Ladies I am so frustrated with my hair. I've been on here for aproximately 1 year. I have followed some great advice, but it hasn't worked. My hair is in worse condition now than when I started. It's breaking and dry and I don't know what to do.
I felt that my hair was in pretty good shape before, so I guess it was my fault for not sticking to what worked. Since LHCF I drastically cut out using heat on my hair. I've done protein treatments, deep conditioners, and roller sets. The products I was mainly using in the begining was Keracare and nexus. I also switched from no-lye to lye. I think that was the major problem. I used to use precise (really cheap brand that worked great) no-lye super strength. Then I switched to Vitale lye regular strength. The regular strength lye didn't really do much for my hair, it just loosed the tight coils, but didn't straighten my hair. The remainder of my hair is basically bone straight so I don't think that the two textures worked well together.
I'd really appreciate any advice that you ladies have for me. Should I cut it and start over again?
Here are some pics
eta: I fixed the Jan 05 link
Jan 05
http://us.a1.yahoofs.com/users/4253993bz995ffbb7/971e/__sr_/826e.jpg?pho7s0DBbAL15LNV
May 05 after cut
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/aivonfay/detail?.dir=971e&.dnm=e5c1.jpg&.src=ph
Jan 06
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/aivonfay/detail?.dir=971e&.dnm=4e20re2.jpg&.src=ph
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/aivonfay/detail?.dir=971e&.dnm=708fre2.jpg&.src=ph
I felt that my hair was in pretty good shape before, so I guess it was my fault for not sticking to what worked. Since LHCF I drastically cut out using heat on my hair. I've done protein treatments, deep conditioners, and roller sets. The products I was mainly using in the begining was Keracare and nexus. I also switched from no-lye to lye. I think that was the major problem. I used to use precise (really cheap brand that worked great) no-lye super strength. Then I switched to Vitale lye regular strength. The regular strength lye didn't really do much for my hair, it just loosed the tight coils, but didn't straighten my hair. The remainder of my hair is basically bone straight so I don't think that the two textures worked well together.
I'd really appreciate any advice that you ladies have for me. Should I cut it and start over again?
Here are some pics
eta: I fixed the Jan 05 link
Jan 05
http://us.a1.yahoofs.com/users/4253993bz995ffbb7/971e/__sr_/826e.jpg?pho7s0DBbAL15LNV
May 05 after cut
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/aivonfay/detail?.dir=971e&.dnm=e5c1.jpg&.src=ph
Jan 06
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/aivonfay/detail?.dir=971e&.dnm=4e20re2.jpg&.src=ph
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/aivonfay/detail?.dir=971e&.dnm=708fre2.jpg&.src=ph
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