I decided I have "scab hair"....(PICTURES)

[HeavenlySkies]

I know on another hair board people posted how many inches of scab hair they had once they went natural and how long they transitioned and had a perm before that.

 

[zenith]

You might ^^ But most of us black women have more than one texture on our heads anyway. When the instructor at the Aveda place was telling the student about my ends she asked me if I had colored it or when my last perm was and I told her over a year ago and she said "Oh that must be the leftover relaxer" as if I never big chopped or something lol but it has to exist because she said the hair can still be affected (newgrowth) she just didn't say a name for it.

Yeah i have seen that scab hair, last time i blowdried my hair i saw 3 sections and they all had diff textures. The new growth, the scab section and the tail ends of relaxer.
I will begin with a mini trim tomorrow and will keep doing so (periodically) till all the scab is gone.

Thank you for this thread.

 

[cmw45]

Q: Can you address the phenomenon known as 'scab' hair? How exactly does the relaxer impact hair that has not grown in yet?
DIANE: Apparently 'scab' hair is the terminology that the lay girls have given to leftover relaxed hair that has not completely been cut off when growing out one's natural hair. Frankly, I wish people wouldn't use the word when they can easily cut off all the relaxer or simply use natural sets and products to create beautiful styles while going through the process. Most often, the remaining relaxer acts as a curly buffer, which visually makes the hair look texturized with the proper products. (The word scab in the medical world is a term for dried skin that forms over a wound to protect the skin while the healing process takes place.)

My understanding it's new growth that's affected by the relaxer even though the relaxer was never directly put on the hair. Like the hair that grows from the scalp has somehow been affected by the chemicals so they say the first hair that grows can be a different color, texture and more rough than new growth that grows later.

Ummm, who the heck is Diane and when is she thinking about remove the stick up her butt?

 

[BlackMasterPiece]

DIANE: Apparently 'scab' hair is the terminology that the lay girls have given to leftover relaxed hair that has not completely been cut off when growing out one's natural hair.

That's not it at all...

scab hair is the hair that 1st grows in after one stops relaxing. It is often a different color or texture that hair that grows in later. Basically if you believe in scab hair then you believe that long term relaxing affects hair that hasn't even gown in yet. it has nothing to do with left over relaxed hair that hasn't been cut off yet. You can shave your relaxed head bald and still have scab hair once your hair starts to grow back in.

That is just terrifying!! Good lawd if it effected hair that was more than an inch in your scalp what else did it effect??erplexed Lawdamercy!

 

[JayAnn0513]

^^ I know right!! Very scary stuff.