fine hair ladies help!!!!

I am 13 weeks postrelaxer and have a little more than an inch of new growth in some areas and 1 1/2 in others. I am debating on whether I should relax I don't want to risk breakage. but so far I havent lost too much hair (thanks to the oil rinses) and my daily style is my hair cornrowed in 5 sections in the back and a half wig over them. Do you fine hair ladies recommend stretching for long periods of time. I was thinking of going for maybe 16 weeks firsterplexed. any suggestions please

As long as you are able to go wthout suffering breakage where the two textures meet you should be fine. Remember to keep it moisturized though. The style with your half wig sounds like you wont be manipulating the textures too much.


I have successfully stetched up to 6 mos without probems, but I am only slightly texturized. Many others here stretch even longer.

Remember to bump this tomorrow too, I am sure you will get a lot of answers.


HTH

Softresses

I just relaxed yesterday after a 10.5 week stretch. I pushed it to the absolute limit! I started experiencing breakage and shedding then I decided enough was enough. However, unlike you, I wore my hair down. Your style seems like it requires less manipulation so it might work out better for you. Also, I relax very straight (not bone straight) but straight...so the mark is really defined.

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I have fine hair and stretched from March-November. I noticed that my hair started breaking right where the two textures met. I decided to relax.....straight and I love the results! My hair is way more
managable and no more breakage.

Start off slow and build up in your stretches.

As a fellow fined hair head, I personally think that fined haired ladies have more issues stretching...I am not going to even go into my theories about fine haired relaxed mangament but if you losing hair, relax

gymfreak336 said:

Start off slow and build up in your stretches.

As a fellow fined hair head, I personally think that fined haired ladies have more issues stretching...I am not going to even go into my theories about fine haired relaxed mangament but if you losing hair, relax

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ITA with gymfreak. As long as you're not suffering severe breakage/shedding, go for it, but as soon as the strands start leaving your head....time to do something different immediately.

I'm a fine haired lady myself. my last stretch was 12 weeks and i had about the same amount of ng as u.

If u haven’t been experiencing breakage and u want to stretch longer, I’d say go for it . I didn’t want to perm my hair AT ALL at 12 weeks. I had hardly any breakage just like u. but I wanted it nice and str8 for the holidays so I gave in.

If u do stretch longer just keep taking EXTRA care of that ng. the longer u stretch the more babying it needs!