Random Hair Thoughts/Thinking out loud

sunnieb said:
Why did she even post that click bait title??? She's happy with her natural hair, great! Leave relaxed heads alone. :cool:
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Who isn't posting click bait these days? She falls right in line with the era. She wants the views. I agree with some of her points, but it shouldn't have been made into a video. I had to stop watching her because she's ranting too much.
I don't like relaxers either (I hate them), but I'm not against people who choose it. I chose it once too.

Go ahead on Sunnieb...grow that thigh length relaxed hair...which is 100% possible.
 
GettingKinky said:
I texlaxed for 3 years and I had great hang time. Then I transitioned to natural and ever since I can’t figure out what to do with my hair.
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Isn't that something. Even though I would never consider relaxing again, braidouts do look nice on texlaxed hair. When I was relaxed 3 years ago Bantu knots were the bomb. There are pros and cons for natural and relaxed. If you wake up thinking about having relaxed hair for three weeks in a row lol do it. If you're hesitant in any way don't lol. That's my take on it.
 
Speaking of relaxers, here's a few things I do like/miss about them:

Hang time all day

Can see hair growth at the roots


Easy hair setting; braid outs, Bantu knot outs etc.

Here's a few things I don't like/miss:

Harsh chemical

Have to trim ends more

Scheduled touch ups

The process of relaxing

Dealing with new growth

Turns hair a tint of brown

Loss of elasticity.

Over lapping (which is inevitable) due to relaxer run-off. No matter how coated the precious relaxed hair is.
 
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I Am So Blessed said:
Isn't that something. Even though I would never consider relaxing again, braidouts do look nice on texlaxed hair. When I was relaxed 3 years ago Bantu knots were the bomb. There are pros and cons for natural and relaxed. If you wake up thinking about having relaxed hair for three weeks in a row lol do it. If you're hesitant in any way don't lol. That's my take on it.
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I’m definitely not ready to go back to relaxing, I spent 3 long years transitioning so I have to try everything before I go back to texlaxing. But I really loved my braidouts.
 
GettingKinky said:
I’m definitely not ready to go back to relaxing, I spent 3 long years transitioning so I have to try everything before I go back to texlaxing. But I really loved my braidouts.
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@GettingKinky, maybe try twistouts instead? When I was transitioning from heat damage braidouts were my go to style along with buns and helped to break up the monotony of buns. I had a Komaza analysis and they suggested I stop doing braidouts and that twistouts would better mimic my natural curl pattern. Once my hair was fully recovered and all natural again with no heat damage their advice could not be more true...braidouts now look terrible on my hair but twistouts look great go figure! I just converted a WnG bun from Friday to a twistout yesterday for church, I was expecting the worse but it came out really nice. @ElevatedEnergy just shared a great tip with me as well. I was using nothing on the ends after twisting because they curled on their own or small gray perm rods, she suggested I try larger magnetic rollers to help with stretch. My whip length hair normally shrinks to my shoulders but using that tip gave really good stretch and my twistout yesterday was almost APL.
 
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Daina said:
@GettingKinky, maybe try twistouts instead? When I was transitioning from heat damage braidouts were my go to style along with buns and helped to break up the monotony of buns. I had a Komaza analysis and they suggested I stop doing braidouts and that twistouts would better mimic my natural curl pattern. Once my hair was fully recovered and all natural again with no heat damage their advice could not be more true...braidouts now look terrible on my hair but twistouts look great go figure! I just converted a WnG bun from Friday to a twistout yesterday for church, I was expecting the worse but it came out really nice. @ElevatedEnergy just shared a great tip with me as well. I was using nothing on the ends after twisting because they curled on their own or small gray perm rods, she suggested I try larger magnetic rollers to help with stretch. My whip length hair normally shrinks to my shoulders but using that tip gave really good stretch and my twistout yesterday was almost APL.
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I may have to try that. But my problem with braid outs isn’t the curl pattern, it’s that they are so stiff and don’t have any movement. I may have to start with wet hair, but then I’ll have to buy a dryer because wet braids/twists will take forever to dry.
When I was texlaxed I could do braidouts on dry hair or damp hair and they still looked great.

I like the large roller tip. I’ll have to try it.
 
I washed on Saturday and then moisturized with Miele avocado moisture milk and bunned. Today my hair feels dry and crunchy. My search for replacements for Darcy Botanicals products continues. So far Miele and oyin hair dew haven’t lived up to expectations.
 
I’m going back to my routine from my pre wash n go days. Shampooing with baking soda and a final ACV rinse. My hair was happy then and it is not happy any more.

I stopped the baking soda shampoo because I got lazy and for some reason I thought the ACV was interfering with my gel. But I just need to get back to basics. That worked for me for 3 years no reason to change now.

I just need to find replacements for my Darcy Botanicals products.
 
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I detangled my hair mid-week in efforts to keep up with it all. I have so much hair now its crazy! I can't get away with just detangling every weekend any more. So the protocol is to detangling every Wednesday and Saturday instead of just on Saturday. I barely had any knots.

I'm inching down to HL. Am I dreaming? I'm ecstatic.
 
KhandiB said:
Im at the point that I hate my hair and want to cut it all off..
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That’s what I did, although my cut was a bit more..drastic than what others do:lachen:

I wasn’t intending on cutting my hair this short, but it was so much drama surrounding my big chop, I just said f it and got it shaved off. I didn’t hate my hair, I just got tired of dealing with two different textures.
 
Ive just gotten frustrated with my hair. Its thinning, its weak, like when I do my braidouts I can feel my hair snap.

It has no style and I don't know why but its spongy and will not hold a style for nothing.

I calmed my little tail down last night and did a Keratin treatment on my hair and it already feels better.

ItsMeLilLucky said:
That’s what I did, although my cut was a bit more..drastic than what others do:lachen:

I wasn’t intending on cutting my hair this short, but it was so much drama surrounding my big chop, I just said f it and got it shaved off. I didn’t hate my hair, I just got tired of dealing with two different textures.
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