I just joined this forum after being completely horrified at the number if split ends I have found recently. I have been relaxing since I was 5, and it's done plently of damage to my hair. It breaks, splits, and sheds, and I'm fed up. I've had braids and am considering going back to that to let my hair grow for a bit, but at this point I don't think I need that.
I think I will continue to relax my hair (I get it done every 2 months) for now and make a lot of other changes instead. I know that I need to drink a lot more water and take vitamins and pay attention to my hair more. I am going to stop blow drying and air dry instead, but I still need to flat iron once a week. I think I'm going to go to Sally's and buy some WGO.
For the past year and a half my hair has been cut to my jaw on the sides and about an inch long in the back. Before then it was past my shoulders, and I was tired of the same look. Now I completely regret cutting my hair, and I want to get it back to the length it was. Even when my hair was longer, I still had a lot of breakage and split ends.
For about 6 months during the 1.5 years that my hair has been short, I texturized and curled my hair with braids (braided at night and took down in the morning). During that time, my hair felt healthier. A few months ago I decided to grow my hair out and wear it straight, so I started relaxing it again. I don't know how I put together in my mind that relaxing would help my hair grow out, but I like how straight it gets when I do. I've found that my hair doesn't straighten very well (with a flat iron) when it's natural.
So I'm getting rid of my old flat iron, which is breaking my hair, and replacing it with a thinner ceramic one that my mom has.
So I guess this is my way of saying hi to you all and wish me luck. This is going to be an interesting journey, to say the least.
I am something fading in the trees. Something with a better shade of green.
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I have found some great products I swear by from Motions. My top 3 are, the Motions Oil Moisturizer Hair Relaxer, Motions at home shine enhancing pomade, and Motions at Home Oil Moisturizer Hair Lotion.
I have been using these products for the past few years now and my hair has never been healthier, I hope this helps! Check out their site for more information, http://www.motionshair.com
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You can only leave a sew-in weave for 6 to 8 weeks, Individual braids for up to 3 months and then they have to come out or your hair will dred up. Do not get micro braids. Make sure that your braids are at least the size of a No. 2 pencil. Make sure that you oil your scalp and spray with a good watery leave-in conditioner. Shampoo/condition weekly w/ diluted shampoo and diluted conditioner. Tie your hair up at nite with a satin scarf or sleep on satin pillowcases. HTH
Edited by carameldiva - November 11 2006 at 10:37pm
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thanx for the responds back to my question but whats the best and longer lasting method to get extentions the sewing onto the braid method or the section by section method & without damaging the hair but help grow my own hair underneth
Mrs.J- if you get extensions and leave them in for six months- your hair will be loc'ed underneath. Unless you are referring to infusions where they do a strand by strand extension. I have only seen it done once- it took 8 hours and cost $1000. If i hadn't seen the girl come in with short hair- you could not have told me that the waist length hair was not hers.
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I'M TRING TO SEE ABUT GETTING HAIR EXTENTIONS IN MY HAIR BUT I WANT SOME THAT IS GOING TO LAST MORE THEN 6 MONTHS BUT LONGER AND WITHOUT BRAIDING &SEWING & NO GLUE PRODUCTS IS THERE AWAY FOR THIS METHOD
Hi, I am new here and very DESPERATE. I need help with my 10 yr. old grandaughters hair. She has the thickest, curliest, matted hair I have ever seen. Her Mom has her wash it and uses almost a bottle of conditioner, (treseme, pantene, any kind at all). She cries and begs her mom to stop combing thru the conditioner at every shampoo day. It kills me to see her struggle with her hair. Please help me help her to deal with her beautiful hair and realize she is not the only one who deals with this thick, tangled hair. There has to be something she can do to tame this curly, matted hair. She doesn't comb it like she should for just this reason. She can't get a comb or brush thru it,, it is that thick. HELP.. Thank you so much.
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I've been lurking here for six months. My hair broke off after
trying to put in a relaxer by myself for the first time (stupid, I
know.)
After my sister, a cosmetologist, cut off the damage in May, my hair
was short, barely past my ears. Before the relaxer incident my
hair was two inches past my shoulders and almost all one length.
After mourning the loss during the summer, I got over it. Hair
DOES grow back; you have to be patient. There are no overnight
one-month miracles. After three months of putting together my
own hair regimen here's what works for me:
1) Protein, protein, Protein
I was able to grow my hair out the first time becaust realize that
those protein shakes had so many B vitamins and Biotin. I
also drink Chocolate soymilk shakes.
I take 5000 mcg of Biotin a day. It takes two weeks for a regular
infusion of Biotin to kick in then after about a month, I see 3/4 an
inch of growth.
2) Surge and Tea Tree Oil
I noticed that when I use Tea Tree Oil on razorbumps or ingrown hairs
the skin is healed overnight. So, two times a week I massage just
a bit of tea tree oil on the scalp and it works wonders. The
roots grow in very thick and strong.
3) Dove Moisture Spray or Motions Leave-In
I use these sprays just to keep my ends from drying out from time to time. But a good leave-in will work.
So, that's my two cents. Hopefully I can set up a Foki account with pics.
The only thing I can recommend to the newbies is that they should not go out and buy everything that was raved about by one person or a small group of people. Also there is nothing wrong with cheap products, well a select number of them. Also everyone's hair is different so don't compare hair growth rate with others and so forth. Also keep your hair routine as simple as possible. Most people with long hair have the most simple routine. Sort of like a garden, don't fuss with it and it will grow like crazy (well the weeds will), but if you constantly doing something, you won't see much stuff. That's all I have.
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First of all i want to thank you all for your insight on hair this is much needed for me being that i no longer have a Relaxer...Now I have to find out how to care for my natural hair and this is all new to me...Thank you for the advice it will not be taken lightly on my end!!!!
Try using olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, castor oil(thickness), safflower oil(dryness), grapeseed oil or jojoba oil instead of oils w/ mineral oil/petrooleum. hope this helps.
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Hello everyone, I'm new and Ive been reading the tips on here. I need some advice on hair oil or grease i should use. I have been using Proclaim (Natural 7 oils) and sometimes Dudleys hair and scalp conditioner with Petrolatum and Mineral oil and the first two ingredients. I recently read that you sholuld stay away from petroleum and mineral oil. Also, what is a regimen and can someone give me some advice on how to start mine?
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Hello everyone, I'm new and Ive been reading the tips on here. I need some advice on hair oil or grease i should use. I have been using Proclaim (Natural 7 oils) and sometimes Dudleys hair and scalp conditioner with Petrolatum and Mineral oil and the first two ingredients. I recently read that you sholuld stay away from petroleum and mineral oil. Also, what is a regimen and can someone give me some advice on how to start mine?
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Gee what would that do ? and would that help my dry scalp and hair shedding ?
Yeah, it should help a lot. It's probably the hard water thats making your hair dry. You could try doing a final rinse in bottled water if you don't want to buy one just yet.
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thanx for the responds back to my question but whats the best and longer lasting method to get extentions the sewing onto the braid method or the section by section method & without damaging the hair but help grow my own hair underneth 
First of all i want to thank you all for your insight on hair this is much needed for me being that i no longer have a Relaxer...Now I have to find out how to care for my natural hair and this is all new to me...Thank you for the advice it will not be taken lightly on my end!!!!
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