Relaxed Heads: How many weeks post relaxer are you and when is your next touch up???

[sunnieb]

12 weeks post and I'm mad! Gotta find time relax! Ugh!

 

[Rozlewis]

13 weeks post. I will relax at 15 weeks, which is a little earlier than planned because my son graduates from college next week and we have several ceremonies to attend. I want my hair to look decent.

 

[Evolving78]

13 weeks post. I will relax at 15 weeks, which is a little earlier than planned because my son graduates from college next week and we have several ceremonies to attend. I want my hair to look decent.

Congrats to your son and your family! Yay!

 

[sunnieb]

@Rozlewis congratulations on getting your son out of college!

I'm about 10 minutes post. Neutralizing now. Feeling good and so straight!

 

[irsgirl]

2 days post, I cut my 20 week stretch short by 2 weeks! Next relaxer April 2018!

 

[Evolving78]

2 days post, I cute my 20 week stretch short by 2 weeks! Next relaxer April 2018!

You are too cute in your avi!

 

[irsgirl]

You are too cute in your avi!

Awe thank you!

 

[Rozlewis]

14 weeks post and will be relaxing next weekend.

 

[Lymegreen]

7 weeks and surprisingly cruising. I will probably wait until next year and then decide when to relax.

 

[Destiny9109]

I'm getting tempted to relax Thursday at 10 weeks. I don't know happened my hair was still manageable at 7 weeks lol. How people believe hair doesn't grow is beyond me.

 

[LushLox]

I'm going to relax Christmas week at 18 weeks; I'm absolutely done now. I won't be able to relax any earlier than that as I'm going to be super busy this weekend.

Counting down the days lol

 

[Evolving78]

I'm going to relax Christmas week at 18 weeks; I'm absolutely done now. I won't be able to relax any earlier than that as I'm going to be super busy this weekend.

Counting down the days lol

How are you gonna wear your hair? Got any plans for Christmas?

 

[LushLox]

How are you gonna wear your hair? Got any plans for Christmas?

Just in a boring bun, same as usual. I'm going to my mums for Christmas so no pressure to impress anyone.

I'll be going out for New Year's Eve though, so at least I'll start looking human again lol.

 

[PerfectlyFlawed]

Hit 18 weeks yesterday, I didn’t even notice. 18 weeks down 34 more to go.

 

[Aggie]

12 weeks post yesterday and have maybe 3-4 weeks to go before my next texlaxer.

 

[Sosoothing]

Hit 18 weeks yesterday, I didn’t even notice. 18 weeks down 34 more to go.

Isn't that a whole year? Do you normally stretch that long?

 

[PerfectlyFlawed]

Isn't that a whole year? Do you normally stretch that long?

Before I went natural, yes; Since deciding to relax again a year and a half ago, no. The relaxer process annoys me; I am trying to, once again, limit it to once a year.


Edited to correct grammar.

 

[ItsMeLilLucky]

Before I went natural, yes; Since deciding to relax again a year and a half ago, no. The relaxer process annoys me; I am trying to, once again, limit it to once a year.


Edited to correct grammar.

I wish I could do that. My hair would get angry, cause my new growth comes in skrong as hayle. My new growth will be like "are you in or out, sis?"

 

[MzSwift]

I'm one week post but I think I left too much texture in my hair. I diluted my relaxer 50:50 and don't think I used enough on each section. I just bought a milder relaxer and I'm seriously thinking about doing a corrective in 6-8 weeks

 

[Sosoothing]

Before I went natural, yes; Since deciding to relax again a year and a half ago, no. The relaxer process annoys me; I am trying to, once again, limit it to once a year.


Edited to correct grammar.

How do you deal with the different textures as your new growth comes in?

 

[SuchaLady]

Before I went natural, yes; Since deciding to relax again a year and a half ago, no. The relaxer process annoys me; I am trying to, once again, limit it to once a year.


Edited to correct grammar.

I relax my hair once a year too. Mainly out of laziness sometimes twice but never more than three times.

Tbh, I think about just saying forget it and cutting out the relaxer all together. I relaxed it in grad school about 2ish years ago when I was too busy to fight with it. Crazy thing is I don’t think I’ve even relaxed it 4 times total since then

Not telling y’all how many weeks post I am, don’t want to get kicked out the thread

 

[11228]

I'm one week post but I think I left too much texture in my hair. I diluted my relaxer 50:50 and don't think I used enough on each section. I just bought a milder relaxer and I'm seriously thinking about doing a corrective in 6-8 weeks

That is exactly what I did my last round of retouch. I was burning so badly that washed it out too early. I did a corrective at 6/7 weeks with no regrets.

 

[MzSwift]

@11228

Thanks, sis.
I'm hoping that the milder relaxer will make it less damaging as well.

 

[Evolving78]

I relax my hair once a year too. Mainly out of laziness sometimes twice but never more than three times.

Tbh, I think about just saying forget it and cutting out the relaxer all together. I relaxed it in grad school about 2ish years ago when I was too busy to fight with it. Crazy thing is I don’t think I’ve even relaxed it 4 times total since then

Not telling y’all how many weeks post I am, don’t want to get kicked out the thread

If it’s over a year you gotta go! Lol

 

[sunnieb]

Some of y'all really just need to come out the closet and admit you are transitioning! We'll be nice!

I'm one week post and plan to stretch for a minimum of 16 weeks. Only going this long because of breakage and damage I'm dealing with right now. My hair is recovering, but I'm not going to risk relaxing again until I have a ton of skrong newgrowth at the base.

 

[Rozlewis]

I am 1 day post, after a 15 weeks stretch.

 

[sunnieb]

If it’s over a year you gotta go! Lol

Right!

Get ta steppin!

So much for being nice!

 

[PerfectlyFlawed]

Some of y'all really just need to come out the closet and admit you are transitioning! We'll be nice!

I'm one week post and plan to stretch for a minimum of 16 weeks. Only going this long because of breakage and damage I'm dealing with right now. My hair is recovering, but I'm not going to risk relaxing again until I have a ton of skrong newgrowth at the base.

I’m not transitioning, I’m just extremely lazy

 

[LushLox]

30 minutes or so post, I'm just conditioning now.

It seems to have relaxed fairly well bar the crown; there are some definite waves there but that piece of hair ain't ever going to be straight. I'll have a better idea how well this process went in two weeks or so but feels good so far.

My newly Affirm'd roots feel good, the hair feels nicely silky and I had very little shedding or breakage.

Will touch up again in April all being well.

 

[Evolving78]

30 minutes or so post, I'm just conditioning now.

It seems to have relaxed fairly well bar the crown; there are some definite waves there but that piece of hair ain't ever going to be straight. I'll have a better idea how well this process went in two weeks or so but feels good so far.

My newly Affirm'd roots feel good, the hair feels nicely silky and I had very little shedding or breakage.

Will touch up again in April all being well.

My crown is tough too... I’m glad your process turned out well! I would love to stretch until the end of March. I’m about 5 weeks post (tomorrow). I will try to stretch with you. I will go for 18 weeks. My birthday is the first week of April, and I don’t wanna relax too soon before that. So either I relax on Feb 10, to still give me enough in between relaxers, or just wait it out until March 28-29th.