candy626 said:I know this is an old thread but wow this describes my hair to a t.
Do you thunk you're low porosity?
candy626 said:I know this is an old thread but wow this describes my hair to a t.
Do you thunk you're low porosity?
Could it be that ladies in 3 category have more sulfur bonds causing the relaxers not to "take"?
So, what the heck is up with my hair then?? I Know I lost a lot of hair, because I was relaxing it like I was a 4. After I started growing my hair back I found out that I can get bone straight hair with a Texturizer! I had to water the texturizer down with conditioner and oil in order for it to not make my hair too straight last time....and some of the ends Still went straight!
On the other hand, I can't get my hair bone straight by blowdrying. I can get it bone straight by flat ironing, but only at high heat...because it just goes poofy. Hot combing won't get it straight either...maybe if I put it on the Stove.... Ultimately it just becomes Big Hair.
So. . . since I am not a type 3, I don't mind being told to mind my own business. . .but as a type 4 with a type 3 mom, i just wanted to chime in.
i wonder if part of the problem might be the (relatively higher) expectations of your hair?
A relaxer does not get a type 4's hair bone straight either! It does not get anyone's hair bone straight. That is what heat does. It is a huge myth that the relaxer alone gets it bone straight. When wet, sure. But if you dry type 4 hair without heat it also tends to just be frizzy.
Someone on this thread said that even with a relaxer, they had to spend 45 minutes under the dryer just to get it straight. . . yep, that is what type 4s do too, even with a relaxer.
I absolutely would not relax if I were type 3 and my mom has stopped doing so. Really I think the whole point of a relaxer is designed for type 4 ladies to cut down on the breakage and tangling that our natural hair can have. To 'relax' (not take away!) our natural curl pattern so that it is more manageable and does not knot up.
If you are a type 3, you should not have these problems anyway (your hair should not 'knot' as easily and should be able to be combed, etc) and so a relaxer is just pointless.
It does not make anyone's hair dry straight!
glamazon386 said:Yes it can. My overprocessed relaxed hair was bone straight when wet. I used to airdry my relaxed hair and it dried pretty straight. I would just run a large barrel curling iron over it and bump it. I didn't even have to blowdry it. If I sat under the dryer with a wet wrap it would come out silky straight in about 20-30 mins.
If the relaxer was left on the proper amount of time I had a wave pattern. But all the curls were gone. I didn't even know I had curls until I went natural.
My mom is a 4b who also has bone straight relaxed hair. Even when wet. There used to be threads on the board back in the day devoted to relaxing bone straight. They called it bonelaxed.