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Creatividual
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Protein treatment PRONTO!!! Aphogee's 2 step Protein Treatment stops breakage DEAD in its tracks.
Creatividual
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For your ends, try sealing them a butter, oil or plain ol hair grease. I like to seal mine with shea butter and that's been working lovely for me.
locabouthair
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this cna help but if the breakage is due to dryness, the aphogee can make it worse.
OP, whats your regimen? what do you do to your hair on a daily and weekly basis? what products do you use?
Creatividual
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That's very true. If it's really dry, I would then do a deep moisturizing con and add some oil on top with heat for 15 to 20 mins. See if that helps.
classi123
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this cna help but if the breakage is due to dryness, the aphogee can make it worse.
OP, whats your regimen? I get wash and sets weekly and I DC with every wash. Last week I didnt DC & got a blow out, but I noticed my breakage before then. what do you do to your hair on a daily and weekly basis? I wrap my hair out somes I moisturize and seal and wear it out. I also do the same when I get home and wrap it at night. what products do you use? I think that It might be lack of moisture because I was ODing on protein treatments when I got overprocessed, it worked but I cant find a good conditioning treatment to get my moisture back up!
OP, whats your regimen? I get wash and sets weekly and I DC with every wash. Last week I didnt DC & got a blow out, but I noticed my breakage before then. what do you do to your hair on a daily and weekly basis? I wrap my hair out somes I moisturize and seal and wear it out. I also do the same when I get home and wrap it at night. what products do you use? I think that It might be lack of moisture because I was ODing on protein treatments when I got overprocessed, it worked but I cant find a good conditioning treatment to get my moisture back up!
JustKiya
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The first thing I do is asses whether the breakage is from over protein, dryness, heat damage or over-moisture.
Overmoisture breakage is usually soft and mushy feeling - like the hair just mushes in your fingers. That calls for either simply stepping down your moisture regimen, or a protein treatment. Since I'm natural, that has only happened once - when I was baggying my hair overnight for like - 3 weeks straight. I skipped the baggying for the next few mights, and my hair was fine - I don't really need much protien.
Heat damage also calls for protein - a stronger one, this time, as you are not trying to balance the protein/moisture leve, but you are actually trying to repair slightly damaged strands. Infusing them with a powerful protein is a great way to do that - and you still need to follow that up with a moisturizing DC, to insure that you adjust your protien/moisture balance - no sense of overdoing it, ya know?
If the hair feels 'hard' and 'brittle' though, it could be over-protein - and that calls for a good moisturizing DC.
Dryness usually feels rough & hard - that also calls for a good moisturizing DC.
Also to help figure out what's causing it - think about the last couple of things you've done to your hair - have you changed something in the routine? Taken something out? Also, look at your usual products, and check what the ratio of protein to moisture is - that'll also give you a hint. If 8 out of 10 products are moisturizing, I would suspect your hair was over moisturized before over proteined, ya know? I can usually look back and pinpoint something when my breakage jumps up - too much baggying? Extra heavy on the oils? Haven't clarified lately? Extra protein in the reggi? Recent heat usage? - and from there, I know how to fix.
Once you figure out why it's breaking - the how to fix comes easy.
Good luck!
Overmoisture breakage is usually soft and mushy feeling - like the hair just mushes in your fingers. That calls for either simply stepping down your moisture regimen, or a protein treatment. Since I'm natural, that has only happened once - when I was baggying my hair overnight for like - 3 weeks straight. I skipped the baggying for the next few mights, and my hair was fine - I don't really need much protien.
Heat damage also calls for protein - a stronger one, this time, as you are not trying to balance the protein/moisture leve, but you are actually trying to repair slightly damaged strands. Infusing them with a powerful protein is a great way to do that - and you still need to follow that up with a moisturizing DC, to insure that you adjust your protien/moisture balance - no sense of overdoing it, ya know?
If the hair feels 'hard' and 'brittle' though, it could be over-protein - and that calls for a good moisturizing DC.
Dryness usually feels rough & hard - that also calls for a good moisturizing DC.
Also to help figure out what's causing it - think about the last couple of things you've done to your hair - have you changed something in the routine? Taken something out? Also, look at your usual products, and check what the ratio of protein to moisture is - that'll also give you a hint. If 8 out of 10 products are moisturizing, I would suspect your hair was over moisturized before over proteined, ya know? I can usually look back and pinpoint something when my breakage jumps up - too much baggying? Extra heavy on the oils? Haven't clarified lately? Extra protein in the reggi? Recent heat usage? - and from there, I know how to fix.
Once you figure out why it's breaking - the how to fix comes easy.
Good luck!
HoneyA
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Try to figure out if it's due to lack of protein, too much moisture or too little moisture then treat accordingly. Heavy protein treatment like Jheri Redding or dc w/heat, moisturise with S curl and seal like crazy. I also use a cream oil moisturiser like Carsons.
Creatividual
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I like Dark and Lovely's Dry Hair Healer. I add sweet almond oil and honey to mine. Put that on, top it off with some coconut oil, and hit the hair dryer for about 10 minutes. (Note. I do it on dry hair before i wash and shampoo) The results: super soft, and moisturized hair!
changedlife
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Clarify and follow with a protein conditioner, Aubrey GPB is great IMO. Also avoid a lot of manipulation. I hope that helps.
Starian
Well-Known Member
Co-sign...if it don't help you can't be helped...
(Okay, that's an exaggeration, but it's a wonderful product and I have no use for any other protien. It's stoped light-weight and heavy-weight breakage for me.)
I was noticing this. Come to find out I was using too much protein. I was using Aphogee Keratin, Organix Coconut, and other stuff. Then my hair started breaking like crazy, getting very dry, tangling on itself. I started by DCing and then I found out about garlic. I put some in my DC and it stopped the breakage.
SparklingFlame
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What she said!!!
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