I went to a salon after work on Friday to get a "Wash & Curl (Flat-iron) because I was going to a wedding on Saturday and wanted to do something special to my hair.
First of all, it's now been 10 weeks since my last touch-up, but my new growth truly has not been unmanageable AT ALL; I mean, I think I could easily go 4 more weeks and maybe even more. OK; having said that, an assistant blow dried my hair then I sat in the stylists seat and the first thing she says is "OK; What do you want me to do?" So I said, "Just curl it; the same thing you did before" (I had been to her one time, about 5 mos. ago and liked the way she did my hair, which is why I went back this time).
So, she says, "this is like natural hair, do you want me to press it out? I'm like, With the pressing comb, NO!!... So she says, well, you have too much stuff in there, it's going to look all puffy. So I said, Well, isn't that going to damage my ends if you run that comb through it? She said no, it won't and she ran the comb through one piece and had me feel the texture; it did feel really smooth and soft, so I told her to go ahead, if she was sure it wasnt going to do any damage. So she ran the comb lightly thru all my hair, then used that hot round barreled curler to put curls in my hair.
OK; it did come out really straight and soft and bouncy, but now I'm so scared that all that heat damaged my hair!! My hair has been doing so well lately that I would hate it if I had any kind of setback now!!! /images/graemlins/frown.gif
What do you all think?
OH, also, she acted like having so much new growth was a fate worse than death. She said I am badly in need of a touch up and that it's not good to wait a long time in between because your hair will "pop off". I know that she is right in some sense, but I do a lot of conditioning and stuff and I know I would be able to tell if my hair was breaking excessively and it hasn't been at all!!
First of all, it's now been 10 weeks since my last touch-up, but my new growth truly has not been unmanageable AT ALL; I mean, I think I could easily go 4 more weeks and maybe even more. OK; having said that, an assistant blow dried my hair then I sat in the stylists seat and the first thing she says is "OK; What do you want me to do?" So I said, "Just curl it; the same thing you did before" (I had been to her one time, about 5 mos. ago and liked the way she did my hair, which is why I went back this time).
So, she says, "this is like natural hair, do you want me to press it out? I'm like, With the pressing comb, NO!!... So she says, well, you have too much stuff in there, it's going to look all puffy. So I said, Well, isn't that going to damage my ends if you run that comb through it? She said no, it won't and she ran the comb through one piece and had me feel the texture; it did feel really smooth and soft, so I told her to go ahead, if she was sure it wasnt going to do any damage. So she ran the comb lightly thru all my hair, then used that hot round barreled curler to put curls in my hair.
OK; it did come out really straight and soft and bouncy, but now I'm so scared that all that heat damaged my hair!! My hair has been doing so well lately that I would hate it if I had any kind of setback now!!! /images/graemlins/frown.gif
What do you all think?
OH, also, she acted like having so much new growth was a fate worse than death. She said I am badly in need of a touch up and that it's not good to wait a long time in between because your hair will "pop off". I know that she is right in some sense, but I do a lot of conditioning and stuff and I know I would be able to tell if my hair was breaking excessively and it hasn't been at all!!
