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Yarnie

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Hello! I should begin introducing myself: i'm portuguese (so pardon any typos), my hair is 4b and i've been relaxing it since i was 11 (my mother couldnt manage it).

I never payed much attention to my hair other than relaxing and drying it in roller sets and it was ok until a couple of months ago. Now it's starting to split and looking very brittle at the ends, and its breaking a lot. My hair is becoming shorter by the day /images/graemlins/frown.gif

From what i've read so far i can see i' not treating my hair the best way (or at all!) so i hope i learn a lot from you guys.
 
Hi Yarnie and welcome to the board!

I had the same problem with dry ends. I put an end to it by taking vitamins and keeping my ends moisturised every day. Try Wild Growth Oil or shea butter on your ends. You can also do a deep conditioner once a week with a heat cap.

Keep reading this board...you will get lots of useful information.
 
Welcome!

Are you here in the United States? That will help with product reccomendations. If not let us know where and we'll look up sites that you can order some things from.

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Hi Yarnie,
Welcome to the board! Definately start deep conditioning your hair at least 1x a week. If you can manage it, try deep conditioning every 3 days. The more conditioning you can do, the better. Do a protein treatment 1x a month, about every 4 to 6 weeks. Deep condition after your protein treatment as well. And like crysdon said, try shea butter or wild growth oil for your ends. /images/graemlins/smile.gif Remember, keep your hair, and especially your ends constantly moisturized to control breakage. /images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Thanks for the welcome ladies!

I currently live in Portugal, and i'm thinking of moving to London next year.

We do have some shops for afro hair, but i'm afraid they don't have a wide range of products, and the salons are really scary and amateur.
 
Hi Yarnie! Welcome. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Have you tried mashing up avocado and letting it sit on your hair for at least 30 minutes (under plastic wrap or a shower cap, and towel)? This is a good preshampoo conditioning treatment. Others have also found success using olive oil. Some of the best ingredients for hair don't always come from products marketed toward 3b-4b hair.
 
Thanks for the tip Nyambura!

I once did the olive oil thing and it was good, maybe i'll start doing it again..

I think my problem has to do with the relaxer i had last week, and the beautician put relaxer cream on all the hair (only for 5 min on the hair already processed). I now realize you're not supposed to do that! but it is common practise here..

There's still a lot of breakage, but its getting better with lots of conditionig, so I hope it will be alright.. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Thanks again for the welcome ladies!
 
Welcome to our friendly little corner Yarnie> Interesting name. Does it have a special meaning in Portuguese if it is a given name?> Nice ladies here, you will like it. Bonjour.
 
Re: newbie YARNIE

please excuse the stupid question yarnie, i was wondering if ur portuguese dont u have european hair anyway so why relax and all that?? /images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
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Welcome to the Forum!
 
Hi Yarnie,

Welcome! /images/graemlins/grin.gif Many of us have hair problems but with the help of this board we are all learning and growing hair. In a few months you will be doing the same. /images/graemlins/grin.gif. One of the things that might be helpful to you is to go through the forum and do a copy and paste on some of the things you learn. This always help me and keeps me from trying to find that special post that I always seem to forget.

Also, if you have a no lye relaxer, switch to a lye relaxer...less dryness, equals less breakag.
 
Re: newbie YARNIE

Pandora, i'm portuguese b/c I was born in Portugal, but my parents are originally from Cape Verde (set of islands in the coast of Africa) so I dont have european hair. Although most of my family is 2 to 3 hair type, my hair is 4b. I'll try to post some pics when I get them. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

What about you Pandora, where in Europe are you?
 
Yarnie is not a given name. I used to be Ball of Yarn in some chatrooms a few years ago, and it kinda evolved from there...

But some of my friends do call me Yarnie "in real life" so i guess it stuck.. /images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Welcome to the board, Yarnie!!! Your English is excellent, by the way. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

Follow the advice you'll get on this board and in no time your hair will start turning around.

Do you know that I'm DYING to go to Portugal? I had to study Portugal for a work-related project a few months back and now I'm dying to go there! It seems like such a nice place. And I've met Portuguese/Angolan (& Cape Verdean) folks in NY and they are always so nice.
 
Oh, one little bit of advice: When is the last time you had your ends trimmed? If it has been a while, inspect your ends for splits, etc. If you do not take care of bad ends, that could also cause breakage.
 
Thanks for the compliment BlkMane! My english is the result of watching way to much cable while I was suposed to be studying.. so who said TV is not educational? /images/graemlins/wink.gif

I'm sure you would have a lovely time in PT, it is very nice here.. lots of sun and lovely beaches... but not at this time of the year.. its a bit chilly now.

Now back to hair. I had to cut 1 1/2 inch of length about 2 weeks ago, because it was all breaking. So after the cut my ends are better.. they are still a bit dry, but much better than they were before.. I started already doing pre-treatments with olive oil and deep-conditioning with every wash (thanks for the advice ladies!) and the difference is amazing! my hair used to suck up half the bottle of conditioner and still manage to look dry and now it feels very nice to the touch. /images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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