sterry
Well-Known Member
I remember when relaxers really started to be marketed towads us.
The late night commericials with women with bouncy, shiny, flowing, straight swinging hair. It all look so easy. Buy a box kit, read the directions, wash ,dry and go. There......everything we saw on the commercials, magazines and on the box. Right?
But it didn't happen that way. Did it? More of us are now suffering from, dryness, breakage, brittle, falling hair. Nowhere did they tell us about this.
Was there a misconception as to what a relaxer could do for our hair? Where we led to believe (by marketing) that a relaxer could make our hair look like those of non-ethnic women without doing anything else? Promising shiney, free flowing, low maintenance hair.
I find that most us to achieve that silky, shiny , smoothed and sleek look have to manipulated our hair in wet sets, curling irons, flat irons and blow dryers. All this! Where did they ever tell us of this! All of the damage that this induced.
I know some of it is research. We must learn to protect ourselves by finding out information for our own well being. But what about those who don't have the resources?
You know.....we also see this type of marketing with hair oils, shampoos, conditioners, diet pills ...etc. You name it. All promising something longer, stronger, healthier, thincker, thinner. Draining us of money. Not informing us that we have to do ALOT more things in order to get what we so desire.
I don't know ladies. What do you think. Did your relaxer turn out to be all that you thought it would. From a personal point of view.
4a/natural
medium texture
growing like crazy
The late night commericials with women with bouncy, shiny, flowing, straight swinging hair. It all look so easy. Buy a box kit, read the directions, wash ,dry and go. There......everything we saw on the commercials, magazines and on the box. Right?
But it didn't happen that way. Did it? More of us are now suffering from, dryness, breakage, brittle, falling hair. Nowhere did they tell us about this.
Was there a misconception as to what a relaxer could do for our hair? Where we led to believe (by marketing) that a relaxer could make our hair look like those of non-ethnic women without doing anything else? Promising shiney, free flowing, low maintenance hair.
I find that most us to achieve that silky, shiny , smoothed and sleek look have to manipulated our hair in wet sets, curling irons, flat irons and blow dryers. All this! Where did they ever tell us of this! All of the damage that this induced.
I know some of it is research. We must learn to protect ourselves by finding out information for our own well being. But what about those who don't have the resources?
You know.....we also see this type of marketing with hair oils, shampoos, conditioners, diet pills ...etc. You name it. All promising something longer, stronger, healthier, thincker, thinner. Draining us of money. Not informing us that we have to do ALOT more things in order to get what we so desire.
I don't know ladies. What do you think. Did your relaxer turn out to be all that you thought it would. From a personal point of view.
4a/natural
medium texture
growing like crazy