If years ago you had relaxed hair and tried some permanent streaks for a "new look" and each streak broke off right at the root....now it's healthy and...then years later you have natural hair and you figure "Now my hair can hold color" um...
don't try it. It happened to me (lol) and I paid the price with stunted hair growth for a year and yes of course....breakage! And this was done by a professional color technician both times.
If you have tried a rinse to color your gray hair and you're now texlaxed and just too young to have any gray showing...but the rinse and texlax seemed to dry your gray patch out and you had to be extra careful and deep condition that patch so it wouldn't break...don't try the same rinse again just because someone on another thread swears by it for their gray hair! (I didn't fall for this, but I almost did cause their review was soooo good).
If you are natural and you want silky straight hair without any chemical dependancy and you KNOW, you absolutely
KNOW that
a pressing comb causes you no end of breakage
all up and through....
stop using the pressing comb and switch to a ceramic, tourmaline flat iron and stop blow drying so much, rollerset. (I know now!) Or better yet, texlax so that you can wear your hair straight 90% of the time without so much heat. (Like I did, thank you for telling me about Texlaxing LHCF!)
Lastly, if your ends are dry, do not, I repeat, do not go on a "No cutting until 2050-11 challenge
...because that's just going to cause more dry ends and more frizzy ends and you'll think, it's okay I'm wearing it in a bun, no one can see but me. Until you take it down one day in the car at lunch while trying to see your FRAZZLED ends in the car mirror and you go home and try to flat iron it and you end up looking like Medusa on Crack!
AND trimming off serious inches of hair that should have been trimmed 9 months ago. Yup, don't do this.
Also, if you're like me and needed to find the perfect routine for your hair. Don't listen to the people that don't have your hair texture and difficulties and suggest that you co-wash your natural or texlaxed hair or even wash and go....
I can't wash n go with this hair from Africa! From the MOTHER LAND and look cute.
Okay!
Now I have tried, so I don't want to hear it...okay off topic. (lol) Don't listen if they say hey try washing only once a month..um, have you ever tried to detangle a BRILLO pad after 15-30 days in a bun....Okay then! Stop while you're ahead.
Cause if you don't your husband will look at you while you're taking down your bun in the mirror and wonder aloud why you decided to go with DRED LOCKS and not tell him! Cause that's what I ended up with! Dredlocks at the roots and hours spent detangling. Yeah...
I had so much fun writing this, so I hope you enjoyed reading it. I was laughing out loud through most of it. But it's true! And it happened to me over the course of the last several years doing all things hair - myself (besides permanent color of course!)