flygirl, that really sucks! Do you have any pics you can load? I just removed my extentubes and went thru the same thing w/the little knots and matting. I sprayed conditioner everywhere and sat there for like 45 min. working them all out. (I'll post pics in a little bit)
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You might want to try bond remover shampoo- it safely eats through latex residue.They sell it in most black bss.I used this brand called Hair Ecstasy (very elegant title, non?).I had horrible latex matted dreads in my hair-I just left the goo on for a few hours, washed it twice and it was all gone.Now in emergencies I sometimes use latex 'coz I know I can always get most of the crap out with these products.Good luck!
Mer, thanks so much for posting -- I am going to try what you learned. This is a lot of good advice. I think I'll be attempting to do this next week -- taking out the eurolocs and then reusing the same hair with shrinkies. The hair itself is in good shape. I tried to call the number on the takedown website, but it was disconnected. I also called several beauty supply stores in my area and they didn't carry it. SO, I will try the bond remover shampoo and let everyone know how it goes.
Bridget, I don't have any pics of the matts. I tried taking some with my phone and they didn't show enough detail to be any good. I have some of me, which show my hair, but they weren't taken specifically for the hair, so again they aren't really detailed.
Flygirl- the thing that's confusing most people is that what you were
doing with a flat-iron sounds like the way one would remove shrink
links (little shrinkable plastic tubes), but you say your stylist does
Eurolocs- which, last I knew, are small metal tubes that are crimped
flat with pliers. Which one sounds most like what you've got in? 'Cause
maybe Eurolocs came out with a shrinklink method or something, or maybe
your stylist is actually doing a shrinklink method instead of eurolocs,
ro something.
As for the matts- I find it's far easier to work from the top. Like you
said, most of the matted hairs are ones that are shead already, so
rather than trying to pull -them- out of the tangle, I grab from the
top and pull the hairs that are still attached to my head out of the
dread, pulling up (towards the scalp). After doing this a few times,
you can slide the baby-dread off of your own hair, and you're done. I
had natural dreads for three years, and took them out recently this
way, and maintained most of my hair with very little breakage.
Thanks Rae! Your method is exactly what I was doing -- pulling
the hairs still attached to my head out of the dread to work the dreads
out.
Sorry for the confusion about this, but again, I have metal Eurolocs on
my hair, and they do come out easily with the flat iron. I heat
them for a few seconds and they slide out. Also if I blow dry my
roots with too much heat they also slip out.
THEY ARE OUT!!! Every last one of them! I took them out using the flatiron, and that was easy. Then washed my hair three times and scrubbed a lot. Dried it, and then worked the dreads out from the top.
Dontcha just love that naked-scalp feeling? Not so much the naked-hair
feeling (I hate my hair without extensions), but being able to run a
brush right over your scalp again is kinda nice.
I LOVe that feeling too, but it was short lived -- I put in black and red HH today using shrinkies. Rae, I can't get your site to come up. Any help with that?
Congratulations on getting them out, and don't feel bad about leaving
them in for so long--there are so many claims that you can leave these
things in for 8 months or a year, it's ridiculous.
I'm suprised, frankly, that they came out with a flatiron, but perhaps
that was enough to melt the waxy tip inside so it slid right out.
Interesting technique.
Hi I actually did this while I was on a trip for work (I am a pilot) and didn't bring my camera. I will take some pics and post them when I get home. It was my first attempt, and I have never cut hair, so we (myself and the flight attendant) pre-layered the red. Then we did a row of black at the bottom, a row of red above that, and more black above that still... Then we took down the sections and filled in the holes so that the hair would have a v taper down the back. I bought a feather razor and we trimmed it a little. How do the other DIY people cut their own hair, especially in the back? I have seen some pretty nice DIY pics.
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