shortfynesse
New Member
First I would like to introduce myself. I have been lurking for a couple of months and decided to join in and start this wonderful haircare journey in December 2006. I'm still not sure of my hairtype but I'm thinking about squasing that whole system for the reason I'm going to describe below. I must say however that I am trully inspired by all the different types of hair and your progress on this board.
I live with my sister and my neice and just recently since my sister and I both were having problems with shedding and thinning that we would stop wrapping our hair evernight. I started my regimine (washing every 3 days, dc'ing, moisture moisture moisture, and wearing wash n go's for no heat) while my sister started roller setting ever night and morning (with hot curlers). Well, after two seeks my sister quit roller setting and said she was going back to wrapping because it looks bad and that her hair wasn't getting any thicker. I tried to show her other styles to wear and that growing healthier hair is not an overnight process. I begged her to at least give it 6 months.
Just yesterday while we had a family get together I received several compliments on how good my hair looked (10 weeks post relaxer). I told my relatives about my regimine and that it could work for them too. They said "well you have that good hair" and I told them no "good hair" doesn't exist but "good haircare" does. They were not buying into that at all. I love my family and want them to be confident in their hair as well. How do you get through to them about this mindset? Should I just let them see my results? I even tried telling my sister that I would do her hair for her but she would rather see the stylist every 2 wks who offers the both of us no help at all. As a side note I suffered from itchy scalp and dandruff for years and my stylist refused to tell me I wasn't washing enough. Thanks to you guys and my new clarifying shampoo I haven't had that problem since I started. Sorry so long. I just want to know how do you get through to others about haircare.
I live with my sister and my neice and just recently since my sister and I both were having problems with shedding and thinning that we would stop wrapping our hair evernight. I started my regimine (washing every 3 days, dc'ing, moisture moisture moisture, and wearing wash n go's for no heat) while my sister started roller setting ever night and morning (with hot curlers). Well, after two seeks my sister quit roller setting and said she was going back to wrapping because it looks bad and that her hair wasn't getting any thicker. I tried to show her other styles to wear and that growing healthier hair is not an overnight process. I begged her to at least give it 6 months.
Just yesterday while we had a family get together I received several compliments on how good my hair looked (10 weeks post relaxer). I told my relatives about my regimine and that it could work for them too. They said "well you have that good hair" and I told them no "good hair" doesn't exist but "good haircare" does. They were not buying into that at all. I love my family and want them to be confident in their hair as well. How do you get through to them about this mindset? Should I just let them see my results? I even tried telling my sister that I would do her hair for her but she would rather see the stylist every 2 wks who offers the both of us no help at all. As a side note I suffered from itchy scalp and dandruff for years and my stylist refused to tell me I wasn't washing enough. Thanks to you guys and my new clarifying shampoo I haven't had that problem since I started. Sorry so long. I just want to know how do you get through to others about haircare.
Thank you so much. I tell my sister to come look all the time when I'm on this site. I guess for their own good they will just have to see progress like you guys said. I have BSL hair and I just wanted them to see that it's just not my hair type that can have long healthy hair, but all types with proper TLC.
