Relaxed Heads: How many weeks post relaxer are you and when is your next touch up???
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Evolving78
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Congrats to your son and your family! Yay!
Evolving78
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You are too cute in your avi!
irsgirl
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Awe thank you!
Destiny9109
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I'm getting tempted to relax Thursday at 10 weeks. I don't know happened my hair was still manageable at 7 weeks lol. How people believe hair doesn't grow is beyond me.
Evolving78
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How are you gonna wear your hair? Got any plans for Christmas?
LushLox
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Just in a boring bun, same as usual. I'm going to my mums for Christmas so no pressure to impress anyone.
I'll be going out for New Year's Eve though, so at least I'll start looking human again lol.
PerfectlyFlawed
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Hit 18 weeks yesterday, I didn’t even notice. 18 weeks down 34 more to go.
Sosoothing
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Isn't that a whole year? Do you normally stretch that long?
PerfectlyFlawed
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Before I went natural, yes; Since deciding to relax again a year and a half ago, no. The relaxer process annoys me; I am trying to, once again, limit it to once a year.
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ItsMeLilLucky
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I wish I could do that. My hair would get angry, cause my new growth comes in skrong as hayle. My new growth will be like "are you in or out, sis?"
Sosoothing
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How do you deal with the different textures as your new growth comes in?
I relax my hair once a year too. Mainly out of laziness
sometimes twice but never more than three times. Tbh, I think about just saying forget it and cutting out the relaxer all together. I relaxed it in grad school about 2ish years ago when I was too busy to fight with it. Crazy thing is I don’t think I’ve even relaxed it 4 times total since then
Not telling y’all how many weeks post I am, don’t want to get kicked out the thread
11228
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I'm one week post but I think I left too much texture in my hair. I diluted my relaxer 50:50 and don't think I used enough on each section. I just bought a milder relaxer and I'm seriously thinking about doing a corrective in 6-8 weeks
That is exactly what I did my last round of retouch. I was burning so badly that washed it out too early. I did a corrective at 6/7 weeks with no regrets.
Evolving78
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If it’s over a year you gotta go! LolI relax my hair once a year too. Mainly out of laziness
Tbh, I think about just saying forget it and cutting out the relaxer all together. I relaxed it in grad school about 2ish years ago when I was too busy to fight with it. Crazy thing is I don’t think I’ve even relaxed it 4 times total since then
Not telling y’all how many weeks post I am, don’t want to get kicked out the thread
sunnieb
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Some of y'all really just need to come out the closet and admit you are transitioning! We'll be nice!
I'm one week post and plan to stretch for a minimum of 16 weeks. Only going this long because of breakage and damage I'm dealing with right now. My hair is recovering, but I'm not going to risk relaxing again until I have a ton of skrong newgrowth at the base.
We'll be nice!I'm one week post and plan to stretch for a minimum of 16 weeks. Only going this long because of breakage and damage I'm dealing with right now. My hair is recovering, but I'm not going to risk relaxing again until I have a ton of skrong newgrowth at the base.
sunnieb
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PerfectlyFlawed
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Some of y'all really just need to come out the closet and admit you are transitioning!
I'm one week post and plan to stretch for a minimum of 16 weeks. Only going this long because of breakage and damage I'm dealing with right now. My hair is recovering, but I'm not going to risk relaxing again until I have a ton of skrong newgrowth at the base.
I’m not transitioning, I’m just extremely lazy
LushLox
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30 minutes or so post, I'm just conditioning now.
It seems to have relaxed fairly well bar the crown; there are some definite waves there but that piece of hair ain't ever going to be straight.
I'll have a better idea how well this process went in two weeks or so but feels good so far.
My newly Affirm'd roots feel good, the hair feels nicely silky and I had very little shedding or breakage.
Will touch up again in April all being well.
It seems to have relaxed fairly well bar the crown; there are some definite waves there but that piece of hair ain't ever going to be straight.
I'll have a better idea how well this process went in two weeks or so but feels good so far.My newly Affirm'd roots feel good, the hair feels nicely silky and I had very little shedding or breakage.
Will touch up again in April all being well.
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Evolving78
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My crown is tough too... I’m glad your process turned out well! I would love to stretch until the end of March. I’m about 5 weeks post (tomorrow). I will try to stretch with you. I will go for 18 weeks. My birthday is the first week of April, and I don’t wanna relax too soon before that. So either I relax on Feb 10, to still give me enough in between relaxers, or just wait it out until March 28-29th.30 minutes or so post, I'm just conditioning now.
It seems to have relaxed fairly well bar the crown; there are some definite waves there but that piece of hair ain't ever going to be straight.
My newly Affirm'd roots feel good, the hair feels nicely silky and I had very little shedding or breakage.
Will touch up again in April all being well.
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