Teach me how to LOSE MY HAIR!

Ok. I'm kind guilty of a lot of what was listed....

But, let's add relaxing ( touch- up new growth , and the full lenghth of hair for good measure)then coloring the next day and then pressing because the roots are too wavy then hot curling daily................ Ok, I'm out. Enough of my ignorant hair care days confessions.....
 
Don't wash your hair until it's really too oily and dirty to style (2-3 weeks)

Grease your hair only after your scalp is itching like crazy

Moisturize your hair with only a little bit of product or else your hair will be weighed down

Moisturize your hair only when it really looks dry which is too little too late

Use rinse out conditioners as deep conditioners--no protein conditioners either and try to deep condition with them.

Use harsh shampoos that tangle the mess out of your hair and then you can't comb it when it's wet or dry for that matter---which takes out more hair.
 
  1. Use a no-lye relaxer on 4b hair [which has a tendency to be dry].
  2. Braiding the hairline tightly.
  3. Using heat everyday.
 
We were discussing this at our meeting yesterday.

Use Bantu relaxer.
Use Dark and Lovely hair dye and if you'd like it to come out lightening fast, dye your hair right after getting that Bantu relaxer.
Use heat everyday, on the highest temp possible. You'll know you got it right when you can smell your hair frying. :) There's nothing like the smell of burnt hair in the morning.
Put a Jheri curl over your relaxed hair.
Use vaseline to grease your scalp every single day and only wash about once every six months or so.
Tell your braider to make your braids as tight as possible. You're going for that Brandy "No Hairline" look. :)
Use glue to do your weave. If you run out of hair glue, then just use super glue instead. Glue is glue, right?
Use your relaxer as a conditioning treatment. Make sure to get the super strength and leave it on over night or until it burns so bad that you're in tears.
Press transitioning hair regularly. Don't stop at the demarcation line. Do the entire length and make sure you have lots of grease on your hair while you're doing it.

Follow that advice and you should be bald in no time.
 
My old schedule, all in the same session:
Relax ever four weeks, pulling relaxer all over and combing thru
Blowdry
Straightening comb
Flat iron
Curling iron

Relaxing and coloring in one session
Grease grease grease
Brown yucky gel
Washing once a month
 
Tai said:
Make sure to get the super strength and leave it on over night or until it burns so bad that you're in tears.
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Follow that advice and you should be bald in no time.
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This is CRUCIAL!!!! When I got my relaxers it was important to sit in that chair while my scalp was on fire even though I had repeatedly told my stylist it was burning. He was like a fitness instructer...he told me I could always handle it "one minute more" to get the maximum effect!
 
pookeylou said:
This is CRUCIAL!!!! When I got my relaxers it was important to sit in that chair while my scalp was on fire even though I had repeatedly told my stylist it was burning. He was like a fitness instructer...he told me I could always handle it "one minute more" to get the maximum effect!
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I think those kinds of stylists are sadists. Waiting that "one minute more" could result in you losing all of your hair or destroying your hairline. :wallbash: Maybe that was the maximum effect that he was after. :look:
 
kammie said:
To tell you the truth, it was a "professional" that put me on the 4 week relaxer schedule, using Dudley's super strength. When I told her I couldn't afford to keep getting my hair done (broke college student), she told me to use no-lye Fabulaxer and not to worry but just "slap it on all over." Fortunately, I read the directions and just put it on the new growth, but I still relaxed every 3 weeks.

I went to that woman for 10 years and my hair never grew; she just made it feel so soft and shiny, but short. If I ever see her again, I plan on slapping her.
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Call me if you need back up we can scratch her eyes out for playing around with people hair! :swordfigh
 
  1. Leaving the relaxer in your hair even though it's BURNING THE LIVING SCHITT out of your scalp
  2. Frequent relaxing - I'm talking every two to three weeks.
  3. Frequent hair bleaching
  4. Daily use of either a pressing comb, blow dryer, flat iron, or curling iron
  5. Extension braiding done too tightly, especially along your hairline
  6. Using greases/pomades that are heavily laden with mineral oil or petroleum
  7. Leaving a relaxer in your hair for longer than the recommended time period. I'm talking for several HOURS or more.
  8. Frequent use of heavy hairsprays or spritzes
 
Following the Susan Taylor school of hair care. So when you get microbraids you have to do it right after a fresh perm so that the edges nice and straight. Oh and don't forget to put the braids in as tight as possible. Don't you know the receding hair line is the new "in" look for women?

Don't just color your hair, BLEACH your relaxed hair unntil it turns PLATINUM blond. So what if it melts off your head. The Cisco look is HOT.
 
jd_bdfly said:
Following the Susan Taylor school of hair care. So when you get microbraids you have to do it right after a fresh perm so that the edges nice and straight. Oh and don't forget to put the braids in as tight as possible. Don't you know the receding hair line is the new "in" look for women?

Don't just color your hair, BLEACH your relaxed hair unntil it turns PLATINUM blond. So what if it melts off your head. The Cisco look is HOT.
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I know you're being ironic, but that's funny as HELL! :rofl:
 
You all have me laughing and crying. Laughing because you are too funny and crying because I need to stop did some of the things that you mentioned for far too long and still need to stop some bad habits (like playing with my hair. I can't seem to keep my hands out of my hair, especially now that I am stretching my relaxer, I have never had this much newgrowth!)

My additions and co-signs:
1) Sleeping on cotton pillows -- especially if you are a wild sleeper
2) Playing with your hair
3) Getting your hair relaxed every six weeks
4) Getting Dominican rollersets every week and allowing them to tear at your hair with baby-fine tooth combs (Yea!) and the blow it at top temperatures and tear at it with an old brush -- especialy one with plastic or metal bristles (Double Yea!). Make sure to do this every week or even more if you a special occasion to go to.
5) Listen to stylists who tell you that you need to go to them every week or two weeks in order for your hair to grow. Keep going even though they are rough with your hair, burn your scalp during a relaxer (dont you know your scalp is too sensitive, girl! It's you not them!) and --to add insult to injury --are scissor happy. Believe them when they tell you that your hair is not growing fast because your are not coming at least every two weeks, like all of their other clients who have gotten their hair too grow.
6) Don't bother with deep conditioning, you don't have the time.
7) Don't pay attention to signs of breakage because your hair is shoulder length. It doesnt matter that it's thin at the edges.
8) Don't pay atttention to your hair texture and what YOUR hair responds to. If the stylist or the bottle say that it's good for your hair or if it's specifically for African-American hair, then it must be good for you!
9) Wear a wool cap during the winter without lining it with silk or wear a silk scarf -- make sure to allow your ends to hang out unprotected -- it doesn't matter if it's below zero and the wind are whipping by so fast that they instantly chap your skin (imagine what it's doing to your hair)
10) Don't bother with seamless combs. Their too expensive and the free hair cut and thin ends that you get using a regular comb (make sure that its as FINE) as possible and that you quickly run a comb through your hair from newgrowth to tip. Remember, start combing at the newgrowth) are worth the savings.

I could go on forever (LOL!) but I'll stop there. This is a great thread. I am sorry that I did not read it earlier!
 
-Comb through dry, 4a hair with a fine toothed comb
-use Suave or any other cheap shampoo daily when you don't use ANY additional moisturizers
-STOP putting moisture of any kind in the hair
-Use marcel irons on the hair when taken STRAIGHT out of the little oven
-Take a glowin poressing comb through non-detangled 4a hair and ignore the flames and smoke alrams going off
-turn the Golden Hots up on ten, then attempt to curl fine, relaxed hair
-believe that grease is a heat protectant
-use a SUPER relaxer on fine hair
-pull up hair that has been gelled down (remember pump waves)
-comb trhough hair that has been shellaced into place with B&B Pump it up

I have done ALL of these and probably more!!
 
stay away from conditioner
blow dry, press, and flat iron everyday
manipulate as much as possible
trim, trim, trim
expose those ends to all the elements.....

I don't know, I guess though are all the things I try to do the opposite of....:lachen:
 
haha i luv this thread

1. not deep conditioning your hair
2. using heat appliances everyday. especially on dirty hair
3. using too much products with mineral oil
4. wrapping your hair too tight
5. wearing braid extensions too long (it thinned out my hair yrs ago)
6. not washing your hair after swimming
7. relaxing too often. relaxing before 5 weeks.
8. flat ironing wet hair
9. using high heat on a flat iron just so your hair is so sleek
 
trulyurangel82 said:
haha i luv this thread

1. not deep conditioning your hair
2. using heat appliances everyday. especially on dirty hair
3. using too much products with mineral oil
4. wrapping your hair too tight
5. wearing braid extensions too long (it thinned out my hair yrs ago)
6. not washing your hair after swimming
7. relaxing too often. relaxing before 5 weeks.
8. flat ironing wet hair
9. using high heat on a flat iron just so your hair is so sleek
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That's what did it for me:)
 
1) Ignore breakage. You are supposed to "shed" 100 hairs a day.
2) Get irritated the moment you see any signs of texture in your hair and relax. Relax from roots to ends.
3) Relax just your hairline :perplexed when in it's too soon for a full relaxer.
4) Use shampoo and conditioner in one.
5) Trim frequently to make your hair grow.
6) Spend lots of time greasing your scalp but put nothing on your ends.
 
use a dirty curling iron/ flat iron appliance on your ( that old, burnt and dried hair will pull your hair out as you pull the appliance thru)

Use heat appliances on dirty hair ( just ignore the smell)

Relax at the first sign of different texture

Dye your hair black and turn around use a color lifter , then dye it blonde( that a quick fix to your hair problem)
 
I'm late on this but tell your "hairdresser" you are trying to grow your hair and then listen as she insists you get a "trim" every time you get a relaxer. Which according to her is okay every 4 weeks.

Alternatively, come back to her for a "trim" after you have managed to achieve growth by not going to her and watch the progress dissapear instantly!

Maybe you won't lose hair but you are guaranteed never to acheive length. Me, bitter?? :)
 
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