wyldcurlz
Well-Known Member
i was just thumbing thru a few old copies of Sophisticates Black Hair magazine that i'd saved at home because i thought they contained good advice. boy was i wong! Sophisticates is filled with bad advice & old-school type hair myths. i'm not saying everything they say is wrong but let's say that i'm so grateful that i discovered LHCF & i'm thankful to all the women here who've helped me. if i'd taken the advice given in Sophisticates, i'd have broken off, dried out short hair! not a single one of my hair goals would be met.
example: SBH - June 2004 advises that "the dryer, coarser & longer natural hair is, the less it should be shampooed (or wet), maybe once every two to three weeks to avoid drying the hair out."
i know now that that just doesn't work for me (or a lot of the women here.) we've seen the benefits of water and weekly, bi-weekly or daily washing/rinsing! my hair used to be very dry and now, its soft and moist!
And of course, they advise trimming every 6-8 weeks, which is good advice, but I've found that, if you don't have damage, you don't need to trim! That's what hampered a lot of my length - going to a scissor happy stylist for touch-up trims every 8 weeks, then wondering why my hair was the same length for years.
Not everything in SBH is bad. They're advice has gotten better over the years! But I'm soooo happy I found LHCF. I get all the good advice I need from people who have beautiful hair in every stage of growth and every texture! Instead of paying $5 for a single copy of SBH filled with myths and bad advice, I'll just stay here!
example: SBH - June 2004 advises that "the dryer, coarser & longer natural hair is, the less it should be shampooed (or wet), maybe once every two to three weeks to avoid drying the hair out."
i know now that that just doesn't work for me (or a lot of the women here.) we've seen the benefits of water and weekly, bi-weekly or daily washing/rinsing! my hair used to be very dry and now, its soft and moist!
And of course, they advise trimming every 6-8 weeks, which is good advice, but I've found that, if you don't have damage, you don't need to trim! That's what hampered a lot of my length - going to a scissor happy stylist for touch-up trims every 8 weeks, then wondering why my hair was the same length for years.
Not everything in SBH is bad. They're advice has gotten better over the years! But I'm soooo happy I found LHCF. I get all the good advice I need from people who have beautiful hair in every stage of growth and every texture! Instead of paying $5 for a single copy of SBH filled with myths and bad advice, I'll just stay here!
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