I actually watched through to the end. I found the story captivating, but more because it was of someone who obviously has solid and good hair habits to fall to catastrophe. Someone with less spectacular hair to begin with wouldn’t surprise me as much if they fell to some kind of public persona pressure.
I have been a fan of hers since she started her channel but have always seriously questioned her detangling methods. Someone in the comments summed it up very nicely. I’ll repost.
If any of you are familiar with Cipriana or her twin sister (who I believe has freeform locs), I’m like 90% sure her hair is only about 50% detangled, probably a lot less. But then Idk her personally so maybe I’m wrong.
But I have noticed a lot of long to super long Type 4 Naturals have questionable detangling practices.
Her hair hardly ever seemed more than 60-70% detangled from what I saw. That hair might be detangled enough for a Shea butter aided stretched twistout. Or even a tension method blow out. But that is nowhere near the same detangling required for a chase method flat iron or (I hate to say it) GEL. Of any kind. Gel shouldn’t be used on hair less than 90% detangled. But that’s just my opinion.
Sad to see she learned this lesson so catastrophically.
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