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My co-worker said, "once you go swimming all your relaxer is gone"
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Oasis
grabbing life by the pussy
I used to think that. Not swimming exactly but getting your hair wet in general. Every time I washed my hair after a relaxer it would poof out and no one would even know I'd ever had one.
I used to try and go as long as possible without washing my hair to keep it straight.
I used to try and go as long as possible without washing my hair to keep it straight.
Myjourney2009
Ready to be APL
I thought this as well. Once when I was a child I had a relaxer done on a virgin head, I went swimming a couple of days later with no protection and poof half my head was straight and half was natural (not a good look mind you). This could have been because of underprocessing or because the chlorine, who knows.
Chlorine is composed of minerals and go to work on the integrity of the strand. The chlorine latches on to the protein and causes it to become brittle which can leads to breakage.
Since educating myself on this and other sites I know have decided to take swimming lessons. I have been swimming since early Oct 2009 2x a week without fail and my hair looks the same as when I relaxed back in Sept 2009 ( this was a virgin relaxer, I touched up in Dec 2009). When I relaxed in Dec I took 2 weeks off after (old habits die hard but next time I am not waiting as long. I nearly lost it not being able to swim, the longest I will wait after a touch up is a couple of days to a week no more. I will never stop swimming it is so freeing and I absolutly love it.
My hair routine: completly wet my double processed hair (relaxed and dye) and then apply coconut oil that is in a applicator tip bottle (I was using my shealoe mix but abandoned that for something simpler) making sure I pay attention to the edges as well as the ends and then I put on a rubber or silicone swim cap. Once done swimming I rinse my hair for a few min. put more coconut oil and then advocado oil (it gives a nice shine). The next day I do the same but when I get home on this day I wash with regular shampoo (sulfate free) and I then deep condition. I chelate once a month and a couple of days prior to relaxingg. The sulfate shampoo used to dry my hair and would leave it so tangled until I conditioned but since using the coconut oil my hair is now soft while wet and untangled.
My daughter who is natural with armpit length hair has been swimming consistently since the Spring (at that time 3 days a week now 2x a week). I dont protect her hair nearly the way I do mine just coconut oil the night before and then rinse when done. She only gets her hair washed once a month because thats all I can handle. Her hair looks really good and is still very strong. She hopes to eventually join the swim team and then she will swim between 3-6 days a week.
While swimming on Friday my daughter and I were the only AA in the pool. there were a set of YT men twins training and I swear they looked their eyes were going to fall out of their sockets, they looked like they were shocked to see AA in the pool (or they could have been looking at my boobs who knows ha-ha).
Chlorine is composed of minerals and go to work on the integrity of the strand. The chlorine latches on to the protein and causes it to become brittle which can leads to breakage.
Since educating myself on this and other sites I know have decided to take swimming lessons. I have been swimming since early Oct 2009 2x a week without fail and my hair looks the same as when I relaxed back in Sept 2009 ( this was a virgin relaxer, I touched up in Dec 2009). When I relaxed in Dec I took 2 weeks off after (old habits die hard but next time I am not waiting as long. I nearly lost it not being able to swim, the longest I will wait after a touch up is a couple of days to a week no more. I will never stop swimming it is so freeing and I absolutly love it.
My hair routine: completly wet my double processed hair (relaxed and dye) and then apply coconut oil that is in a applicator tip bottle (I was using my shealoe mix but abandoned that for something simpler) making sure I pay attention to the edges as well as the ends and then I put on a rubber or silicone swim cap. Once done swimming I rinse my hair for a few min. put more coconut oil and then advocado oil (it gives a nice shine). The next day I do the same but when I get home on this day I wash with regular shampoo (sulfate free) and I then deep condition. I chelate once a month and a couple of days prior to relaxingg. The sulfate shampoo used to dry my hair and would leave it so tangled until I conditioned but since using the coconut oil my hair is now soft while wet and untangled.
My daughter who is natural with armpit length hair has been swimming consistently since the Spring (at that time 3 days a week now 2x a week). I dont protect her hair nearly the way I do mine just coconut oil the night before and then rinse when done. She only gets her hair washed once a month because thats all I can handle. Her hair looks really good and is still very strong. She hopes to eventually join the swim team and then she will swim between 3-6 days a week.
While swimming on Friday my daughter and I were the only AA in the pool. there were a set of YT men twins training and I swear they looked their eyes were going to fall out of their sockets, they looked like they were shocked to see AA in the pool (or they could have been looking at my boobs who knows ha-ha).
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melissa-bee
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Ha ha these stories are funny. My friend in college once got a virgin relaxer and 2 weeks later she went to the club and her hair reverted "back to natural" i was laughing so much. I wasn't actually there but she told me she was so shamed she went and sat down untill her cousins were done. I think it must have been underprocessed and then pressed. Do you think that some hairdressers under process hair on purpose and then press to get the "fresh relaxer look", so that they return to get that look more often? Because that girl was a straight salon head. She told me when i mess up my hair i'm gonna be running to the salon and the staff would have been shaming me. Never happened.
lilmsjanet
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well your co.worker isnt exactly wrong this is what happened to me i use to go in the pool and come home and not wash my hair out because i thought it was just water so i thought i was doing a service to myself by the end of the year my hair went from bsl to a natural self made bob i was totally bald in the back.....just like yor friend said i was totally natural cuz all my hair fell out
Odd One
Well-Known Member
People used to tell me this... And when the hair got wet or ''sweated out''
, it would never be as straight as when I had the fresh relaxer since I had no specific technique for properly for stretching the hair. So I thought that the more the hair got wet the more the relaxer effect would be gone!
beans4reezy
Well-Known Member
Wow, it's really that easy? I'm like eleven months post and all I had to do is go swimming. Geez, guess I'm the idiot!
melodies815
New Member
Just chiming in...
When we were little and used to go swimming with a relaxer, I recall my hair not being as straight after a week or so of daily swimming. Like another previous poster stated, Chlorine does break down some bonds in the hair...but I don't know if I became natural again. I do know that my hair was strange after going into the pool though...
...but...we didn't chelate or clarify back then.
cj
When we were little and used to go swimming with a relaxer, I recall my hair not being as straight after a week or so of daily swimming. Like another previous poster stated, Chlorine does break down some bonds in the hair...but I don't know if I became natural again. I do know that my hair was strange after going into the pool though...
...but...we didn't chelate or clarify back then.
cj
People used to tell me this... And when the hair got wet or ''sweated out''
So I thought that the more the hair got wet the more the relaxer effect would be gone!
Thanks for responding.
You actually brought up something that I've always wondered. Why does the hair appear to have more body and movement 2-3 washes after a relaxer. It does seem as though the relaxer is somehow "wearing off" What exactly is going there. I know its OT and if anyone has the answer you can PM me the response.
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