my ends are fine until I blow dry. This was my problem when I had a weave in and I tried to blend my hair. it blended well until the ends. The cuticles stay open and no amount of flatironing could keep them down. @
Nonie gave me the idea to ACV rinse and even with doing that my ends won't stay tamed. I know they are not damaged because I just cut half an inch off 2 days ago and I seal them with castor oil. I'm on on them PLUS i trim. I had a problem with my ends when I was natural with them being poofy. kimmaystube leave in helped tremendously! does anyone have any suggestions? idk if her leave in would work on relaxed hair and i dont want to buy evrything if it doesnt!
L.Brown1114,
why are you blow drying your hair?
(She knows why I'm asking so don't look at me like who do I think I am....)
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L.Brown1114 hair ends are always open. As soon as you trim they start to dry, because hair is like this long cylinder that is closed along its length (if cuticles are closed) then at the end it's open. If there's any place along the length where moisture is lost with a quickness, it's at the ends. Hence the reason people who would like to see amazing progress,
dust regularly then seal and PS as if their lives depended on it. (
Exhibit A) I suspect they also do not use heat that much because if anything will dry those ends fast, it's heat.
I'm about to whack you with a big stick because I don't know why heat is in the picture when
WE had a plan. *stink eye* Also ACV rinse will close ends that have complete cuticles. If an end is already frayed, then ACV won't make much of a difference because that end will not behave like a normal strand of hair.
The thing people don't realize is just because you dusted your hair today for the first time in years (ahem) doesn't mean you've removed the "many years' damage". And any damage left continues to wreck havoc on the rest of your hair, so you may feel like you're flogging a dead horse, especially in the beginning. So initially you may have to do a big trim, or you may just find you need to dust more frequently till you get rid of the damage and then dusting can be spaced out more and be done minimally.
For a visual, here's an image showing how hair that has been left un-dusted for too long a time might look. The white lines show spots where dusting/cutting might be made and how easy it is to leave damage behind and therefore not see any change even after a trim:
Like trimming at C really doesn't do much good because the strands left behind (left side of line C) all have damage. Trimming at A is far better for most of the strands but notice that
the second/middle strand of the three that the line A touches actually seems like it'll be the only one that cut A will rid of all damage. The other two will still have damage remaining to the left of that line so that hair may still not behave right. And if one waits too long again, things get worse and you find you need to cut more or just resign to a life of having horrible ends.
ETA Notice that the strands that are damaged are missing a huge part of their cuticle/top layer. So ACV will not effect a change in how they behave. Now after Cut A, the middle strand section to the left of Cut A looks whole and it probably has its cuticle layer so ACV will cause a closing of the cuticle layer and therefore smooth ends, while the remaining hair continue to act like nothing was done because they have a damaged cuticle layer that cannot respond to the pH change appropriately.
Or did I just show my age. 
)). The job was way out of my league and even I knew I was biting off more than I could chew. I actually was hoping they'd not like me 
. When I applied and went on the interview for my present job I was natural which was many moons ago, and now that I'm natural again it's no big deal to the employees. 
