SerenavanderWoodsen
SkinnyMe
I vowed many times I'd never go near relaxer again due to severe breakage and dryness but I caved and did a 6 minute texlax(6 mins including application). I've been relaxer free since 2005 but a very frequent flat ironer. My issues are when i don't flat iron. The front and sides of my hair are delicate and the curl pattern has been mostly eradicated due to heat in addition to the fact that i think my hair was always a mix of 3a/b in the front/sides and 3b/c in the back causing me great distress because I feel I look neat from the front but when I look at the back and profile of my head curly the back is SOO much curlier than the front, and SUPER frizzy and BIG and more shrunken as well.
So tonight I threw some Porosity Control plus coconut oil all over my hair and tightly tied up the front and sides leaving the back free and nervously, almost shakingly nervously lol applied Silk Elements mild lye to the back for 6 minutes including application time. I just smoothed it on with gloved fingers like a conditioner. I tried not to pull the hair too much but I did smooth a little with my hands. I applied A LOT too. I have no clue how much you're supposed to use lol. I then neutralized like a mad woman, probably 7 times even leaving it in 10 mins one of the times plus 2 acv rinses
. Then used a protein....then moisturizing conditioner.. The relaxer seemed VERY gentle. I made the decision to use lye because I just don't trust no lye after suffering dryness and just generally bad hair when I used to use them thinking they were safer...
Sorry for insulting you with the extremely crappy computer pictures lol (they enlarge a little). My hair is sort of a poof ball now from shampooing so many times but the back is not poofing out or curling up tightly, it's longer too and I think I am very happy
. I'm actually surprised this worked as well as it did. I still have a great deal of curl left back there. I half expected a disaster with my hair falling out or straight hair, either way I'd have been crying lol. I'll try to take more pics later on.
This pic was about half an hr before I did it.
This pic was about 15 mins after.
Question for texlaxers: Do you find that your hair reverts to it's tighter state? I ask because I just can't seem to believe that my hair will stay like this since I processed for only 5 minutes with mild. Is it really permanent or can I expect it to revert soon? If it does revert can I do it again without severe damage?
So tonight I threw some Porosity Control plus coconut oil all over my hair and tightly tied up the front and sides leaving the back free and nervously, almost shakingly nervously lol applied Silk Elements mild lye to the back for 6 minutes including application time. I just smoothed it on with gloved fingers like a conditioner. I tried not to pull the hair too much but I did smooth a little with my hands. I applied A LOT too. I have no clue how much you're supposed to use lol. I then neutralized like a mad woman, probably 7 times even leaving it in 10 mins one of the times plus 2 acv rinses
. Then used a protein....then moisturizing conditioner.. The relaxer seemed VERY gentle. I made the decision to use lye because I just don't trust no lye after suffering dryness and just generally bad hair when I used to use them thinking they were safer...Sorry for insulting you with the extremely crappy computer pictures lol (they enlarge a little). My hair is sort of a poof ball now from shampooing so many times but the back is not poofing out or curling up tightly, it's longer too and I think I am very happy
. I'm actually surprised this worked as well as it did. I still have a great deal of curl left back there. I half expected a disaster with my hair falling out or straight hair, either way I'd have been crying lol. I'll try to take more pics later on.This pic was about half an hr before I did it.
This pic was about 15 mins after.
Question for texlaxers: Do you find that your hair reverts to it's tighter state? I ask because I just can't seem to believe that my hair will stay like this since I processed for only 5 minutes with mild. Is it really permanent or can I expect it to revert soon? If it does revert can I do it again without severe damage?
. It seemed to go considerably straighter this time but I'll need to see how it looks dry. I was a bit more aggressive with making sure I covered all the hair in the back with relaxer and tugged a bit. After about 5 minutes the hair felt limp and seemed to have little to no curl and I knew it was almost time because another 5 minutes would probably have been bone straight. I did 6 minutes total including application again.....
, longer than 6 weeks. My hair did go much straighter this time so hopefully it will not revert.
. I give up!!! I think I used too much oil beforehand, all the better I guess because less straightening, less damage.
Texlaxing is really a hit and miss thing. You have to sometimes settle with the "texture" you are left with sometimes because your hair will not always have the same pattern each texlax. What are you trying to achieve with your texlax? Your hair in the pics do look a lot straiter. Do you want to keep your curl pattern?
