Naturally Flexible Support Thread

I am loving my bushy ponytail. I am also loving my long hair family asking me "how'd you get YOUR hair soooo long!??"

I come from a long line of women that have long 3a or 3b hair ...mine was always considered to be in need of a relaxer. My hair was never as long as anyone in my family.....Ever....
No one insulted me perse, but I would get comments like "Your hair is not like your mom's at ALL! How's that possible??"

Now they are all coming to me for advice. It's sooooo nice.

Signed,
Formerly the Girl with the "Bad Hair" in the family.
 

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havilland said:
I am loving my bushy ponytail. I am also loving my long hair family asking me "how'd you get YOUR hair soooo long!??"

I come from a long line of women that have long 3a or 3b hair ...mine was always considered to be in need of a relaxer. My hair was never as long as anyone in my family.....Ever....
No one insulted me perse, but I would get comments like "Your hair is not like your mom's at ALL! How's that possible??"

Now they are all coming to me for advice. It's sooooo nice.

Signed,
Formerly the Girl with the "Bad Hair" in the family.
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I don't understand how anyone could label your hair as bad. It is lovely and oh so shiny!!!!! It is just beautiful!!!! :clap:
 
I booked an appt at a Kerastase salon next week. I am getting a blowout/flatiron. They have a special on Wednesdays where treatments are $25, but since I pretty much have everything at home I will prepoo my hair instead... Hopefully she is gentle with my hair and knows what she's doing.
 
@havilland I tried a search because I know you have addressed this, but I couldn't find the post I was looking for. I'm going to straighten my hair using beautiful textures TMS in a few days, but I'm nervous about it drying my hair out. What is your regimen when using this product? Do you follow the instructions as listed? Or modify it? Thanks!
 
sgold04 said:
@havilland I tried a search because I know you have addressed this, but I couldn't find the post I was looking for. I'm going to straighten my hair using beautiful textures TMS in a few days, but I'm nervous about it drying my hair out. What is your regimen when using this product? Do you follow the instructions as listed? Or modify it? Thanks!
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Hey! :)

If your hair is healthy, you should be fine.

Here's what I do. I do a deep conditioner a week before I flat iron. Preferably a protein conditioner.

The night before I flat iron, I pre poo with olive oil or Hot Six Oil.

Next day I shampoo with the TMS shampoo. I use the TMS conditioner for 20 minutes. Rinse it out.

The I apply Chi Infusion conditioner for 2-3 minutes and rinse it out. (I add this step for extra heat protection. It's not necessary. I'm just paranoid. Lol)

Then I apply Chi Keratin Mist to my hair and I blow dry on warm heat in sections.

The instructions say not to use leave ins...but I ignore that. My results were better with my leave ins than without. I tried it both ways.

After my hair is dry, I apply about a dime size of Kerastace Olio Relax serum to my whole head and flat iron.

I flat iron with ONE PASS on 410.

After I finish my hair, if I need another pass, I lower the heat to 390 and go over my hair again.

My hair is very fine and susceptible to heat damage so I am very careful.

When I am ready to go back to my curls, I usually will clarify, chelate, and deep condition with protein and moisture to restore my curls and rehydrate them.

Let me know if that helps. :)
 
havilland said:
Hey! :)

If your hair is healthy, you should be fine.

Here's what I do. I do a deep conditioner a week before I flat iron. Preferably a protein conditioner.

The night before I flat iron, I pre poo with olive oil or Hot Six Oil.

Next day I shampoo with the TMS shampoo. I use the TMS conditioner for 20 minutes. Rinse it out.

The I apply Chi Infusion conditioner for 2-3 minutes and rinse it out. (I add this step for extra heat protection. It's not necessary. I'm just paranoid. Lol)

Then I apply Chi Keratin Mist to my hair and I blow dry on warm heat in sections.

The instructions say not to use leave ins...but I ignore that. My results were better with my leave ins than without. I tried it both ways.

After my hair is dry, I apply about a dime size of Kerastace Olio Relax serum to my whole head and flat iron.

I flat iron with ONE PASS on 410.

After I finish my hair, if I need another pass, I lower the heat to 390 and go over my hair again.

My hair is very fine and susceptible to heat damage so I am very careful.

When I am ready to go back to my curls, I usually will clarify, chelate, and deep condition with protein and moisture to restore my curls and rehydrate them.

Let me know if that helps. :)
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Thank you! I'll let you know how it goes.
 
havilland said:
Make sure to take pics! ;):toocool: Good luck!
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I'm so glad I checked with you first lol. I pre-poo'd over night (which I never do), then I washed with a gentle cleanser first. I only washed with their cleanser once, so we'll see how it goes. I applied step 2, then a leave in, then chi silk. My hair didn't come out as silly as I'd like, but I was afraid to flat iron on higher temps (I did 390). My hair felt dryyyyyyy before I flat ironed, but now it feels fine *shrug*. It's longer than I thought, and I regret raking through it like I did--I thought I was going to trim a few inches, so I was like "*** it"--but my ends actually weren't bad, so I'm sure I thinned it out too much. I fly to atl tomorrow, so we'll see how it holds up in humidity.
 

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I'm loving my new (Kerastase) salon. I got a shampoo, deep treatment, blowdry and flatiron yesterday. She did the best blowout ever. My hair is light, feathery soft and smells wonderful. It costs more than the Dominicans, but hey my hair doesn't smell burnt and I didn't shed a tear lol. I am going back in 3 weeks for another treatment and blowout. She wants to trim, but I will try to hold off until July. I just trimmed earlier this month anyway...

My mom wants to go now too, because her eyebrow place is in the same area.
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Houston ladies please check this place out.
 
On the fence so making this home until I decide.

I need to find a leave in combo and wash day drying method that appeals to my hair from root to tip. Air drying leaves my natural hair happy and my relaxed hair unhappy. Roller setting leaves my relaxed hair happy but my natural hair unhappy.
 
sgold04 said:
I'm so glad I checked with you first lol. I pre-poo'd over night (which I never do), then I washed with a gentle cleanser first. I only washed with their cleanser once, so we'll see how it goes. I applied step 2, then a leave in, then chi silk. My hair didn't come out as silly as I'd like, but I was afraid to flat iron on higher temps (I did 390). My hair felt dryyyyyyy before I flat ironed, but now it feels fine *shrug*. It's longer than I thought, and I regret raking through it like I did--I thought I was going to trim a few inches, so I was like "*** it"--but my ends actually weren't bad, so I'm sure I thinned it out too much. I fly to atl tomorrow, so we'll see how it holds up in humidity.
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Your hair turned out great!
 
divachyk said:
On the fence so making this home until I decide.

I need to find a leave in combo and wash day drying method that appeals to my hair from root to tip. Air drying leaves my natural hair happy and my relaxed hair unhappy. Roller setting leaves my relaxed hair happy but my natural hair unhappy.
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Unfortunately you are in for more of the same. All I could do during my transition was bun and wear half wigs. Two different textures don't like the same styles at the same time. They are evil twins. Lol
 
divachyk said:
On the fence so making this home until I decide.

I need to find a leave in combo and wash day drying method that appeals to my hair from root to tip. Air drying leaves my natural hair happy and my relaxed hair unhappy. Roller setting leaves my relaxed hair happy but my natural hair unhappy.
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Did you cut some of your hair yet? I can't remember!
 
I need a place to hangout and I think this may be the place. I'm almost 1 year into my transition and I'm very slowly cutting of my relaxed and texlaxed hair. I'm not sure if I will be a straight haired natural or not. I'm not sure I have the skill to flat iron my hair. I wear my hair in a bun 99% of the time and I'm looking forward to wearing it out more, but I'm not sure when that will be. For now I only wear it out after I get it colored and flat ironed every 8 weeks. Here's my lastest flatiron from Thurs
 

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I just read this entire thread. After reading about people's issues with reversion I worry a bit about going natural. I workout 5-6 times a week and I'm not going to give that up. My roots revert now but my lengthy stays straight. But most of my length is texlaxed. I'm worried that when I'm 100% natural I may not be able to deal with the frizz. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
 
@GettingKinky it isn't that bad. My roots revert the fastest around my hairline, but that can be covered with a headband. The middle usually stays fairly straight unless I do a really intense workout. I still exercise pretty much daily and I make my blowouts last 2 weeks.

Before I started working out I could make a blowout last a month!
 
GettingKinky said:
I just read this entire thread. After reading about people's issues with reversion I worry a bit about going natural. I workout 5-6 times a week and I'm not going to give that up. My roots revert now but my lengthy stays straight. But most of my length is texlaxed. I'm worried that when I'm 100% natural I may not be able to deal with the frizz. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
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I workout every day too. For me...I don't wear my hair straight all the time, so the reversion is not a big deal. When I flat iron, I take the week off from my workouts. (Here's a tmi tip....flat iron the week of your period....lol)

My reversion used to make me hate flat ironing my hair. But if you find the right regi, you can make it work.

It took me awhile to get my
Products and regimen down...but now it's smooth sailing.
 
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havilland said:
I workout every day too. For me...I don't wear my hair straight all the time, so the reversion is not a big deal. When I flat iron, I take the week off from my workouts. (Here's a tmi tip....flat iron the week of your period....lol)

My reversion used to make me hate flat ironing my hair. But if you find the right regi, you can make it work.

It took me awhile to get my
Products and regimen down...but now it's smooth sailing.
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I am going to take that tip because I sure hate doing any exercising that week! Thanks!!!
 
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