Relaxed Hair Thread

Saludable84 said:
I am.... For now
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I flat ironed yesterday and my hair still looks a hot mess. I should have cut it before stretching since the problem started way back when but I guess I was hoping a miracle would come along and self correct the issue. Really wanted a salon cut but tracking down stylists is just too much hassle so I pulled out my scissors and went to work - chopped, chopped, chopped.

If I can get my pic to attach, I will show you.

eta: photo added; apparently my pic was too large. I can see right now, I won't be posting many pics. I don't have time to be fooling around with resizing photos. :confused:

The pic is the before, what I cut and the after. I need to cut more as I desire to remove all thin areas but this will do for now.
 

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@divachyk good job on the trim, it looks good. I flat ironed my hair on Sunday and cut over 2 inches. I had to restrain myself from cutting it to SL since a part of me just wants to start over but what I cut needed to be gone.
 
@flyygirlll2, I would have cut more but dh and a few friends stopped me. I was a woman on a mission. After hearing their input, I decided against as I didn't want to make any impulse decisions. Much like you though, I'm over it. My hair responds best to removing all issues as once. The slow and steady route doesn't do much for my hair. What method do you use to cut? I use the Feye's Method.
 
divachyk said:
@flyygirlll2, I would have cut more but dh and a few friends stopped me. I was a woman on a mission. After hearing their input, I decided against as I didn't want to make any impulse decisions. Much like you though, I'm over it. My hair responds best to removing all issues as once. The slow and steady route doesn't do much for my hair. What method do you use to cut? I use the Feye's Method.
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@divachyk when I had spoken to Jenn from Komaza, she said I could just cut an inch and then proceed in intervals with trims when necessary. That was based on what she could see from the samples I had sent her, I just sent her the second sample.

In terms of how I cut it, I used Feye's method as well. I also used a a scrunchi to put my hair in a ponytail and cut the rest. My hair is still BSL/MBL even after the cut, I thought it would be shorter. I've cut almost 5 inches so far this year lol but as I told Jenn, it never feels like I cut anything which is perplexing.

At first I thought my DH wouldn't care much if I cut my hair very short, but he does like some length since he's so used to seeing me with long hair.
 
I wrapped up my komaza consultation today, the report said i had 5-6 inches of new growth when i sent it in and that was when i was 25 weeks post (oct-april). I'm horrible at math so does that mean as far as my growth rate?
 
I'm going to do a cassia treatment on my hair on Tuesday night in preparation for my trip in Thursday ..I love the strength and shine it gives to my strands
 
SuchaLady said:
@iLurk Thats approximately 1 inch per month. Above average.
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You don't know how shocked I was to see that so that's just me trying to get over my denial. :nuts:All this time I'm thinking I'm beyond a slow grower and it turns out I'm blossoming just my hair breaking off. Probably would have been butt length by now if I figured it out sooner.
 
I'm excited about my new relaxer journey!! I'm nervous about random breakage that some relaxed heads seem to have though. Hopefully that doesn't happen to me. Right now to moisturize I'm using Cantu Leave-in and grapeseed oil. I probably need to add a protein leave-in like Aphogee Green Tea. My straight hair feels kind of weird to me because I'm just not use to it. It's been 15-16 years since I was relaxed. When I was relaxed 16 years ago, I had NO CLUE about hair care. I could't get my hair to grow past my neck.
A lot of what I learned as a natural, I am bringing with me to the relaxed side to help with retention. I will still be finger detangling, handling my hair with care especially my ends, protective styling, using products like Aubrey's and Shea moisture, and natural oils like grapeseed oil and shea butter.
I used Mizani Butter Blends Lye to relax and it got my hair pretty straight. I will probably do some pin curls and flexi rod set before I put it in cornrows. Plus I don't to put cornrows in so soon after relaxing.
 
CluelessJL said:
Is it possible for an underprocessed relaxer to not "show up" for a couple of weeks/washes?
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If you are like myself and others that have this problem, your hair doesn't stay as straight as it is when you are freshly relaxed. My hair is straight for a little while then some of the kink returns. However, relaxers were never designed to knock all the texture out your hair so that should be considered as well.
 
@SuchaLady my hair is resistant, so the times that it was bone straight involved stylist leaving the relaxer on for longer and smoothing the heck out of it. The last touch up in September that I did myself left me very underprocessed so now I have all these varying textures that drive me nuts, especially when my hair is wet :rolleyes:
 
@flyygirlll2 Yep. That's how it is with me as well. Truthfully, idk what I want to do. It's grown a lot so I can't do anything rash :look: However, the other day I actually contemplated a nice haircut and wearing it straight for a little while. I'll regret that for sure. I'm tired of doing my hair though.

I wish they'd hurry develop a BKTish product that doesn't potentially give you cancer :lol: I'll give up a relaxer but not straight hair :look:
 
I actually don't think I have any kind of secret lol @divachyk. I have a Hot Tools tourmaline dryer and I use the age old IC heat protectant in the pink bottle. No special technique or anything.

I think I'm just so used to seeing my poofy air dried hair, that the blow dried version looked really strange in my eyes.
 
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