Lisa Akbari Said (yes, I have her book too)

[Supergirl]

that every black woman with relaxed hair will experience major hair loss on the average of 4 times in their lives. Can you recall any of yours and don't you feel more secure now knowing that you know how to properly care for your relaxed hair and keep it healthy and beautiful?

1. ME--age 12, had the nerve to put some Sun-In in my hair to lighten it. Damage city--ended up having to get a BIG CHOP

2. Incident with my bangs and the hair stylists crimping/waving iron. She spritzed the hair and then had the nerve to crimp the still wet (from the spritz) hair. She agreed to do my hair for free until it grew back.

3. Another crimping/wave iron incident on the back right side of my hair with a different stylist.

I still liked crimps, but found someone who would set my hair on the plastic wave set clamps. This was when my hair really started showing promise

 

[Supergirl]

Oh and let me not forget all of the hair loss's I've experienced due to Scissor Happy Stylists I've encountered in my life

and their lethal scissors.

 

[PrincessM]

If this is true then it should be smooth sailing for me from now on

!

 

[AngieK]

<font color="brown">Gosh - - I have never experienced a major hair loss. I have experienced some breakage here and there, but no major incident.

I sure hope that fate is not such that my 4 lifetime incidents are being saved up for my old age where I will just lose it all at once (NO!!)

AngieK </font>

 

[Supergirl]

Angie,

I don't think that will happen especially since you are coming into more and more knowledge (on these boards) of how to care for your relaxed hair in the ultimate way. That statistic is probably based on the fact that alot of relaxed women don't know how to take care of their hair.

 

[Isis]

I haven't read Lisa Akbari's book but I think that is true until black women learn how to take care of their relaxed hair. The information out there over the years has been nonexistent or misleading (or just plain lies), not to mention the horrifying mistakes many stylists have done to our hair (like what you mentioned Supergirl) as well as products out there targeted at black women that are damaging to our hair. No wonder there was major hair loss for many of us! And for a long time too.

This is the year 2003, another century, and many of us (like me) have been learning from scratch how to take care of our hair. I applaud all of us on this board and others like it for helping one another out and taking back our power.

 

[Allandra]

I used Sun-In when I was in high school (didn't suffer any hair loss though). The only thing I have suffered hair loss from was due to medications (that was just one time).

 

[karezone]

What do the wave clamps look like?

 

[dontspeakdefeat]

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I haven't read Lisa Akbari's book but I think that is true until black women learn how to take care of their relaxed hair. The information out there over the years has been nonexistent or misleading (or just plain lies), not to mention the horrifying mistakes many stylists have done to our hair (like what you mentioned Supergirl) as well as products out there targeted at black women that are damaging to our hair. No wonder there was major hair loss for many of us! And for a long time too.

This is the year 2003, another century, and many of us (like me) have been learning from scratch how to take care of our hair. I applaud all of us on this board and others like it for helping one another out and taking back our power.

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Well said Isis!! I agree!

 

[Supergirl]

Karezone,

They were large and pink and plastic--same material as a roller, but it had a wave pattern in it. Of course this was cute when I was in high school--I think the style is not in style anymore

 

[Honi]

I only experienced major loss one time. This was from a Jheri curl I had redone at some lady's house. She didn't completely rinse the back and so a week later while in the shower, it just fell out in the nape. I remember crying and being so upset while clumps of hair just swirled down the drain.

 

[pooh123]

I can remember at lease three incidents...

#1) damaged hair from transitioning from a jheri curl to a relaxer when in high school
#2) hair broke at crown from hair coloring
#3) seven inches broke off in the back from relaxer overprocessing

That's all I can remember right now but I want to say I had a fourth time..

pooh123