| | Guudhair's Journals Recent Comments Reggie updates...will keep track of product/tool changes I make as I transition. My Ayurveda experience... I got my hair relaxed yesterday...the stylist used Design Essentials...it was washed three times :-( and followed by a 30 minute deep condition...he cut the few colored ends that I left from my BC in Nov...he bumped the ends and sent me on my way...that was my first visit to this salon ...overall it was an okay trip...I like my hair...I don't love it because it doesn't have that so soft "babied" feel to it after I've washed and conditioned it myself...but I do really love the very dark color of my hair...it almost looks like I got a color treatment.
So this marks a new start to my healthy hair journey...I'm really excited and I can't wait until my first wash without the braids...I don't know what products I'll be using or have reggie yet...I want to just use homemade things and limit my chemical exposure to only relaxers...I'll see how that goes (and for how long)...I will "attempt" to stretch to 8 weeks without getting braids and see if I can handle that with this length.
I cut my hair today...it was still way to damaged for me to continue to try to "save" the color treated hair...after taking my braids out, so much of my hair was breaking, I just decided to cut it all off and start over...I cut it at the demarcation line so I'm not bald...I left a little colored part in my hair because I'm gonna get braids and I want the braider to have a little more length to grab...I have tons of new growth that's not relaxed yet...I thought I would be sad but I'm actually kind of happy that I got rid of all that thin, fragile hair...now I get to start over with my natural color and texture....my hair is very thick and I can see that it's still healthy...I'm gonna relax my hair with ORS No Lye relaxer tomorrow and get braids this weekend...think I'll keep them for a while...at least until I get a little more growth. Here is my situation: My hair "use" to be extremely thick until my stylist (ex-stylist now) put a permanent color in my hair on June 22, 2007...two weeks later (July 5, 2007), she gave me a relaxer (Mizani)...by the time she finished putting the relaxer in the last section and started smoothing the first one, my hair started coming out...needless to say she didn't get to finish smoothing my whole head before rinsing the relaxer out...after it was washed she had more than a hand full of my hair in her hand, it was enough to make a nice size hair piece or something...when I got home, each time I touched my hair some came out...my hair was so very thin and very fragile...the next day I put an Aphogee treatment in it...I used the Aphogee shampoo, the treatment and the balancing moisturizer...my hair is growing but still sheds...it's still unhealthy and thinning and I want to get it back healthy and thick.
I had a boy cut for a long time and got braids to grow it back so I was pretty upset when this happened because I really don't want to start back from stratch...and hopefully I won't have to...
Since then I've been washing, conditioning, a doing light protein treatments once a week and two hard protein treatments...I haven't really found my staple yet...I've really just been trying a lot of different brands (Nexxus, Jason, Lustrasilk, Neutrogena, Mane N Tail, Keracare, ORS and Pantene)...I think my hair really likes Nexxus products so I may start using this on a regular basis. I've relax my hair once (Sep 2, 2007) since this happened...I used ORS No Lye Relaxer and added 1/4 cup of carrot oil...it came out okay...I should've left it in a little longer though because I like my hair bone straight...I've had braids since Oct 2, 2007...I've been spraying my scalp with African Royal Braid and Sheen every now and then...I used MN three times (Oct 13th, 15th and 17th)...it gave me a really bad headache so I stopped using it...I've been drinking carrot juice almost daily for about a month and a half...my new growth is much softer so I guess it's the juice...I plan on taking my braids out Nov 21, 2007 and relaxing on the 25th... | | |
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