Does anyone know how to determine your hair type?? I "think" I have low porosity hair but not sure. It is relaxed and has been for years. I touch up 3-4 times a year to tame my curls lol. I do mean those curls that look like back in the day jheri curl too LOL!
Generally speaking if you’re relaxed, there’s really no way your hair is even remotely low porosity. That’s even more so the case the longer your hair gets. I can’t even begin to describe how highly porous my hair is.
But that comes with the territory of relaxing your hair. While it isn’t optimal for your to be in its absolute tip top shape, relaxed hair doesn’t mean that it can’t be well kept, and grow long.
As far as hair type goes, in my opinion, that aspect of hair care isn’t really important when talking about relaxed hair. Since you’ve altered your curl pattern to some degree, especially if you have varying textures, again, it’s not really important.
I know you mostly just touch up to loosen the curls, but if at any point in your hair’s length, it even resembles straighter or wavy parts, then the texture will more or less vary.
With relaxed hair, just be sure to keep adequate protein levels and moisture levels, mitigate breakage as much as possible, lower manipulation, and try to not always have your hair straight, or use heat too often. Detangle minimally, but enough to keep SSk’s at bay.