Random Hair Thoughts/Thinking out loud

Idk how much more I can take spending hours on my hair blow drying and straightening. And if not heat styling, just the amount of time it takes having to wet my hair and detangle and put product in it. Seriously considering going on a texlax journey. I've been seeing so many texlaxed girls on the tube with long luscious hair and it's making me ache. Especially PrettyWitty77. Chick's hair got even THICKER over the past year. Smh. If she can do it, surely I can.

 
So.... I've got to come to grips with the reality of my neglecting my hair. I just realized that I have a few huge areas of sparse density at the crown and back of my head.

I really need to use low manipulation up dos to disguise those areas while I work on trying to get my scalp to fill in those sections.

Now I really really have to focus on eating right, sleeping as best I can and keeping on top of my vitamin intake. Sobering.
 
ag00 said:
Idk how much more I can take spending hours on my hair blow drying and straightening. And if not heat styling, just the amount of time it takes having to wet my hair and detangle and put product in it. Seriously considering going on a texlax journey. I've been seeing so many texlaxed girls on the tube with long luscious hair and it's making me ache. Especially PrettyWitty77. Chick's hair got even THICKER over the past year. Smh. If she can do it, surely I can.
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Seeing posts like yours make me question my decision to go natural. I really liked my texlaxed hair, but every once in a while my stylist would over process it, and I hate the straight sections. Otherwise I never would have stopped.
 
ag00 said:
Idk how much more I can take spending hours on my hair blow drying and straightening. And if not heat styling, just the amount of time it takes having to wet my hair and detangle and put product in it. Seriously considering going on a texlax journey. I've been seeing so many texlaxed girls on the tube with long luscious hair and it's making me ache. Especially PrettyWitty77. Chick's hair got even THICKER over the past year. Smh. If she can do it, surely I can.

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If my scalp could take it (and if results could be consistent), I would have gone back years ago :nono:
 
I was thinking of transitioning to natural recently but the way my hair has been misbehaving frightens me. I am 17 weeks post relaxer and have a lot of growth at the moment. My hair has been acting mad, refusing to stay straight when i flat iron it and being all tangly. I am also suffering from a lot of single strand knots. I do know that i am not really down with using heat on my hair as it tends to age my ends faster (despite the fact that my hair is texlaxed).....so, the more issues i am having the more i realise that i really may not be able to cope with my natural hair:cry::cry::cry: don't judge!
 
Story time: Today after class I snatched my wig off and undid my twists as I was driving home. On the way I decided to stop at Target. I'll be darned if I didn't run into an ex from my teenage years. Here's how that conversation went.
Him: *looks all cross eyed at my hair* Oh you're doing that natural thing now?
Me: I've been natural. I just decided to embrace my curls and stop frying my hair.
Him: You looked better with long, straight hair.
Me: And you looked better without 6 kids and a felony. :look:
Conversation ended there.
 
KinksAndInk said:
Story time: Today after class I snatched my wig off and undid my twists as I was driving home. On the way I decided to stop at Target. I'll be darned if I didn't run into an ex from my teenage years. Here's how that conversation went.
Him: *looks all cross eyed at my hair* Oh you're doing that natural thing now?
Me: I've been natural. I just decided to embrace my curls and stop frying my hair.
Him: You looked better with long, straight hair.
Me: And you looked better without 6 kids and a felony. :look:
Conversation ended there.
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:lachen::lachen::lachen::toocool:
 
for the first week or two of these braids I just want to take them out and play in my hair. I'm only keeping these in for the next month though, no more of that two months at a time mess.
 
KinksAndInk said:
Story time: Today after class I snatched my wig off and undid my twists as I was driving home. On the way I decided to stop at Target. I'll be darned if I didn't run into an ex from my teenage years. Here's how that conversation went.
Him: *looks all cross eyed at my hair* Oh you're doing that natural thing now?
Me: I've been natural. I just decided to embrace my curls and stop frying my hair.
Him: You looked better with long, straight hair.
Me: And you looked better without 6 kids and a felony. :look:
Conversation ended there.
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Oh the burrrrnnnn! :lachen::lachen::lachen::lachen::lachen::lachen:
 
Decided to do wash day tonight so I can do stuff tomorrow (not sure what but I'm trying to get over my introvert ways and leave the house more often so I can have a piece of a social life at least). I'm not doing anything major so it won't take longer than an hour. I'll be up until about 2am anyways doing nothing so I might as well do my hair. My clay is in now, I'll wash that out, do my light protein treatment then deep condition for 30 minutes or so before I rinse and style.
 
ag00 said:
Idk how much more I can take spending hours on my hair blow drying and straightening. And if not heat styling, just the amount of time it takes having to wet my hair and detangle and put product in it. Seriously considering going on a texlax journey. I've been seeing so many texlaxed girls on the tube with long luscious hair and it's making me ache. Especially PrettyWitty77. Chick's hair got even THICKER over the past year. Smh. If she can do it, surely I can.

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Use products with slip and detangle in shower. That way it's detangled before deep conditioning and less you have to do out of the shower
 
Left is wet hair and right is dry. It hard to tell the difference because the height is different and it wet versus dry but the right looks like it's starting to make it closer to my waist from the November one
 

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SlimPickinz said:
I haven't straightened my hair for at least 3 weeks. These single strand knots are reminding me why I use heat in the first place. Idk what to do.
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How do you wear your hair when you don't straighten it? twist outs? wash n goes?

I can't wait to get my Olaplex stuff. I'm :pray: it helps with my reversion issues.
 
Britt said:
How do you wear your hair when you don't straighten it? twist outs? wash n goes?

I can't wait to get my Olaplex stuff. I'm :pray: it helps with my reversion issues.
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I thought I put this in the straight hair naturals thread :lol:

I've been wearing two flat twist pinned during the week and a Twistout on the wknds. This wknd tho I did a wash and go then the flat twists and my ends feel like trash. I know it was the wash and go.
 
I'm going to get cornrows soon. I was thinking about going this weekend but idk if I want to go out in 20 degree weather.

I want low maintenance hair. I hate spending so much time retwisting my hair smh.
 
Since my roller set was a fail I'm thinking about flat ironing on like 200 degrees so I can do a good trim. I feel like this s&d method isn't working for me and neither is trimming while my hair is in twists. I'm going to try to perfect my roller set technique so I don't have to flat iron to do trims.
 
mzteaze said:
It's your hair and you have to do the work either way.

Plus, you can always grow it back.
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That's what I said. Plus, I've done it once before when I began my journey in 2009. Honestly, I'm only listening to the outside voices because I've been lollygagging and being lazy while I overcome the unbelievable body aches from this new workout routine. Once my body adjusts and the soreness subsides (and I'm able to move around without calling on a deity for assistance), I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm just debating on whether to stop at SL or take it up to EL like I want to. Who knows. Still, I really appreciate your support and encouragement.
 
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