Relaxed Heads: How many weeks post relaxer are you and when is your next touch up???

Re: Relaxed Heads: How many weeks post relaxer are you and when is your next touch up

sunnieb divachyk This has been a big overhaul for me

* started oiling scalp/new growth nightly
* switched my scalp oil castor/EVCO mix to castor & avocado + rosemary (i think EVCO was making my hair hard and more tangly)
* switched from a satin bonnet to a silk one (I sweat in my head and can wake up with matted roots)
* sprayed M&T detangler spray on my entire head and combed through with a wide tooth comb before washing (I was using M&T texturized-moisturizer before the spray has more slip)
* washed with giovanni SAS that I added silk aminos to.
* did apogee 2 step hood dryer rinsed with the balancing moisturizer then
* applied Nexxus humctress with some honey on the roots with an applicator brush. ran out and just used regular humectress on the ends. (this is my first time using this conditioner and I am sold!)
* heating cap for 30 minutes, cooled, rinsed with cool water
* towel blot/plop then sprayed with my leave in
* also changed my spray leave-in. (It is usually KCKT, AVJ, EVCO & Grapeseed, took out the EVCO and grapeseed and swapped it for wheatgerm and shea.)
* combed through and not a strand in sight on the comb
* twisted into 12 sections with perm rods to give enough tension to stretch the roots slightly (I usually do braids but the new growth was acting chill so decided to give twists a try)
* oiled my parts with the avocado/castor then sat under a cool dryer
* hair was super moisturized and wasn’t drying fast like it usually does so after an hour I sprayed a little heat protectant (its a 10 with keratin) and bumped the heat up to level 2 ( I have 6 levels on my belvedere dryer it looks like the ones in the salon)
* put in another 30 minutes under hood and took down. my hair was so soft and strong. I was able to pick it out with no problem, no hair anywhere.
* my new growth felt non-existent I am 6 weeks post and I have never make it past 5 weeks without braiding my hair up into cornrows starting at week 4/5
* in general I have a lot to learn about protein and moisture balance. and i am also high porosity so I can go from moisturized to a desert in no time flat. I think my failures when I was natural had to do with not understanding what my hair needed in terms of protein/moisture. no one in my family has my texture hair so I got sent to a hairdresser (lady in our projects working out of her kitchen) early on. I continued with professional salons when I became an adult. These past few years I have been determined to learn how to do my hair myself. Thank you so much for the education.
 
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kikisf, wow, you changed a lot. I can never change that much in a single wash day. My hair would be offended. I'm glad it worked for you though. Rock on!
 
Re: Relaxed Heads: How many weeks post relaxer are you and when is your next touch up

2 weeks post now. I can't really see a change in length in pics but I can feel it if that makes any sense :look:
 
Re: Relaxed Heads: How many weeks post relaxer are you and when is your next touch up

13 weeks post relaxer, hoping to make it to 16. The last time I made it to 16 weeks it was a tragic mess, breakage galore. This time, I've been oiling my scalp and new growth and it's made stretching much easier. I've also upped my protein treatments this seems to be strengthening the hair. I have much less breakage
 
I''m 11 weeks post relaxer and I was going to relax at 12 weeks. Depending on how the next week goes, I'll take it one week at a time.

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13 weeks post relaxer, hoping to make it to 16. The last time I made it to 16 weeks it was a tragic mess, breakage galore. This time, I've been oiling my scalp and new growth and it's made stretching much easier. I've also upped my protein treatments this seems to be strengthening the hair. I have much less breakage

Same thing happened to me and I said I wouldn't go beyond 12 weeks again but so far so good... :)

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19 weeks and will be relaxing this weekend! Surprisingly it hasn't been too bad but I don't think I'm gaining much due to the manipulation. Will be weird to feel my scalp again :drunk:
 
17 weeks and I don't know what I'm doing, apparently. Things were going great up until a week ago. I'm getting wash day breakage. What causes longer strands, maybe like 2-3 inches, to break?These are not from the line of demarcation.

I'm assuming it's a protein/ moisture imbalance or fragile hair from cuticle damage. My hair feels great which is the weird part of it all. Do you all tend to increase your protein frequency as you stretch?

Any other suggestions?
 
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Re: Relaxed Heads: How many weeks post relaxer are you and when is your next touch up

2 weeks down, 32 more to go
 
Re: Relaxed Heads: How many weeks post relaxer are you and when is your next touch up

Week 11. Self relaxing for second time on week 13.
 
17 weeks and I don't know what I'm doing, apparently. Things were going great up until a week ago. I'm getting wash day breakage. What causes longer strands, maybe like 2-3 inches, to break?These are not from the line of demarcation.

I'm assuming it's a protein/ moisture imbalance or fragile hair from cuticle damage. My hair feels great which is the weird part of it all. Do you all tend to increase your protein frequency as you stretch?

Any other suggestions?

divachyk of course! You have to strength that line of demarcation. Last year I went completely hair lazy and stopped doing protein treatments and my hair broke off soi badly in the back. The line between my bonelaxed/texlaxed broke completely off AND the line between between my NG/texlaxed hair broke off even worse. You're completely relaxed so you need the protein even more...girl you better stop playing with that gorgeous mane!

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Re: Relaxed Heads: How many weeks post relaxer are you and when is your next touch up

Week 11. Self relaxing for second time on week 13.

Change of heart. I'm tired of looking at how uneven my hair is and I refuse to trim until my relaxer. I'll do it next week.

I really need a major cut because of the damage I did last week - some of my end are getting that "see through" look. I will just trim regularly until the damage is gone. So no Green Magic this week. At the rate that I'm going to going to need Green Magic for a long time.

Is it ok to use Annabelle's aryuvedic oil on my scalp the week before relaxer? I won't be able to massage it in.
 
Re: Relaxed Heads: How many weeks post relaxer are you and when is your next touch up

2 weeks post. 16 more to go.
 
Re: Relaxed Heads: How many weeks post relaxer are you and when is your next touch up

Currently 6 weeks post and 10 weeks to go.
 
Re: Relaxed Heads: How many weeks post relaxer are you and when is your next touch up

I'm 6 weeks post and my hair is starting to really act up from the new growth. I'm going to try my hardest to complete the next 6 weeks. This is where my weaves really came into use!
 
Re: Relaxed Heads: How many weeks post relaxer are you and when is your next touch up

This Tuesday will make 49 weeks even :spinning: it's been almost a full year.

Part of me kind of wants to wait until December but I really want to full run my hands through my hair and feel my scalp. It could be because I'm have major growth itchies :nono:

I know it's grown I'm just scared to see it because I want a certain thickness and length. More thickness than anything. I'm just ready for evenness and thickness.
 
Im 8 weeks post with 4-6 more to go but I wont go past 14 weeks. I always self relax and after a year I have finally accepted that I need to do a major cut to get rid of split ends.

Once I do the cut, I think I can maintain if I avoid stretching. This will cut down on causing splits from mechanical damage

I LOVE this HHJ!!
 
1 week post. Doing another 18 week stretch - well that's the plan so far.

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Re: Relaxed Heads: How many weeks post relaxer are you and when is your next touch up

Six weeks post and six more weeks to go.
 
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