Mushy hair? What's up?

As most of you know I was on the quest to be a plantium blonde, with hardly any true sucess. I know excessive bleaching can cause your hair to get mushy, but what the hell is up with mine? The other day I washed it, it felt funny and then I noticed near the back and somewhat under the top little layer my hair is mushy, like I actually bleached it too much, however, I've only bleached the ends maybe once or twice, because most of my hair was chopped off... I dunno whats' up? Is there some kind explanation for that? I only bleach my re-growth never my pre-lightened hair... so whats up? I doubt the coloring has anything to do with it. I have to brush it dry, cause I'm scared of wrecking it....

mushy usually implies too much bleach...Is it possible that you accidently bleached that area more than you thought?  Bleach has a tendency to swell, which makes it overlap--even when you don't think you overlapped the bleach.  There's not a lot you can do but wait and try not to brush it when it's wet.  Hope this helps.

It takes a week or so before you can really tell there's damage.  Congrats if you are pregnant!  Rebekah

Not to get off topic but how old is your son now?

Being pregnant can change your hair,but I think it's different for everybody. Like,mine got darker and more oily...(my roots needed to be dyed every two weeks it grew so fast)

Oh my son is 15 months... he was born theday before halloween! I didn't dye my hair with him, but I am going to this tiem round cause i can't stand not liking my hair for 9 months. hahaha......

I think when you comb your hair while it is wet...maybe have conditioner in it or detangler and be extremely gentle with it... then maybe wrap gently in a light towel for a few minutes not squeezing it nor twirling it... and that is it NO TOUCHING after just let it natural dry and when you do conditioning treatments maybe put a cap on to keep heat in... But do not brush wet hair if possible (I have the copper brush out & I admit after I comb gently I use it once) also when you do brush hold the hair close to where you are brushing/combing so as not to tug it too much. 

One time I was so afraid to comb my hair because my hair felt like Elastic!!!! This was after a perm & I had to be extremely gentle.

If you lighten your roots be sure to GLOP ON TONS of conditioner on your ends  so nothing else gets onto them & maybe use cotton in between the layers to keep em seperated.


I did experments on swatches of my hair. One time I left some in a tiny bowl over an extended period & it turned into that stretchy elastic you can put beads on LOL!!!  pretty scary. 

Maybe you can talk to the killerstrands lady because I have read too much protein can cause it to break too...

Research is incunclusive about dying when pregnant, they pretty much say no in general to be safe. But i remember hating my hair so much when I was pregnant with warren (my son) that I really can't bare to do it again.... I would have enjoyed my pregnancy more I think if I liked my hair.... I was pretty gosh darn cute when I was pregnant I could have worked it...hahahahah.

haha and your right it does, hopefully my hair will this time round. Yay for long hair!

I have naturally curly hair and with my first pregnancy it got even curlier, beautiful spirals and twirls, then after I delivered it went crazy like you are describing but then just seemed to disappeared(mushiness) a few weeks later, but there for awhile it was really unmanagable and annoying. Now in my second pregnancy with my second son , its weird but it seems my hair is now getting a little straighter, its still curly but not as much as it was before. Weird how pregnancy affects our hair huh?