Relaxer Stretching and Length

[AlliCat]

Relaxed ladies: As your hair gets longer, do you tend to relax more or less often?

 

[AlliCat]

Bump...wanna figure out how many weeks to aim for this time around. I want thickness but no setbacks

 

[newbeginnings2010]

Relaxing less has led to me retaining more length, but I'm afraid to lengthen my stretches to any longer than six months. I don't want to lose all of my progress because I decide to try pushing it from six to ten months.

 

[sunnieb]

I relax less often now that my hair is longer.

I can get away with throwing my hair in a bun, ponytail, or braidout and still look pretty decent. Also, now that I'm a self-relaxer I don't get in any hurry to relax since I don't have to worry about somebody ripping through my newgrowth.

I currently stretch for 14 weeks. I used to be a monthly relaxer.

 

[Curlybeauty]

I think I will relax faithfully every 3 months until my hair gets longer.

 

[shasha8685]

I relax less. The longer I stretch, the more I find that I can bun it, phony pony it, wig it, etc. until I'm good and ready to relax.

I relax every 12-16 weeks (4x a year). Before my journey, I used to relax every 4 to 5 weeks, faithfully. I have come a long way....

 

[chasturner84]

Since my hair is longer, I can easily stretch my relaxers with buns or wearing a ponytail or whatever. I typically get 3 relaxers a year but I'm 4 months into my 1st 6 month stretch. Everything is going smoothly so far.

 

[AlliCat]

I think I will relax faithfully every 3 months until my hair gets longer.

and then how long are you going to stretch once it gets longer?

 

[D.Lisha]

I'm a firm believer that as my hair gets longer, I will stay tried and true to relaxing at 12 weeks post.
My hair just can't take anytime past 12 weeks....
More than 12weeks post= Tangle/Dry CITY!

 

[MariposaSexyGirl]

Well, I do relax a lot less now that my hair is longer. 1-2 times a year. I've always stretched relaxers since I first got one(never was a 1x a month relaxing person), but never went this long until a few years ago.

 

[Curlybeauty]

and then how long are you going to stretch once it gets longer?

Probably 6 months.

 

[SpicyPisces]

I tend to relax less, not necessarily because my hair has grown, but because I enjoy stretching. I also hate the relaxer process and would prefer to stretch out my time between touchups.

 

[divachyk]

I'm learning how to perfect stretching. Use to be every 6 weeks. Progressed to 8 weeks. Joined LHCF and decided to stretch to 16 weeks. Breakage and breakage and breakage. 10 weeks seems to be the sweet spot. In a few months, I will add one week (for example, stretch to 11 weeks) and hold it there for a while, then add another week (stretch to 12 weeks), etc until I can stretch for longer. Everyone can stretch, not everyone can stretch without adverse effects. I'm trying to learn how to stretch without adverse effects.

 

[~NanCeBoTwin~]

When I first joined the boards, stuck at SL for years, I relaxed every 8-9 weeks. Since my first stretch (39 weeks), I relax at a minimum of 16 weeks, and a maximum of whatever I can take.

 

[beans4reezy]

Before joining this site, I used to relax every 3 or 4 months...now, it's once a year. Stretching has done great things from my hair...just speaking from a time management perspective- I could never relax every six weeks even if I wanted to.

 

[JJamiah]

Before I joined the site I was MBL/WL and I relaxed every 8 months. I cut my hair and when I did relax it was every 4 months for a while. As my hair gets longer again I will now changed it up to every 6 months.

 

[Toy]

I can only stretch to 12 wks after that its downhill.

 

[DDTexlaxed]

I'm subbing for future use. When I do relax, I will stretch 6 months. I've done so in the past and I know I can do it again.

 

[seemegrow]

Relaxing less has led to me retaining more length, but I'm afraid to lengthen my stretches to any longer than six months. I don't want to lose all of my progress because I decide to try pushing it from six to ten months.

This is what works for me.

 

[prospurr4]

Relaxed ladies: As your hair gets longer, do you tend to relax more or less often?

During my hair journey, the amount of time I stretch has varied, not based on hair length (started at about NL, now almost WL), but on how much new growth I have since my last touchup.

For example, during the summer months, my hair tends to grow faster compared to other months of the year (for various reasons), so I may "stretch" no longer than 7-8 weeks post.

 

[nyreeroberts1]

Relaxed ladies: As your hair gets longer, do you tend to relax more or less often?

Less for sure! I used to relax every 4-6 weeks back in my pre LHCF days. Now I am down to 3 -4 times a year. Every 16 weeks is what I am doing in 2011.

 

[TLC1020]

As my hair grows longer I am able to stretch longer.. With more hair I am able to hide the new growth that come in...

 

[back2relaxed]

The longer my hair, the longer I can stretch. I always relaxed at 10-12 weeks, anything longer was a disaster for my hair. Now that I have a pixie cut a stretch for me is 8 weeks!

 

[Nix08]

I'm thinking that I will purposely go 8 weeks from now on until I get closer to goal and once my hair has the weight of BSL/MBL then I'll start stretching longer....then again maybe not because to see BSL/MBL broken hairs on the floor will be depressing

 

[sunnieb]

Bumping.....

 

[Nix08]

I'm thinking that I will purposely go 8 weeks from now on until I get closer to goal and once my hair has the weight of BSL/MBL then I'll start stretching longer....then again maybe not because to see BSL/MBL broken hairs on the floor will be depressing

Wow like less than 2 months later I have a completely different perspective I am now 10 weeks, co washing regularly and planning on going to 16 weeks

 

[belldandy]

I relax less often.

 

[MissMusic]

I relax less often, I am happy with 6 months. As my hair gets longer, that six months gets easier and easier.