LadyBlu
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Ok ladies...I visited my sister in San Francisco this weekend (1st time on the West Coast--loved it BTW) who is a stylist and decided to let her do my hair.
Let me back track...thanks to LHCF, my fine strands are the longest they have ever been (SL) and I can't be more excited!! Anyway, she first gets onto me about the overall texture of my hair (texlaxed, 6 weeks post) stating that I need to "pick a texture" and claiming that "underprocessed" hair leads to breakage. She then flipped out because I told her I stretch my relaxers minimum 12 weeks. Her response was "that's why it's so thin". She then tells me that I need to cut it off because the longer my hair gets, the thinner it's going to be.
I was so furious. My hair has always been FINE... not thin. My ends are not broken off or seethrough which is an indication that my hair is not damaged at all. I just felt like she was "hating" especially after another woman in the shop said I had beautiful hair (never heard that one...YAY!)
So anyway...even after all this, I decided to let her style my hair because I wanted it to look good for a special event we were attending. OH THE HORROR!!! She shampooed my hair with some mystery potion and did not DC!!!! She then puts a serum on my hair (which I thought was a heat protector, but it was like an anti frixx serum) and puts me under the dryer (did I mention she didn't DC?). After the dryer, she flat irons my hair with thes hella hot iron (so hot it was burning my scalp) then followed up by "bumping" the ends. I was horrified! I haven't had that much heat in my hair in so long. Outside of maybe an every 6 week maxiglide, I stay away from the heat. Oh yeah...here's the worst part!!! Before the infamous bump, she sprayed the SUPER STIFF SPRITZ on my hair!!! I could hear it crackling as she ran the iron through my hair. I haven't used spritz in YEARS!!
The finished look was pretty, but I know that I can get the same look using much healthier methods, and I could smell that dang burnt spritz smell for two days!! It's experiences like these that remind me why I swore off AFAM salons in the first place. I love my sister, but she will NEVER touch my hair again. I can't wait until she comes to the east coast for Christmas. Maybe I'll have unhealthy BSL thin hair by then. Whatever man. Thanks for letting me vent.
Let me back track...thanks to LHCF, my fine strands are the longest they have ever been (SL) and I can't be more excited!! Anyway, she first gets onto me about the overall texture of my hair (texlaxed, 6 weeks post) stating that I need to "pick a texture" and claiming that "underprocessed" hair leads to breakage. She then flipped out because I told her I stretch my relaxers minimum 12 weeks. Her response was "that's why it's so thin". She then tells me that I need to cut it off because the longer my hair gets, the thinner it's going to be.
I was so furious. My hair has always been FINE... not thin. My ends are not broken off or seethrough which is an indication that my hair is not damaged at all. I just felt like she was "hating" especially after another woman in the shop said I had beautiful hair (never heard that one...YAY!)
So anyway...even after all this, I decided to let her style my hair because I wanted it to look good for a special event we were attending. OH THE HORROR!!! She shampooed my hair with some mystery potion and did not DC!!!! She then puts a serum on my hair (which I thought was a heat protector, but it was like an anti frixx serum) and puts me under the dryer (did I mention she didn't DC?). After the dryer, she flat irons my hair with thes hella hot iron (so hot it was burning my scalp) then followed up by "bumping" the ends. I was horrified! I haven't had that much heat in my hair in so long. Outside of maybe an every 6 week maxiglide, I stay away from the heat. Oh yeah...here's the worst part!!! Before the infamous bump, she sprayed the SUPER STIFF SPRITZ on my hair!!! I could hear it crackling as she ran the iron through my hair. I haven't used spritz in YEARS!!
The finished look was pretty, but I know that I can get the same look using much healthier methods, and I could smell that dang burnt spritz smell for two days!! It's experiences like these that remind me why I swore off AFAM salons in the first place. I love my sister, but she will NEVER touch my hair again. I can't wait until she comes to the east coast for Christmas. Maybe I'll have unhealthy BSL thin hair by then. Whatever man. Thanks for letting me vent.
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