I would have never admitted to there possibly being such a thing but after the second time around I can definitely tell that scab hair is real. The first time I bc'd it had been over 5 months since I relaxed and the time before that about 5 months as well. My new growth was so shiny and wavy/curly that couldnt wait to cut off my dull relaxed ends. The barber I went to cut most of it off but what I was left with was super soft. I had no problems with it being dry or anything. All I had to worry about was getting use to seeing myself with short hair and having to style it.
All most 8 months after doing that I got frustrated that I couldn't put my massive hair in a pretty puff or ponytail and hadn't discover kccc yet. Because of that I decided to relax so that I could do different styles and my hair could be fun again. Boy was I wrong. After going to a stylist and getting a relaxer put in twice over the course of 3 weeks (it didn't take the first time) my hair was back to those same old dry looking/feeling puffy ends. I had totally forgotten how to deal with relaxed hair. My beloved Elucence MB Conditioner no longer worker and it constantly tangled. So in less than a month I was looking like a boy with my super short hair.
This hair was nothing like I remembered. There were rough patches, it barely absorbed moisture and it looked and felt dry. Now my hair before may have had a dull sheen sometimes but it never felt dry. So lets fast forward 6 months later and 3 1/2 more inches. About an inch and a half starting at the ends is the bad scab hair. Everything else is great.
It just hit me today. I was playing with my hair and as I stretched my hair out it felt silky and looked shiny closer to the roots. I hadn't seen that in awhile. That how my hair use to be. It use to fell like a velvet cotton ball mix when left curly and when stretch from either twistouts, braidouts or my hands it felt silky. Im happy to know that I am now getting my hair back. I wasn't sure if my memories were just a figment of my imagination.
This is probably the same reason why 4 weeks after getting my hair relaxed my new growth would always feel crunchy and look dull and dry. As soon as I started relaxer stretching during my first attempts at transitioning I found my new growth to look, feel and act the way that I have always wanted my hair to. As I said before I didn't cut because the two textures were difficult but because I wanted all of my hair to be like the new growth. Now once I cut off the weight of the relaxed end its a whole other story.
So for all of you who are relaxer stretching or long transitioning and it seems like the new growth is fighting against you just let it grow out a little more. That troublesome hair might just be scab hair.
All most 8 months after doing that I got frustrated that I couldn't put my massive hair in a pretty puff or ponytail and hadn't discover kccc yet. Because of that I decided to relax so that I could do different styles and my hair could be fun again. Boy was I wrong. After going to a stylist and getting a relaxer put in twice over the course of 3 weeks (it didn't take the first time) my hair was back to those same old dry looking/feeling puffy ends. I had totally forgotten how to deal with relaxed hair. My beloved Elucence MB Conditioner no longer worker and it constantly tangled. So in less than a month I was looking like a boy with my super short hair.
This hair was nothing like I remembered. There were rough patches, it barely absorbed moisture and it looked and felt dry. Now my hair before may have had a dull sheen sometimes but it never felt dry. So lets fast forward 6 months later and 3 1/2 more inches. About an inch and a half starting at the ends is the bad scab hair. Everything else is great.
It just hit me today. I was playing with my hair and as I stretched my hair out it felt silky and looked shiny closer to the roots. I hadn't seen that in awhile. That how my hair use to be. It use to fell like a velvet cotton ball mix when left curly and when stretch from either twistouts, braidouts or my hands it felt silky. Im happy to know that I am now getting my hair back. I wasn't sure if my memories were just a figment of my imagination.
This is probably the same reason why 4 weeks after getting my hair relaxed my new growth would always feel crunchy and look dull and dry. As soon as I started relaxer stretching during my first attempts at transitioning I found my new growth to look, feel and act the way that I have always wanted my hair to. As I said before I didn't cut because the two textures were difficult but because I wanted all of my hair to be like the new growth. Now once I cut off the weight of the relaxed end its a whole other story.
So for all of you who are relaxer stretching or long transitioning and it seems like the new growth is fighting against you just let it grow out a little more. That troublesome hair might just be scab hair.
) IMO you can't really REPAIR scab hair... it will always be there until you cut it off.
