PrettyinPink001
Active Member
Are protective styles crucial? My hair grows really slow but I love to wear it down. Is protective styles a method I must take on to speed up my growth?
There are different schools of thought on it. Some who follow Wanakee's method, protective style all the time while others who follow Cathy Howse's method generally do not. There are others who do a mix of each.
That being said, I personally don't protective style per se. I put my hair up at night and try to eliminate hair friction with down hair styles as much as possible. So my most "protective" style turns out to be simply wearing and embracing my naturally curly hair.
What you need to ask is:
- Can I avoid using (or severely reduce the amount of) heat to get my "down" hair style?
- Can I avoid hair friction if I wear my hair "down"?
- Am I able to retain my average growth when I wear my hair down? (In other words, can you still see your growth from month to month without having to continually cut your ends to maintain a "down" hair style?)
- Do I have to work extra hard to overcome any issues related to wearing my hair down?
If you can answer yes to all of those questions (or make some changes to be able to say yes), then you probably won't have a problem.
What is Cathy Howse's method? I do wash and set my hair and blow dry my roots. I go to the domicans, I blow dry my roots because I hate how my roots look if they aren't. I do need to reduce the blow drying. I started to tell them medium heat. Any suggestions ?