Relaxed Hair Thread

Black tea rinse helped me. I had read about it on this board for years but dismissed it as hype. But one day out, of desperation, I tried it for excessive shedding, and was shocked at the results! First treatment but a cold stop to the shedding and I continued it every wash day for a month for good measure.
Crystal_Chic said:
I am currently 4 weeks post first texlax and I had heavy shedding. I don't know if its because this is my first relaxer after being natural for 3 years or some other issues. I have been doing a mild protein treatment every other week and that has help but I still feel I am shedding more hair than necessary.
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I feel so good and stress-free about my hair routine now. This is how haircare should feel!

I found a great haircare/styling professional and go every 2 weeks for a rollerset, which I maintain with wrapping or pin curls. My relaxer is 10-12 weeks. Moisturizer/sealing is cheapie Motions and coconut Blue Magic. JBCO my scalp 2x weekly.

That's it... Easy breezy!
 
HappyAtLast said:
Black tea rinse helped me. I had read about it on this board for years but dismissed it as hype. But one day out, of desperation, I tried it for excessive shedding, and was shocked at the results! First treatment but a cold stop to the shedding and I continued it every wash day for a month for good measure.
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Can I pick up any ole black tea or should I go for something more organic?
 
HappyAtLast said:
I feel so good and stress-free about my hair routine now. This is how haircare should feel!

I found a great haircare/styling professional and go every 2 weeks for a rollerset, which I maintain with wrapping or pin curls. My relaxer is 10-12 weeks. Moisturizer/sealing is cheapie Motions and coconut Blue Magic. JBCO my scalp 2x weekly.

That's it... Easy breezy!
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That's how I feel at the moment. I've got a decent regi that I'm getting good results from so I don't particularly feel the need to change it up with new products and methods. My hair just seems to "work," I don't really need to do much to it at all just as long as I keep up a balance of moisture and protein. I hope I haven't jinxed myself. :perplexed:

I need to have a trim/dust in October.
 
quirkydimples said:
It seems that my nape is breaking again, but I don’t know why. Buns?
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Depends, what type of bun do you wear? Anything too tight that continually pulls on the area may just end up breaking the hair. I do bun, but it's not something I can do every day and I have to vary the type of bun I wear. My most favourite bun is on curly/wavy hair (normally via satin rollers or flexi rods) and gently pin up it up a side bun or bun at the nape.
 
LushLox said:
Depends, what type of bun do you wear? Anything too tight that continually pulls on the area may just end up breaking the hair. I do bun, but it's not something I can do every day and I have to vary the type of bun I wear. My most favourite bun is on curly/wavy hair (normally via satin rollers or flexi rods) and gently pin up it up a side bun or bun at the nape.
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Yeah I think my buns are too tight. I know better, but that’s how I like them :badidea:
 
So I decided to go ahead and relax my hair today. I has been a little over 8 weeks. My prior relax was at 14 and the one before was at 16 weeks. I noticed shedding and breakage even though I was doing my usual routine and products. I am very careful with my hair and try to use best practices and good products.

But today my worse nightmare came to life!!! I was rinsing my relaxer out and clumps of hair was filling the sink. I panicked. I screamed and I cried. My DH came to see what was wrong and began helping me rinse out the remaining relaxer and looking through to see the amount of hair loss and damage. He didnt see any visible bald or extremely short areas so I am hoping that it was shed hairs because my hair was in a rollerset and I have been finger combing for the last week. Also my hair is between APL and BSL and sometimes long hairs when they are together in a ball look worse than shorter hair. But I have never, I mean never had this to happen. I am sitting with my protein DC and on pins and needles for the final results. I will keep you all posted. I am praying to heaven that I am over reacting.
 
MzSwift said:
Sounds like your hair is in a good place with that leave in then. I would definitely recommend only incorporating more protein if/when you feel your hair needs it. Protein overload can be a beast to overcome. You can alternate in a moisturizing shampoo on your wash days to help increase moisture.

I’m planning to follow sistawithrealhair’s straight hair regi. I think I posted it upthread, I’ll find the video to post here. She maintains her straight hair for a month at a time. I plan to do biweekly or monthly.

Here it is:

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Oh yes I remember her! Isn’t she natural though? I don’t think my relaxed hair can handle all that oil lol but I’ll try and only do 2 weeks since my scalp don’t play that. Thanks so much for the advice. I will also use a moisturizing leave in every other week. I’m thinking of staying in weave until my hair grows out or cutting it into a bob (longer in front than in back) so theres less hair to work with and I can focus on health rather than length and being a slave to PSing
 
@Sosoothing girl please! You know I love talking about hair! :lol:

I use my Nexxus Emergencee on dry hair. I put a plastic cap on and wrap a towel around that (I use a hand towel so I can wrap it tight).

I leave it on for a minimum of 30 minutes, but sometimes I wait an hour.

My body heat from the plastic cap and towel are enough for me.

I use it about once a month. I use Nexxus Humectress for all my other dc's .

I hope your hair loves it :)
 
sunnieb said:
@Sosoothing girl please! You know I love talking about hair! :lol:

I use my Nexxus Emergencee on dry hair. I put a plastic cap on and wrap a towel around that (I use a hand towel so I can wrap it tight).

I leave it on for a minimum of 30 minutes, but sometimes I wait an hour.

My body heat from the plastic cap and towel are enough for me.

I use it about once a month. I use Nexxus Humectress for all my other dc's .

I hope your hair loves it :)
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Do you mind posting a picture? I tried looking it up and I keep seeing different products under that line and I’m not sure which one you’re speaking of
 
sunnieb said:
@Sosoothing girl please! You know I love talking about hair! :lol:

I use my Nexxus Emergencee on dry hair. I put a plastic cap on and wrap a towel around that (I use a hand towel so I can wrap it tight).

I leave it on for a minimum of 30 minutes, but sometimes I wait an hour.

My body heat from the plastic cap and towel are enough for me.

I use it about once a month. I use Nexxus Humectress for all my other dc's .

I hope your hair loves it :)
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Oh good!

I liked it .Will definitely be using it again. From what I can tell, it's interchangeable with curl junkie. But Nexxus is easier for me to get my hands on.
 
Sosoothing said:
Oh good!

I liked it .Will definitely be using it again. From what I can tell, it's interchangeable with curl junkie. But Nexxus is easier for me to get my hands on.
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Yeah, I try not to order my staple products online. I want to be able to pick up and get what I need on a moment's notice.
 
klsjackson said:
So I decided to go ahead and relax my hair today. I has been a little over 8 weeks. My prior relax was at 14 and the one before was at 16 weeks. I noticed shedding and breakage even though I was doing my usual routine and products. I am very careful with my hair and try to use best practices and good products.

But today my worse nightmare came to life!!! I was rinsing my relaxer out and clumps of hair was filling the sink. I panicked. I screamed and I cried. My DH came to see what was wrong and began helping me rinse out the remaining relaxer and looking through to see the amount of hair loss and damage. He didnt see any visible bald or extremely short areas so I am hoping that it was shed hairs because my hair was in a rollerset and I have been finger combing for the last week. Also my hair is between APL and BSL and sometimes long hairs when they are together in a ball look worse than shorter hair. But I have never, I mean never had this to happen. I am sitting with my protein DC and on pins and needles for the final results. I will keep you all posted. I am praying to heaven that I am over reacting.
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Hello, I pray that your breakage and hair loss wasn't as bad you thought. What was your outcome?
 
Daina said:
Coming into this thread to say your hair is beautiful and thick and luscious! Secondly are you using your hand to mark WL? If you are that actually looks HL to me. You are grazing WL now, your waist indentation is above where your hand is.
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That’s exactly what I was getting ready to say!
@Sosoothing , sis your waist appears to be much higher up where your waist dips in. That KISS is working girl!!

And, BTW, you look fantastic after having a little one!! My lil munchkin gave me fat arms and back rolls. :confused:
 
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GraceandJoy said:
Hello, I pray that your breakage and hair loss wasn't as bad you thought. What was your outcome?
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It was not as bad as I thought but I have a spot in the top / crown that broke off at the area of demarcation from my last stretch. So no more long stretches for me!!! 12 weeks will be the absolute longest, but I will begin relaxing every 8 to 10 weeks moving forward.
 
MzSwift said:
That’s exactly what I was getting ready to say!
@Sosoothing , sis your waist appears to be much higher up where your waist dips in. That KISS is working girl!!

And, BTW, you look fantastic after having a little one!! My lil munchkin gave me fat arms and back rolls. :confused:
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Yes sis! I'm so glad for our relaxed hair group. I seriously was feeling a little discouraged but I got myself together after realizing I didn't even know where my waist was :oops::giggle:.
And I compared past pictures. KISS is the truth!
 
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