I love massaging and scratching my scalp and seeing how much my hair is growing BUT over the past 2 months it seems like I've become tender headed and I never was before. When I comb out my hair in the same way that I've been doing for years it kinda hurts  I'm wondering if it's because my scalp isn't used to having any stress or tension on it anymore but I don't know. Has anybody else experienced this since they started wearing lace fronts ????????????

 

That's when I really noticed it too. I blow dried and flat ironed my hair a few weekends ago to see how much it had grown since wearing lf's and I was surprised at how tender headed I was. I'm assuming that if we were to stop wearing lf's and started styling our natural hair again on a regular basis that our scalps would toughen back up.

 

ok i was just asking b/c your hair appears very heathly altho when we go natural again we just gotta be sure its balanced with the moisturizing and protein so that it doesn't tangle.. i know at first that was a challenged and a burden washing my hair and getting the tangles out which in turn made my scalp hurt.. but now that i'm balanced i don't have that anymore.. but i think in time your scalp will get use to it  to less manipulation its just adjusting..

 

your so crazy

 

i think our scalps b4 lfs were use to all the combing and pulling and chemicals, now its getting a break and the manipulation isn't often so i think it adjust..

 

Does too much protein make the ends brittle ?

 

Yes, I've been using the MTG on my scalp and I oil the rest of my hair while it's still wet to lock in the moisture.

 

  wow

 

I was using the MTG to aid in hair growth but I'm glad to know it can also prevent fungus.

 

me too i was glad to know it covered both

 

My scalp only hurts when I pull on my natural hair while combing or braiding it. Are you saying yours hurts just when you touch it with your hands ?

MrsJones your scalp tenderness sounds like the sore spots I sometimes get on the thin layer of muscles under my scalp from prolonged stress. It only gets sore to the touch in certain spots when that happens to me and it's my reminder to stop bringing my work home and schedule a spa day so I can just chill out and relax. Sounds like a GOOD excuse for you to pamper yourself

 

I am def. more tender headed.  I think it's from not handling my hair much.  Now that I don't get it straightened, the only tension I put on it is when its loaded with conditioner (to comb it out).  It seems like my new growth is getting more and more, umm, RESISTANT!  You have to figure though with lfs, you're not doing anything stressful to your hair underneath.  Girl, your scalp is just spoiled!  I do use miconazole nitrate mixed with sulfur 8 on my scalp and my hair is growing like a weed.  I didn't know that mtg treated fungus, but the mn concoction works some kind of magic....

 

I think it's like you said Griff. Our scalps are just spoiled now and no longer accustomed to having to endure any stress or tension.

 

What is miconazole nitrate? Is that coochie cream from the grocery store? If not where can I find it cuz I wanna see if it will speed up my growth even more. Can you mix it with anything or only with certain stuff ?

 

 

yes its coochie cream mixed with other hair creams.. but you can't do both the monistat and the MTG, that's not a good mix b/c its over kill.. they are both anti-fungal medicines.. i used it before but i mixed mine's with perm repair.. but now i stick to one the sulu, b/c some people choose the miconazole nitrate b/c they might be allergic to sulfur.. so it's an alternative, honestly when i used it i can't account for a lot of growth, i got more with MTG..

 

I'm already using Sulu Hair's MaxGro (I just call is MTG cuz it's shorter). So are you saying that using the coochie meds with some type of hair grease would the same thing as MTG ?

 

I bought Sulu and was allergic to something in it.  I don't use coochie cream

 

I mix a container of the light blue sulfur 8 (I love it cause it's really tingly...it makes me feel like something is happening!) with some athlete's foot powder (I use desenex cause it has the MN in it, I get a really big container and use about a third of it with each batch.), and I add in about 80 drops of orange essential oil. I mix it really well and apply it to my scalp.

 

When i'm not wearing lfs, I use it daily and massage my scalp.  When I am wearing them, I use it when I shampoo.  I can attest to about an inch and a half growth in 6 weeks.  My hair usually grows a half inch per month, so I was pretty impressed.  I doesn't drip, leak or get super oily and it doesn't smell.  I wish I could use the mtg though cause lots of you swear by it!

 

Hmmm, maybe you're allergic to 1 of the oils in the MTG.

 

An inch and a half of growth in 6 weeks is a LOT !!  Are you eating anything different or taking hair vitamins ? I'm just wondering if there's anything else that could account for your accelerated hair growth. If not Imma have to try that cuz that's way more than I'm getting with my MTG even though I take hair vitamins. 

I don't know if anything else is causing the growth.  I am a chronic dieter determined to lose the last 10lbs.  I flip between low carb and low calorie.  I think my dieting is a little extreme and can't imagine that it's helping growth.  I HATE drinking water.  I drink just enough to get my allegra d in so that i'm not miserable with allergies....damn green new jersey!  I have prenatal vitamins which I'm told I can still take (even though my tubes are tied) and I bought biotin.  I hate taking pills as much as drinking water, so I rarely take them

 

I think it was one of the oils in the Sulu cause I use sulfur now.  I also try to keep it out of my hair, so it forces me into a really good moisturizing and sealing routine before applying it to my scalp.  Let me know if you decide to try it and get good results.

 

You sound as bad as me with the water intake. I usually take several vitamins a day but when I get really busy I've been known to forget to take them for weeks at a time. I'm gonna try your method and see what happens. If I get accelerated growth I'll be posting another hair growth thread to show the new growth.