I suffered heat damage by my own hands as well. I knew better, but I wanted to cut corners and suffered the consequences. I flat ironed my hair with a new leave in and used 2 heat protectants. When I was done with my entire head, my hair (mainly the ends) was very heavy, sticky, crunchy and hard. Instead of washing and starting from scratch, I waited until the night I had somewhere to go to fix the sticky hair.
I filled a plastic cup with water, dipped my ends in the cup to rinse off all the product. I dried and recoated some of the hair with heat protectant. I was running out of time so I started dipping, swirling and sizzling PLUS the steam button my maxiglide. It was stupid, really stupid and I paid the price. I'm gonna lose months worth of growth due to a rushed decision. I could have worn a cute updo that night and saved myself a lot of trouble.
I'm in braids until the end of the year and I hope to put off flat ironing until the new year. I learned a valuable lesson. In some ways, I'm happy it happened early on and by my own hands. It's easy to blame a bad stylists, but when you do it to yourself it stings so much more. I think heat damage is an inevitable milestone of being natural, hopefully one I will not be revisiting.
Remember that not only stylists cause damage. And if you don't have time to straighten properly, don't do it at all.
I filled a plastic cup with water, dipped my ends in the cup to rinse off all the product. I dried and recoated some of the hair with heat protectant. I was running out of time so I started dipping, swirling and sizzling PLUS the steam button my maxiglide. It was stupid, really stupid and I paid the price. I'm gonna lose months worth of growth due to a rushed decision. I could have worn a cute updo that night and saved myself a lot of trouble.
I'm in braids until the end of the year and I hope to put off flat ironing until the new year. I learned a valuable lesson. In some ways, I'm happy it happened early on and by my own hands. It's easy to blame a bad stylists, but when you do it to yourself it stings so much more. I think heat damage is an inevitable milestone of being natural, hopefully one I will not be revisiting.
Remember that not only stylists cause damage. And if you don't have time to straighten properly, don't do it at all.