lovelymissyoli
New Member
Ladies,
Since I've closed my Fotki album for good and basically thrown in the towel in regards to growing my hair, I figured I'd just answer all of my pm's in one simple thread since I doubt I'll be around much. Here are the photos to the process that I used to texturize my hair. Good luck to anyone who's thinking about texturizing. I hope this helps. Also, I've included the captions that were underneath each of these photos in my Fotki. If something still isn't clear, let me know.
...see you around...
Strand test...
Believe it or not, the timing makes all the difference!
I read how a lot of ladies leave their relaxer on for 10 minutes and I know that wouldn't be the case for me. As you can see, 8 minutes was too much and 3 minutes left my hair underprocessed, or not processed at all.
I found a happy medium at 5 minutes!
....now why I chose to do a strand test in the FRONT of my hair is beyond me. I guess I really wanted to see the results.
How I applied...
So I parted my hair into 5 large sections (of which I broke down into 2 or 3 smaller sections for even application). I used an applicator brush and applied the relaxer to my roots first and then slowly moved down until I got to my ends.
I was very adamant about not going over 5 minutes and that was from the minute the relaxer was applied to my ends because I knew it would process faster here.
The guinea pig side....
This was the first side I applied the relaxer to. It would ultimately determine how long I left the relaxer on and what, if anything, I needed to tweak.
Rinsing and moving on...
I rinsed each section with a hand towel in the sink, making sure that I didn't wet the other side. After each section had been washed out I applied conditioner to it and bobby pinned it so that I could move on, and make sure I didn't get any additional relaxer on it.
All done with the back...
That 2nd big chop in May really set me back, but I guess this is an official length shot to check my progress.
Once the back portion was completed I rinsed out the conditioner that I applied to each section after rinsing out the relaxer, and I added the neutralizing shampoo. I left that on while I proceed to relax the top portion.
Now I'm no relaxer expert, so I don't know if leaving neutralizing shampoo on your hair is good or bad thing...
All done!!
One thing I should mention is that I noticed it took 7 minutes, instead of 5 to process the middle of my hair. I take it this was the most resistant/coarsest part of my hair even though it always grew the longest! ;-D
The twists are still in there...
I didn't wind up taking these twists down until late Saturday night. Shrinkage gave me beautiful, full twists, and now the relaxer/texturizer has taken some of that thickness away.
I'll see as time goes by if my hair will get bigger or not.
The twists stayed intact!
Only a little scalp is showing...
Here I thought my hair was going to look really scalpy, but that's not the case. I guess my hair really was thick.
Random photos...
Since I've closed my Fotki album for good and basically thrown in the towel in regards to growing my hair, I figured I'd just answer all of my pm's in one simple thread since I doubt I'll be around much. Here are the photos to the process that I used to texturize my hair. Good luck to anyone who's thinking about texturizing. I hope this helps. Also, I've included the captions that were underneath each of these photos in my Fotki. If something still isn't clear, let me know.
...see you around...
Strand test...
Believe it or not, the timing makes all the difference!
I read how a lot of ladies leave their relaxer on for 10 minutes and I know that wouldn't be the case for me. As you can see, 8 minutes was too much and 3 minutes left my hair underprocessed, or not processed at all.
I found a happy medium at 5 minutes!
....now why I chose to do a strand test in the FRONT of my hair is beyond me. I guess I really wanted to see the results.
How I applied...
So I parted my hair into 5 large sections (of which I broke down into 2 or 3 smaller sections for even application). I used an applicator brush and applied the relaxer to my roots first and then slowly moved down until I got to my ends.
I was very adamant about not going over 5 minutes and that was from the minute the relaxer was applied to my ends because I knew it would process faster here.
The guinea pig side....
This was the first side I applied the relaxer to. It would ultimately determine how long I left the relaxer on and what, if anything, I needed to tweak.
Rinsing and moving on...
I rinsed each section with a hand towel in the sink, making sure that I didn't wet the other side. After each section had been washed out I applied conditioner to it and bobby pinned it so that I could move on, and make sure I didn't get any additional relaxer on it.
All done with the back...
That 2nd big chop in May really set me back, but I guess this is an official length shot to check my progress.
Once the back portion was completed I rinsed out the conditioner that I applied to each section after rinsing out the relaxer, and I added the neutralizing shampoo. I left that on while I proceed to relax the top portion.
Now I'm no relaxer expert, so I don't know if leaving neutralizing shampoo on your hair is good or bad thing...
All done!!
One thing I should mention is that I noticed it took 7 minutes, instead of 5 to process the middle of my hair. I take it this was the most resistant/coarsest part of my hair even though it always grew the longest! ;-D
The twists are still in there...
I didn't wind up taking these twists down until late Saturday night. Shrinkage gave me beautiful, full twists, and now the relaxer/texturizer has taken some of that thickness away.
I'll see as time goes by if my hair will get bigger or not.
The twists stayed intact!
Only a little scalp is showing...
Here I thought my hair was going to look really scalpy, but that's not the case. I guess my hair really was thick.
Random photos...
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