I havent posted in a while....but I have been washing 1X week faithly w/ DC. I have been a little discourage w/ this hair journey. In the month of December I experienced a really bad perm that was very straight and experienced constant breakage after. I used Aphogee 2 step and washed with Aphogee 2min every other wk. I would use Queen Helen Cholesterol and Kera Care Humecto every wk ( I think my hair likes thick cond. so I mix it for thick ness.
So in January exactly six weeks post perm I got another perm. The hair dresser also gave me an unwelcomed big chop, she said that my hair was porous and that she wanted to cut of all the damaged parts. Since that perm and cut and I hope with my DCing efforts, I must say that the breakage decreased tremendously, but just not enough for my liking. At first it was long and small strands but know it is primarily long strands. I look at the strands and hope to see the white bulb (hoping that it is normal shedding) but I would say only 25% of the broken strands areshedded hairs. Not to mention that around 4 wks post I usually get serious breakage in my left nape are. This has happen on and off for yrs. in the winter months.
Last night I prepood with garlic oil on my scalp and Aphogee Essential oils on my hair...I washed with garlic cond and Nexxus therepy...DC'd with my two min Aphogee...then I moisturized w/ GVP condition balm mixed w/Aussie Moist. I put my leavins and am sitting under the dryer now. I will check back in to see it the breakage has reduced. If it doesnt I was thinking of doing a hardcore protein treatment, maybe Duo Tex..the one that Aggie used. I want to see if maybe that would help. I was also considering the Blackstrap molasses pre poo treatment which I have read on the post is good for breakage. I am willing to try anything right now. I am open for suggestions.
Sorry for the long post guys, I was just frustrated and had to vent. I feel better already, its like therapy.
I try to read every post and it's a good thing I do because if I didn't I would have totally missed this. First of all, let me just say I am sorry you are going through this right now. Secondly, when our hair starts to break like this, many times it means that it's been like this for a while and the breakage is inevitable, meaning that we were probably not giving our hair the proper amount of care over a long period of time and now it's simply responding to that lack of care.
Now that you are freshly taking care of it again, it will get better, but unfortunately the damaged hair that you have may now be beyond repair and we can do what we can to hold on to it for as long as possible but eventually, we would need to cut it off, even if you decie to do it gradually. Proteins can only do so much repair and there is such a thing as irreparable damage unfortunately. That's why it's so important for us not to let our hair get to this point of irreparable damage.
You are doing the right things right now. Try the Duo Tex once a week for about 3 weeks but make sure to follow up with some really good moisturizing DC and daily moisturizer and seal with a natural oil. The Duo Tex to me is mild to moderate - not hardcore like Aphogee 2 step, but it really works. Thank God it's wayyyy cheaper than Aphogee too.
I would also recommend some protective styling after the 3 weeeks of treatments, keeping your hands out of your hair for about a month would help a lot too. I would usually use braids for this because it's easier for me to still DC once a week in them without issues. HTH.
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