts.
Saida
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but dosent the already relaxed hair end up getting more relaxed than the newgrowth??
SweetlyBlessed
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Glamazon is right.
I've done one myself before. I couldn't deal with the 2 different textures. I concentrated on the new growth but the hair after that was under-processed and the ends were bone straight.
After 4 weeks I did a corrective. I greased up the hair that did take and the ends and only reapplyed relaxer to the hair that was under-processed. I was paranoid doing it, but it worked like a charm!
I've done one myself before. I couldn't deal with the 2 different textures. I concentrated on the new growth but the hair after that was under-processed and the ends were bone straight.
After 4 weeks I did a corrective. I greased up the hair that did take and the ends and only reapplyed relaxer to the hair that was under-processed. I was paranoid doing it, but it worked like a charm!
SweetlyBlessed
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glamazon386
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No... It's not supposed to. They're not supposed to put it on the straight parts. The point is to get all the hair to the same straightness so they don't take it over all your hair. Just the parts that are underprocessed. Like when I was relaxed, I could look at a piece of my hair and some parts were straight and others were still kinky/frizzy because they were underprocessed. Mostly the ends. My stylist went back and fixed the frizzy parts. Then it all looked the same.
glamazon386
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Sweetly Blessed is right.
And another thing - that underprocessed part could be anywhere along the shaft of the hair if you've had more than one relaxer that didn't take. And then it was left alone I had hair close to my ends on one side that looked like because I had more than one relaxer not take over the course of time. It was frizzy and fuzzy. My hair dresser took a chance and ran the relaxer through that part again (she didn't tell me until after she did it 
) but it corrected that part and it was fine after that. She said she'd rather try that first than to have to cut all my hair because of that one side.
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