brittle_hair;16639683[B said:
]If so many people say the jheri curl/wave nouveau grew their hair (and it makes sense why it does) then why isn't everyone here jumping on the band wagon?[/B] Cant be any worse than MN or horse shampoo in your hair - as far as im concerned, the modern day curl needs to come back in fashion, cos it means seeing fewer ashy, dry broken heads of hair around town, and to be fair i reckon it would look quite good on bsl or beyond hair...!
If memory serves me correctly it was just leased hair.
Sadly many ppl experienced breakage from the chemical once they stop wearing their hair moist. I know ladies that tried to blow dry and curl till it grew out, but the hair broke severely from lack of moisture.
Not to mention the ppl who thought they could "relax" the curls away. Another disaster leaving droves of ppl bald. Without proper education on maintaining the length they had achieved many went back to short hair either from breakage, or to cut the curl out and start over.
My whole family had curls except me.
Even my best friend and her sis. I remember HATING theirs though, not because of the juice but because they had HUGE dandruff flakes that stuck in the sticky curls from not shampooing.
The thing was building up the moisture. (hence everyone walking around with the dreaded plastic caps.) If the hair was shampooed it would look dry for week or longer till the desired "wet" look was achieved. Too bad they didn't know about cowashing instead back then.
When I was in the shop in the 90s several of my clients were still wearing the curl but many had switched to a Wave Nouve. My mom, sis, and brother included. Same chemical but I would use larger rods to set the hair. The result would be more off a loose wave than an actual curl. I also remember that their maintenance products didn't leave the hair looking wet. More like soft moist waves. Yeah I can TOTALLY see this coming back if they could get rid of the drip.