Thx Nay and caralexis!
Well when I first started, I had know intentions of "texturizing" my hair. I thought I was giving myself a normal relaxer. I decided to start relaxing my hair myself because I'd had too many bad experiences with hair salons. So really I was perming my hair--just not good enough because I was impatient and wouldn't let it sit on my hair long enough. Anyway, I basically touch-up my hair every 12 weeks--longer than that if I'm wearing sew-in weaves as a protective style which I've waited up to 26 weeks (yikes!)--I just apply the relaxer to my new growth with my fingers (covered by gloves of course)and once it's fully applied, I comb through the new growth carefully with a rat tooth comb and sort of smooth it down. I let it sit about 5 minutes. I use Elasta QP Regular relaxer--and if you look at the size of the jar which I think is suppose to be about 2 applications--I can get about 3-4 touch-ups out of it, so obviously, I'm not really using alot of it either. Hopes this helps!