Before washing your hair put some conditioner on and put a cap on and leave it for 30 mins.
I'll start doing this, but as soon as water hits my hair, wouldn't the conditioner just rinse out?
When washing 1 section at a time to shampoo. Yes I place the nozzle in random sections and squeeze the shampoo in. It does not result in breakage.
That's great, but when I used the redken cleansing cream -creamy chelating shampoo, it's really hard to dilute it with water for some reason, so I had to use it straight the last time. I might have to nix /stop using an applicator bottle. Applicator bottles are much better for the watery shampoos.
You use a no lye relaxer so you need more moisture go easy with the protein. Also get yourself a chelating shampoo and use it everytime you shampoo use it the day you relax as well, a good one is Sallys Quantum shampoo.
I've been doing this for the past few weeks so far (chelating my hair). Sally's is just so hard to find /access here!
And I've been going easy on the protein until recently. I was/am trying to strengthen my hair to tackle the breakage I get when I wash my hair.
Give me an idea of what your monthly regimen has been this past month.
shampoo and how often and with what. I do my hair weekly. Since I relaxed my hair in March, I've chelated my hair with diluted shampoo 2x in a row (Redken cleansing cream); it doesn't dilute well though.
And I used it straight (non-diluted) this week, so I think it would have gotten everything out of my hair.
moisture conditioners (which ones)and how many days a week. Straight after my relaxer, I used silk elements leave-in, mixed with rusk deep shine sea kelp conditioner (no difference).
Week 2 -I chelated again (diluted shampoo), then used nexxus emergencee, followed by jason sea kelp condish on one side, and ofasimplenature orchid flower conditioner on the other side (just to see which gives slip etc).
Week 3 (this week) -I chelated again -this time full strength, then used the nexxus emergencee (both times I let it get hard, but still no strengthening). Then I followed with the jason sea kelp condish on wet hair.
leave ins how often. I normally use condish on my wet hair, and I might use condish again once inbetween (on all my hair). I usually just spritz and moisturise the length of my hair daily.
protein and how often. 3x, but I always followed it with a moisturising dc
Oh yeah, I tried Joico's keratin reconstructor. I had 1/2 cm of breakage all over, as if I trimmed my hair. I've tried using an egg as well, and it Immediately dries up my hair. I got breakage (and matted NG) after using it.