Hair regrets
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Crystalicequeen123
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1)Wearing braid extensions in high school that were too tight, and I had them in for too long. (my edges suffered severely, and I think my hair is still after all these years trying to recover)
2)Letting AWFUL stylists who didn't care about the health of my hair work on my tresses.
3)Curling my hair (especially my bangs) every morning before school in middle and highschool.
4)Switching back to an Affirm relaxer even though the relaxer thinned my hair out before.
(there's no excuse for this)
5) I wish I had switched to a mild relaxer sooner!
6)Getting Dominican Blowouts (My hair is too fine for this type of heat.)
7)Not taking care of my inner health and expecting my hair to thrive.
8) Using home box perms.
2)Letting AWFUL stylists who didn't care about the health of my hair work on my tresses.
3)Curling my hair (especially my bangs) every morning before school in middle and highschool.
4)Switching back to an Affirm relaxer even though the relaxer thinned my hair out before.
(there's no excuse for this)5) I wish I had switched to a mild relaxer sooner!
6)Getting Dominican Blowouts
(My hair is too fine for this type of heat.) 7)Not taking care of my inner health and expecting my hair to thrive.
8) Using home box perms.
babydollhair
Member
Just found this post....
I regret letting my cousin glue in a weave in hight school that thinned out my hair something terrible, yep that was pretty bad!
I regret letting my cousin glue in a weave in hight school that thinned out my hair something terrible, yep that was pretty bad!
Miss*Tress
Well-Known Member
1. Not finding this forum sooner
2. Overuse of the curling iron
2. Overuse of the curling iron
MissYocairis
Well-Known Member
Starian said:1. Putting in a glue in weave when my hair was already about 3 inches from brastrap. It just wasn't "long enough" for me and I wanted to look pretty.
Even my ghetto cousin who was doing the glue in was like "But your hair is already long, what do you need this for?" I guess I was a ride or die bi*ch at the time...^_^;;
3. Thinking that I could keep all my hair as long as I moisturized the hair underneath the tracks. Nah, son. My hair was like "F*** that!"
^_^
Starian, I don't mean to make light but, that is funny as hell! *LOL!*
Je Ne Sais Quoi
Well-Known Member
- Ever getting a perm
- Doing my first and last permenant color a few years ago a few weeks after I permed. As I showered the color out my hair fell out in clumps. I had a baggie full of hair, lord only knows how much went down the drain
- keep cutting my hair (I CANT STOP!!!)
- getting braids that were too damn tight
jaded_faerie
Well-Known Member
*sigh* wearing a weave from 10thgrade to 12th grade...now my edges seem so jacked, its been 3 years but i dont feel as though theres any major improvement
Recently, going to blonde on the highlights...i feel as though its set me back some what...but the end result, it urged me to transition NOW instead of LATER
Recently, going to blonde on the highlights...i feel as though its set me back some what...but the end result, it urged me to transition NOW instead of LATER
CatSuga, you're a mess 
I'm with you on that dang Pink Oil Moisturizer (found out too late 
) My regrets...
Having my cousin 'braid the scalp off my hair' (she braided it so tight I had a migraine for 2 days AND my temple hair was gone.)
Overprocessing my hair about 10 years ago. Took my hair a while to recover from that mess.
A few months ago, I used a permanent color remover from my hair. Why did I look like Carrot Top after?? Thankfully, I was able to recover from that hot mess the same day.
I'm with you on that dang Pink Oil Moisturizer (found out too late ) My regrets...Having my cousin 'braid the scalp off my hair' (she braided it so tight I had a migraine for 2 days AND my temple hair was gone.)
Overprocessing my hair about 10 years ago. Took my hair a while to recover from that mess.
A few months ago, I used a permanent color remover from my hair. Why did I look like Carrot Top after?? Thankfully, I was able to recover from that hot mess the same day.
growwithme
Member
I regret getting highlights that broke my hair off and resulted in me cutting most of it off. I also regret relaxing way to often and over-processing. My hair has never been as long as it was before getting the highlights (that was almost 9 years ago now) but I'm getting there with all the good information and effort I have been putting into caring for my hair.
1)Getting my hair blow dried and hotcurled at the salon weekly with hairspray that sizzled when it hit the iron
2)Getting a "signature cut" at the same salon every 5-6 weeks. "signature cut"=a gazillion short a** layers
3)Hotcurling and spraying hairspray on my hair EVERY SINGLE day, sometimes twice a day between visits to aforementioned salon. Thought i was the "it" girl on campus and had to be "jiggy" every day.
My layers had to be perfect with my outfit and my 3inch heels!
4)Asking for a clear rinse at above salon the same day i got a relaxer and somehow ended up with RED hair on my newly relaxed roots
5)Getting relaxers every 5-6 weeks
6)ripping a fine tooth comb and brush thru my hair in frustration when it wouldnt act right.
7)glueing tracks to my scalp the day of a relaxer to impress this guy who said he liked long hair. and not taking them out when my scalp felt all tingly under neath
i could go on forever...no,seriously, there's way more...thank god for LHCF!!
i've only been on here for 5 months and already seeing results!
2)Getting a "signature cut" at the same salon every 5-6 weeks. "signature cut"=a gazillion short a** layers
3)Hotcurling and spraying hairspray on my hair EVERY SINGLE day, sometimes twice a day between visits to aforementioned salon. Thought i was the "it" girl on campus and had to be "jiggy" every day.
My layers had to be perfect with my outfit and my 3inch heels!4)Asking for a clear rinse at above salon the same day i got a relaxer and somehow ended up with RED hair on my newly relaxed roots
5)Getting relaxers every 5-6 weeks
6)ripping a fine tooth comb and brush thru my hair in frustration when it wouldnt act right.
7)glueing tracks to my scalp the day of a relaxer to impress this guy who said he liked long hair. and not taking them out when my scalp felt all tingly under neath
i could go on forever...no,seriously, there's way more...thank god for LHCF!!
i've only been on here for 5 months and already seeing results!
MizaniMami
New Member
Not listening to the LHCF ladies when they were telling me that the heat will catch up to me.
Using heat (blowdrying and flat ironing) every week sometimes twice a week because I though I had an image to uphold.
Not moisturizing my hair everyday because I didn't want it to be greasy.
Not being serious about this hair thing. I considered my journey to start in January but it really started in April when I stopped using heat. My hair has strived so much in these two short mos.
Using heat (blowdrying and flat ironing) every week sometimes twice a week because I though I had an image to uphold.
Not moisturizing my hair everyday because I didn't want it to be greasy.
Not being serious about this hair thing. I considered my journey to start in January but it really started in April when I stopped using heat. My hair has strived so much in these two short mos.
Princess Pie
New Member
The worst thing I ever did to my hair was at-home highlights. They look like crap, and the process was very damaging. I also regret every time I EVER cut my hair, and using heat twice a week (using Cathy Howse's method).
I could have had way more hair by now if I hadn't done these things. Now, when I get the urge to do anything to my hair I think about the highlights. I'm also very reluctant to trim my hair, even if it means my ends aren't prefect.
I could have had way more hair by now if I hadn't done these things. Now, when I get the urge to do anything to my hair I think about the highlights. I'm also very reluctant to trim my hair, even if it means my ends aren't prefect.
nelli711
New Member
Okay, here are my hair sins.
1: Overlapping relaxers
2: Using any ol' shampoo & conditioner
3: Rarely moisturizing my hair
4: Wore braids for long periods of time without a break in between
5: Immediately putting a relaxer in after I took my braids out
6: Wearing a cotton scarf to bed
7: Believing water was evil
8: Blowdrying and curling my hair all the time when I wasn't in braids
1: Overlapping relaxers
2: Using any ol' shampoo & conditioner
3: Rarely moisturizing my hair
4: Wore braids for long periods of time without a break in between
5: Immediately putting a relaxer in after I took my braids out
6: Wearing a cotton scarf to bed
7: Believing water was evil
8: Blowdrying and curling my hair all the time when I wasn't in braids
so so chic
Active Member
My regrets are:
1) Getting my hair relaxed when I was about 13 years old (or ever for that matter).
2) Putting A LOT of heat on my hair during middle and high school. I mean flat ironing my hair EVERY morning and sometimes throughout the day and at night before I wrapped it .
3) Not getting my ends trimmed like I should have.
4) And lastly (my recent regret), coloring my hair. And to make the situation even worse, doing it myself.
1) Getting my hair relaxed when I was about 13 years old (or ever for that matter).
2) Putting A LOT of heat on my hair during middle and high school. I mean flat ironing my hair EVERY morning and sometimes throughout the day and at night before I wrapped it
.3) Not getting my ends trimmed like I should have.
4) And lastly (my recent regret), coloring my hair. And to make the situation even worse, doing it myself.
mochamadness
Going the Distance
Highlighting my hair back in 2001 and having no idea how to care for the color. Needless to say the crown of my hair broke off something awful!!! I've been scared to do a permanent ever since. Now the only colors that go in this head are the one's that wash out after a few shampoos 
i have so many regrets, too
1. talking my dad into perming my hair for my 10th birthday, after my mom said no! My hair went from mid-back to shoulder lenghth in less than a year!
2. years and years of not following the instructions on the perm box, and relaxing my hair from roots to ends every 2 months!
3. putting a permanent color dye in my hair at the age of 17, and the next day letting my best friend perm my hair. I sadly watched as most of my hair ended up in the sink.
4. using too much heat as i got older. i used curling irons every day and sometimes even multiple times in one day! I then wondered why my hair was breaking off and would never grow past my shoulders.
5. not going natural sooner!
However, i happy for my regrets because it's definitely made me more wiser and appreciative of my hair!
1. talking my dad into perming my hair for my 10th birthday, after my mom said no! My hair went from mid-back to shoulder lenghth in less than a year!
2. years and years of not following the instructions on the perm box, and relaxing my hair from roots to ends every 2 months!
3. putting a permanent color dye in my hair at the age of 17, and the next day letting my best friend perm my hair. I sadly watched as most of my hair ended up in the sink.
4. using too much heat as i got older. i used curling irons every day and sometimes even multiple times in one day! I then wondered why my hair was breaking off and would never grow past my shoulders.
5. not going natural sooner!
However, i happy for my regrets because it's definitely made me more wiser and appreciative of my hair!
OneInAMillion
New Member
- Rollersetting and blowing my own hair out in 2003 with no heat protection and breaking off my even hair
- Having a stylist color my hair with a Demi Perm, even though I told her I only wanted a semi-permanent
- Using Affirm No Lye ever, and letting that same stylist relax 2 weeks after the color
- Not joining LHCF in summer 2004 when I found the forum because a friend saw the website and said the ladies had raggedy hair (to her, that was anything but bone straight hair) so why would I use this site (HATER).
sunshyne_krissy
New Member
allowing my hairdresser to texturize my edges only THEN:
Allowing her mama to sew in my weave (waaay too tight) then ON TOP OF THAT give me a cellophane (hair color rinse)
then re coloring the top b/c the first color didnt match (the jet black came out green???
then flat ironing it
then curling it..
-Allowing my hairdresser to "trim" my hair because I had "damage". my hair stayed the same length for 5 years because of this
-going swimming as a child and not rinsing out the chlorine.
-grease, gel, super hold spray
-direct heat on exxtra high every day
-not finding this site soonererplexed
-SEW INS, GLUE INS AND PHONY PONYS
-thinking that my natural hair isn't sexy
-thinking that I could never have long hair again
-protein treatments every week
-letting someone else do my hair all these years and taking advice from them when their hair looked like a goat chewed on it. PERIOD
#1 : texturizers and relaxers (MY KRYPTONITE 4 SHO)
Allowing her mama to sew in my weave (waaay too tight) then ON TOP OF THAT give me a cellophane (hair color rinse)
then re coloring the top b/c the first color didnt match (the jet black came out green???
then flat ironing it
then curling it..
-Allowing my hairdresser to "trim" my hair because I had "damage". my hair stayed the same length for 5 years because of this
-going swimming as a child and not rinsing out the chlorine.
-grease, gel, super hold spray
-direct heat on exxtra high every day
-not finding this site sooner
erplexed -SEW INS, GLUE INS AND PHONY PONYS
-thinking that my natural hair isn't sexy
-thinking that I could never have long hair again
-protein treatments every week
-letting someone else do my hair all these years and taking advice from them when their hair looked like a goat chewed on it. PERIOD
#1 : texturizers and relaxers (MY KRYPTONITE 4 SHO)
gemini051987
New Member
My regrets......this is sad. I wish I could correct my mistakes I mad in the past.
1. Letting my sister apply two relaxers to my head, in two months.
2. Putting A LOT of heat to my hair... a BIG no no.
3. Not properly taking care of it.
4. Not washing it enough.
5. Not eating the right food.
6. Didn't apply enough moisture to it.
7. Cutting my hair
8. Not letting a pro do my hair
9. Not using the right products.
10. Applying relaxers
11. Over braiding
The list probably goes on but I have learned from all of this and I am happy to say that I am on the way to fuller, thickker, stronger, gorgeous hair!
1. Letting my sister apply two relaxers to my head, in two months.
2. Putting A LOT of heat to my hair... a BIG no no.
3. Not properly taking care of it.
4. Not washing it enough.
5. Not eating the right food.
6. Didn't apply enough moisture to it.
7. Cutting my hair
8. Not letting a pro do my hair
9. Not using the right products.
10. Applying relaxers
11. Over braiding
The list probably goes on but I have learned from all of this and I am happy to say that I am on the way to fuller, thickker, stronger, gorgeous hair!
liv4life9
New Member
Using Rio in my hair
Cutting my hair everytime I felt bored with it
Coloring my hair everytime I felt bored
Coloring my hair 3 times in the span of a month and a half
Using heat way too often
Not washing my hair often enough because I was to lazy to do it
Microbraids
Being to rough when I comb and brush my hair
etc. etc. etc.
I have learned so much since joining this board ... I've even gone 8 weeks without using heat in my hair! (something I never thought could be done)
Cutting my hair everytime I felt bored with it
Coloring my hair everytime I felt bored
Coloring my hair 3 times in the span of a month and a half
Using heat way too often
Not washing my hair often enough because I was to lazy to do it
Microbraids
Being to rough when I comb and brush my hair
etc. etc. etc.
I have learned so much since joining this board ... I've even gone 8 weeks without using heat in my hair! (something I never thought could be done)
ladybug71
Well-Known Member
Gotta add my regrets to the list:
1. Not stretching my relaxers. I got one just about once a month. Not only costing me money, but taking a toll on my hair. Since joining the boards, I have learned how to stretch and still have decent-looking hair. The health overall is MUCH better!
2. Being lazy with the scarf or satin pillowcase.
3. Not washing often because I thought by not washing it, it would make my relaxer or jheri (from back in the day) last longer.
4. Not taking multi-vitamins.
5. Thinking that by applying "grease" to my hair and scalp daily, I was moisturizing it. Good grief!
6. Eating crap that was not only bad for me, but my hair too. I still eat crap--but only in moderation and eating more fruits and veggies and exercise!
7. Using Pink Oil Moisturizer.
8. Not doing enough deep conditioning or hot oil treatments.
1. Not stretching my relaxers. I got one just about once a month. Not only costing me money, but taking a toll on my hair. Since joining the boards, I have learned how to stretch and still have decent-looking hair. The health overall is MUCH better!
2. Being lazy with the scarf or satin pillowcase.
3. Not washing often because I thought by not washing it, it would make my relaxer or jheri (from back in the day) last longer.
4. Not taking multi-vitamins.
5. Thinking that by applying "grease" to my hair and scalp daily, I was moisturizing it. Good grief!
6. Eating crap that was not only bad for me, but my hair too. I still eat crap--but only in moderation and eating more fruits and veggies and exercise!
7. Using Pink Oil Moisturizer.
8. Not doing enough deep conditioning or hot oil treatments.
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