What Could This Mean??

[tapioca_pudding]

I have been searching the boards trying to find the answer, but I realized I actually don't know the cause to begin with.

The crown and the left side of my hair just won't be smooth. When I worked out last nite, all the other sections of my hair were smooth and no problem. But those two sections got very poofy. Same when I flat iron, no matter what I do, those sections always eventually get poofy.

I thought it may be underprocessing. But for my last touchup I started on my left side! It's like it keeps reverting and I'm not sure why.

Could this be a cuticle issue? I do ACV rinses and cold water rinses, keep my moisturizer in the fridge, etc.

Am I missing something? Any help or suggestions would be great.

 

[tapioca_pudding]

 

[aloof one]

Sometimes overprocessed hair won't behave too. I learned that the longer I left the relaxer in my hair, the better a chance I had of damaging my hair. The more damaged my hair gets the frizzier it is. It took the coils/kinks/curls out, but it left me with frizz I never had before.

Also, have you been flat ironing (or blowout, etc) or did you use too much heat there to damage it? Damaged hair, whether by heat or chemicals pretty much frizz up and won't hold a curl or a flat iron very well if it hasn't already broken off.

Is it possible you just didn't put enough/put too much product in it while you were styling?

 

[Evolving78]

I remember having that problem with the left-side of my hair when I was relaxing myself. I think it was due to heat damage. I had the problem another time with the middle crown portion of my hair too. I always had to keep trimming my hair in those areas, making my hair somewhat uneven. If it is damage then I don't know what you could do without cutting it. Maybe you could chill on the touchups for awhile and get braids or something. See if some protein and moisturizing treatments might work and let that be the last part that you put the relaxer on. Good luck and I hope that someone can help you if not, just cut get it cut again and start over.

 

[dillard]

is it possible you just have a different texture in those sections and it is more resistant to the relaxer?

 

[tapioca_pudding]

Alf00ne - I use heat once a week but these are the only two areas acting up. And I'm pretty sure I applied enuf product. So Im wondering if it may be overprocessed. Lemme go do a search for that......

Shortdub - I've been stretching my relaxers (10-12 weeks) so hopefully that will help. I'm just gonna DC twice a week for a little while then see what happens. I know eventually I'm going to have to cut off my pre-LHCF hair tho.

Dillard - That may very very well be the case! My hair is def. different textures all over, it's craziness. I'll just have to keep learning my hair.

Thank you guys for responding... Trying not to worry about it, just up my DC's and leave it alone.