sometimes there is no quick fix for it
You can say that again, Miss Irresistible. Funny how only a few weeks of a certain method of haircare can create a problem that needs much longer than that to fix.
Yeah I had protein overload over the summer and clarifying did squat for it.
Also if that is what you have STOP USING COCONUT OIL!!!!!!
It aids in protein retention so if you have protein overload using it isn't the best idea.
I'm slowly but surely healing my hair by using JBCO/EVOO and keeping away from glycerin in the winter. Baggying is also helping and oil rinses have been a life saver.
Another neat trick i learned from the board is to add a teaspoon of table salt to 8ozs of my deep conditioner and then steam my hair for a half hour. This has helped out so much in just my first time doing it
Over moisturizing makes your hair mushy....so unless you've left that crucial factor out of your description...i think you can pretty much rule it out of your diagnosis.
These are great ideas/points that I knew nothing about, even from my time here. Thank you for teaching me!
Thank you so much for your testimonial and for the link (which I'm about to read after doing a stack of dishes--bleh).
I quite agree that everyone's hair responds differently...actually, that's why I was hesitant to quickly diagnose this as a protein problem. Just because many people react this way to protein doesn't mean my hair does; that's why I'm worried that there could be another source to the problem that I'm unaware of.
Its true what she says about Coconut Oil YC , Just to be on the safe side use another oil for a minute, Avocado oil is a miracle worker to me
I've never used Avo oil but I've been meaning to. The health food store in this area will not be open till the day after Christmas, so that's on my shopping list.
Jojoba gets on my nerves with its waxiness and we don't have any here right now anyway. But there's olive oil in the house I'm staying in, so would that work in the meantime (until I can get the Avo?)
What's in your moisturizers and conditioners that you are baggying with? IT could also be a reaction to an ingredient. My hair, for example breaks with silicones, petroleum, etc. There are lots of so-called moisturizing products with bad ingredients that only coat the hair doesn't really moisturize. So if you're going all out with products like that, that could be the problem.
Thanks for digging deep into my hair problem!
It is most appreciated, especially around this hectic time of year.
Here is exactly what I've been doing for the past two months:
WASHING AND CONDITIONING
1. Once-a-week conditioner washing as I've been doing for the past 6 or so years. Of late (past 2 months), I've been using a cheapie White Rain Energizing Citrus conditioner because people here recommended the cheapies would have better slip for detangling than my usual Pantene Relaxed and Naturals.
2. Two total Nexxus Emergencee treatments--one per week for two consecutive weeks, followed by DC'ing (under a conditioning cap overnight/during sleep but without heat) with Biolage Hydrating Balm.
2. Two total Joice J-PAK treatments--one per week for two consecutive weeks, followed by the Biolage detailed above.
3. Three or four weeks using no protein treatments but once-a-week DC'ing (under conditioning cap overnight without heat) with ORS Hair Mayo.
4. One week doing a one-time- impromptu DC scraped together from an ORS Olive Oil packet, honey, and coconut oil, and then heated under a conditioning cap using a hairdryer.
*** there were 3-4 clarifying washes thrown in there at some point***
LEAVE-INS / MOISTURIZING
1. To define my curls after my wash, I have stopped using the Wen conditoner I'd been usin as a leave-in for several years (not enough curl definition), and went back to gels, using the various no-alcohol gels recommended here: ECOSTYLER and the green ICE Fantasia Olive Oil one.
2. ***Two times only*** (the two washes before last) I used Mane and Tail Conditioner as a leave-in before adding my gel on top. I had heard it had a light amount of protein and was hoping it would toughen up my fine strands.
2. Several weeks doing 2-3x weekly scalp massage (in between washes) with Jamaican Black Castor Oil (I have thinning hair and this was recommended). Sometimes on top of that I would add a hair food pomade (from Sam's tropical line sold online) that is based on JBCO, avocodo oil, and other oils--it might have included mineral oil or paraffins or other additions, but I don't know for sure because it's not with me at this location.
3. Assorted moisturizing and sealing techniques I read about here: e.g. spraying 3-day old hair with water mixed with cheapie conditioner and using that to refresh curls; e.g. spraying hair with water and then sealing with coconut oil.
4. Frequent baggying of my whole head overnight or under a hat or half-wig...either with nothing on my hair (save for the dried gel from the wash day) or, sometimes, with either the castor oil or with coconut oil over dampened hair.
But thinking about it, I do think I would go ahead and try the salt treatment if it were to happen again, because I do remember my hair needing oil after YES, but man my hair really came back with a protein treatment, even better than before.....so I know it took some protein out too
Do you mean that you washed with salt, then did a protein treatment anyway, even though your problem was from protein to begin with? Is that because the salt is so powerfully stripping that you can afford to do a protein again afterward?
so YankeeCandle here you have it, your own personal hair diagnostics....diagnoser's ......or whatever........hehe
I hope we helped
we all have different answers
just how it goes
I LOVED my personal hair diagnosers and give you all
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I just re-put up my bun (in my satin scrunchie, LOL), and some hair broke off as I did. I'm pretty sure it's broken hair because they seem so much shorter than my normal shed hair, and they actually make a snapping noise and feel as they come off my head.
