almond eyes
Well-Known Member
I have fine strands & at first I was concerned about breakage but now Im not. I'm going to make sure my hair is kept moisturized & I will keep protein in it. My strategy for length retention of relaxed hair is going to be similar to my regimen now as a natural. Protect with a cornrow base (crochet, wigs, weaves) for 10-12 weeks & then relax again. Im sure Ill have to trim more than I do now just for aesthetics when I wear my hair out. Im not going for bone straight but I dont want texlaxed either.
I have grown my fine hair naturally on many occasions and got my hair relaxed only to have my hair break despite my meticulous care that is why I am never relaxing my hair again. I think that fine and hi po hair is very difficult for the relaxer to penetrate the bonds and so hair comes out with a very uneven process and when the hair is smoothed with the relaxer cream it creates damage for fine haired afro women. I would always end up with hair that didn't look relaxed unless it was over processed. The problem is that the parts of my hair that were curlier and less coarser in texture relaxed differently than the coarser parts of my hair always ending up damaged in the end.
Good luck on your hair journey. As long as you keep the protein treatments up because relaxers break down the bonds of the protein and you also don't use too much because fine relaxed hair cannot take too much protein over load and you can find a balance you may end up with a successful relaxer regiment.
I have never been able to find that balance so I stopped trying to figure out and realised no more relaxers for me.
Best,
Almond Eyes