Hair gets back thick
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Topic: Hair gets back thick
Posted By: TwinkletOes23
Subject: Hair gets back thick
Date Posted: February 05 2006 at 11:04pm
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I have naturally thick hair and when i get a relaxer it seems to become less thick and i like it this way because its easier to manage such as pulling it back into a pony tail and such ...when i first wash my hair after the relaxer its still straight but it thickens back up is there a reason why and how do i get it back to be thinner like it was when i first got it relaxed? |
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Posted By: ThAbAdDeStBaBy
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 2:17am
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After your 1st wash do you hand blowdry your hair or do you set it/wrap it and sit under the dryer...that's where it makes a slight difference to my knowledge from personal experience. What you can do is (of course use some type of heat protectant), wrap or rollerset hair and sit under a dryer, if you dont have a hooded dryer than you can hand blow dry then straighten with a straighten/flat iron, or let it airdry and then use a flatiron with heat protectant (I cant stress that enough LOL). Which worked for me and a few others I know ------------- ThAbAdDeStBaBy http://public.fotki.com/ThAbAdDeStBaBy3 - http://public.fotki.com/ThAbAdDeStBaBy3 Hair Goal: BSL by late 2007-early 2008 Hair now: net weave w/EP-RT |
Posted By: TwinkletOes23
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 9:02am
| I roll it up when its damp and let it air dry with the rollers in it (no it doesnt tangle i use leave in conditioner to prevent this) then i flat iron it to smooth the curls out a little...... but when i do this it thickens back up... when i try blowdrying and flat ironing it thickens back up...i mean its still straight just thick and harder to deal with suck as pulling it back.i mean i section it up in four sections and flat iron them piece by piece but it still thickens up could it be something im doing wrong during the drying process? |
Posted By: blackhoney112
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 2:13pm
I had this same problem and I found out that the problem was my relaxer. I used to use Mizani relaxer and it was not relaxing my hair well at all...I would get a relaxer and wait 2 weeks to wash and it would do the exact thing your hair is doing. I now use Silk II relaxer and can wash my hair the following week and have silky straight hair after flat ironing  So you might want to check into a new relaxer.
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TwinkletOes23 wrote: