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    Posted: June 11 2006 at 7:42pm

   Can anyone recall having awful hair habits b4 joining or reading hair boards??, cuz i certainly had a good number that in the end destroyed my hair and some of them were funny,, for example,, i would relax my hair simply becuz i had a frizzy hair week,, i wouldnt cover my hair at nite,, i used harsh shampoo and i never deep conditioned,, i was very rough with it,, i used a John Frieda serum with mineral oil it,, I would color my hair often out of BOREDOM,, yes boredom! LOL,,id go for ROUGH weekly blowouts, i never trimmed or even looked at my ends,,I used majorly excessive heat,, didnt eat enough protein or vits and i wondered why my hair just wouldnt seem to get longer,, after recalling all this i feel less upset to trim my hair becuz the hair at my ends must be sooo damaged from my lack of care b4 i started learning about haircare and i know i need to get rid of it and i desire a new fresh head of hair!
Hair type: 3b some c?, fine strands, last relaxer sept 05, never again!!! current :ap length on sides,,nearly bsl in back, damn those old frazzled ends! I am hair OBSESSED   
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short and natural....washed and gelled EVERY DAY
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MY HAIR IS OFFICIALLY BRA STRAP LENGTH!!
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ADVISE ME ON HOW TO GET JUST 7 MORE INCHES OF GROWTH!
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I never knew about touch ups, instead I'd reperm my entire head every several months...the weird thing is ..it grew very very very LONG. 
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I used to straighten/burn my hair w/ that stupid Gold N' Hot flat iron.  I thought the burning smell was supposed to be "normal", lol. 
 
I never used heat protectant.  Instead I used heavy grease or oil to flat iron my hair.
 
I  never trimmed because I didn't want to loose length (big mistake).
 
Used baby oil on my hair sometimes whitch is straight up mineral oil....ewww.  I thought oils were moisturizing my hair......can we say WRONG!
 
I never did protein treatments, deep conditioned or clarified.
 
When I was in high school I used to do rollersets with Lottabody (undiluted) which made my hair very hard and crispy.  You could hear the crunch, this couldn't be good.
 
Other than that I was pretty good with my hair....hee ee.  Amazingly my hair always maintained bra-strap length but it never got any longer and it was not the healthiest it could be.  Thank God for hair boards!!
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In highschool I use to wear glue in tracks, I didn't know nothing about moisturizing my hair i just knew heavy grease, ummm let's see........protein treatments never heard of!!!!I didn't have a regimen at all until I found this lovely board!!!!Thumbs Up 
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Every two weeks I used to wash and condition my hair. I would then blow dry it and then press my hair with a hot comb. Didn't use any oil.  Lastly I would put Blue Magic on my scalp every two days. If anybody knows about those old school hair grease, you know it was so oily  with mineral oil and petrolatum. Now that stuff weighed my hair down. I also use to wear cotton scarves.

I never new there were products for us until joining this forum.  I'm so glad for the information.
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wow LOL and i thought i had some bad hair habits LOL, im a litttle shocked! esp Pokahantas! I am amazed that you maintained all that length,, you were as hair abusive as me or maybe worse lol, i forgot to mention that in high skool i TWICE DAILY would assault my hair with the blow dryer and round brush LOL at nite to prepare for the morning and that never worked so id do it again in the morning and no heat protectant LOL o gosh,, just thinkin about this stuff........
Hair type: 3b some c?, fine strands, last relaxer sept 05, never again!!! current :ap length on sides,,nearly bsl in back, damn those old frazzled ends! I am hair OBSESSED   
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I would bleach and colour my hair like a week after a relaxer. And I would do this about three times per year. I also would keep that extra hold gel in my hair for a week until wash day. NEVER AGAIN!!!
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I would perm every 4 weeks....just because
I would glue in my weave...didn't moisturize much b/c I didn't want the tracks to slip!!!!Shocked
Perm and color the same day
Use products loaded with mineral oil and silicones
 
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Originally posted by cookiesnkream cookiesnkream wrote:

wow LOL and i thought i had some bad hair habits LOL, im a litttle shocked! esp Pokahantas! I am amazed that you maintained all that length,, you were as hair abusive as me or maybe worse lol, i forgot to mention that in high skool i TWICE DAILY would assault my hair with the blow dryer and round brush LOL at nite to prepare for the morning and that never worked so id do it again in the morning and no heat protectant LOL o gosh,, just thinkin about this stuff........
 
Yeah, before I knew better I really used to fight my hair instead of working with it and treating it gentle.  I tried any product that said it would "straighten" like Frizz Ease and all that crap.  I was let down every time.  I thought I could put it on my hair and blow dry or something and it would be instantly silky smooth like on the picsUnhappy.  I'm so glad i don't have to fight anymore!
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I use to use alot of hair gel, that kind that flaked
 
When I actually used a curling iron, I thought the more sizzle the better.
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I thought i was coolCool,  Every hair trend that celebrities had I had to have it, like Toni braxton's short hair cut.. I kept lots of spritz on my hair and when i had new growth I tried to gel that down Confused not knowing how to keep it up. My cousin worked at a salon, so I did nothing to my hair(not even wash it)for 2 weeksDead. I constantly put grease in my hair to make it shinny, when i got tired of a style I would glue tracks in it(glue was all in my hair)and last but not least wearing rubber bands. My cousin kept telling me that"you need to start taking care of your hair"Heart I didn't care as long as she didn't cut it.
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LOL ,, wow what stories!!! and Pokahantas,, it scares me how much u remind me of me!! I was exactly like that! I remember trying John Frieda porosity control,,, and some leave in cream stuff,, and some orange smelling Pure shine stuff,, and the serums,, o the serums,, and it was just me and thet blow dryer LOL,, thank goodness for good flat irons,, its all so easy now, i wounldnt have dreamed i could do it myself,, its all so easy now!!
Hair type: 3b some c?, fine strands, last relaxer sept 05, never again!!! current :ap length on sides,,nearly bsl in back, damn those old frazzled ends! I am hair OBSESSED   
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1.) I used to use the curling iron everyday before school and then sprayed my hair with spritz freeze spray. When I got home instead of washing the spritz freeze out I would try to comb out my hair which of course caused my hair to break.

2.)I used a rattail comb on my hair instead of a wide tooth comb.
 
3.) When I washed my hair I would put grease on it then blowdry and flatiron. No moisturizers or heat protectants.
 
4.) I would always wonder why my hair was so dry even though I used grease on it everyday when what I really needed was a good moisturizer
 
5.) I used a hot comb on my relaxed hair 
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