I thought the relaxer was going to eat my hair up.
I thought the relaxer was going to eat my hair up.
Especially the back, but it so much stronger and moisturized( the back would just come out). In the summer when I had alot of time, everyday I would deep condition for more than an hour and do a braidout and my texlaxed hair is doing alot better than even then. The problems started arising once I didn't have the time to deep condition every day.
Me too! I looked at the Phyto II relaxer for a loooong time before I got up the nerve to put it in. I will be relaxed for year in June and I am not looking back!same here! I took me more than 6 months to get the nerve to do. Looks this girl will be relaxed for life. The best thing about being a former natural is that I will be able to stretch for a long time.
yay! It's seriously a mystery. I know exactly what you mean by shedding and how that issue has been eradicated..I agree. I texlaxed last week and the shedding has all but stopped! I was so nervous about it and now I'm like, "why did I wait so long?" Luv it, neva goin back!
The Chi Silk Infusion and the type of relaxer is probably what did it( I've heard Mizani is good)
Same experience. I guess some hair just take to relaxers really well.
The Chi Silk Infusion and the type of relaxer is probably what did it( I've heard Mizani is good)
Like I used affirm and put conditioner, oil and silk amino acids in my mild relaxer( which resulted in not so straight hair, and temporary dissatisfaction, but I did take out 50% of the bulk). Also like me you used probably neutralized well, and the shampoo was chelating which is very beneficial. Did you smooth it in really well, because that is what I did also.
I'm trying to figure out how such a strong chemical could actually improve the condition of my hair. I guess as long as you don't over process the hair ,things could go great.
hummmm, I maybe I need to look up Linange. I've been trying to look at the differences of the women on here between lye and no-lye and I don't see one group of hair looking significantly better than the other. Thanks for telling me about Linage. I hear many people saying that they will never go back to no-lye.
true, things are starting to make sense. man, I really don't totally get though.
Children do have some of the strongest hair.
yes, I was thinking that my hair was now more porous, even though I did use ACV plenty of time. I didn't really excessive detangling problems as a natural...it would just come out from being dry while I did my braidouts
. I'll just need to look this up.
Fear factor, maybe... Honestly some people's hairs are so jacked up, stopping the relaxers and BCs are very good ideas. That way you start with a very new head of hair. That is, the relaxers were not really the problems, but the abuse of them and another long chain of abuses of other things that had nothing to do with relaxers (abuse of heat, lack of hygiene (not washing your hair frequently enough), abuse of bad products, bad stylists, too much manipulation, lack of knowledge on haircare, limited access to good hair products, limited skills to be a good DYIer etc..). You can have a beautiful head of relaxed hair if you were not abusing or lacking of those things.
That is, some people's hairs are not for relaxers. If your hair is very thin and extremely fine and you dont have any problems detangling and styling your hair, you better stay away of relaxers. When I think of relaxers, the first one word that comes to my mind is manageability. There's no point to stay natural if you have to spend hours fighting knots and lose all your progress with breakages, and end up with sore scalp. Well, unless you really like natural hair and you keep the natural look for an ideological reason, I can understand and respect that and, in other words, I am fully supportive, to each their own
Please don't ask me the name of the product, I was already gone
Fear factor, maybe... Honestly some people's hairs are so jacked up, stopping the relaxers and BCs are very good ideas. That way you start with a very new head of hair. That is, the relaxers were not really the problems, but the abuse of them and another long chain of abuses of other things that had nothing to do with relaxers (abuse of heat, lack of hygiene (not washing your hair frequently enough), abuse of bad products, bad stylists, too much manipulation, lack of knowledge on haircare, limited access to good hair products, limited skills to be a good DYIer etc..). You can have a beautiful head of relaxed hair if you were not abusing or lacking of those things.
That is, some people's hairs are not for relaxers. If your hair is very thin and extremely fine and you dont have any problems detangling and styling your hair, you better stay away of relaxers. When I think of relaxers, the first one word that comes to my mind is manageability. There's no point to stay natural if you have to spend hours fighting knots and lose all your progress with breakages, and end up with sore scalp. Well, unless you really like natural hair and you keep the natural look for an ideological reason, I can understand and respect that and, in other words, I am fully supportive, to each their own
No six-week touchups, I'd use a better relaxer system, etc., etc.
(Thanks goodness no one told me!)
