EbonyHairedPrincess
New Member
Arcadian your relaxer method is fabulous.
I did my best to follow your instructions without the use of pictures. This is my second relaxer. I did 12 week stretches for both.
I gathered small sections of hair and clamped the ends where I didn’t want the relaxer to overlap. I got a little zealous with the clamps and ended up using about 20 of them all over my head. I forgot to coat my ends with Vaseline but I got the hair line good. Not coating the tips wasn’t a big deal because the clamps stopped me from overlapping for the most part.
The only problem I had was the clamps occasionally slid out. I would grab a clean one and put it back on. Maybe next time I will only use 12 like you do. I squeezed the relaxer through the new growth. The application took less than 5 minutes for my whole head excluding my hair line. The rest of the time I worked on smoothing and asking my husband “am I pretty with relaxer in my headâ€. I used approximately 15 minutes to smooth total. My only problem was not focusing on my crown enough. I had 12 weeks of new growth. The length was about and inch & a half long plus this part of my hair is extra coarse. I should have applied the relaxer here first. Next time I will know to do this. This method took all of the worry out of application. All you have to do is squeeze the relaxer into the sections and smooth the hair. I still made my daughter hold the mirror so I can see if all the sections have relaxer applied. I didn’t even worry about uneven application because the relaxer goes on so fast I didn’t even realize I was done. Thank you so much for the idea!
I did my best to follow your instructions without the use of pictures. This is my second relaxer. I did 12 week stretches for both.
I gathered small sections of hair and clamped the ends where I didn’t want the relaxer to overlap. I got a little zealous with the clamps and ended up using about 20 of them all over my head. I forgot to coat my ends with Vaseline but I got the hair line good. Not coating the tips wasn’t a big deal because the clamps stopped me from overlapping for the most part.
The only problem I had was the clamps occasionally slid out. I would grab a clean one and put it back on. Maybe next time I will only use 12 like you do. I squeezed the relaxer through the new growth. The application took less than 5 minutes for my whole head excluding my hair line. The rest of the time I worked on smoothing and asking my husband “am I pretty with relaxer in my headâ€. I used approximately 15 minutes to smooth total. My only problem was not focusing on my crown enough. I had 12 weeks of new growth. The length was about and inch & a half long plus this part of my hair is extra coarse. I should have applied the relaxer here first. Next time I will know to do this. This method took all of the worry out of application. All you have to do is squeeze the relaxer into the sections and smooth the hair. I still made my daughter hold the mirror so I can see if all the sections have relaxer applied. I didn’t even worry about uneven application because the relaxer goes on so fast I didn’t even realize I was done. Thank you so much for the idea!